Animation Fall Preview 2010
Seven animated features are currently on the fall schedule and AWN takes a chance to run them down. Disney and DreamWorks have their heavy weights, while indie releases shine as well. Warner Bros. and Animal Logic partner again. And Lionsgate enters the animation game.
My Dog Tulip (New Yorker Films, Sept. 1)
Paul and Sandra Fierlinger put their spin on the age-old tale of man and his best friend, basing their story on J.R. Ackerley's 1956 book. This indie TVPaint production from producer Norman Twain Prods. and distributor New Yorker Films will have a short run in New York. The film about a man who rescues a German Shepherd debuted at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2009 and received an honorable mention at Ottawa the same year. The voice cast features Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave and Isabella Rossellini.
This direct-to-DVD production is getting a two-week theatrical run in Los Angeles at the El Capitan Theatre. In the film, Tinker Bell must partner with a rival fairy in order to keep secret their existence from humans. Much like Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure last year, this film is rumored to be on Disney's list of Oscar submissions in an effort to help lift the yearly releases high enough to ensure five nominations. Director Bradley Raymond devised the story, which was scripted by Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir. Mae Whitman, who just appeared in Scott Pilgrim as one of the evil exes, voices Tink. The rest of the voice cast includes Michael Sheen, Lucy Liu, Raven-Symone and Rob Paulsen. The film arrives on DVD and Blu-ray Sept. 21st.
Produced by Crest Animation, this 3-D CG flick follows two polar opposite wolves that have been placed together in a foreign forest in an effort to raise the species population in the area. Too bad they hate each other. Anthony Bell (The Boondocks, Rugrats) and Ben Gluck (Brother Bear 2) helmed the production, which features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Christina Ricci, Dennis Hopper and Danny Glover. Crest Animation is best known for its home entertainment work on Casper and Care Bears, as well as religious programming. This film is the first of a three-picture deal Crest signed with Lions Gate Family Ent.. The next film is Norm of the North, which follows a polar bear who ends up the spokesperson for a company that is destroying his native Arctic.
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lol, sorry about a hair going through the leather straps that must be so easy to change!
I need to ask David do you work in cg? If you do you would know that it takes a lot of time and effort to create anything. I could have said so much about the toy story 3 trailer... a toys foot went through the carpet, woodys arm went through his hat and his glider when he was on the roof! But i didnt and did i notice them in the film no because they fixed it, why do you think companies have fix teams. Also is that hair really going to disappoint you?
Seriously? You're judging the hard work of hundreds of people for the past four years on ONE standee? Since when do the people who produce standees have ANYTHING to do with story production? You've seen the trailer. Rapuzel's hair is an INCREDIBLE accomplishment for dynamics and rigging, and no standee will deter any rational person from seeing this film.
I think that The Illusionist is defiantly is an Oscar contender. I don’t think it will be a box office hit because I think it will be marketed like all art films which is sad - I hope I’m wrong!
I'm also starting to have my doubts about Tangled. While I was at SIGGRAPH this year, I saw all the Disney standes on Tangled all over at the Geek Café. I quickly discovered that on one of the standes of the Horse character (a snappy white steed that name escapes me) that the hair on the horse was sticking though all the leather stapes on the settle and bridal. Come-on Disney! Is it wise to show off your flaws among your peers let alone make them so public? Especially when it involves a film that the subject matter involves hair or when Hair is one of the main characters of the story? Errgh! Come on John! Your one that inspired me to get involved in Computer Graphics and you allow this to happen!
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