Classic Spumco

Cadbury Commercial



Tales of Worm Paranoia



Buy One Get One Free



A Day In The Life of Ranger Smith

X-Men's Last Stand

The Biz

As seen by Tina Kugler

Two More Fantastic Shorts!

The Animator

In 1986... a new piece of technology was born...
The Etch-A-Sketch Animator.
Now recently re-discovered, this is how we will proceed with production here at the studio! This marvelous new technology will ensure top-rated digital animation effeciency.

These are the master controls... you really don't need any more than this, it's that simple and easy to use, and it will do all the work for you!

Cars

Well, I saw Cars the other day. I must admit it was better than I had expected, it's not the best Pixar film, but it is very good. I immensely enjoyed the short at the start and the trailer for Brad Bird's next film Ratatouille. I wonder if the difficulty of making Cars was worth it... because from what little knowledge I have about 3D this must have been VERY technically difficult to produce. When it was done I was entertained and delighted to see it. There were many other 3D-CG films previewed before the film, in fact there was a lot of them! I counted seven! Including the films that have already come out this year that's 13 animated films coming out this year! It's too bad only one of those is classically animated. That's averaging one every month for 2006!

1. Cars
2. Monster House
3. Happy Feet
4. Over The Hedge
5. The Ant Bully
6. Barnyard
7. Meet The Robinsons
8. Flushed Away
9. The Wild
10. Ice Age 2
11. Open Season
12. Hoodwinked
13. Curious George

That MUST be a record or something!!! I must say maybe 4 of these films (excluding Cars) look either cool or entertaining in someway after seeing the trailers, but the others look down right awful. Cars is the only one I've seen from this list. I'm told Hedge and Ice Age are funny and worth seeing, and Flushed Away is probably the only one I might see in theaters this year. The remainder are typical films that use the CG medium as a novelty, a lot are all looking like cookie cutter time-fillers and in fact make them all seem to be a bit needless in their function. It will be a couple years before Disney/Lasseter develop multiple/meaningful traditionally animated films again. Ratatouille (coming out next summer) will be a refreshing treat after a year of these quickly-pumped-out 3D movies... here's the trailer:

Ninjas in the City!

Muralmania

After 4 weeks of picking away at it, I've finaly finished the second wall-cartoon in our lounge at the studio. Over 120 characters and 10 oil paint markers. Some critters even escaped out onto the other wall, looks like they might make their way into the meeting room.

These markers are the best! Couldn't have done it without 'em.

Annecy

The latest and greatest shorts...

Jamie Hewlett

Photos from the DESIGN MUSEUM in England where the DESIGNER OF THE YEAR exhibition was held. TONS of great sketches & storyboards were on display from this year's recepient Jamie Hewlett, who won for his work on GORILLAZ.