The moniker for the new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is likely to be ‘the Kiera Knightley version’, but I am going to campaign for ‘the one with the pig’ until someone does a Wishbone-type adaptation with Babe animatronic technology (starring the pig) or puppet pigs (move over Miss Piggy, I don’t want a […]
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I saw P&P3 last night. It was released the day before (after a few advance screenings last weekend), but at the 9.30pm
Friday show there were not many more than a scattering of people in the theatre. I was surprised at that.
Talk about feeling the history when I went to see this. As the first scene […]
A peep into the making of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Posted in animation, film, make, puppetry, puppets on Oct 15th, 2005
The New York Times has a short slide-show of some of the sketches and models from the latest Wallace and Gromit movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. I like seeing the armatures and insides:
Nick Park gives the commentary. I’m not a huge fan of Aardman, but I was sorry to see the Aardman Animation studios […]
The trailer for Peter Jackson’s King Kong is out. They are also running a post-production diary in blog and video format. This could well have happened before, but its the first time I have come across it, as opposed to releases of a few stills and clips. Jackson has always embraced new avenues in the […]
‘The Lost Thing’ to become a short film
Posted in animation, film, puppetry, puppets, sculpture on May 20th, 2005
Having made puppets for a theatre production of Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing’ last year, I was excited to find out that Passion Pictures is making a short CG film of the book. It will be fun to keep an eye on their gallery of pictures of work in progress over the next months. Among […]
The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney is hosting a great exhibition to do with how Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy was created. Its been running since late December, and will close on April 3rd.
There is a lot to see: props, jewellery, weaponry, armour, costumes, models, artefacts, design drawings and paintings, marquettes, moulds, the […]
Harvie Krumpet on SBS
Posted in animation, film, puppetry, puppets on Mar 2nd, 2004
Adam Elliot’s animation Harvie Krumpet won an Oscar yesterday for best short animated film. It has already been shown in cinemas in Melbourne and Sydney, but next Monday we can all catch it on SBS at 9pm. The ABC Radio National program The Makers, always worth a listen, has an interview with Elliot […]