September 15, 2007

September 14, 2007

Fox News Reporter gets Animated in Flash!

Rough Animatic by Seth Kearsley.


Here's the finished version.
Cleaned up by Rafael Hurtado and the Flash work was done by Robert Etchingham.


In Hollywood, everyone thought old-school, "2D animation" was dead... Killed by computer animation, but "The Simpsons Movie" proved that wrong. Hal Eisner visits with some of the animators who couldn't be happier about the 2D comeback.
Here's the whole newsclip via Cold Hard Flash:

September 12, 2007

Heavy Metal Guy

A long time ago, Mondo Media made these short-lived webisodes
of this awesome character, here they are for download:

TRON 2 GETS NEW LIFE WITH NEW DIRECTOR


Walt Disney Pictures is in final talks with commercial helmer Joseph Kosinski to develop and direct "the next chapter" of TRON, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. Live Planet's Sean Bailey is producing, along with the original's co-writer and director Steven Lisberger, who will oversee visual and script development.

The new take on the franchise will be penned by LOST writers Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The 1982 film chronicled the adventures of a computer programmer who is sucked into a computer and forced to participate in the deadly virtual games he helped create. The film was a landmark of visual effects, being the first to use CG.
Brigham Taylor is shepherding for Disney.

Kosinski, who hasn't helmed a film since 1989, earlier in the year signed on to direct Warner Bros. remake of LOGAN'S RUN.

Courtesy of the Animation Flash Newsletter - Dan Sarto

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September 10, 2007

Curtis & Whitey have a Podcast!



The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle

Launched thirty years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are now respectively 15 billion and 12.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, equivalent to about 14 and 11.5 light-hours distant. Still functioning, the Voyagers are being tracked and commanded through the Deep Space Network. Having traveled beyond the outer planets, they are only the third and fourth spacecraft from planet Earth to escape toward interstellar space, following in the footsteps of Pioneer 10 and 11. A 12-inch gold plated copper disk (a phonograph record) containing recorded sounds and images representing human cultures and life on Earth, is affixed to each Voyager - a message in a bottle cast into the cosmic sea. The recorded material was selected by a committee chaired by astronomer Carl Sagan. Simple diagrams on the cover symbolically represent the spacecraft's origin and give instructions for playing the disk. The exotic construction of the disks should provide them with a long lifetime as they coast through interstellar space.