Marcel The Shell Sequel, Book, Activity Kit and Mobile Apps Continue The Cuteness.

I was thrilled to learn that director/writer Dean Fleischer-Camp and commedienne, writer (and Marcel's voice) Jenny Slate have produced another short film starring the lovable and quirky Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.



Along with the release of this sequel, Penguin has published a book for children (and enjoyable for adults, too) about the impish stop-motion shell named Marcel called Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me



To learn about how Marcel The Shell came to life and see the first video, go here.

Now there's even a Marcel the Shell mobile app for both the iPhone and iPad:



And a downloadable PDF Activity kit with a maze, a word puzzle and coloring pages (art for the kit by Amy Lind):


Download the Marcel the Shell Activity Kit

Buy the new Marcel The Shell With Shoes On book here.

See who voices Marcel the Shell and how he came to life here.

New Nathan Love Animated Thanksgiving Promo For NBC

The latest collaboration between illustrator/director Nathan Love and NBC to wish their viewing audience a Happy Thanksgiving holiday is this 30 second promo which starts airing today.



Client: NBC Artworks
Director: Nathan Love
Creative Director: Joe Burrascano
Art Director: Anca Risca
Animation Director: Ryan Moran
Rigging: Dan Vislocky, Frank Naranjo
FX Animation: Stieg Retlin
Sound Design & Music: Drew Skinner

Logorama Takes Home The Oscar. Here's The Whole Animated Short Film.

UPDATE: As I suspected 48 hours after this post went up, they have disabled the link to view the entire film online. Below are two different trailers for the film now. My apologies.

Logorama, a 16 minute movie, took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film last night. As you can imagine, many of the sites that previously has this short feature online have quickly disabled it, but I've got both the trailer and the whole film for you (until someone disables the link):

The trailer:


The whole film:

Directed by H5 (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain), the short animated film featurtes more than 2500 logos which make up spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city... and much more.





Geek Details (thanks to Aeromental)

• The yellow persons on the streets are the logo from the Messenger of AOL.
• The Quicktime logo is a clock in the caffeteria
• For Pixar’s Wall-E fans, you can see the Buy N Large logo
• The Bar Equalizer from the Helicopter was the logo of Cisco Systems
• The earthquake in the city formed the X-Box logo, ironically destroying the Windows building and IBM
• The road near the mountains forms the VAIO logo.
• When the car crashes against a tree, many old Apple logos fall, the multicolor version.
• The cactus were made with the standard USB icon.
• The butterflies are the MSN logo.
• The floating W is for Microsoft Word.
• Sony Ericsson is the Moon.
• Internet Explorer appears as a planet.

You can also find Logorama in full length on iTunes (in case by the time you see this, they've figured out I posted the whole thing and disable it).

Fabulously Creepy Animated Holiday Short By Rodrigo Blaas For Alma Films

The incredibly talented animator Rodrigo Blaas, who worked on Disney's Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille, Cars and more has created this eerie and beautiful short film about a child drawn to a toystore of dolls for Alma Films.

You may never let your child into a toystore again.





Written and Directed by: Rodrigo Blaas
Produced by: Cecile Hokes
Music: Mastretta
Art Director: Alfonso Blaas
Lighting Supervisor: Jonatan Catalán
Character Technical Supervisor: Jaime Maestro
Character Design: Bolhem Bouchiba, Carlos Grangel,
Sergio Pablos, Santi Agustí
Animation: Daniel Peixe, ManueBover, Remi Hueso
Sound Design: Tom Myers and David Hughes
Post Production Coordinator: David Heras
Special Thanks: Keytoon, Next Limit, UserT38


Full credits: almashortfilm.com

Christmastime For The Jews. (Yes, I'll Be Eating Chinese)

Google Street View Explained Via Animation

This little animated film appeared on Google Japan as an animated way to explain how Google Street View works. Fun to watch and enlightening... I guess that's infotainment!