Friday, March 02, 2007
Meet Twelve Frames Of The Robinsons
Doing a little bit with not much, here's a Meet the Robinsons gif I enjoyed.
See how times have changed since the creepy dancing baby guest starred on Ally McBeal? That's right. Not much at all.
See how times have changed since the creepy dancing baby guest starred on Ally McBeal? That's right. Not much at all.
Labels: ally mcbeal, disney, meet the robinsons
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Disney Beans Aplenty Are Spilled
At Disney they have meetings, and in meetings they use Powerpoint, and from a Powerpoint slide show came all of the above. The artwork you can is all pre-production work for Prince of Persia, which suggests things have moved along somewhat on that one already. All can be clicked an enlarged, so grab your mouse and knock yourself out.
Labels: american dog, amy adams, disney, enchanted, meet the robinsons, narnia, national treasure, nons, pixar, prince of persia, wall-e
Friday, February 02, 2007
Superbowler Hat Guy
Aint it Cool have posted the Superbowl Sunday ad for Meet the Robinsons. Glad to see some more films joining the fray.
Labels: disney, meet the robinsons, superbowl
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Fatboy Slim And Danny Elfman Teaming Up For Disney Movie
Norman Cook has revealed that, in his Fatboy Slim guise, he is working with Danny Elfman on the soundtrack to "a Disney animated movie". Which one?
Now, Elfman has recorded the score for Meet the Robinsons... but according to Cook, he's going to be working on the soundtrack this year, so it doesn't seem to work: the film is out in March and how much this year is there before then for him to record in?
All the same, I think the DJ has slipped on his words, and Robinsons it will be: some Fatboy future music would make perfect sense for the film's plot.
Now, Elfman has recorded the score for Meet the Robinsons... but according to Cook, he's going to be working on the soundtrack this year, so it doesn't seem to work: the film is out in March and how much this year is there before then for him to record in?
All the same, I think the DJ has slipped on his words, and Robinsons it will be: some Fatboy future music would make perfect sense for the film's plot.
Labels: danny elfman, fatboy slim, meet the robinsons
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
They Might Be Great Big Beautiful Giants
According to the MouseGuest Disney podcast, They Might Be Giants have recorded a cover of Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow for Meet the Robinsons. Sounds great to me.
The trailer for Meet the Robinsons is playing in Real-D 3D before the current Nightmare Before Christmas 3D rerelease (if you haven't seen it yet, hurry) - and, frankly, looks like it has the most convincing stereo vision effects I have ever seen in a film, animated or otherwise.
Roll on March... and march on the progress of 3D cinema.
The trailer for Meet the Robinsons is playing in Real-D 3D before the current Nightmare Before Christmas 3D rerelease (if you haven't seen it yet, hurry) - and, frankly, looks like it has the most convincing stereo vision effects I have ever seen in a film, animated or otherwise.
Roll on March... and march on the progress of 3D cinema.
Labels: 3D, meet the robinsons, nightmare before christmas, they might be giants
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Real Reason American Dog Has Been Canned
Chris Sanders, the writer-director behind Lilo and Stitch was, until very recently, working on American Dog for Walt Disney Feature Animation. Scheduled for 2008, all that had been seen of the film so far was some production art, very short clips - including a lovely one of the Dog catching a ride on a box car - and a couple of rendered images. Advance word was, however, very good indeed even though the film was still only in development, not even officially greenlit.
And then, in the last few days, the news broke that Sanders was being removed from the project.
Jim Hill Media now has the skinny on why this really happened - and I found it really quite surprising.
Apparently, there are to be no more CG animated films from the Walt Dinsey stable after next spring's Meet The Robinsons. Pixar are to monopolise the CG medium, while the Disney label is to be once more attached only to cel-animated movies. I read at Jim Hill's that Glen Keane's Rapunzel Unbraided is likely to be retooled as a hand-drawn work rather than axed outright while, presumably, either Sanders or American Dog were not proving so flexible - but this does not explain why development on the film couldn't be shifted over to Pixar. There is always a small chance it will be revived there, I suppose - but at the moment, that doesn't look very likely.
If Lasseter and Catmull can convince Iger, this will be the way ahead from now on and so-called-2D animation will be back in full force at the Mouse House. Personally, this sounds like a very good thing in almost all ways with just a few details not sitting quite right with me. I'm going to miss American Dog, that's for sure; and I don't know if, truthfully, Rapunzel Unbraided should be cel-animated. Maybe it needs to be a CG film?
All we can do is trust in Lasseter...
And then, in the last few days, the news broke that Sanders was being removed from the project.
Jim Hill Media now has the skinny on why this really happened - and I found it really quite surprising.
Apparently, there are to be no more CG animated films from the Walt Dinsey stable after next spring's Meet The Robinsons. Pixar are to monopolise the CG medium, while the Disney label is to be once more attached only to cel-animated movies. I read at Jim Hill's that Glen Keane's Rapunzel Unbraided is likely to be retooled as a hand-drawn work rather than axed outright while, presumably, either Sanders or American Dog were not proving so flexible - but this does not explain why development on the film couldn't be shifted over to Pixar. There is always a small chance it will be revived there, I suppose - but at the moment, that doesn't look very likely.
If Lasseter and Catmull can convince Iger, this will be the way ahead from now on and so-called-2D animation will be back in full force at the Mouse House. Personally, this sounds like a very good thing in almost all ways with just a few details not sitting quite right with me. I'm going to miss American Dog, that's for sure; and I don't know if, truthfully, Rapunzel Unbraided should be cel-animated. Maybe it needs to be a CG film?
All we can do is trust in Lasseter...
Labels: american dog, chris sanders, disney, glen keane, jim hill, meet the robinsons, pixar, rapunzel unbraided
Thursday, December 14, 2006
When Will Pixar Go Real D?
Hollywood Reporter are, er, Hollywood reporting that 200 more Real D equipped screens will be in place across the US by March, in time for Meet The Robinsons. Real D is an extremely impressive 3D system, employed in the last twelve months to bring both Chicken Little and Nightmare Before Christmas to extra-dimensional life. Disney have been solidly behind Real D, even calling it Disney 3D for the releases of their films - but the qurstion remains, when will Pixar movies start hitting the big screen with their third dimension intact?
Not as soon as I hoped, apparently. Ratatouille is set only for a 2D release, as is the 2008 Pixar film, W.A.L.L - E, Andrew Stanton's sci-fi follow up to Finding Nemo. Apparently, the first film that might be given a 3D theatrical run is the 2009 movie, which I hear is to be directed by Monsters Inc.'s Pete Docter and is, so far, being kept very secret indeed. And even that one might remain 2D if Lasseter and Docter aren't impressed by the 3D tests that they haven't even started yet.
So, to cut a long answer short: not yet. And not for some time.
[EDIT: And now I'm being told (by those anonymous guttersnipes that tell me things) that Toy Story 3 is a serious candidate for the Real D process. Toy Story 3D, anyone? No matter how many dimensions, they also suggest that there will be two Pixar films in 2009 - Pete Doctor's one, mentioned above, and John Lasseter's Toy Story 3, with the sequel first out of the gate, and making it Pixar's tenth feature length release. We'll see]
Not as soon as I hoped, apparently. Ratatouille is set only for a 2D release, as is the 2008 Pixar film, W.A.L.L - E, Andrew Stanton's sci-fi follow up to Finding Nemo. Apparently, the first film that might be given a 3D theatrical run is the 2009 movie, which I hear is to be directed by Monsters Inc.'s Pete Docter and is, so far, being kept very secret indeed. And even that one might remain 2D if Lasseter and Docter aren't impressed by the 3D tests that they haven't even started yet.
So, to cut a long answer short: not yet. And not for some time.
[EDIT: And now I'm being told (by those anonymous guttersnipes that tell me things) that Toy Story 3 is a serious candidate for the Real D process. Toy Story 3D, anyone? No matter how many dimensions, they also suggest that there will be two Pixar films in 2009 - Pete Doctor's one, mentioned above, and John Lasseter's Toy Story 3, with the sequel first out of the gate, and making it Pixar's tenth feature length release. We'll see]
Labels: 3D, andrew stanton, chicken little, disney, finding nemo, john lasseter, meet the robinsons, monsters inc, nightmare before christmas, pete docter, pixar, ratatouille, toy story 3, w.a.l-e
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