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Chico & Rita - 2D(+3D) on love and latin jazz

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Chico & Rita - 2D(+3D) on love and latin jazz

Hello All

Here is a link to a bit of video about the production of the feature film "Chico & Rita" that we are currently working on.

http://www.tv3.cat/videos/1075779/Mariscal-i-Trueba-associats

It is in Spanish (Catalan), but even if you do not understand it is interesting.

Here is a link to an English fact sheet about the production

http://www.designmuseum.org/media/item/75103/2070/Chico-Rita-Film-Release-FINAL.pdf

From the tv clip it seems that the animation is simply rotoscoped from live action, but that is not the case.
The director, Fernando Trueba, is basically a Live action director, so one could say that they made the animatic in the live action medium. I am not at liberty to show you any images, but the actors looks nothing like the animated characters, and at several occasions they swap actor for a character. I guess it's is because at some point the first actor wasn't available. Several actors also play several characters. Selected frames are rotoscoped with TV Paint, and only these relatively few painted images are directly available to the animators.

Animation is 2D on paper + 50%+ 3D backgrounds and 3D props

The film is being produced in 6 studios spread out over Eastern and Western Europe and Brazil, managed by HoBSoft.

What do you think ?

HC
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Chico and Rita to show at TIFF 2010

Chico and Rita will be shown at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2010.

Screening Times

Thursday September 16 9:00:00 PM VARSITY 8
Friday September 17 9:00:00 AM Tiff Bell LightBox 1
Sunday September 19 9:15:00 PM SCOTIABANK THEATRE 4

HC

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Chico and Rita to show in London Spanish Film Festival 6 oct 201

Chico and Rita will apparently also be shown at London Spanish Film Festival 6 Oct at 08:30pm

THE LONDON SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL takes place at:

Ciné lumière
at the Institut français
17 Queensberry Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2DT
Box Office: 020 7073 1350
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk

HC

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Chico and Rita at Barbican Film 25 September, 19:00

Chico & Rita - Special Preview

25 September 2010, 19:00, Cinema 1

Recreating 1940s Havana, this is beautifully animated love story from Javier Mariscal and Oscar winner Fernando Trueba, with original soundtrack from legendary Cuban musicians
25 September 2010

http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=11211

HC

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Man, I'm waiting to see the finished product.
I've worked a bit on it during an internship in the keckskemet animation studio (hungary) (inbetween + clean-up.. with markers)

and I'v seen some stuff of it.. is awesome

Northamerican premiere

Me too :-)

According to this:

http://www.tellurideinside.com/2010/09/telluride-film-festival-line-up-for-2010.html

Chico and Rita was shown at TFF37-Colorado Saturday.

Did any one see it ?

HC

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The Chico and Rita trailer is out

HoBSoft Automated animation workflow for feature and tv-series

"Chico and Rita" Production managers gives their view on HoBSoft

HoBSoft and ToonBoom developped a very integrated and highly automated pipeline for this production. In this video the Production managers around the world gives their view on this way of producing.

YouTube HD

You may also have a look at http://www.hobsoft.net/cases/chico for more insights on the production of "Chico and Rita".

HoBSoft Automated animation workflow for feature and tv-series

Chico and Rita Los Angeles premiere

http://www.yelp.com/events/los-angeles-los-angeles-premiere-chico-and-rita

When: Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:00 pm
Where: Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 461-2020
How: Tickets
Cost: Free (apparently...)
Get your free tickets at http://www.afifest.com starting October 28th.

HC

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Chico and Rita music on Spotify

ChicoAndRita :

We've created our very own Chico and Rita playlist on Spotify featuring music from the film along with some extra inspiring jazz tracks thrown in, enjoy!

http://open.spotify.com/user/chicoandrita/playlist/7DmW5aH4xj55fZrvkj62pp

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BD DVD and Graphics Novel

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... and it is nominated for an Academy Award for best animated feature :-)

HC

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