Comic Con and Stuff

Wow, no posts sense May, I have to apologise to all my readers who have been checking in every once in a while. Believe it or not, but this blog is not dead. I've been wanting to post, but well life has been getting in the way. I've started working on the new feature Surf's Up, Open Season opens in less then 100 days, I'm working full time on Animation mentor. I fully intend to keep this blog going, but I'll mostly be posting when I can.

Also I'll be on a panel at the Comic-Con this year helping the guys at Animation Mentor out:

12:00-1:30 Introducing Animation Mentor— Do you want to learn how to animate your favorite comic book characters? Have you always dreamed about making it your career? Get a glimpse into the online character animation school Animation Mentor, where all the teachers are studio animators and have worked on the industry’s top films. Experience the world of comic book animation from two sessions: “Designing Appealing Characters” at 12:00 (featuring lead character designer Stephen Silver, Clerks; National Cartoonist Society Animator of the Year Dean Yeagle; and animation director Glen McIntosh, Eragon) and “Adventures Behind Animating Summer Blockbusters" at 12:45 (featuring top animators Dave Burgess, Over the Hedge; Charles Alleneck, Pirates of the Caribbean II; Michal Makarewicz and Andy Beall, Cars; and Ethan Hurd, Open Season). Room 3

One last thing, this blog will be moving. I'm not sure where it will be moving to. I've been unimpressed with blogger as of late, so I'll be moving it soon. I'll leave another post to redirect you as soon as I decide where I'm going to move it to.

Richard's The Thief and the Cobbler on You Tube!

Holly CR@POLA! Someone put the original, never finish Richard Williams version of The Thief and the Cobbler up on You Tube. Well..it's the cobbled together version of the film never have being finished. Disney said that they were going to release a DVD of this film as an unfinished masterpiece. But Disney doesn't appear to be doing this anytime soon. I would imagine that Disney would try and shut this down so see it while you can. It's cut into parts so it could be played on the web of course. Some truly great animators worked on this film. IMHOP everyone should check this out. Keep in mind this production was done over the span of around 26 years. There's no CG Animation in this, all those mad camera moves are done by hand. Crazy!



If Video doesn't work, go here:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=97C1FA98D07ACC21

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Briges talks about Surf's Up

Jeff Bridges talks to the Sci-Fi channel about the next project I'm working on: "Surf's Up"


http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=35424

"BIG SMELLY PILE OF LIBERAL CRAP"

It looks like the Colorado Bow Hunting newsgroup has seen the trailer for "Open Season" and have objected. People who refer to themselves as: Hoytslayer, Elk Scat, and Rooter object to the "redneck stereotypes" depicted in the trailer. It's enough irony to make your head spin off.

http://www.bowsite.com/bowsite/tf/regional/thread.cfm?threadid=111181&MESSAGES=13&state=CO

Open Season in Japanese

Check out the new Japanese Open Season Trailer:

http://www.sonypictures.jp/previews/player/movies/openseason/

Better link, but with loud annoying flash:
http://www.sonypictures.jp/movies/openseason/index.html
Click on the top log on the left, then after the anoying flash intor click on the second log down on your right.

Pidgeon Podcast

Most of you know that Jeff Pidgeon has a kick ass blog.

But I just found out today that he's got a podcast too. Check it out.

Astrix's new Trailer

I saw this on the pidgen blog. It's got some nice looking stuff in it. I haven't seen any of the other Astreix and Obelix films (animated or other), but I've always been a big fan of the comic, I love the drawing style. Check out the new trailer:

http://mfile.akamai.com/980/mov/quicktime.allocine.fr/nmedia/18/35/84/31/18414352_fa1_h.mov