Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
I posted the trailer for Laika’s ParaNorman last October, and while the film still has a little way to go before its August 17th release, Focus Features has posted a making-of featurette on the official website.
I’m a huge animation nerd, and I love behind the scenes/making-of stuff, so I thought I’d post something other than a trailer or a short film just this once.
A synopsis for the zombie flick follows after the cut:
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
“Lake Beast” is a short film funded in part by an early Kickstarter project by Vance Reeser, and it’s one I’m proud to say I contributed to. (By “early,” I mean the pre-2011/2012 explosion where people started making millions of dollars. It was up around the same time that my Multiplex: Enjoy Your Show project was up, in late 2009.)
At long last, the short has been completed. It’s a dream-like short about childhood vision that “compels a man to explore the bottom of a toxic lake,” and I highly recommend investing the seven(-ish) minutes of your life to watch it. It’s also up on Vimeo and you can purchase it (for however much you’re willing to give) via Gumroad, as well. Or, just watch it here:
Check out more stuff from the animator at Vance Reeser’s portfolio site.
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Yahoo! Movies brings us the first trailer to the first Tim Burton movie I’m actually interested in for the first time in a decade, with this feature length stop motion adaptation of his own short film, Frankenweenie. I guess he’s still not doing anything truly original, but at least if he’s gotta keep rehashing stuff, he’s at least rehashing his own stuff now…? I guess? Still, this looks like fun.
Frankenweenie hits the big screen on October 5, 2012. The voice cast includes Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, and Martin Landau. If you haven’t seen the original, you can check it out (in two parts) over at YouTube.
Monday, February 13th, 2012
Yesterday, Twitch posted a freaky looking trailer for Serbian director Petar Pasic’s live action/CGI hybrid, Bugs and Heroes, which I described on Twitter as sort of Delicatessen meets Antz, but even crazier.
See for yourself:
The film is a “sort of dark love story following both the inhabitants of an apartment complex and the bugs who live in their walls,” as Twitch describes it, and unfortunately, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a theatrical release here in the States, but… we’ll see.
