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United Airlines “Heart” wins the Annie Award
Animation industry notables gathered at Royce Hall in Los Angeles for the 36th Annual Annie awards yesterday. ASIFA-Hollywood awarded prizes for last year’s best animation, including projects from film, television, commercials, video games, and short subjects. It was a night of animation giants, with amazing presenters and presentees such as Henry Selick, Nick Park and…
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Animating on ‘United States of Tara’
I met Jamie while working on ‘Coraline’ in Portland, OR so I was excited to get the chance to work with him again on the USofTara credit sequence. I was also very interested in testing out the features of his stop-motion software, Dragon. When I arrived, Jamie had shot a test using a real pop-up…
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More on United States of Tara Titles
Here are a few more shots of our production plus a link to the Quicktime. The opening shot shows a full house “Pop-up” in a larger than normal book. Morgan Hay went to work straight away on the house. It was our most complex pop-up. As the house settles Morgan used some cleverly placed rare-earth…
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Fiat Punto: Les Rideaux
30 second spot for Fiat by Partizan Lab director Olivier Gondry. Combines live action and stop motion animation.
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United States of Tara Title Sequence
During the last couple months I have been working on a the title sequence for the new Showtime series “United States of Tara”. The show stars Toni Collette and was written by Diablo Cody. The idea of the show came from executive producer Steven Spielberg. The Tara team wanted to have a paper pop-up style…