Disney’s John Carter may have bombed at the box office, but Andrew Stanton’s flick still featured some really impressive visual effects and animation sequences that make it worthy of examination for fans of those mediums.
This cool video featuring animator Patrick Giusiano shows how some of the sequences were conceived from the storyboard to finished product. Given director Stanton’s animation ties (he’s been a key member of the Pixar creative team), it’s probably not surprising that John Carter was the first VFX flick to be made using the techniques commonly employed in keyframed animation features. If you’re not familiar with keyframe animation, here’s a definition: Key frame is a technique that “defines the starting and...
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(3 days ago, May 16, 2013) - It's not exactly a trailer, but Disney just release this gorgeous new promo for their Cars spin-off Planes (which was not created with Pixar Animation), that has some truly stunning animated landscapes and scenery. Using a lot of the flying sequences from the flick (of which there are many when the... 
