TMNT Soundtrack

TMNT 電影原聲大碟將於三月十三日網上發售。二十三日在美國店舖發售。

The track listing:

1. Gym Class Heroes - "Shell Shock"
2. Jet - "Rip It Up"
3. Cute Is What We Aim For - "There's A Class For This"
4. Cobra Starship - "Awww Dip"
5. Meg & Dia - "Roses"
6. Pepper - "Bring Me Along"
7. Amber Pacific - "Fall Back Into My Life"
8. Billy Talent - "Red Flag"
9. This Providence - "Walking On Water"
10. Ever We Fall - "Youth Like Tigers"
11. P.O.D. - "Lights Out (Chris Vrenna Remix)"
12. Big City Rock - "Black Betty"
13. "I Love Being A Turtle (score)"
14. "Nightwatcher (score)"

Source: Atlantic Records

Kevin Munroe on TMNT

Kevin Munroe has just finished up his first feature length project as writer/director of TMNT. The Turtles first captured his attention in 1995 when he picked up a copy of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" from a Canadian used comic bin. He fell in love with the story and concepts then and there, but was in the right place at the right time when he landed the director's chair in 2004.

"When I went to meet with the co-creators of the Turtles, I brought issue one because I figured, worst case, I'll get my first issue signed if I don't get the job. He handed me back the book at the end and driving back to the airport I open it up and there was a picture of Raf and the note 'Dear Kevin, make a good movie or else!' and that's how I found out I got the job."

His biggest challenge has been to make a movie that would appeal to both Turtles fans and newcomers to the franchise. To that end this story is about the family. It picks up where all the adventures have left off and they've now grown apart. But monsters are attacking the world! So they must figure out how to come back together. "It's all about brothers," says Munroe, "especially Leo and Raf. They both want the same thing, but one is doing it in a very noble way and the other has become a vigilante."

Mako, who voices Master Splinter, was the one and only obvious choice for The Turtles' sensei and adoptive father, says Munroe. Mako died five months after completing his recordings in 2006 and there is a dedication to him at the end of the movie.

TMNT, featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Ziyi Zhang and Kevin Smith, opens in theaters on March 23.

Munroe's next movie is Gatchaman, a Japanese anime-style feature with western story appeal, due to appear in 2008.

Source: Anne Neumann March 6, 2007

Hey you!

3d Animation Studios and Their Movies

除了名聞國際的 Pixar外，其實還有很多 animation studios，以下是其他3D動畫製作公司及其作品，同大家分享。

20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios is owned wholly by 20th Century Fox since 1997.
● Horton Hears A Who! (2008)
● Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
● Robots (2005)

AlpaMayo Ent.
Creator of the first Peruvian animated feature film in 2005.
● Pirates in the Pacific, Piratas en el Callao, Piratas en el Pacifico outside of Peru (2005)
● Dragons: Destiny of Fire, Dragones: destino de fuego (2006)

Big Idea Productions, Inc.
Big Idea Productions is an animation company that first released a series of DVD shorts before their feature releases.
● Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
● The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008)

C.O.R.E. Feature Animation
C.O.R.E. is a special effects house that has branched into feature-length animation.
● The Wild (2006)

DNA Productions
DNA Productions is a 2D and 3D animation company with various distributors.
● The Ant Bully (2006)
● Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

Digital Rim
● Ark (2004)

DreamWorks
The 3D division of DreamWorks Animation was formed when it bought part of Pacific Data Images (PDI). PDI was completely bought out by 2004, and its films are currently distributed by parent Paramount Pictures. PDI, along with Pixar, was an industry pioneer in computer-animated films.
● Antz (1998)
● Bee Movie (2007)
● Flushed Away (2006) (develop with Aardman)
● Kung Fu Panda (2008)
● Madagascar (2005) and Madagascar 2 (2008)
● Over the Hedge (2006)
● Punk Farm (2009)
● Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer (TBA)
● Shark Tale (2004)
● Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), and Shrek the Third (2007)

Dygra Films
Dygra Films is a Spanish company which specializes in 3D films. Created Europe's first 3D-animated feature film.
● The Living Forest, El Bosque animado (2001)
● Midsummer Dream, El Sueño de una noche de San Juan (2005)
● The Spirit of the Forest, Espíritu del bosque (2007)
● Holy Night (2007)
● The Golden Donkey, El Asno de Oro (2008)
● n Search of Oniria, En Busca de Oniria (2009)

Fathom Studios
Fathom Studios is an independent Atlanta-based company that was created in 1994 and has been producing Delgo since 1998.
● Delgo (2007)

Imagi Animation Studios
Imagi Animation Studios is a Hong Kong company, created first 3D-animated Superhero feature film, with sub-division in LA and Tokyo.
● Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007)
● Gatchaman (2008)
● Astro Boy (2009)

Kantana Animation
● Khan Kluay (2006)

Lions Gate Films and Threshold Entertainment
● Foodfight! (2007)

Manos Digitales Animation Studio
● Plumíferos (2007)

Paramount Pictures and/or Nickelodeon Movies
● Barnyard (2006)
● Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
● The Smurfs (2008)

Pixar Animation Studios
Producing the first computer-animated film, Pixar's films are always considered successful in ticket sales and unique storytelling. They have all been distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
● A Bug's Life (1998)
● Cars (2006)
● Finding Nemo (2003)
● The Incredibles (2004)
● Monsters, Inc. (2001)
● Ratatouille (2007)
● Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Toy Story 3 (TBA)

Sony Pictures Animation/Imageworks
Beginning life as Sony Pictures Imageworks, the visual effects division of Sony Pictures, all CG films are now done by Sony Pictures Animation.
● Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2008)
● Hotel Transylvania (2009)
● Monster House (2006)
● Open Season (2006)
● The Polar Express (2004)
● Surf's Up (2007)

Square
Square Enix, a producer of video games, owns the rights to the video game franchise Final Fantasy. Square Pictures was an animation studio in Hawaii created mostly for The Spirits Within. But the main studio, Square Enix, created Advent Children as a direct-to-video release.
● Final Fantasy: Advent Children (video) (2005)
● Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

Vanguard Animation
Vanguard Animation is a Canadian animation studio based in Burnaby, BC outside Vancouver.
● Citizen Siege (TBA)
● Happily N'Ever After (2007)
● Space Chimps (2007)
● Valiant (2005)

Walt Disney Pictures
Besides distributing Pixar films, Walt Disney Pictures also creates its own computer animated films through its previously-2D division Walt Disney Feature Animation..
● American Dog (2008)
● Chicken Little (2005)
● Meet the Robinsons (2007)
● Rapunzel (2009)

Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures & Animal Logic
Animal Logic, also a visual effects studio, sent some rendering and animation work to other visual effects studios for Happy Feet, which is a first for CG films.
● Happy Feet (2006)

Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company is an independent producing and investing studio.
● Doogal / The Magic Roundabout (2006)
● Hoodwinked (2005) and Hood vs. Evil (2007) (production in Philippine)

Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures
● The Ant Bully (2006)
● Where the Wild Things Are (2008)

Xilam Films
● Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)

當然進步？

以為工作會做得一件比一件好...
經驗又會一點一滴地累積...
第二次再做相同的事又會更有效率嗎？

誰說的？
學過的轉眼即逝，集體失憶天天發生。

誰可以不作檢討而必然進步？
誰說的？誰說是理所當然的？

Staff Screening in US

Production Manager, Emerald + Technical Support, Ken + 3D Artist, Otto
還有映相果個應該是Daniel + Invisible me...

上星期日，在公司附近Galleria 的 Pacific Theater 舉行試片，由於返美行程有變，未能參與，可惜。看！那超大的Banner....!!


Will 穿著美國的Staff專有的TMNT Tee。我又要.....

Exclusive Video Interview: Kevin Munroe Reveals the Turtles

More WonderCon coverage for you here! Writer/Director Kevin Munroe, hot off of TMNT, was on hand to promote the heroes in a half shell up in San Francisco this weekend and the IESB sat down to talk with him.
Munroe revealed which voice over actors were cast as the famous ninja turtles including James Arnold Taylor, aka Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Clone Wars, as the voice of Leonardo.

Long ago, a Sensei counseled a grief stricken boy as his older brother prepared to leave for battle. He said, "child, why do you cry? You're both part of a family and a family is a bond that cannot be broken by war, by stife, by force or neglect. And more importantly, you are brothers, and brothers you shall remain despite time, argument and even distance." Master Splinter TMNT 2007

There is no doubt in my mind that Kevin Munroe has a gem with TMNT. He gets it, he's one of us, he is a geek.

Written by Stephanie Sanchez Saturday, 03 March 2007 http://iesb.net/

Click here for IESB's exclusive video interview with Kevin Munroe.

TMNT Animation Bay Visit!

New Spider-Man 3 Art

據說《 Spider-Man 3 》會是香港的第一部IMAX電影。由香港UA院線與美國IMAX公司的香港首間IMAX戲院，將於６月１日在九龍灣Mega Box商場開幕。《 Spider-Man 3 》是我最期待的 Superhero Movie，到時一定要看IMAX版。
Picture Source: Sony Pictures

想要什麼...

以為自己想要的，往往與自己真正需要的有所差距......
有時候也許最攪不清楚的就是自己。

TMNT Original Comic Book Reprint

買XBOX 360 TMNT game有最第一代最元祖復刻漫畫送....
When you order TMNT for Xbox 360 from ebgames they are including a reprint of the original TMNT comic book which was what inspired the early tv show and movies.

大部份以電影為主題而開發的console game都是一舨好玩的, 希望這個例外吧 ! 我未玩過...no comment

Four TMNT TV spot

四段 TMNT 的電視廣告3月3日在美國播放 :
● TMNT spot 1
● TMNT spot 2
● TMNT spot 3
● TMNT spot 4

resource from: comingsoon.net

CGI movies in US

2006年是有史以來最多CGI電影推出的一年, 都是以動物片為主。最近上的Open Season實在有點"膩"了, 也提不起勁去看... 2007上的CGI電影也不比06少...

未來將會上映的電腦動畫電影︰
The coming CGI movies

2007
● Happily N'Ever After — January 5, 2007
● Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — March 23, 2007
● Meet the Robinsons — March 30, 2007
● Shrek 3— May 18, 2007
● Surf's Up — June 8, 2007
● Ratatouille — June 29, 2007
● Neanderthals — October 2007
● Bee Movie — November 2, 2007
● Foodfight! — 16 November 2007
● Delgo
● Hood vs. Evil
● Space Chimps

2008
● 9
● Cat Tale
● Kung Fu Panda — June 6, 2008
● Where the Wild Things Are
● American Dog — Summer
● Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
● Horton Hears A Who!
● Gatchaman
● Madagascar 2 — November 8, 2008
● The Smurfs — November 2008

2009
● Punk Farm
● Rapunzel
● AstroBoy

20XX
● Toy Story 3
● Shrek 4
● Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer
● Hotel Transylvania
● Untitled Warcraft film
● Citizen Siege

過往曾在美國上映的電腦動畫電影︰
All CGI movies

1995
● Toy Story — November 22, 1995

1998
● Antz — October 2, 1998
● A Bug's Life — November 14, 1998

1999
● Toy Story 2 — November 18, 1999

2001
● Shrek — May 16, 2001
● Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within — 11 July 2001
● Monsters, Inc. — 2 November 2001
● Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — December 21, 2001

2002
● Ice Age — 15 March 2002
● Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie — October 4, 2002

2003
● Finding Nemo — 30 May 2003

2004
● Shrek 2 — 19 May 2004
● Shark Tale — October 1, 2004
● The Incredibles — November 5, 2004
● The Polar Express — 12 November 2004

2005
● Doogal — 24 February 2005
● Robots — 11 March 2005
● Madagascar — 27 May 2005
● Valiant — 19 August 2005
● Chicken Little — 4 November 2005

2006
● Hoodwinked — 13 January 2006
● Ice Age: The Meltdown — 31 March 2006
● The Wild — 14 April 2006
● Over the Hedge — 19 May 2006
● Cars — 9 June 2006
● Monster House — July 21, 2006
● The Ant Bully — July 28, 2006
● Barnyard — August 4, 2006
● Everyone's Hero — September 15, 2006
● Open Season — September 29, 2006
● Flushed Away — November 3, 2006
● Happy Feet — November 17, 2006
Dates listed are the first public non-festival release in the United States.

The non-US CGI movies

Jose Lopez's Art Blog

Jose Lopez，負責TMNT的主要角色設計，善於運用簡單的幾何圖形及直線與弧形。TMNT大部份都是他的手筆。出色的Character Designer，很喜歡他的設計。

他blog裡的artwork以character design及sketches為主。TMNT 後他參與好幾套WB的Batman動畫，現在製作 TeenTitan。

工作上一直都是與他以電郵往來，第一次見面是在與他合作了大半年後，即06年的ComicCon。當時在Artists Alley 的攤位當中，被一些好作品所吸引，欣賞了很久很久，突然感覺很熟悉。我問他是否曾替 imagi 工作...他說是....原來眼前的artist正是 Jose Lopez。很有趣的相認。

http://www.desoluz.blogspot.com/

Happy Birthday !

imagikids 在星島兒週

刊載於今天的星島日報。在此再次謝謝Cathy當我在美國時待我 "打點" imagiKids的工作...

Klaus Badelt scores TMNT....

The Hollywood Studio Symphony records TMNT


Orchestrator Robert Elhai, composer Klaus Badelt and scoring mixer Joel Iwataki

轉載自: SoundtrackNet
...SoundtrackNet reports that Klaus Badelt created the score for Warner Bros.' TMNT. Here's a clip: Recently, composer Klaus Badelt was at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers to record his score to the upcoming CGI animated feature film, TMNT. The first major feature film produced by Imagi Animation Studios, the film focuses on everyone's favorite heroic Renaissance-named pizza-eating martial-art reptiles, and their mentor, Splinter.Visit the link above for more on the music....

Comic World 香港 23

Comic World 香港 23 原來就是明天...
有空去看看吧，支持本地漫畫創作 !

九龍灣國際展貿中心 － 地下展貿廳
12:00- 8:00

Comic World 香港23 官方網頁

沉迷電郵!?

據英國每日電訊報報道︰「.....英國一項研究調查發現，沉迷電郵對智商的影響比毒品大，沉迷電郵的人智商降10點，比吸食大麻者的跌幅大一倍.....」

咁我死梗咯，我的智商降硬咯.... 因為回覆電郵已是我生活的一部份了....沒有email似乎不能工作。的確經常查閱及回覆電郵會令人無法集中，更不要說是創作了。
現在每日平均用上兩小時以上回覆電郵，我會集中一日"二戰"︰早上第一戰，放工前最後一戰。有時午飯後又會一戰。我通常第一時間是"殺"哂 Spam and Junk mails，早上第一戰會以重要性按次序回覆所有的電郵(多數來自美國) 。回到家就 check自己私人的 email，但相對很少。

還好，朋友很多少轉寄d低B無聊的電郵.....否則就煩。順便一題，我無 email phone又甚少回覆SMS。不過放假在家時，又會常常心陏陏想去check吓。 無論如何，email的確已成了生活中的一部份了。

Book Cover Illustration

無意中找到這幅舊作。曾替一間出版社畫了一批圖書的封面插圖，這是其中最喜歡的一幅《武士英魂 - 唐吉訶德》。很討厭書面的設計，是過份的Over design，我估當時那位設計帥剛剛玩3D，太興奮地係唔係都3D一餐。因此我把它們通通擦走了，換了英文Heading... (Acrylic on watercolor paper)

Non-United States CGI Movie

以下是其他國家製作的電腦動畫電影，只有英國的動畫能在美國發行。
This is a listing of all CGI films which did not originate in the United States. The films from the United Kingdom were the only ones to receive wide releases in the US.

2000
● Condor Crux, the Legend, Cóndor Crux, la leyenda — January 6 (Spain/Argentina)
● A.Li.Ce — August 1 (Japan)

2001
● The Living Forest, El Bosque animado — August 3 (Spain)

2003
● The Bee Julia and Mrs. Vita, L'Apetta Giulia e la signora Vita — September 19 (Italy)

2004
● Terkel in Trouble — April 2 (Denmark)
● Pinocchio 3000 (Canadian) — July 9 (Spain)

2005
● The Magic Roundabout/Doogal — February 11 (UK)
● Pirates in the Pacific, Piratas en el Callao aka. Piratas en el Pacifico — February 24 (Peru)
● Midsummer Dream, El Sueño de una noche de San Juan — July 1 (Spain)
● Thru the Moebius Strip — (China/france)
● Valiant — March 25 (UK)

2006
● Free Jimmy — March 17 (Norway)
● An Egg Film, Una Película de huevos — April 21 (Mexico)
● Khan Kluay — May 18 (Thailand)
● Dragons: Destiny of Fire, Dragones: destino de fuego — July 27 (Peru)
● The Emperor's Secret — September 8 (Finland)
● The Ugly Duckling and Me! — September 10 (France/Germany/Ireland/UK/Denmark)
● Flushed Away — November 3 (UK/USA)
● Arthur and the Invisibles — December 13 (France)

2007
● Krakatuk, Кракатук — August 23 (Russia)[2]
● Fly Me to the Moon (Belgium)
● The Spirit of the Forest, Espíritu del bosque (Spain)
● Holy Night (Spain)
● Plumíferos (Argentina)

2008
● The Golden Donkey, El Asno de Oro (Spain)

2009
● In Search of Oniria, En Busca de Oniria (Spain)