http://animation.woeplog.com News, reviews and fun facts about the world of animation movies/series Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2008/06/29/trailer-third-futurama-movie-benders-game/ [youtube -_2oCXR7TTU] http://animation.woeplog.com/2008/06/29/cups-with-wall-e/ 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/19/quality-animation-on-google-adsense/ 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.  [metacafe 697851/samsung_dance] (source: CartoonBrew) http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/19/no-tricks-no-digital-effects-this-is-live-animation/ 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/18/the-wonderful-world-of-coca-cola-part-ii/ 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/18/matt-damon-shows-his-ears/ 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/14/welcome-aboard-the-ark/ 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.     http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/14/disney-retro-pin-ups/ 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 ... http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/12/monsters-vs-aliens-%e2%80%93-release-051509-us/ Sometimes things can go wrong during a musical, as Mrs. Potts from Beauty and The Beast in Walt Disney World experienced at first hand. [youtube PK2YbAM-gsM] http://animation.woeplog.com/2007/08/12/poor-mrs-potts/