Ratatouille - the next Pixar film

[cured]

trailer here:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney...tml?size=large

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the next Aardman film is also about rats Flushed Away

I wonder what the Dreamworks version will be about

[Sean]

Flushed Away was produced through Dreamworks and made by both the Aardman and Dreamworks animation crews. Looks promising from the bits I've seen, but yeah....what a coincidence, right?

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Originally Posted by Sean

Flushed Away was produced through Dreamworks and made by both the Aardman and Dreamworks animation crews. Looks promising from the bits I've seen, but yeah....what a coincidence, right?

I remembered later that Aardman had connections to Dreamworks, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was another CGI film with this same concept (yeah I know Flushing Away is clay).

I mean how many films have had the concept of animals get looose and run amuck recently.

Monster House looks good for a CGI film.

I'm going to see Cars tomorrow, maybe the Ratatouille trailer will be there. I think it could be good as long as it's not just an animated version of Mouse Hunt.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by mmm skyscraper

I remembered later that Aardman had connections to Dreamworks, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was another CGI film with this same concept (yeah I know Flushing Away is clay).

I mean how many films have had the concept of animals get looose and run amuck recently.

Monster House looks good for a CGI film.

I'm going to see Cars tomorrow, maybe the Ratatouille trailer will be there. I think it could be good as long as it's not just an animated version of Mouse Hunt.

Flushed Away is actually cg made to look like stop motion animation. They did a good job from what I've seen, although there's some controversy in the animation industry over how far they went with it. The cg models even have subtle fingerprints on their surfaces to give a little bit of a feel like they were hand-sculpted like real stop motion rigs. But most of the old-timey stop motion guys are annoyed by that because fingerprints on stop motion rigs are something they try to avoid, even though some amount of it is inevitable. So they see it as adding unnecessary flaws to the cg rigs in Flushed Away. That's just one example. But overall, it really does look quite a bit like a stop motion film.

Monster House does seem to have potential. I've seen some pretty sizeable chunks of it, and what I saw was entertaining. Hard to judge fully until I've seen the whole thing, though. I'm just glad that they didn't go totally photo-real with it and end up with another Polar Express looking film. Monster House has a nice stylization to it.

And damn....hope our animals running amuck film is well recieved. I know that on our end, we would have preferred not to have had any other similarly themed films coming out in the same year as ours, so it certainly wasn't intentional. We just had 5 or 6 films in pre-production, and Open Season happened to be the one that had it's story come together first, so we dove in. Luckily, I think it stands well on it's own. We'll see how it does in theaters this September I guess. Been on it since 2002, so I'd sure love it to do well...

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Originally Posted by Sean

And damn....hope our animals running amuck film is well recieved. I know that on our end, we would have preferred not to have had any other similarly themed films coming out in the same year as ours, so it certainly wasn't intentional. We just had 5 or 6 films in pre-production, and Open Season happened to be the one that had it's story come together first, so we dove in. Luckily, I think it stands well on it's own. We'll see how it does in theaters this September I guess. Been on it since 2002, so I'd sure love it to do well...

I realise that many of these projects take years to work on, it just seems like they all come out around the same time. Aardman was supposed to be working on a Tortoise and Hare movie, but that went into production hell from what I've read online.

I've not really heard of Open Season. The next one I'm aware of is Barnyard. Maybe it's just a new genre. I think Pixar got lucky with Cars not having animals.