New Paul trailer and poster

A new Paul trailer came out today:



It contains some shots I animated! The ones with Paul healing the bird before eating it, towards the end.

And here is a new poster, this one designed by Greg Mottola, the director.

Marco in Rome

Neve permettendo sabato 4 Dicembre sarò a Roma alla presentazione del DVD I migliori corti di animazione!

La presentazione si terrà alla libreria Giunti al Punto in Piazza Santi Apostoli alle 11:00.

Se siete da quelle parti siete i benvenuti!

Paul posters

Two new Paul posters are out!
The first one is a kind of Bruno parody.

LA flickr set

I've uploaded a new set on flickr with a selection of pictures from my LA trip.

Monumenti da salvare, Repubblica

One of my Sicily's pictures has been published on Repubblica, inside a gallery that shows the state of decay of many italian monuments.
The article as been written following last week serious damage in the archaeological site of Pompeii where the entire “Domus of Gladiators” fell down.

My picture is the ninth of the group.
Here is the LINK.

Flickr

I've added a flickr account link, on the right, with my pics from Sicily.

Paul Teaser Trailer

The first Paul teaser trailer is out!
Paul is the movie I'm working on in Double Negative since last February.

I migliori corti di animazione - DVD

Marco will be part of I migliori corti di animazione, a DVD produced by Azioni Animate containing a selection of 7 short films from the FutureFilmFestival.

Link

Camden Town

Some buildings in Camden High Street and Burger King sign, caught from the bus.

Satoshi Kon, 1963 - 2010

Paul

Last February I started working on Paul, a film written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and directed by Greg Mottola. Vfx and animation from Double Negative!
Here is a production diary: whatispaul.com
And this is a description of the movie from the same website:

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.

For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town—a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).

Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.

Paul is directed by Superbad’s Greg Mottola, from a story by Pegg & Frost. Joining the comedy’s cast are Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner and Sigourney Weaver.

ciao!

VES Awards nomination

Today I received a nomination for the VES award!!!

Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast Program or Commercial for Evian Skating babies!

I can't believe it!

Together with me there are Jordi Onate, Jorge Montiel Meurer and Wayne Simmons from MPC.

Link

Press release:

Los Angeles, January 19, 2010 - The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 8th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in over twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 16, 2010, by numerous blue ribbon panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank and San Francisco as well as at other facilities in London, Sydney and Vancouver.

“The Visual Effects Society is proud to present these nominations as the most outstanding work in the field this year,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “It’s important to keep in mind that it wasn’t machines that created these images but incredibly talented artists. We congratulate them all and look forward to seeing who is chosen as the best of the best at the awards show in February.”

As previously announced, this year James Cameron will be honored with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Ed Catmull with the Georges Méliès Award for pioneering.

The 8^th Annual VES Awards will take place on Feb. 28, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

The nominees for the 8^th Annual VES Awards are the following:

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EVIAN - Skating Babies

Jorge Montiel Meurer, Lead Animator

Jordi Onate, Animator

Emanuele Pavarotti, Animator

Wayne Simmons, Animator

Fingers Crossed!

Sofa, blanket and telly

And on the telly Entre tinieblas by Almodovar.

The photographer

Vale with her Nikon.