FX Guide on Hotel Transylvania

FXGuideTV's latest episode has a section on "Hotel Transylvania". Mike Seymour speaks with James Crossley (Animation Director), Dan Kramer (VFX Supervisor) and Lydia Bottegoni (Line Producer & Co-Producer).

Starts around the 21 minute mark.

http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-158-foundry-luxology-merger-and-hotel-t/

Hotel Transylvania - The Rigs

Here's a peak at what we were using on "Hotel Transylvania" to scuplt Dracula's cape, and animate Jonathan. They were probably the best rig's I've ever used on a production before.

Hotel Transylvania: Pushing the Boundaries of Animation

Cool 2 min video about how the animators pushed and were pushed to produce some of the most interesting and squash and stretch animation I've ever seen. If only they could show a more in depth behind the scenes.



Hotel Transylvania comes out this weekend in North America!!! Go see it everyone!

Eclipse - short film

Wow this short film from Gobelins students is amazing. I love the lack of dialogue, it's classic sci fi feel, tone and mood. It reminds me of the old Lucasarts game "The Dig". This has some great cinematography as well. I love the shot at 2:24.


Watch it in HD full screen with the music loud, it's worth it for it's haunting soundtrack, which has an 80's sci fi touch to it. Reminds me of the original "Tron" in parts, with a touch of "Alien".

Really awesome work.

Six Clips from Hotel Transylvania

Here's six clips from "Hotel Transylvania" coming out in September.

Thanks to "Bloody Disgusting" for posting these. Find the article here:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3190374/tiff-12-six-clips-from-hotel-transylvania-to-sink-your-teeth-into/

Genndy Tartakovsky talks "Hotel T"

Here's an article from the LA Time's with director Genndy Tartakovsky talking about "Hotel Transylvania"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-hotel-transylvania-20120826,0,3490529.story

Hotel Transylvania at Siggraph

Sony Pictures Imageworks were at Siggraph 2012 showing off some behind the scenes process for Hotel Transylvania. The first pic shows how far we had to push certain poses using Sony's in house awesome tools. The second pic is how director Genndy Tartakovsky used his graphical awesomeness to make our poses even better.

I was always amazed at how Genndy would effortlessly draw the characters in such uniquely pushed poses, especially the hands. He'd put the hands in positions and angles I would never have thought to put them in.

 Can't wait to see this on the big screen!!!