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Awesome video that I bring this entry. It is a montage of just 5 minutes which pays tribute to the work of the Pixar studio, which last month turned 25 in February. 25 years summed up in a glorious 5 minutes. As our colleague Miguel advised Michan, go up the volume, put the video full screen and get ready for a shot of excitement priceless.

I bring this advantage, I commented that more information on the announced sequel to Monsters, Inc. “(” Monsters, Inc. “). It is now official that the title will be “Monsters University,” but the point is that history does not continue the 2001 film but that will elapse before it will be a prequel. However it is known that the plot will revolve around the characters of Sully and Mike, retelling the voices of John Goodman and Billy Crystal. The premiere is scheduled for November 2, 2012 and apparently repeated as director Pete Docter.

Finally, I bring you the first official images of ‘Brave’, other upcoming films in the study. There are photos of the film but fine art, or conceptual art. Still, we had better to whet your appetite, and the film comes just months before the prequel to ‘Monsters’, the June 22, 2012. Eye, because next year, namely March 9, also premieres’ John Carter of Mars, the first studio film with flesh and blood actors, directed by Andrew Stanton (“Nemo Find us’, ‘WALL E ‘). Ie three Pixar productions label in 2012. Hey, if it is true that the apocalypse is near, at least we will leave happy.

Returning to ‘Brave’, I comment that is directed by debutant Mark Andrews, who recently replaced what was to be the first filmmaker in the history of Pixar, Brenda Chapman (something I do not think has been good advocates for certain sectors of the politically correct, assuming you have heard), and the story of the film will take us to the Highlands of Scotland, telling the adventures of a brave princess who does not want to continue the path they have laid out for her. I leave you with the official synopsis:

Kelly Macdonald gives voice to Merida, daughter of King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). Merida is determined to carve their own path in life and defies ancient and sacred practice of noisy lords of the land: the great Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the sullen Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson) and the cantankerous Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane). Unwittingly or drink, the decisions of Merida trigger chaos and anger in the kingdom. And when you go to an eccentric and wise old woman (Julie Walters) seeking help, you are granted a hapless desire. The huge danger to Merida force to discover the meaning of true value: it will have to undo a terrible curse before it’s too late.

“We all admire Pixar”
To mark the upcoming release of ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ (‘Gnomeo & Juliet’), which arrives tomorrow at Spanish cinemas, I had the opportunity to meet Carlos Zaragoza a couple of weeks. Carlos worked in the artistic direction of “Pan’s Labyrinth ‘(awarded a Goya) and now specializes in the scenery in the animated film, part of the selected template DreamWorks Animation. In this interview talks about his participation in ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’ (which is distributed by Disney), experience in DreamWorks and other topics related to film and animation. I hope you will be an interesting read.

* We have not seen ‘Gnomeo and Juliet’, but can you tell us how the experience was?

I was living in London, had completed another 3D animated film, ‘The Tale of Despereaux’ (‘The Tale of Despereaux “) and joined’ Gnomeo and Juliet ‘during pre-production. In principle, for me the gnomes had a very negative karma (for background television in particular) and in Spain there is no culture of “garden gnomes” (garden gnomes). However, after seeing the complete storyboard and listen to the film’s director, Kelly Asbury seemed like a great idea. In ‘Gnomeo …’ I worked on the design of various scenarios, as the two neighboring gardens of the protagonists.

Gnomeo-and-Juliet-posterEl tone is comedy, and characters are plaster garden gnomes come to life when humans are gone, but the intent of the visual style was’ “realistic” Our inspiration was reality, gardens individuals with kitsch decor you can find in places like Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s hometown.

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E. B., son of Esat bunny rabbit is a teenager who should inherit his father’s profession as an Easter bunny, but, instead, wants to become a rock drummer and travel the world. E. B decides to try his luck in Hollywood, where a driver, Fred, the hit-and feels compelled to take him home. To the surprise of the humans, the rabbit will not behave exactly like the animal they think it is. E. B. pretending to be wounded so that Fred is lazy and unemployed, have to save Easter.

Kaley Cuoco, Penny in The Big Bang Theory, “and James Marsden star in this film that mixes animation with real image, in which David Hasselhoff has a small role. Russell Brand is the one who gives voice to the rabbit. Other voice actors who will be in the original version are Hugh Laurie, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Jack McBrayer, Bill Hader and Chelsea Handler.

I have great admiration for Malcolm Sutherland, a maker of which we have brought other work to Blogdecine some time ago, and I found his new job by chance, submitted several months ago. Another piece of surreal, almost Kafkaesque, surprising for his asceticism, his sobriety, and deep feelings that can lead thanks to some minimum elements. Five and a half minutes in which nothing is as it seems, with drawings made by hand, with simplicity as a rule, and the goal achieved, to unsettle the viewer.

This time, Sutherland forgets his usual and dazzling colors, and minimizes the maximum palette, and the characterization of his character.

Due to difficulties in taking forward their own projects often suffer, Terry Gilliam has decided to embark on an adventure of others to support and sponsor an animator and special effects artist who has collaborated with him since ‘Life of Brian’. This will be the creative director Tom Ollive in the project that he has been preparing for just over a year: ’1884 ‘.

The film is made, supposedly in 1848, forty years before the invention of cinematography. With the vision of that year, but located in 1884, she invents a future that never came to pass. He becomes a retro-futuristic adventure set in the era of steam engines, so it would fall within the subgenre that comes to term steampunk.

The hero, Horatio Kitchengame who just proclaimed British sovereignty over the moon, he embarks on the journey riskier than has been done so far: visit Europe. This epic, reminiscent of both James Bond and Jules Verne, tells a story of remarkable heroism confronted with the deception, subterfuge and betrayal.

’1884: Yesterday’s Future ‘(“1884, yesterday’s future”) blend animation, puppetry, 2D, 3D, computer generated imagery (CGI) and live action. The funds will be painted as pictures, but could be models or stock photography.

The budget for the film version is eight million dollars. John Needham produce for the company and 2D3D Peculiar Pictures, makers of “The Triplets of Belleville ‘(‘ Belleville Rendezvous’).

Along with the addition of Gilliam, the film may have also some of the Monty Python benders.

What I liked Terry Gilliam ’1884 ‘was that’ it is not CGI polished and elegant as those produced by producers in Los Angeles, but has a handmade look and scale and design are spectacular”.

Olliver, who wrote the script with another of the regular contributors to Gilliam, Dennis de Groot, made the trailer, you can see below, in your bathroom. Gilliam added that “finally gave him a good use of a bathroom.”

It is said that the script is extremely witty and the result is a hilarious comedy unlike anything seen before. And the truth is that it seems a very ambitious project and at the same time, very interesting. I hope to be able to take it forward and in the future, non-existent as of this dystopic adventure-come to enjoy it.

And we continue with Ghibli. Yesterday, the news about the upcoming Goro Miyazaki’s last film mentioned that created the anime production company, ‘Kari-gurashi Arietti no’, which could be translated roughly as “Arrietty, tiny,” but that Spain officially take the title ‘Arrietty and tiny world’ (and will be released on September 16, 2011).

The film is based on the novel by British writer Mary Norton, which had been adapted several times. The version I remember most is some American TV series “Tiny” (“The Borrowers”), we spoke to a low-dimensional beings living in air conditioning and were cold. He later became a British and Peter Hewitt then directed a film in 1997 with John Goodman and Jim Broadbent.

A tiny little girl of fourteen meets a boy suffering from normal size and there is an impossible love story between two worlds. The tiny objects provided to take people, but try not to be seen by them because they fear them. But Arietti not believe they are evil. The trailer has looked great.

This adjustment is within the Studio Ghibli’s decision to deliver projects to new directors. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the youngest director who has worked so far for the producer, who has conducted, from a screenplay by Keiko Niwa. Hayao Miyazaki oversaw production and development planner. Cécile Corbel Breton composer was responsible for the soundtrack. In Japan was released on July 17 and here no date of arrival.

Goro Miyazaki could lead to Studio Ghibli’s manga adaptation of the ’80s ‘Kokuriko Zaka Kara’, created by Chizuru Takahashi and Tetsuro Sayama.

This soho manga, set in 1963 – 38 years of the Showa period, before the Tokyo Olympics, relates the everyday Komatsuzaki, a young student member of the school newspaper and student council president, who was orphaned after losing his father in an accident at sea and his mother, a war correspondent, by a stray bullet.

After the disappointment to the father of Goro Miyazaki Hayao, the debut of his son with ‘Tales from Earthsea’, seems to get along again. It was said that, somehow, the veteran author was apologizing for the harshness with which he had brought his son with ‘Ponyo’. The relationship I have trouble seeing it, but if someone gives me a wonderful as ‘Ponyo’, forgive him almost anything.

Therefore, their cooperation is restored and now Hayao Miyazaki will participate in writing the script for ‘Kokurikozaka Kara’, along with Keiko Niwa, author of ‘Karigurashi Arrietty no’, a film based on the fantasy novel ‘The Borrowers’ (‘ The tiny ‘), by Mary Norton, representing the latest Ghibli and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The music of ‘Kokurikozaka Kara’ Aoi Teshima handles.

Nothing, hopefully, with this news, a Spanish publisher is anime-pun intended-was not to publish this manga.