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The makers of The Peanuts Movie went against the grain of 3D animation to produce a film that looks deceptively simple…
“I’ve never worked so hard to make things look so simple” was the catchphrase of Blue Sky Studios’ Harald Kraut on The Peanuts Movie. “It looks simple on screen,” he explains, “but it wasn’t simple to get there because of the rules we established.”
Those rules, as descibed here, were established to try to evoke the look and feel of Charles Schulz’s 2D, hand-drawn comic strips on the big screen. Broadly speaking, they involved taking a highly sophisticated 3D animation system and stopping it from doing everything it’s good at; sweeping camera movements, photo-real textures, creating the illusion of depth... All of that went out of the window in the service of staying faithful to Schulz’s original strips.
“We had to...
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The makers of The Peanuts Movie went against the grain of 3D animation to produce a film that looks deceptively simple…
“I’ve never worked so hard to make things look so simple” was the catchphrase of Blue Sky Studios’ Harald Kraut on The Peanuts Movie. “It looks simple on screen,” he explains, “but it wasn’t simple to get there because of the rules we established.”
Those rules, as descibed here, were established to try to evoke the look and feel of Charles Schulz’s 2D, hand-drawn comic strips on the big screen. Broadly speaking, they involved taking a highly sophisticated 3D animation system and stopping it from doing everything it’s good at; sweeping camera movements, photo-real textures, creating the illusion of depth... All of that went out of the window in the service of staying faithful to Schulz’s original strips.
“We had to...
- 12/18/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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Here’s how The Peanuts Movie creators tried to honour the look and feel of Charles ‘Sparky’ Schulz’s original comic strips…
On a desk in a Santa Rosa office sits a red and gold box measuring 10x8cm. It dates from the 1940s, is one of only three such boxes in existence, and contains around a hundred of what comic book artist and creative director of Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, Paige Braddock, calls “the holy grail of pen nibs”. These are the nibs used by Charles 'Sparky' Schulz to draw over 17,000 Peanuts comic strips.
When the R. Esterbrook Company stopped manufacturing Charles Schulz’s preferred 914 pen nibs, he bought up the remaining stock. Three boxes are all that remain; one on display at the Schulz Museum adjacent to his former studio, one kept in the studio safe, and the one we’re shown by Braddock,...
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Here’s how The Peanuts Movie creators tried to honour the look and feel of Charles ‘Sparky’ Schulz’s original comic strips…
On a desk in a Santa Rosa office sits a red and gold box measuring 10x8cm. It dates from the 1940s, is one of only three such boxes in existence, and contains around a hundred of what comic book artist and creative director of Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, Paige Braddock, calls “the holy grail of pen nibs”. These are the nibs used by Charles 'Sparky' Schulz to draw over 17,000 Peanuts comic strips.
When the R. Esterbrook Company stopped manufacturing Charles Schulz’s preferred 914 pen nibs, he bought up the remaining stock. Three boxes are all that remain; one on display at the Schulz Museum adjacent to his former studio, one kept in the studio safe, and the one we’re shown by Braddock,...
- 12/11/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 43rd Annual Annie Awards and "Inside Out" and "The Good Dinosaur," both Pixar movies, led the pack! "Inside Out" received fourteen nominations while "The Good Dinosaur" got nine.
My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.
We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!
Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Paramount Pictures
Inside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Shaun the Sheep The Movie
Aardman Animations
The Good Dinosaur
Pixar Animation Studios
The Peanuts Movie
Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Best Animated Special Production
Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas
Warner Bros. Animation
He Named Me Malala
Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door
I Am A Witness
Moonbot...
My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.
We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!
Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Paramount Pictures
Inside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Shaun the Sheep The Movie
Aardman Animations
The Good Dinosaur
Pixar Animation Studios
The Peanuts Movie
Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Best Animated Special Production
Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas
Warner Bros. Animation
He Named Me Malala
Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door
I Am A Witness
Moonbot...
- 12/2/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
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