Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy and American Dad, signed a million dollar contract with Google and Media Rights Capital. McFarlane will provide Google Adsense (advertising program) with exclusive animation content.
Through a videoplayer within the Adsense area the internet user can watch original quality animation series. The player will appear on several affiliate sites. There will be banners and some in-stream video commercials, both before, after as throughout the program. At this moment McFarlane has a deal for fifty digital short episodes with brand new characters.
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true natre of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…
The short movie The Ark takes you to a dark world where fear for the virus dominates. You can feel the tension and in the trailer below you can see part of the superb animation. Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki, the creators of The Ark, already received several big prices. Only last week they won the award Best of Show at the Siggraph festival. Who knows, maybe they will receive a nomination for best animated short for the 80th edition of the Academy Awards.
The dvd of Surf’s Up will be released in America on the 9th of October. As a bonus feature there will be a new adventure of the animated short The Chubbchubbs! that is called: ’The Chubbchubbs save Xmas‘.
Other extra features are:
* THE CHUBBCHUBBS — The original Oscar-winning animated short
* “Not A Drop of Real Water” — Three-part doc that takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the movie and its technical achievements
* Music Video — Lauryn Hill “Lose Myself”
* Arnold’s Zurfinary — Arnold gives a kids-eye view of surf terminology
* CREATE YOUR OWN SURFBOARD game
* LAVA SURF game
* WHALE HOPPING game
* Filmmaker commentary* THE CHUBBCHUBBS! — The original Oscar-winning animated short
The Chubbchubbs is a short film by Eric Armstrong for Imageworks and Sony Pictures. In 2003 it won the oscar for best animated short. Click ‘read more’ to watch The Chubbchubbs.
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true natre of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…
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