Fantasia Animation Weblog

Trailer third Futurama Movie: Bender’s Game

alain — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:00:03 +0000

Today we can show you the first trailer of Futurama: Bender’s Game, already the third Futurama feature from the planned set of four straight-to-dvd’s.

In this adventure the Planet Express crew find themselves in a Dungeons & Dragons -like fantasy world, where Bender gets very knightly, Leela transforms into a centaur and the professor shows his sorcery skills. Seeing this promising trailer, we can expect the movie to be full of references to the well known fantasy stories.

Bender’s Game will be released at the end of this year.

Cups with Wall-E

alain — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:52:49 +0000

Quality animation on Google Adsense

alain — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:13:13 +0000

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.

No tricks, no digital effects… this is live animation

alain — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:01:55 +0000

This movie answers the question whether it is also possible to have real-time, live animation without digital tricks. At the opening ceremony for the Asian Cup the employees of Samsung South-Korea deliver an astonishing show.

(source: CartoonBrew)

The wonderful world of Coca Cola Part II

alain — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:41:27 +0000

The succes of the commercial ”Happiness Factory” hasn’t been unnoticed. The sequel entitled Happiness Factory: The movie is finished! This advertisement movie shows you for 3,5 minutes the wonderful world inside the cola vending machine. With the very nicely done ‘documentary’ ”Inside The Factory” it’s all taking a step to the next level. Here you will have a look behind the scenes of the first look behind the scenes of the vending machine.

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Matt Damon shows his ears

alain — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:30:17 +0000

Matt Damon hasn’t lost his identity every day. In a cameo in the animated childrens program “Arthur” Matt finally shows his true ears! Early September he will play himself in this cartoon to stimulate the young viewers to post a self-made videopostcard. This is a spoof on his own Project Greenlight, a HBO-series to give young movie talent a chance.

Welcome aboard The Ark

alain — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:43:55 +0000

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.

Disney retro pin-ups

alain — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:17:14 +0000

Who says animation can’t be sexy? These alternative versions of famous Disney women are pretty interesting. On her website Amy Mebberson shows a couple of digital drawings of Disney princesses in another spotlight. Some creations look better than the other, however the retro pinup look generally works out fine.

Monsters vs. Aliens – Release 05/15/09 (US)

alain — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:30:07 +0000

Jeffrey Katzenberg is one of the fans of 3D, so it’s no miracle that Dreamworks Animation announced that all of it’s movies will be released in 3D starting from 2009. The first project is titled Monsters vs. Aliens and will be released on May 15 2009 in the US. The movie will be directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman.

The classic fifties monster movie will be reinvented in this modern action comedy about Rex Havoc. The story is based on the comic “Rex Havoc and The Ass-Kickers of the Fantastic.” Havoc is the leader of a team of monster-catching experts, who already suffered from some brain damage caused by a golf stick while being attacked by vampires. Cable television on earth is threatened by aliens. It’s now up to Rex and his Ass-Kicker team to use the monsters in the battle against the aliens. Sounds freaky…. I can’t wait !

Poor Mrs. Potts

alain — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:17:14 +0000

Sometimes things can go wrong during a musical, as Mrs. Potts from Beauty and The Beast in Walt Disney World experienced at first hand.