Interview with Henry Selick

I am a BIG fan of Coraline, Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick.
His description of developing the script is interesting.
Story boarding is KING!

Crew Tests

Pocketbot Test by Crew 972 from Alex Orrelle on Vimeo.


Adrenaline Lemmings CGI test from Alex Orrelle on Vimeo.

Great little CG tests by friend and colleague
Alex Orrelle and his Crew 972 in Israel

Figures In Space

The simplicity is lovely

Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity on 'Sesame Street'

Just because :)

Working In Flash

Undead Cyclops Boss from The Behemoth on Vimeo.


Frost King from The Behemoth on Vimeo.


Necromancer from The Behemoth on Vimeo.

Watch Dan Paladin work in Flash creating
characters for the game Castle Crashers

WETA Makes A Mermaid

When a 4-year-old boy approached her at the beach to ask why she had no legs, Nadya Vessey, a double-leg amputee, thought up a novel answer to satisfy the boy's curiosity.

A double amputee asks special effects company to make her a prosthetic tail.

She asked, "Have you heard of The Little Mermaid?" When the boy said yes, she replied: "I am a mermaid."

The little boy ran off to tell his father, who likely chuckled at his son's wild imagination.

But three years later, partly because of that young boy, Vessey is indeed something of a mermaid, fully-functional iridescent tail and all.

A few days after her encounter with the boy at the beach, mostly on a whim, the Auckland, New Zealand, woman searched the Internet for the Weta Workshop, an award-winning special effects company in nearby Wellington that has worked on the "Lord of the Rings," "King Kong," "The Chronicles of Narnia" and other blockbuster films.

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