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Toonz to animate Santa Claus for 2010 Christmas release.
Toonz Animation is all set to foray into feature-length 3D animation, and how! The Thiruvananthapuram-based studio which had earlier created the animation for Hanuman is now going to animate the life of Santa Claus.
Singapore based Toonz Entertainment, which owns the Indian animation studio Toonz Animation India, has tied up with Gang of 7 Animation USA and Hyde Park Entertainment USA to produce a CG animated feature film “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”, based on the classic book by L. Frank Baum, the creator of ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
14 contenders named for the Oscar for Best Animation
As we approach the end of the year, it is time for a lot of speculation over the Oscars. This year 14 films have been shortlisted, the front-runner being (my personal favourite!) Wall-E, Disney/Pixar’s latest masterpiece, and the others being DreamWorks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Kung-Fu Panda, Israel’s award-winning animated documentary - Waltz With Bashir, London-based Framestore Feature Animation’s first film The Tale Of Despereaux, Blue Sky Studio’s Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who!, Disney’s stereoscopic 3-D Bolt, CG Fantasy films - Delgo and Dragon Hunters, stereoscopic 3-D film - Fly Me To The Moon, Igor, Australian stop-motion film $9.99, and the Japanese anime titles The Sky Crawlers and Sword Of The Stranger.
Waltz with Bashir does mix in some live footage towards the end of the film and I hope it doesn’t go down the same path as Alvin and the Chipmunks did last year, getting disqualified later on a small technicality.
Bringing Robots To Life… the ILM way!
I just received an email from Lucasfilm Animation Singapore, which has a center in Hyderabad in India, about a session with ILM Artist - Nigel Sumner, that they are organizing. Though the only details they have provided are the date (11th May), time (2 pm to 5:30 pm) and speaker (Nigel Sumner), once we have more info, it will be uploaded here on the website.
You can register online by going to: lasjedi.com/events Though entry is free, there is limited seating so if you want to attend, you better hurry up!
Nigel Sumner has worked on numerous Hollywood films as Sequence Supervisor and from the poster, I am assuming that he will be talking about his work on the Hollywood VFX-rich film, - Transformers.
To know more about Nigel Sumner, you can read this interview from ILMfan.com (It’s an old interview but it should help you get some idea about the speaker and his past work): Read the interview.
VES Vice Chair Tim McGovern speaks about the VES India Tour
In this month’s edition of “The Digital Eye” on VFXworld.com, Tim McGovern recounts his participation in the VES’ recent five-city tour of India as the first step in creating a VES section there.
He describes in detail the entire tour spanning five cities - Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, and Mumbai. He was accompanied by Eric Roth, Executive Director of VES, Peter Chiang, Chairman & Founder, Double Negative Ltd (UK) and Indian VFX stalwart and first Indian member of the VES, N Madhu Sudhanan.
Read the complete article on VFXworld.com
Newsflash! Indian studio in Dreamworks Alliance
(News courtesy Reuters)
Thomson today announced that its Technicolor Services division has formed a strategic alliance with DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. to develop world-class animation capabilities in India. The alliance leverages Thomson’s recent investment in Paprikaas Animation Studios, a leading animation and game content provider in Bangalore, India. Read the details on our website .
Incidentally, Paprikaas was the first studio we featured on the All About Animation website.
Indian Animation Archive: A vacuum that urgently needs to be filled!
Here is something that should inspire those who care about Indian animation and spur them into action.
The Animation Archive is a project of ASIFA-Hollywood, with support from The Walter Lantz Foundation. In operation for two years now, they have put together a wealth of information. It is an ambitious project to expand the offerings of the current ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Center in Burbank to include a virtual archive, museum, library and research facility for the benefit of the animation community, students and general public.
News from the Oscars: Alvin and the Chipmunks out of the race!
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has concluded that Fox’s live action/animation hybrid “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” (yet to release), does not qualify for the best animated feature category.
The animated feature screening committee made this decision based on the rule that in a qualifying film, “animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time.”
However, the Academy also ruled that the motion-capture technology used to create Beowulf has not made it ineligible for Oscar consideration in the category of Best Animated Feature.
Now there are just 11 films vying for the three potential nominations.
Its a Wild Wild World at the Oscars… with bees, rats, penguins and ogres!
On Thursday, 8th November, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the names of the 12 movies competing for top animation honours at the Oscars. (How I wish that there was at least ONE Indian animated film in this list!)
Three nominees will be picked by a committee of academy members and will be announced on Jan. 22, 2007. The entire academy membership will be eligible to vote on the winner for the 80th Academy Awards on Feb. 24, 2007. In the running for the feature-length animation this year are:
