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Exciting News! The Candy Lady Receives Its First Award!
I am ecstatic to announce that The Candy Lady, a film we produced all the animation for has been honoured with the Silver Remi Award from WorldFest-Houston in the Family/Children category!
While we are incredibly grateful for this recognition from the jury, it's unfortunate that WorldFest-Houston did not hold a physical screening this year.
This would have marked The Candy Lady’s Houston/hometown premiere at Cinemark Memorial City.
But don’t worry! A Houston screening is in the works, so stay tuned.
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I really do appreciate what BAFTA are trying to do here, but I personally have mixed feelings after seeing this news, because even with all the work in the marketing and PR departments, I personally doubt that the filmmakers themselves considered their projects JUST for families/kids! 💭
My favourite category at the Oscars and BAFTAs is the Animated Feature category, because I personally like to take advantage of the general audience assumption that animation is for all-ages (NOT families/kids, because kids want to be the adults! 🙂) - it is SO EXPENSIVE and TIME-CONSUMING after all, that it just makes financial sense (to me) to make it for everyone (whether U or PG)! 😊❤️📽💰
Maybe it's because I care SO much about animation, it could be just my own way of thinking - e.g. D23.com geared towards adult and teen Disney fans! 🙂❤️
#filmindustry#animationindustry#audiencetargeting#marketing#kidsmedia
For me, this one kind of came out of nowhere. But after a little research, seems this is one of those projects that survived the proverbial ‘development hell.’
2003 - Original novel released.
Late 2000s - Cartoon Network tries to do as a live-action/CG hybrid. Never happened.
2019 - Paramount acquires rights to make animated feature, Carlos Baena (an animation veteran of ILM and Pixar, but someone who never directed a full big budget feature) attached to direct. Mikros Animation locked as the production studio.
2020 - Baena replaced with Raman Hui (Monster Hunt, Monster Hunt 2 live-action director, and long time animation director who worked on everything from Antz, to Shrek (1 & 2) to the original Puss in Boots.
2020-2023 (?) Film completes somewhere during these three years, but the theatrical release is cancelled due to COVID-19.
Jan. 16th, 2024 - 2 weeks before the Feb. 2nd release, Paramount drops the first trailer for a streaming release on Paramount+.
Having said that, I’m impressed by the superstar mostly-Asian cast (Henry Golding, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang, and Elemental’s Leah Lewis to name a few).
But, there’s also a certain generic flavor to this that seems a result of older material that’s gone through too many sets of notes, revisions, and creative compromises with what-must-have-been a less-than-Pixar-or-Disney-level production budget.
As always, I want projects to succeed. But, the last minute trailer and lack of more extensive marketing does worry me a bit. And if I may offer my personal opinion, the whole ‘Let’s put the hero on the poster with headphones and a skateboard’ seems a little pandering.
Has anyone else heard about this one? Am I being too harsh? Thoughts?
#animation#cartoons
🗓️ Big IP news in 2024 for The Walt Disney Company. In a major shift, an early 1928 Walt Disney film, including Mickey Mouse's debut in "Steamboat Willie," enters the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024. 🎥 This vintage Mickey is notably mischievous and rough, reflecting roots in the era's blackface minstrel shows. 🎞️ Not the cuddly character we know today, Mickey orchestrates barnyard animals as involuntary musical instruments. 💥 Shockingly, a game company introduces "Mouse," a violent first-person shooter with characters inspired by the edgier Steamboat Willie animation. 🕹️
Does your IP Strategy account for your artwork entering the public domain?
#PublicDomain#MickeyMouse#PatentInsiderSecrets#IntellectualProperty#ipstrategy
Hey LinkedIn fam! If you haven’t already, check out this amazing project I was part of, the Unreal Engine In-Camera Virtual Production Workshop, hosted by SIRT and OYA Black Arts Coalition. In it, I built my own level in Unreal Engine, and staged my personal character select screen animation, inspired by videos games of old. In it, we each pose as one would scroll through the menu of characters, and move around as we’re confirmed. All done in a virtual production volume: a huge screen that tracks more of the background as the camera moves/pans, with no green screen. Check out the outcome in the link!
Happy Halloween ! 👻
This summer participants from our OYA Emerging Filmmakers program got to work with SIRT Centre to put together a Character Selection Screen project.
Participants sat through a crash course on Unreal Engine where they designed the backdrop for their Virtual Production Scene and came dressed in costume ready to film their Character Selection.
Check out the final edit below...
How’d we do ?
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🗓️ Big IP news in 2024 for The Walt Disney Company. In a major shift, an early 1928 Walt Disney film, including Mickey Mouse's debut in "Steamboat Willie," enters the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024. 🎥 This vintage Mickey is notably mischievous and rough, reflecting roots in the era's blackface minstrel shows. 🎞️ Not the cuddly character we know today, Mickey orchestrates barnyard animals as involuntary musical instruments. 💥 Shockingly, a game company introduces "Mouse," a violent first-person shooter with characters inspired by the edgier Steamboat Willie animation. 🕹️
Does your IP Strategy account for your artwork entering the public domain?
#PublicDomain#MickeyMouse#PatentInsiderSecrets#IntellectualProperty#ipstrategy
