Posts Tagged ‘ Disney ’
‘Up’ is the tenth featured film from the Pixar stable and is set to hit cinemas in May 2009. ‘Up’ is the story of a 78 year old widower called Carl Fredricksen who longs to fulfil his wife Ellie’s childhood dreams. Ellie and Carl met and grew up in a small American mid western town where Ellie had often dreamed of exploring the globe and climbing mountains. When threatened by developers that he must leave his house for an assisted retirement home, Carl decides to fulfil his promise to Ellie to see the world. Carl teams up with an unlikely accomplice in the form of Russell, an eight year old enthusiastic explorer. Together the odd couple contend with unfamiliar lands, unpleasant villains and unfriendly creatures[ READ MORE ]
How do you distill the world’s collective understanding and evidence of UFOs into three-and-a-half minutes? That was the challenge facing visual design and motion graphics studio yU+co., led by Creative Director Garson Yu, for the main title sequence to Disney’s Race To Witch Mountain, opening in theatres on March 13. Race to Witch Mountain is a sci-fi adventure about two alien visitors and their search for their lost spacecraft. For the main title sequence, yU+co.’s concept was to tell the story of UFO’s from early sightings in the U.S. to present day, using archival newspaper headlines, film footage, photos and eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings. Set to a pulsating orchestral score, the tension-filled sequence immediately pulls viewers into this mysterious world with fast-paced editing of astonishing UFO imagery coupled with a subtle, yet powerful type design that animates on and off as if emanating from an extraterrestrial transmission signal[ READ MORE ]
In Anthem we see balloons emblazoned with Mickey Mouse’s face take on a life of their own as they comically trail blissful moments. The balloons carry an invitation, from Mickey himself and Disney to celebrate attendees’ birthdays at the place where dreams come true[ READ MORE ]
For Super-Dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue, at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet, a cross-country journey through the real world to get back to his owner and co-star, Penny. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and the help of two unlikely traveling companions,a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens and a TV-obsessed hamster named Rhino; Bolt discovers he doesn’t need superpowers to be a hero[ READ MORE ]