Animation
World Magazine, Issue 3.1, April 1998
Films
Pentafour Producing Motion-Capture Feature. Pentafour, a Madras, India-based animation and effects company, has started production on what is being called the first animated motion-capture feature film, Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of the Mists. Working with Venice, California-based motion-capture company, House of Moves, Pentafour has begun shooting motion-capture data (optical technique) in Los Angeles which will be composited with computer-generated characters by artists in both the Los Angeles and Madras facilities. Pentafour's Sriram Sundar Rajan is producing the film, and Alan Jacobs and Evan Ricks are co-directing. Actors cast to voice characters in Sinbad include Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) , Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and Brendan Fraser (George of the Jungle). Pentafour, a software company which has recently branched into animation production, is also working on computer animation for The King and I, Morgan Creek's animated feature slated for direct-to-video release in summer 1999 and are currently working on television pilots for DreamWorks, Sony and Disney. Pentafour has not yet announced a release date or a distributor for Sinbad.
For more information about motion-capture animation, see Animation World Magazine's February 1998 issue focusing on the techniques of motion-capture and stop-motion animation.
Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold!,
is now in a feature film
development deal with Nickelodeon.
Photo courtesy of Nickelodeon.
Nicktoons Expands Feature Slate. Nickelodeon has entered into a film development deal with Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold!, to develop an animated feature film based on the series, which has just been renewed for its fourth season on Nickelodeon. Klasky Csupo is currently in production on Nickelodeon's first animated feature, The Rugrats Movie which is slated for a November 25, 1998 release. In addition, Nickelodeon is already in development on a second Rugrats feature, for which David N. Weiss and J. David Stem are writing a script. Recently at Toy Fair, Mattel debuted a new line of Rugrats toys.
Animated Fare At AFM. The American Film Market ran February 26 through March 6, 1998 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Out of hundreds of films for sale at the market, a handful of animated films were available from GoodTimes Entertainment (Animated Classics, Camelot, the Legend, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer), Harmony Gold (Adventures on Rainbow Pond), Lighthouse Entertainment (A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation), Movie Reps International (The Warrior Prince), Santa Monica Pictures (The Adventures of Peter Rabbit) and Shochiku (Jungle Emporer Leo).Note: Send news worthy items to editor@awn.com.
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