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The street is humming with news of a just announced stop-motion animation project called Coraline based on Neil Gaiman’s novella. The release date has been set for January 16th, 2009. The first public appearances of footage from the film were was seen as a short trailer before the film Beowulf. Wikipedia describes the story as:”
Coraline […]

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Last month Vancouver was blessed with a stop-motion animation contest called

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A Little press release from Pat Dillon-Moore of the (NFB).
Hi Animation Lovers! Please feel free to log onto http://www.nfb.ca/hothouse The NFB Hothouse includes a podcast series that follows eight emerging filmmakers throughout the making of their first professional animation film in the NFB Animation Studio’s Hothouse Program. This year’s mentoring director is Academy Award®-winning director […]

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There’s something magical about inanimate objects coming to life. The process of giving them life is a fine art where simple gestures suggest that there’s a spirit within. I’m not sure what the exact triggers are within us but we all seem to have them.
In the case of The Little Girl Giant, she blinks and […]

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This is old news but news to me none the less…
Aardman was in a five movie deal with DreamWorks Animation. The partnership was suppose to be a combined effort taking advantage of Aardman’s storytelling and stop motion animation skills with DreamWorks’s deep pockets, North American market access and CGI bravo. The result was:

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It appears that the stars are aligning in the Canadian animation world. I’ve recently discovered the Hothouse program being offered by the The Canadian National Film Board (NFB). The program is described as:
The NFB created the Hothouse to encourage new talent, to provide an A-to-Z experience in professional animation film making, and to re-imagine ways […]

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The Porcelain Philosophers project has recently made some progress on several fronts - armature construction, sound track recording and in the news.
Recently I discovered a method for armature assembly that involves ball and socket joints. This is a significant development as it takes the process one step closer to building a functional puppet that will […]

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