A Town Called Panic Film : Animation Complete !

As bloggered in a previous post … animators Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar have been working on a feature length version of A Town Called Panic. Well now they have finished the animation side and here is a list of what goes into making a feature stop motion animation.. for them anyway. 

 

260 days of preparation and shooting

144 000 images constituting 915 plans

40 external hard drives of 500 gigabytes each

100 kilos of vis

200 litres of wood glue

24 000 sticks a skewer (for attaching decorations and supporting figures)

60 kilos of plasticine (to fix the figurines on the sets)

45 000 miniature bricks

1200 blades cuter

300 sticks of hot glue

1500 figures (including 300 “Cow-Boy”, 300 “Indian” and 250 “horse”)

280 gallons of latex

1000 clips linen

2 semi-trailers (to move the sets of Brussels in Luxembourg)

300 kilos of coffee

3000 Sneakers, 3000 Leo and 200 packets of hundred Wafers

… 1 litre of super-glu

 

You can find out more HERE at there blog. 

Ponyo On A Cliff By The Sea Trailer

Hayao Miyazake’s new animation filum (following other clasics such as Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle) is called Ponyo on a cliff by the sea.. and heres the trailer featured on some japan television prog’. You have to try and block out all the yabbering over the top of it and focus on the actual animation to get an idea of how beautifully brilliant this may be. 

It follows a five-year old boy and his relationship with a girl-princess fish who longs to become human. 

Released in Japan in July 2008 … so hopefully we don’t have to wait too long to get it over here. 

Sensations Of The Seasons : Animators Diary 12

Thought I’d do an update on my progress with SOTS although there’s unfortunately been a bit of a set back.. after filming a big scene involving a supper pan (which is incredibly tricky and time consuming as all fellow animators will know), I noticed that there was a little black spot in the top of the screen. This meant there must be some naughty dust somewhere in my lens, so I decided to take my Nicon D 40 to a camera specialist for lens cleaning. Below is a picture I took so the staff in the camera shop would know what I was talking about.. 

I know it’s hard to see but there is a little dark spot near the top and just off to the right from the centre. When there’s a moving image behind .. it’s very distracting .. believe me. 

 

Anyways …. it’s all clean now and I’m back on track with the animatings. I’m still working on the Unzie organ shots at the mo’. I apologize again that there are no stills from the filming side, but like I said before – I don’t want to give too much away.

Bjork & Sigur Ros Live From Iceland

This was posted on Sigur Ros’s MySpace blog HERE…. 

NationalGeographic.com To Webcast Concert With Bjork This Saturday (June 28)

The good people at National Geographic are going to webcast this Saturday’s Náttúra concert live on their website. here is the press release:

NAT GEO MUSIC TO WEBCAST BJÖRK AND SIGUR RÓS CONCERT
LIVE FROM ICELAND ON SATURDAY, JUNE 28

Fans can see concert only at worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com

NEW YORK (June 27, 2008)—Nat Geo Music, the music division of National Geographic Entertainment, will Webcast an open-air Náttúra concert live from Iceland on Saturday, June 28, 2008. Two of the world’s most important and visionary musical entities, Björk and Sigur Rós, will headline the free concert.

The event will be available exclusively at worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET (begins at 8 p.m. BST/London or 7 p.m. GMT/Reykjavik).

To be held in a large park near the centre of Reykjavik, all of the performances will be during daylight, with Iceland’s capital city and dramatic rolling scenery providing a perfect backdrop to what is expected to be one of the biggest concerts the country has seen. The Náttúra concert looks to raise awareness of the impact of the growing aluminum smelting activity on Iceland’s natural landscape.

“One of Nat Geo Music’s main goals is to offer artists and experts who care about global culture and the environment an outlet to create awareness for important issues. Spotlighting these amazing artists performing live in a spectacular backdrop allows our worldwide audience to enjoy great music and become aware of Iceland’s environmental concerns and join the conversation,” said David Beal, president of National Geographic Entertainment.

Commenting on the gig, Björk said: “Too often battles being fought for nature turn into something negative and into mudslinging. We will not go that way, we are not saying that this and that is forbidden, we are rather asking ‘what about all these other possibilities?’ The 21st century is not going to be another oil century but rather a century where we need to recycle, think green and design both power plants and our surroundings in harmony with nature.”

Sigur Rós, who released its fifth album, “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust,” this week, believes the issue of aluminum smelting in Iceland is one that can no longer be ignored. “We are not a political band and don’t think musicians should set themselves as spokespeople on anything at all, but sometimes you see things going on in your own back yard and find that just as a human being you cannot stand by and do nothing. The changes that are going on in Iceland need to be the subject of debate and not snuck through the back door because no one lives in the wilderness and there is urban apathy or a general lack of awareness,” said Sigur Rós vocalist Jón Thor Birgisson.

To download artist photos and bios, go to:
www.bjork.com
www.sigurros.com
www.nattura.info
http://dot.sigurros.com/natgeo/sigurros_presskit.zip
https://download.yousendit.com/E5D21F6108F3A08B

Nat Geo Music & Radio (NGMR) is a division of National Geographic Entertainment, established in 2007 to inspire people to care about the planet through the power of music. NGMR distributes and promotes its music offerings throughout all of National Geographic’s media platforms, including the National Geographic Channels worldwide, National Geographic Films, National Geographic Giant Screen Films and National Geographic Kids Entertainment, as well as its magazines and digital media divisions. In addition to its programming and music supervision responsibilities, NGMR oversees the production of projects and programs with some of today’s hottest artists who are actively involved in environmental and cultural issues.

Nationalgeographic.com is the award-winning Web site of the National Geographic Society and attracts 13 million unique visitors a month (source: Omniture). Nationalgeographic.com combines National Geographic’s video, photography and maps with in-depth information and interactive features about animals and nature, destinations and cultures. Nationalgeographic.com’s news service, National Geographic News, publishes daily stories about science and discoveries and produces electronic newsletters for more than 650,000 subscribers. Information about advertising on Nationalgeographic.com is at nationalgeographic.com/advertising.

 

Real Wall-E

Adam West On The Dark Knight

Adam West puts across his take on Christopher Nolan’s vision of Batman saying… ”I’ve only seen bits and pieces of [Nolan's Batman movies]. There’s an enormous amount of effort and time and money that goes into the making of them, but it’s a different generation. They’re a different kind of thing than ours was. They’re dark, gothic, sinister, full of explosions. We didn’t approach it that way at all.” More HERE. 

David Byrne Playing The Building

A new art installation by David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) is featured on Pitchfork TV HERE. It gives you the chance to literally play the building. Shame it’s all the way over in New York or I’d be there with boots on. 

Also find out more at David’s web thingy HERE. 

Wall-E Trailer Number ?

I know that all I seem to be bloggins about lately is Wall-E related stuff, but here we go again….

30 Seconds Of Presto

HERE is 30 seconds from the new Pixar short ‘Presto’.. I’m guessing this will precede Wall-E this year.  

Can’t wait. 

Roger Rabbit Cartoons

There are only three of these (as far as I’m aware) which is a shame as they are hilarious. 

With this last one the sound is a bit quiet so you may have to boost the vol’.