After Blender Foundation's projects Orange and Peach as pioneers among Open Movies, this idea seems to be spreading around. =)

I heard about some open movie projects being made, and even I am making my own (I know... it's taking longer than expected, but I'm still working on it).

Now I just read about a new Open Movie project. This is being made here in Brazil, and it is looking very promising. There are seven artists working on it, and you can read more about them and their project at the official production blog: The Detail Library. =)

God bless YouTube and the kind people who upload those things. =)

Via Animated News, I came across three video rarities (which already got their place on my hard drive) which I share with you:

1. Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Frank Thomas (among other masters) in a video reenacting the brainstorming process for the Three Little Pigs:
   
   
2. The Making of Pinocchio:
   
   
3. The Making of Bambi (in two parts):
   
   
   

It is so inspiring to watch masters like Ward Kimball, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas talking about their challenges and discoveries made while making those masterpieces. =)

The local TV ads from where I live are not very often remembered by their good quality. This is not without a reason.

Fortunately we have some good exceptions like this one, produced and animated by Marck Al, from NitrocorpZ studio.

It is pretty easy to notice the good influences by UPA and Hanna Barbera cartoons. It would be very good to see good things like that more often.

Animation World Magazine has a very good article on the new Pixar short, Presto.

Everybody nows the Pixar tradition of releasing shorts before their feature films. They are made as a way of developing technical goodies and for preparing new talents.

Doug Sweetland, a Pixar animator veteran who worked on every feature movie made by the studio, now sits on the director chair. On the article, he says how this short is influenced by classics like Tom & Jerry or Chuck Jones' Long Haired Hare.

Another very good reason to be counting seconds until Wall-E premiere. ;)

Isn't this little rodent on the picture really cute? ;)

This is screenshot from a very well done short called Our Wonderful Nature. In a Discovery Channel style, I found it very funny. There are some cliches, but they worked pretty well. I laughed out loud.

It was animated by Tomer Esched and Dennis Rettkowski as a part of the animation study at the Academy for Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam.

Worth viewing.