The Walt Disney Co. will cut the number of films it releases each year from 18 to eight as part of a larger reduction, trade papers reported Wednesday.
Here is a link to the article Disney Cuts Releases: Article!!!
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Family Dog - Part 1
This is the 1st time, I ever heard about Brad Bird, then he caught my attention again when Iron Giant came out. It's a short lived animated series called "Family Dog" originally aired in 1987, I have 3 parts here. Great animation and character stuff in this. Thought I would share.
There were 10 episodes created from what I understand.
Family Dog Episode Guide:
Show Dog
Hot Dog at the Zoo
Doggone Girl is Mine
Enemy Dog
Eye on the Sparrow
Call of the Mild
Dog Days of Summer
Party Animal
Family Dog Gets Good and Sick
Family Dog Goes Homeless
Production Notes:
Executive Producers - Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg, and Dennis Klein
Producer - Chuck Richardson
Directed by Chris Buck
Casting: Robert Litvak
Family Dog created by Brad Bird
Family Dog theme composed and conducted by Danny Elfman
Additional music composed by Steve Bartek
Supervising Producer: Stephen Hodgins
Line Producer: Heather Walker
Production Managers: Peggy Regan, Steve Chadwick, Carolyn Walters
Administrative Executive: Thad Weinlein
Art Directors: David Cutler, Kim Cleary
Models: Vicky Scott, Matthew Bates, Sandy Kopitopoulos, Trish Burgio, Christi West
Color Models: Bridget Stother, Jill Sturdivant
Backgrounds: Al Budnick, Larry Grossman, Jeff Riche, Don Watson
Layout Supervisors: Guy Vasilovich, Dave Pemberton
Layout: Gay Lawrence - Ventura, Valerio Lawrence - Ventura
Supervising Animators: Klay R. Hall, Ron Hughart, Becky Bristow
Supervising Post Production Editor: Rob Kirkpatrick
Post Production Manager: Lan Lamon
Picture Editor: Evan Landis
Supervising Sound Editor: Mac Holyoke
Assistant Picture Editor: Mhairi Kerr
Pre-production Editor: Darrell MacDonald
Breakdown Editors: Rick Dubiel, Ken Hurlbut, Terry Capter, Fred Spek, Steve Schnier
Dialogue Editors: Keith Traver, Annellie Samuel, Mark Grosicki, Chris Harris
Sound Effects Editors: John Baktis, Glenn Barna, Eric Mattar-Hurlbut
Music Editors: Stephen Hudecki, Peter Branton
Re-recording Engineer: Tony van den Akker
Negative Cutting Services: Catherine Rankin Productions
Laboratory Services: Interlock, Magnetic North, Multitrack Digital Inc., The Filmhouse Group
Additional Production Facility: Wang Film Production Co. Inc.
CodeHunters MTV Asia
Here's a cool short I found called Codehunters done for MTV Asia and used on the MTV Asia video awards show. The style is reminiscent of Gorillaz GORILLAZ.COM music videos + There is a great article about it @ CGSOCIETY ARTICLE ON CODEHUNTERS Let me know your thoughts.
Production Notes:
Project: Codehunters
Client: MTV Asia
Production: Blinkink
Production director/editor: Ben Hibon
Producer: Bart Yates
3D animation: Axis Animation
TD: Stuart Aitken
Executive producers: Imke Ferhmann, Richard Scott
Development producer: Sam McCarthy
Line producers: Laura Seymour, Tracey Paddison
Modellers: Serge Caires, Ray Slattery, Mark Brumby, Franco Bresciani, Ian Brown, Graham McKenna, Jan Almqvist, Dave Cleland
Rigger & TD: Jakub Krompolc, Franco Bresciani
Animators: Cath Brooks, Joe Smith, Steve Townrow, Karin Mattson, Jan Almqvist
Compositing: Graham McKenna, John Barclay, Sergio Caires, Carlos Corriera, Nuno Conceicao
Post production: The Mill
Music score: Joris deMan
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