LOBO Announces Live-Action Division and Roster of Directors
May 9, 2024
Making LEGO’s “Adventure in the City”
Snappy and detailed look at the production of “Adventure in the City,” a crazy-ambitious stop motion mini-epic created for LEGO China from hundreds of thousands of real LEGO bricks (and a boy in a snake suit) by Dutch director/writer/animator Rogier Wieland and his intrepid crew thru AKQA Shanghai. [Watch]
Obsessive Robot Pines for Lost Love
Intriguing live action and CG trailer for Polish sci-fi writer Jacek Dukaj’s new novel “The Old Axolotl” from director Maciej Jackiewicz and Warsaw’s 3D powerhouse Platige Image who also handled all the visual content for the e-book and key visuals for the promo campaign. [Watch]
Preview Stash 109 and Weep With Joy
The perfect tonic for the stress and strife of your week, Stash 109 packs another 1.5 hours of inspiration and insight into the Stash Permanent Collection including 31 outstanding animation, VFX and motion design projects plus 20 minutes of behind the scenes features and exclusive interviews with the designers, [Watch]
HouseSpecial Adapts Short into Spot for Animation Jobs
The number of job titles may not be complete, but this new spot for job aggregation site Indeed (adapted by HouseSpecial from their award-winning CG short “A Tale of Momentum & Inertia”) is guaranteed to make your uncle Gene chuckle and ask “What the hell’s a compositor?” Agency: Mullen. [Watch]
Time Lapse of Sarofsky’s Warehouse to Studio Reno
Insightful and detailed look at the total rehab of a “beat-up, old, barrel-truss building” in Chicago’s West Loop by Erin Sarofsky and Mark Olthoff of Olson Kundig Architects into an expansive new studio that would feel right at home in Santa Monica, Venice or Culver City. [Watch]
HouseSpecial: “A Tale of Momentum & Inertia”
Back in May, Portland animation studio LAIKA announced it was spinning off its advertising division LAIKA/House to focus on feature films.
The new independent entity, branded House Special and lead by president Lourri Hammack, CD Kirk Kelley and MD of strategic operations Al Cubillas, are off to a promising start completing the end credits of LAIKA’s Boxtrolls and this acerbic in-house CG short called “A Tale of Momentum & Inertia.” [Watch]
