After spending three days in Lucena City with no WiFi, lo and behold, 2 trailers for much anticipated animated feature films pop up in the web.
Trailer #1
New Trailer #2
These trailers are from the new Aardman and Sony Pictures Animation (Open Season, Surf's Up, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs) flick, The Pirates: Band of Misfits and it will be a stop-motion animated feature film from the guys behind Chicken Run and of course, the Oscar award winning Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The last one is looks good, and IMHO, the better trailer than this next movie:
Trailer #1
This one is the 1st official trailer to the next Pixar film, Brave. This one is shaping up to be the next big Pixar hit but it does look too similar to Dreamworks' How To Train Your Dragon. I'm not getting good vibes from the trailer which reveals little with regards to story and some of the jokes are just, "meh." Still, I will be lining up for this movie, as well as Pirates, come 2012.
Steve Jobs has died today. He succumbed to a rare form of pancreatic cancer at the prime age of 56. Just by scrolling down my Facebook Wall, a myriad of tributes can be seen about him: he is a visionary, a creative genius, a game changer; mostly, people are thankful for changing their lives forever with iTunes, iPod, iPhone and the iPad. He will truly be missed. But if there's one thing that I would be thankful for Steve Jobs, I thank him for being instrumental in unleashing Pixar Animation Studios to the world. Steve Jobs bought Pixar from Lucasfilm on 1986 and transformed the company from a proprietary hardware seller to the juggernaut blockbuster animation studio that it is today. Under his guidance, Pixar made everyone realize that computer graphics is a viable and effective medium for storytelling, and the world of animation has never been the same since. He eventually sold Pixar to Disney, became Disney's biggest individual stockholder and a member of its Board of Directors, and he was instrumental in installing Ed Catmull as President of Pixar and Disney Animation, and John Lasseter, the brains behind Toy Story, as Chief Creative Officer.
Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs and John Lasseter
Without Steve Jobs, there would be no Pixar today. Rest in peace Mr. Jobs.
*Photo from http://www.filmedge.net/ *For more information regarding Steve Jobs and Pixar, I highly recommend Leslie Iwerks documentary, The Pixar Story. I will try to post a review one of these days.
