Purple Socks and Fantasy Van Halen — Episode 1: ONWARD
Join Animation Force Creator and Executive Editor Christopher, and Managing Editor Courtney, as they discuss the latest Pixar film, Onward! Check out the podcast right here, and contribute to the conversation by reaching out to us on Twitter (@scribeandscribb, @animation_force) or by commenting on the video on YouTube. And stay tuned for more podcasts and video content coming soon!
The *SPOILER-FILLED* full trailer of Disney-Pixar’s ONWARD arrives
Meet Ian (Tom Holland), Barley (Chris Pratt) and most of the fam in the first full-length trailer of Monster University director Dan Scanlon’s “Onward.”
Scanlon teams up again with producer Kori Rae to kick off Pixar’s upcoming slate of original films; “Onward” begins its quest in theaters on March 6, 2020.
- Courtney (harmonicacave)
Follow two elf brothers (Chris Pratt and Tom Holland) on a quest “really fast and strange errand” to discover if the suburban area they live in still contains any magic in director Dan Scanlon’s “Onward,” coming in March 2020 for Disney Pixar.
In addition to upcoming Marvel films for both Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy 3, release tbd) and Holland (Spider-Man: Far From Home, July), Holland also lends his voice to now-Disney-owned Fox/Blue Sky animated feature “Spies in Disguise,” arriving in theaters this December.
Pratt recently appeared as multiple characters in February’s “The Lego Movie 2.”
- Courtney (harmonicacave)
Disney-Pixar announces new film “Onward” from “Monsters University” director Dan Scanlon
Inspired by Scanlon’s “own relationship with his brother,” the film will star the voices of Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer and Tom Holland. Long-term Pixar producer Kori Rae will produce.
“Onward” follows two elf teens searching to discover if their “suburban fantasy world” still contains magic, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The film releases in theaters on March 6, 2020.
- Courtney ( @harmonicacave )
For the first week since its release in US theaters, Guardians Of The Galaxy is not in the top ten films in the box office. For 10 weeks running Guardians stayed in the top 10. The movie has continued to do well since its release, and now is blowing up in China. It has reportedly done so well that there is going to be an animated series. This test footage for the animated series premiered at New York Comic Con. I like the look. It looks like a superhero show, but the animation looks just a little different.
Here’s what director James Gunn had to say about how well the film has been doing:
To be clear, it’s a huge feat. In our 10th and 11th weeks in theaters, we are outperforming any comic book movie in box office history. We’re bringing in more than the Avengers, any Dark Knight, any Spider-Man, or any X-Men film at this point. Part of this is because of new people discovering Guardians, but a huge part of it is because of you guys seeing the movie again and again (like the kid whose ticket stubs I posted on Twitter yesterday, who has seen GotG in theaters 28 times). I don’t mean to focus on box office dollars or money. For the record, I don’t make any more money the more it makes in theaters – my box office bumps stopped a long time ago because no one expected the film to do this well. But I continue to be flabbergasted and overjoyed that the movie speaks to people, that we were able to make something that was simultaneously big AND sincere, and that it connected with all of you – comic book fans, science fiction fans, film fans, and, just, you know, HUMAN BEINGS.
I’m glad James Gunn will be back on the second Guardians Of The Galaxy film.
- Chris
I’m completing my trifecta of cool CGI videos this week with a look at some of the process of special effects from the Guardians of the Galaxy. Didn’t Method Studios do an amazing job?
Method’s website has an interesting section on the different processes for scenes, complete with some interactive before-and-after shots of the movie.
“The Method team was supervised by Greg Steele in LA and Stéphane Nazé in London, and over the course of five months, 140 artists produced over 170 shots,” says the website. “A wide range of VFX were required including digital environments, holographic effects and FX simulations.”
Method created digital environments using “full CG elements and dimensional matte painting techniques” for some scenes, and on others, they added animated effects over practical effects, like with the infinity stone unveiling:
You really should read all about it on Method’s website: http://www.methodstudios.com/work/guardians-of-the-galaxy
- Courtney (HarmonicaCave)
The LEGO® Movie,” the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO® adventure, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, opens in theaters February 7, 2014. It stars the vocal talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie, with Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman.
Synopsis:
The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
-Chris