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Wednesday
- October 31, 2001
- For the Birds to Air in Front
of Monsters, Inc.
- New dFX Newsletter
Tomorrow
- Top Selling Animation and
FX DVDs
- News Link of the Day
- A Monster Undertaking
For the
Birds to Air in Front of Monsters, Inc.
(by digitalmediafx.com) Pixar's animated short, For the Birds,
will air before Monsters, Inc. which opens in theaters
nationwide this Friday. In addition, there will be a trailer for
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and Lilo & Stitch.
For the Birds
first premiered at the Annecy Film Festival in France on June
5, 2000.
For the Birds
is a story about a flock of small birds perched on a telephone
wire and a larger bird that tries to join them. The unwelcome
bird upsets the flock, and they decide to get rid of him. For
the Birds continues the Pixar tradition of creating short films
that explore the
creative and technical possibilities of animation.
Ralph Eggleston
makes his directorial debut at Pixar with For the Birds. Eggleston
joined Pixar in 1992 as the Art Director of Toy Story.
"It's
exciting that Pixar continues to actively produce and support
short films," said Eggleston. "Making For the Birds
was hard work and a lot of fun, and our crew's amazing creative
collaboration has resulted in a film we believe everyone will
truly enjoy."
"Pixar
sees immense value in preserving the short film as an art form
and using it as a development tool for our creative and technical
teams," said Dr. Edwin Catmull, Pixar's Executive Vice President
and Chief Technical Officer. "The skills these professionals
learn and polish are invaluable as we move toward our goal of
creating one feature film a year."
More information
has emerged on yesterday's dFX
story about DreamWorks THX Shrek surprise being canned by THX.
According to Daily Variety, "Lucasfilm and Pixar share deep
roots. Lucasfilm holds a financial stake in Pixar, which started
as the computer animation unit of Lucasfilm before being sold
to Apple in 1986."
The close
relationship between the companies may explain the sudden turnaround
with DreamWorks THX promo being pulled and Lucas adding the first
Star Wars Episode 2 trailer to attract even more attention
and box office revenue for Monsters, Inc.
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New dFX
Newsletter Tomorrow
(by digitalmediafx.com) Tomorrow a new edition of the dFX
Animation and FX Newsletter will be delivered, complete
with an advanced sneak peek at Digital Media FX's extensive coverage
of Monsters, Inc.. Click
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Top Selling
Animation and FX DVDs
(by digitalmediafx.com) Here is a list of the current top
selling animation and FX DVDs at Amazon.com. Animation and FX
DVDs dominate the top 20 overall top sellers:
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News Link
of the Day - A Monster Undertaking
According to the San Francisco Chronicle:
"On some
level, every adult filmgoer knows that animation is a painstaking
process. But the extent of the pains taken, the years of effort,
the creative considerations that go into every frame are enormous,
beyond what the average viewer might imagine while watching it
all fly by onscreen..."
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