Tuesday, September 1, 2009
9 - Character Posters, p2
9 - Trailer and Movie Poster
 | |
| TITLE: | 9 |
| DIRECTOR: | Shane Acker |
| STARRING: | Christopher Plumber, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood. |
| Writers: | Pamela Pettler (screenplay) Shane Acker (story) |
| GENRE: | Animation | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi |
| SYNOPSIS: | "When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them." |
| OFFICIAL SITE: | http://9themovie.com/splash/ |
| IMdb LINK: | http://www.imdb.com/title/ tt0472033/ |
| RELEASE DATE: | September 9, 2009 |
9 - The Original Short Film (and Poster) by Shane Acker
In 2005, Shane Ackerman took gold in the Student Academy Awards for his short, 9. The film also took best in show at SIGGRAPH, first prizes at Animex for 3D character animation, as well as Best Animated Short at the Florida Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival, along with a number of other prizes. Working on and off for four-and-a-half years and with the help of five other animators and three other lighters, Shane used Maya 1.5–5.5, Photoshop for the textures, After Effects for compositing, and Premiere for editing. That short has now became a feature produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov. It stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, and Christopher Plummer. Read Sam Chen’s interview with Shane Acker on AnimationTrip.com. Here is Shane’s original short:
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Teaser Trailer for AVATAR - a Film by James Cameron
Avatar is set during the 22nd century on a small moon called Pandora, which orbits a gas giant, and is inhabited by the tribal Na’vi, ten foot blue humanoids that are peaceful unless attacked. Humans cannot breathe Pandoran air, so they genetically engineer human/Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars that can be controlled via a mental link. A paralyzed Marine named Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) volunteers to exist as an Avatar on Pandora, falling in love with a Na’vi princess and becoming caught up in the conflict between her people and the human military that is consuming their world.