It is online the trailer for DreamWorks' upcoming feature Monsters Vs Aliens. :)

I think it's looking pretty good so far. These movie-genre parodies being made by DreamWorks are coming along pretty nicely until now. First was the great Kung Fu Panda in the shaolin-noodle 70's style, and now this 50's alien invasion thing.

Make sure you don't miss the behind the scenes. ;)

P.S.: I'm going tonight to AnimaMundi and the Brazilian Blender Conference in Belo Horizonte. I'll possibly be away from blogging these days, but I promise to come back with some good things from this trip. :)

The waiting is almost over. Just three months left. ;)

Coraline, the new Henry Selick stop motion feature film, had its production finished a few days ago and will have its premiere on February, 6th. ComingSoon.net brings us a cool interview with Selick and animator Travis Knight.

And make sure you don't miss the beautiful official website of this movie, which is one of 2009 great promises. :)

It's great to see that Pixar is also producing animated shorts intended for TV. :)

Nobody can argue on their fantastic quality, and I believe that this effort can help raising the bar on the quality of some animated TV series. CarToons premiered on Disney Channel on USA a few days ago, and the three first episodes were directed by no less than John Lasseter and co-directed by the great Victor Navone and Rob Gibbs.

I saw this news at Victor Navone's website, and you can watch some sneak peeks here.

Daniel Martinez Lara, widely known as Pepeland, has made some changes in the default Blender UI layout and made it available for download.

It is important to notice that these are not structural changes. Everything he made was using the native customization capabilities of Blender. This UI layout makes Blender a bit more familiar for the ones used to the 3DSMax interface.

Take a look at the video below, where he uses Blender with this custom layout, showing a great modification of Suzanne and also dealing with a niiiice animation made by him on the Video Sequence Editor. That's a guy who knows what he's doing... ;)

Pepeland Blender Interface from pepeland on Vimeo.

Yay!!! :)

I got selected (along with Suryara and Jovan) for the animation workshop that will be given by the very talented and award winning Argentinian animator Juan Pablo Zaramella, at  AnimaMundi Belo Horizonte! That guy makes some awesome things, and I think it would be a great opportunity to meet and learn from someone like him.

This special edition of AnimaMundi in Belo Horizonte will happen on the week before the Brazilian Blender Conference. So I already got my ticket to spend almost a week there and go to both events! :D