Check out this impressive video by Nick Pitera, an employee at Pixar.
Month: March 2011 (Page 2 of 3)
In theaters April 1, 2011.
Release date: March 22, 2011
Release date: July 12, 2011
Disney has decided to let Robert Zemeckis’ Yellow Submarine remake sink due in part to the complete financial bomb that is Mars Needs Moms.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources say the $6.9 million opening for the $150 million-budgeted Mars Needs Moms, produced by Zemeckis, was the final nail in the buoyant coffin.
However, there is some good news for motion-capture fans as Zemeckis is now free to meet and deal with other studios.
When asked why he chose to use motion-capture for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn instead of the traditional live-action approach, Steven Spielberg responded:
“It was based on my respect for the art of Hergé and wanting to get as close to that art as I could. Hergé wrote about fictional people in a real world, not in a fantasy universe. It was the real universe he was working with, and he used National Geographic to research his adventure stories. It just seemed that live action would be too stylized for an audience to relate to. You’d have to have costumes that are a little outrageous when you see actors wearing them. The costumes seem to fit better when the medium chosen is a digital one.”
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn will be in theaters Dec. 28th.
Read more of the interview at Hero Complex.
Here’s your first peek at The Ballad of Nessie, a new Disney animated short set to premiere alongside the Winnie the Pooh feature on July 15, 2011. The Ballad of Nessie was directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters, who’s previous credits include the Goofy short How To Hook Up Your Home Theater and the TV Christmas special Prep & Landing.
X-Men launches on Japan’s Animax channel on April 1 and later this year on G4 in North America.
The folks over at College Humor have created a short animation which mashes Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox with Star Fox, the classic Nintendo video game.
In theaters July 29, 2011.
Cars 2 races into theaters across North America on June 24, 2011.
Check out these four new character images from the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 2, in theaters May 27, 2011.
Check out these four illustrated Cars 2 posters created by the folks at Pixar. Cars 2 arrives in theaters across North America on June 24, 2011.
In UK theaters July 22, 2011. In North American theaters June 24, 2011.
Charlie Rose sits down with Bob Iger, President and CEO of the Walt Disney Company to discuss all things Disney, including Pixar and Marvel and what their plans are to bring Disney fully into the digital age.