Igor the Movie

This made me giggle like a little girl
and besides I have had a crush on John Cusack
since Say Anything.

And guess what?
The main character is a human!

Not a talking animal...
or robot...
or monster...
a stylized CG human,
with what looks like an interesting quest!

To DREAM BIG!

Great designs, looks like a funny story
and decent animation!!!
People better watch out for Sparx Animation Studios
and the Weinsteins!

You can even enter a contest to be a
cast member in the movie!

Practice you best Igor!

Click here to enter the be a cast member Contest!

To see the trailer Hi Rez - click here.

Igor the Movie Website

Sparx Animation Studios is currently completing work on their first feature film, IGOR, which is produced by Exodus Prod. and will be distributed by the Weinstein Co. for theatrical release in October 2008.

Founded in 1995, Sparx Animation Studios specializes in 3D animation. Headquartered in Paris and with an office in Los Angeles and an animation studio in Vietnam, Sparx has worked with leading entertainment and technology companies including Disney, Dentsu Tec, Exodus Film Group and Nelvana. Sparx has delivered more than 100 hours of animation for TV series, direct-to-video releases, shorts and feature films.

Gazoon also by Sparx Animation

Launched in 2002 by Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill, Odyssey Ent. is a film sales and finance business, headquartered in London with offices in both Los Angeles and New York.

Founded in 2007, by Jean-Philippe Agati and Laddie Ervin, Fable Works develops and produces properties for feature films, television and videogames.

Art Department
Olivier Besson	Art Director
Vincent Massy de la Chesneraye	Set Designer
Loic Rastout	Production Designer

Sound
Jeremy Balko	Sound Mixer

Visual Effects & Animation
Fabrice Delapierre	CGI Supervisor
Thierry Malherbe	Head CGI
Vincent Lemaire	Character Rigger
Yoshimichi Tamura	Animation Supervisor

Learn Self Defense

I feel safer with George around...I know wow - I am twisted.

This is fun and fun to watch!

The award-winning short film
Learn Self Defense...
by Chris Harding

"Five practical lessons of self-defense for the
citizen on the go-or nation-state on the rampage!"

If you like that check out his other short film
Make Mine Shoe Box
For Halmark Cards

BLU Does it Again

I posted Blu's stuff before, and he is at it again!
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

My New Philosophy

My new Philosophy these days...
Dreams are here.

Zoudov

These guys create great animation after great animation.
There must be something in the water in France.
Supinfocom Cold war spy animation short.
Thanks Ira!

Watch Zoudov

Kinetic Art of Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith approaches his work with a very wide expectation of what a certain piece may become. A lot of this is determined by what sort of shapes and objects he finds in the studio. "Most of it is trial and error, a kind of form follows function construction process. If an element is not working or just doesn't do what I had hoped, I will cut it off and try something else. I enjoy the raw creativity in this process. Art doesn't always have to be serious, political or even emotional. Sometimes it can just be fun. Some people have a hard time understanding my sculptures. "Whats does it do?", they ask. I usually answer, "It's doing it."" - explained Andrew.

High Dive

High Dive uses one inch chrome ball bearings. The bearings are lifted to the top of the piece by both a rotating magnent lift and a chain lift. The balls are collected at the top in a small tube. Once five balls fill the tube it tips, releasing them all down the ramp towards a jump. The jump launches the balls backwards through the air onto a short track. This track leads to what was once a large satellite dish. The balls enter the dish and circle for about a minute and a half until they hit the rubber bumpers towards the center and bounce around until they randomly fall through the small hole at the center and roll back to the start.

Kinetic Art of Andrew Smith

Kewl Robotic Stuff

How would like an R2D2 projector or a flying jellyfish?

Griselda Sastrawinata

I heart Griselda Sastrawinata!

We Feel Fine and I Want You To Want Me

I found the mix of Internet, graphics, animation,
social communities and communication so interesting.

We Feel Fine

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale.

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.


The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.


The interface to this data is a self-organizing particle system, where each particle represents a single feeling posted by a single individual. The particles' properties – color, size, shape, opacity – indicate the nature of the feeling inside, and any particle can be clicked to reveal the full sentence or photograph it contains. The particles careen wildly around the screen until asked to self-organize along any number of axes, expressing various pictures of human emotion. We Feel Fine paints these pictures in six formal movements titled: Madness, Murmurs, Montage, Mobs, Metrics, and Mounds.


At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.

- Jonathan Harris & Sepandar Kamvar
May 2006




The interactive installation "I Want You To Want Me", by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, for their "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition.

I Want You To Want Me explores the search for love and self in the world of online dating. It chronicles the world's long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, using real data collected from Internet dating sites every few hours.

The piece is presented on a 56" high-resolution touch-screen, hanging vertically on the wall, and was installed at MoMA on February 14, 2008, Valentine's Day.

Ki Ku Town Films

I think Elizabeth Ito's stuff is awesome!~

Elizabeth Ito's senior year project at Cal Arts. An animated documentary about a family of monsters trying to lead a normal american life. The voices are really her family. This won the Producer's Choice Award in the first Nicktoons Film Festival, was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 2004, and has been in various festivals around the world.

Elizabeth Ito's Sophomore film at Cal Arts

Elizabeth Ito's junior year cal arts film. Mister Monster is born!

Check out her blog too!

And her Flickr!

L'Animateur - The Animator - Der Trickzeichner

Stop Mo Animators impress me so much...

Al Dente

Watch Al Dente

Taking place in a colorful and musical universe, "Al Dente" is a short film which tells us the story of a little street girl discovering the magic and the dangers of an ogre's kitchen.

Al Dente was a student graduation project for Supinfocom, France, and was directed by Jean-François Barthelemy, Maël François et Carlos Felipe Leon Ortiz.

Wowsie Wow!