Marc Pampols

ProMotion Studios has finished a new 3D short film called Lighthouse, Directed by Charlie Short & Ming Hsiung, created using 3dsMax and Blender, and made for the American insurance firm Liberty Mutual.

Its a short (3min) film with a great animation and rendering, the overall quality is very nice.

Lighthouse shot

They have also developed open source tools that will be released in the next versions of Blender, a software that is growing fast and it has been used in some very interesting and successfull projects like “Elephants Dream” and “Big Buck Bunny”

Click in the image below to watch the film (flash video)

Link: Original CG Talk thread anouncing the film

Link: Making of (Flash movie)

Last week I had the opportunity to watch the WALL-E movie in AMC Theaters from Times Square, New York

WALL·E Movie poster

As always Pixar has done a tremendous great job, stunning 3D computer graphics combined with a great characters. It seems this people can’t make a bad movie… and this one is the best they have done to date. 

Characters are full of emotions, and they not even speak! there’s a great moment in the movie when Wall-e meets Eve and say their names for the first time.

Don’t worry about the dialogues, the film don’t need any!, but there are human characters too, maybe the “worst” part of the movie if there’s any… but it’s necessary to show them in the way they interact with robots, it’s someway funny, and they have the same look as in “The Incredibles”

Forget the fu%&$ng screeners and go to the big screen to enjoy this masterpiece and also the shot film Presto at the beginning.