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So with the 82nd Academy Awards last night, Pixar won 2 more Oscars!
Congrats guys!
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Based on a cartoon series created by Arthur Qwak and produced by the French company Futurikon, Dragon Hunters follows Zoe little girl who believes in fairy tales. Not because she is naive, but because she likes fairy tales. So in order to help her uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. In comes Gwizdo (Rob Paulsen) and Lian-Chu (Forest Whitaker) a pair of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters.
 
The art style is very stylized and quite reminiscent of Igor. Set within a colorful fantastic world with floating islands and dragons (ok, so they aren’t the typical mid-evil dragons… it’s more of a, any monster is called a dragon.. but who cares)
 
Definitely not worth the acclaim of any major awards, it’s a cute story and it’s easy to get swept into their world.
 
 
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Well it’s Oscar time again, and the nominations are great. It’s no secret that I love movies, I love Hollywood and everything related… and the Oscars are no exception. What makes things even more exciting this year, is the inclusion of Pixar’s Up in the Best Picture category, being the second animated film nominated in that category!  So here are the categories/nominations/hopes that are relevant to this site.

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Pigeon: Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
 
The film, writer/director Lucas Martell, first attempt at animation, took nearly 5 years to complete. The project started off as an excuse for Martell to learn 3D animation… and did he ever learn.
 
Not on par with shorts from production houses such as Pixar or DreamWorks, but for a first attempt, it’s fantastic. The visuals are great, but what truly separates this from an amateur short is the fantastic story and the memorizing score.
 
Anyone interested in great story telling, and or animation should definitely make a stop to the site’sblog and make sure you check out his videos… informative and hilarious!
 
 
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Planet 51, a story about an American astronaut who lands on an alien world and tries to get home…
 
Strip away the over abundant pop culture references and you’re left with a story that is a blatant role-reversal rip off of the likes of E.T or My Favourite Martian. The main character, an egotistical US astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker (Dwayne Johnson), lands on what he thought was an inhabited planet, only to find that the planet is a mirror of a 1950s Pleasantville society, only inhabited by little green men. The only people err aliens who know that Captain Baker is not an evil alien bent on enslaving their race is teenage planetarium worker Lem (Justin Long), who with the help of his geeky friend Skiff (Seann William Scott) and girl-next-door crush Neera (Jessica Biel), decides to help Chuck get back to his Lunar module before his orbiting vessel returns to Earth.
 
The problem is that it has since been quarantined by order of General Grawl (Gary Oldman) and his consulting professor Kipple (John Cleese), both hell-bent on capturing the invading ‘Humaniac’ before he supposedly turns everyone on the planet into his Zombie slaves.
 
The animation is clean and well done, however, it’s hard to watch the movie and ignore the plethora of kitschy 1950s references and bad music.
 
 
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Wow, now that was not fun…
So first, I accidentally delete the blog… then, my macbook pro dies, then my FireGL video card dies in my modeling rig… as does my gaming card… take a break and my work virtualized most of our hardware, so I ended up getting a nice Dell PowerEdge server as well as an other 1U server and a rack for it… (nice start to a render farm)

But, with no video card in my rig, no blog to write my progress on and honestly, no motivation, it’s just been collecting dust in the studio…

I finally got around to buy a GeForce 260GTX for now, cleaned up the studio and will set up the render farm this weekend… so I spent a bit of time recovering the blog…

Hmm looking at the reviews, I guess I have a few things to write up (Pigeon Impossible, Planet 51, Avatar, and a few others)

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