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This week we preview the Disney Villains themed Robots 4 series. We also have a hearty debate about the practice of re-releasing figures with updated designs on the current Mickey platform that were previously on the old one.
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Showing posts with label Blank: A Love Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blank: A Love Story. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2014
Episode 152 Polynesian Fire Dancer
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Episode 151 MuppetVision 3D
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This week we talk about the previews of Haunted Mansion 45th, Park Starz 3, Star Wars and Popcorns 3. We debate the idea of Mystery Popcorns. And have a ton of info on Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story.
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Blank & Bow Create Your Owns On Sale Now
Yesterday, a 2-pack of blank white Create Your Own Vinylmation went on sale at D-Streets. It is based on Blank & Bow from "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story." While Blank is obviously no different than the normal Mickey CYO, Bow marks the first time a Minnie platform CYO has become available to guests.
The 2-pack retails for $16.95, which is actually cheaper than purchasing two separate CYOs and is the only way to get the Minnie.
The 2-pack retails for $16.95, which is actually cheaper than purchasing two separate CYOs and is the only way to get the Minnie.
Friday, February 14, 2014
"Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story" Merchandise is On Sale Now
The DisneyStore.com website has the new "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story" merchandise on sale now. One item, the LE 50 Thomas Scott custom Blank & Bow figures are already sold out.
I'll be honest, at a $75 price tag, and will all the non-Disney custom art out there that features much more than this does, I am shocked they all sold and so quickly.
Also available are some Tees and Iphone cases.
And don't forget the LE 1 three foot tall statuettes of Blank & Bow. 13K for the unsigned version, a grand more if you want the film crew sigs.
I'll be honest, at a $75 price tag, and will all the non-Disney custom art out there that features much more than this does, I am shocked they all sold and so quickly.
Also available are some Tees and Iphone cases.
And don't forget the LE 1 three foot tall statuettes of Blank & Bow. 13K for the unsigned version, a grand more if you want the film crew sigs.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story Screening at Disney's Hollywood Studios
With Valentine’s Day weekend just around the corner, “Blank – A Vinylmation Love Story” will be coming to the Premiere Theatre in Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort from February 14-17, 2014. This 39-minute, stop-motion, animated short tells the story of an unpainted Vinylmation figure on a quest that alters the destiny of his entire world.
Disney will have several showings of the film throughout the four day engagement at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Show times are 11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Separate theme park admission is required to attend, and seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Disney will also have special screenings for Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members on select days:
On February 14 and February 16, a showing for Passholders only will be held at 10:00 a.m. Please present a valid annual pass at the entrance to the Premiere Theatre.
On February 15 and February 17, a Disney Vacation Club Members only screening will be held at 10:00 a.m. Please present a valid Disney Vacation Club Member ID card at the entrance to the Premiere Theatre.
Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members are welcome to attend the other screening times throughout the four days.
Disney will have several showings of the film throughout the four day engagement at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Show times are 11:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Separate theme park admission is required to attend, and seating is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Disney will also have special screenings for Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members on select days:
On February 14 and February 16, a showing for Passholders only will be held at 10:00 a.m. Please present a valid annual pass at the entrance to the Premiere Theatre.
On February 15 and February 17, a Disney Vacation Club Members only screening will be held at 10:00 a.m. Please present a valid Disney Vacation Club Member ID card at the entrance to the Premiere Theatre.
Annual Passholders and Disney Vacation Club Members are welcome to attend the other screening times throughout the four days.
Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story Merchandise
Disney Design Group artist and the head of the Vinylmation team Thomas Scott was on hand at the Walt Disney Studios lot this week for the official release of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story. He was joined by the creative team behind the film.
On Friday, Feb. 14, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., D-Street in the Downtown Disney District at Disneyland will host a special release and signing of “Blank – A Vinylmation Love Story” merchandise with the following:
Mike Ambs (Director, Cinematographer)
Paul Foyder (Director, Editor, Sound Designer)
Alfred Montejano (Composer)
Gino Roy (Director, Production Designer)
Whitfield Scheidegger (Director, Cinematographer)
Greg Shewchuk (Director, Writer, Co-Producer)
Here is a look at the Merchandise that will be released.
Look for 3-inch, create-your-own Blank and Bow figures, T-shirts and D-Tech on Demand cases for the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5/5S. They should be available at both D-Streets and also Disney's Hollywood Studios.
From February 14-23, we will be offering select “Blank” items and more via our Disney Parks online store. You will find the two shirts and D-Tech on Demand iPhone cases shown above as well as some unique custom figures.
There will be 50 blank, 3-inch Vinylmation figures with custom artwork by Disney Design Group artist Thomas Scott. Each figure will be individually numbered.
They will also offer a handful of sets featuring 3-foot Vinylmation figures that resemble Blank and Bow (pictured above). One of these 3-foot figure sets will be signed by the Disney Interactive team who worked on the short.
Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery of all items ordered online at http://www.DisneyStore.com/Blank.
On Friday, Feb. 14, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., D-Street in the Downtown Disney District at Disneyland will host a special release and signing of “Blank – A Vinylmation Love Story” merchandise with the following:
Mike Ambs (Director, Cinematographer)
Paul Foyder (Director, Editor, Sound Designer)
Alfred Montejano (Composer)
Gino Roy (Director, Production Designer)
Whitfield Scheidegger (Director, Cinematographer)
Greg Shewchuk (Director, Writer, Co-Producer)
Here is a look at the Merchandise that will be released.
Look for 3-inch, create-your-own Blank and Bow figures, T-shirts and D-Tech on Demand cases for the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5/5S. They should be available at both D-Streets and also Disney's Hollywood Studios.
From February 14-23, we will be offering select “Blank” items and more via our Disney Parks online store. You will find the two shirts and D-Tech on Demand iPhone cases shown above as well as some unique custom figures.
There will be 50 blank, 3-inch Vinylmation figures with custom artwork by Disney Design Group artist Thomas Scott. Each figure will be individually numbered.
They will also offer a handful of sets featuring 3-foot Vinylmation figures that resemble Blank and Bow (pictured above). One of these 3-foot figure sets will be signed by the Disney Interactive team who worked on the short.
Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery of all items ordered online at http://www.DisneyStore.com/Blank.
Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story Released on Google Play
The following story is reprinted from the Disney Insider Blog:
Today Disney Interactive released a brand new animated short film that was over a year in the making. It’s called Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, and it’s a 38 minute stop-motion adventure and love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The film is currently available exclusively on Google Play, Google’s online store offering digital movies, books, music, apps, games and more.
Based on the popular Disney Parks Vinylmation collectibles, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story follows a pair of unpainted Vinylmation, Blank and Bow, who fall in love but are quickly torn apart. Blank must make a daring escape and traverse a wild and colorful landscape on a quest to save Bow, who has been whisked away in a train car over the horizon.
“At its core, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is a story about individuality, self expression, and making a difference in the world. And in this world, where most of us are bombarded every day with tweets and texts and newsfeeds and e-mails and people talking at us with words, words, and more words, I am inviting you for the next forty minutes to experience a story with no words. We hope that Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will bypass everyone’s busy brains and go right to your heart.” - Executive Producer Margaret Gilmore
It’s an earnest and sensitive story, told without dialogue or narration. The world on screen is entirely hand-crafted, and the result is a look and style that is not simply unique, looking like nothing else being offered throughout the world of Disney, but uniquely expressive. It’s hard to imagine that a pair of blank figures could express so much until you’ve seen it for yourself.
Producer Matt Wyatt spoke to Disney about the past year spent working on Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story.
The project’s origin goes back to 2012, when the creators put together a short presentation exploring a story they had been tossing around with each other. “The creators of Blank are fans of Vinylmation and got their hands on some of the figurines. They started thinking that Vinylmation figures might be a cool possibility for stop motion. So they started doing some early initial tests with the figurines. From those tests, a two-and-a-half-minute short film came to be,” explained Matt. “From there we started showing that to people. It had so much heart and creativity, and people were really into it, that it became a much bigger venture at that point. From there the creators got together and started brainstorming, and breaking the story into the pieces it would ultimately become: a much more epic adventure and love story.”
The core production team behind Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is extremely small, made up of five writer/directors, Mike Ambs, Paul Foyder, Regino Roy III, Whitfield Scheidegger, and Greg Shewchuk, with just a handful of additional crew. Writing and directing was a collaborative effort, as was the creation of the sets and props used throughout the film, which fit into a single small studio space in Burbank, CA. Even the score was also produced inhouse by composer Alfred Montejano. “And that was the core team,” Matt told us, looking back with amazement on what they accomplished together. “At various points in the project, we had one or two animators assisting us, and then depending on the need we would occasionally bring in a gaffer, or an animation and character design technical consultant. It is a remarkably small team to achieve something of this size.”
Knowing how few hands were around throughout the making of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, it’s no surprise that it took over a year to produce the 54,874 photos that make up the film. (Give or take a couple hundred frames,” they’ve approximated.) But the creators don’t sweat that length of time, because the result of their efforts is a film that is bursting with detail, creativity, and life. “The most important thing about the film’s handmade quality is that it imbues it with heart, and the attention to detail is where the magic comes from,” Matt told us. “The characters and the locations and the props were all hand-crafted under the direction of the directors and production designer. The attention to detail was incredible and all of the guys are really amazing about taking raw materials and making them into things that really come to life. There’s some incredible instances of taking everyday objects and turning them into these mystical worlds. “
There were a number of instances where they had to think quick and take risks, trying out ideas that were completely experimental in order to achieve the final shots you see. “One of the intricacies of stop-motion is that you can’t use normal film lights because they’re way too powerful when you’re working on a miniature set, so you have to make your own lights. Our cinematographers went out and got mini lights and LEDs and, in some cases, even took paper cups and used them as snoots for the lights. There’s a scene where Blank and the giant are sitting around a fire. In order to get that fire to look right, we used a computer program called Dragonframe to take our stop-motion photographs in time with a vacuum so that the vacuum would blow air out in the exact right instance to make that fire move for each shot. There’s another shot at the very end that is a wide shot with lots of flowers in it, and to show the flowers at a distance, the guys used little colored candies to make those flowers. It’s that level of creative ingenuity that goes into all of the shots that you’re looking at in the final film.”
They even took advantage of some fun new tech, in the form of a MakerBot 3D printer, to help tackle one especially challenging part of the film. Blank and Bow travel throughout the world by train, on a route that might look familiar to visitors of Disneyland who have ridden the Monorail. “MakerBot was super cool because we were able to get the trains printed for us in three different sizes, and then our guys went to work decorating them and painted them to look exactly how we wanted,” Matt told us. “What that allowed us to do was interchange those trains seamlessly from one shot to another–when you’re working with stop-motion, you change the scale depending on the scope of the shot–so our different sized MakerBot printed trains allowed us to do that easily. We also made an exclusive short film to go along with the release of the film, Cranes in Love, and we also used MakerBot printers to print a bunch of the props that are in that film.”
Now that Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is available to watch online, Matt and the rest of the team are excited for everyone to see what they’ve been up to for so long. “A lot of the guys on the team are fathers and [co-writer/director] Greg always talks about wanting this to be something he could show to his son and have it be a film that they could experience together.” said Matt. “The idea was creating an exciting and fun and beautiful story that kids could watch, that wasn’t too scary but was still really engaging for adults too. It’s about creativity and self expression and imagination and individuality.”
See for yourself right now by downloading Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story for free from Google Play, Google’s online store offering digital movies, books, music, apps, games and more. Viewers will also find a digital Valentine’s experience as well as additional video clips and the “Love Theme” song from the film.
To celebrate the premiere, Google is also inviting fans to share frames from the film with friends and family as digital Valentine’s greetings at blankmovie.withgoogle.com. After sharing a frame, Guests can unlock a second special film, “Cranes in Love,” created especially for Google users.
Beginning on February 14, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will also be screened for a limited time at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA and at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Florida. Tickets to the El Capitan Theatre are available at www.elcapitantickets.com or by calling 1-800-DISNEY6.
Today Disney Interactive released a brand new animated short film that was over a year in the making. It’s called Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, and it’s a 38 minute stop-motion adventure and love story, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The film is currently available exclusively on Google Play, Google’s online store offering digital movies, books, music, apps, games and more.
Based on the popular Disney Parks Vinylmation collectibles, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story follows a pair of unpainted Vinylmation, Blank and Bow, who fall in love but are quickly torn apart. Blank must make a daring escape and traverse a wild and colorful landscape on a quest to save Bow, who has been whisked away in a train car over the horizon.
“At its core, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is a story about individuality, self expression, and making a difference in the world. And in this world, where most of us are bombarded every day with tweets and texts and newsfeeds and e-mails and people talking at us with words, words, and more words, I am inviting you for the next forty minutes to experience a story with no words. We hope that Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will bypass everyone’s busy brains and go right to your heart.” - Executive Producer Margaret Gilmore
It’s an earnest and sensitive story, told without dialogue or narration. The world on screen is entirely hand-crafted, and the result is a look and style that is not simply unique, looking like nothing else being offered throughout the world of Disney, but uniquely expressive. It’s hard to imagine that a pair of blank figures could express so much until you’ve seen it for yourself.
Producer Matt Wyatt spoke to Disney about the past year spent working on Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story.
The project’s origin goes back to 2012, when the creators put together a short presentation exploring a story they had been tossing around with each other. “The creators of Blank are fans of Vinylmation and got their hands on some of the figurines. They started thinking that Vinylmation figures might be a cool possibility for stop motion. So they started doing some early initial tests with the figurines. From those tests, a two-and-a-half-minute short film came to be,” explained Matt. “From there we started showing that to people. It had so much heart and creativity, and people were really into it, that it became a much bigger venture at that point. From there the creators got together and started brainstorming, and breaking the story into the pieces it would ultimately become: a much more epic adventure and love story.”
The core production team behind Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is extremely small, made up of five writer/directors, Mike Ambs, Paul Foyder, Regino Roy III, Whitfield Scheidegger, and Greg Shewchuk, with just a handful of additional crew. Writing and directing was a collaborative effort, as was the creation of the sets and props used throughout the film, which fit into a single small studio space in Burbank, CA. Even the score was also produced inhouse by composer Alfred Montejano. “And that was the core team,” Matt told us, looking back with amazement on what they accomplished together. “At various points in the project, we had one or two animators assisting us, and then depending on the need we would occasionally bring in a gaffer, or an animation and character design technical consultant. It is a remarkably small team to achieve something of this size.”
Knowing how few hands were around throughout the making of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, it’s no surprise that it took over a year to produce the 54,874 photos that make up the film. (Give or take a couple hundred frames,” they’ve approximated.) But the creators don’t sweat that length of time, because the result of their efforts is a film that is bursting with detail, creativity, and life. “The most important thing about the film’s handmade quality is that it imbues it with heart, and the attention to detail is where the magic comes from,” Matt told us. “The characters and the locations and the props were all hand-crafted under the direction of the directors and production designer. The attention to detail was incredible and all of the guys are really amazing about taking raw materials and making them into things that really come to life. There’s some incredible instances of taking everyday objects and turning them into these mystical worlds. “
There were a number of instances where they had to think quick and take risks, trying out ideas that were completely experimental in order to achieve the final shots you see. “One of the intricacies of stop-motion is that you can’t use normal film lights because they’re way too powerful when you’re working on a miniature set, so you have to make your own lights. Our cinematographers went out and got mini lights and LEDs and, in some cases, even took paper cups and used them as snoots for the lights. There’s a scene where Blank and the giant are sitting around a fire. In order to get that fire to look right, we used a computer program called Dragonframe to take our stop-motion photographs in time with a vacuum so that the vacuum would blow air out in the exact right instance to make that fire move for each shot. There’s another shot at the very end that is a wide shot with lots of flowers in it, and to show the flowers at a distance, the guys used little colored candies to make those flowers. It’s that level of creative ingenuity that goes into all of the shots that you’re looking at in the final film.”
They even took advantage of some fun new tech, in the form of a MakerBot 3D printer, to help tackle one especially challenging part of the film. Blank and Bow travel throughout the world by train, on a route that might look familiar to visitors of Disneyland who have ridden the Monorail. “MakerBot was super cool because we were able to get the trains printed for us in three different sizes, and then our guys went to work decorating them and painted them to look exactly how we wanted,” Matt told us. “What that allowed us to do was interchange those trains seamlessly from one shot to another–when you’re working with stop-motion, you change the scale depending on the scope of the shot–so our different sized MakerBot printed trains allowed us to do that easily. We also made an exclusive short film to go along with the release of the film, Cranes in Love, and we also used MakerBot printers to print a bunch of the props that are in that film.”
Now that Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story is available to watch online, Matt and the rest of the team are excited for everyone to see what they’ve been up to for so long. “A lot of the guys on the team are fathers and [co-writer/director] Greg always talks about wanting this to be something he could show to his son and have it be a film that they could experience together.” said Matt. “The idea was creating an exciting and fun and beautiful story that kids could watch, that wasn’t too scary but was still really engaging for adults too. It’s about creativity and self expression and imagination and individuality.”
See for yourself right now by downloading Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story for free from Google Play, Google’s online store offering digital movies, books, music, apps, games and more. Viewers will also find a digital Valentine’s experience as well as additional video clips and the “Love Theme” song from the film.
To celebrate the premiere, Google is also inviting fans to share frames from the film with friends and family as digital Valentine’s greetings at blankmovie.withgoogle.com. After sharing a frame, Guests can unlock a second special film, “Cranes in Love,” created especially for Google users.
Beginning on February 14, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will also be screened for a limited time at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA and at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Florida. Tickets to the El Capitan Theatre are available at www.elcapitantickets.com or by calling 1-800-DISNEY6.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Episode 149 Mickey's Philharmagic
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This week, we talk about the new Topiary series for the Flower and Garden Festival with a discussion about the idea of reveal/conceal in Vinylmation. We also have an update on the Blank screening at El Capitan and Ardy returns to the Radio Disney Music Awards.
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Blank Screening at El Capitan in February
Update: 01/24/14 A filmmaker from Blank reached out to us with some details about this screening and Blank in general. The 12 episodes have been combined into a 38min short film. The El Capitan will show the entire film after the El Capitan Frozen Sing-a-long from Feb 3-5 and then with Lady and the Tramp starting on Valentines Day. Also, the online release of the full movie is still planned.
While Disney's stop motion animation series “Blank – A Vinylmation Love Story” staring various Vinylmation still is not available for viewing online, Disney’s El Capitan theatre in Los Angeles has announced a showing of the short film in February. The short is broken up into a few episodes each a few minutes in length. The first episode was screened at Reflections of Evil event at Epcot last September. The remaining episodes were supposed to be periodically uploaded to http://shows.disney.com/blank, but that has yet to be done. At least episodes 2 and 3 have been screened at other events.No word on how much of the short will be shown at El Capitan.
BLANK: A Vinylmation Love Story
Showing at The El Capitan Theatre
Feb 3-5 (4pm & 7:15pm) with Frozen Sing-A-Long
Feb 14-20 with Lady and the Tramp
"In search of his lost soulmate, an unpainted Vinylmation finds himself on a quest that alters the destiny of his entire world. Blank is an epic adventure in miniature scale, a completely original, heartwarming love story filmed entirely in practical stop motion." #blankandbow
For tickets, call 1-800-DISNEY6 or go to www.elcapitantickets.com.
While Disney's stop motion animation series “Blank – A Vinylmation Love Story” staring various Vinylmation still is not available for viewing online, Disney’s El Capitan theatre in Los Angeles has announced a showing of the short film in February. The short is broken up into a few episodes each a few minutes in length. The first episode was screened at Reflections of Evil event at Epcot last September. The remaining episodes were supposed to be periodically uploaded to http://shows.disney.com/blank, but that has yet to be done. At least episodes 2 and 3 have been screened at other events.
BLANK: A Vinylmation Love Story
Showing at The El Capitan Theatre
Feb 3-5 (4pm & 7:15pm) with Frozen Sing-A-Long
Feb 14-20 with Lady and the Tramp
"In search of his lost soulmate, an unpainted Vinylmation finds himself on a quest that alters the destiny of his entire world. Blank is an epic adventure in miniature scale, a completely original, heartwarming love story filmed entirely in practical stop motion." #blankandbow
For tickets, call 1-800-DISNEY6 or go to www.elcapitantickets.com.
Monday, August 12, 2013
From D23: Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story Review
Today, the D23 audience that attended the Disney Interactive panel were treated to the premier of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story. When I first heard about this venture, I was skeptical of the quality and motivation behind the making of this animated web series. This seemed like a way of pushing a product into the mind set of another group of future buyers. But over time, as screen shots and a trailer hit the web, it was clear this was a more artistic undertaking than I had assumed. Somehow, a team at Disney was given a budget, albeit a small one, to put together a story about Vinylmation. After attending the presentation, it became clear that Disney Interactive is trying to provide quality, short form entertainment to pull audiences toward their web content. While Blank may not provide direct revenue, it will provide content to attract an audience and keep them coming back for more. It should also drive product sales, but not in the overly blatant way I expected.
Blank is a three minute long, stop motion animated short. We saw episode 1 of a series of web shorts that will soon be released at Disney.com/Blank. The story is based around Blank, a 3" Vinylmation who does not get painted at the factory. He soon meets Bow and they go on a truly epic journey that is left to be continued in future episodes. This first part introduces the world these Vinylmation live in, as well as a cast of characters that include a Park Starz squid, a train based on the monorail platform and these non-Vinylmation crane monsters. You instantly care about your main characters Blank and Bow. They convey so much emotion without a single facial expression. But you know what you are seeing. The beginnings of a true love story. And while they face dangers together, you begin to root for them to reach safety. But they are pulled apart. And so begins the struggle for the two to reunite. You forget for a moment that this is a story told with Vinylmation as the medium. It is a story for any time, place or age.
The animation is beautiful. The story is touching and engaging. I can not wait to follow this adventure and see where future episodes take Blank and Bow.
Blank is a three minute long, stop motion animated short. We saw episode 1 of a series of web shorts that will soon be released at Disney.com/Blank. The story is based around Blank, a 3" Vinylmation who does not get painted at the factory. He soon meets Bow and they go on a truly epic journey that is left to be continued in future episodes. This first part introduces the world these Vinylmation live in, as well as a cast of characters that include a Park Starz squid, a train based on the monorail platform and these non-Vinylmation crane monsters. You instantly care about your main characters Blank and Bow. They convey so much emotion without a single facial expression. But you know what you are seeing. The beginnings of a true love story. And while they face dangers together, you begin to root for them to reach safety. But they are pulled apart. And so begins the struggle for the two to reunite. You forget for a moment that this is a story told with Vinylmation as the medium. It is a story for any time, place or age.
The animation is beautiful. The story is touching and engaging. I can not wait to follow this adventure and see where future episodes take Blank and Bow.
Monday, July 29, 2013
"Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story" Trailer, Website, Review and Release Date
Earlier this week Disney invited media to a screening of "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story". Unfortunately it was in California and I wasn't able to attend. But Disney has launched a website for the upcoming web series www.Disney.com/blank.
According to Stitch Kingdom, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will premiere its first three episodes (each around three minutes long) at D23 Expo next month before going live online immediately after at Disney.com/Blank. The remaining nine episodes will then be released exclusively online every Saturday and viewers are in for a treat.
Stitch Kingdom also wrote up a wonderful review. Here is a piece:
It looks more amazing than I could ever thought possible. Here is Disney's official trailer.
There is also a behind the scenes video:
I am very excited to see this web series now. The stop motion animation looks absolutely beautiful.
There will also be a Vinylmation set designed by Thomas Scott based on Blank. Here's hoping for one of those Dino looking cranes!
According to Stitch Kingdom, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story will premiere its first three episodes (each around three minutes long) at D23 Expo next month before going live online immediately after at Disney.com/Blank. The remaining nine episodes will then be released exclusively online every Saturday and viewers are in for a treat.
Stitch Kingdom also wrote up a wonderful review. Here is a piece:
Set in a world that looks a little like Disneyland, Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story follows the journey of two Vinylmation figures, Blank and Bow, that don’t quite fit in with the world around them. In their world, Vinylmations are born blank before being given a paint-job that determines their identity.
since there was neither the time nor money for computer wizardry such as CGI: the backdrops were constructed using mixed media; the trains — based on the Vinylmation monorail mold — were 3D-printed and painted.Read the full review here.
It looks more amazing than I could ever thought possible. Here is Disney's official trailer.
There is also a behind the scenes video:
I am very excited to see this web series now. The stop motion animation looks absolutely beautiful.
There will also be a Vinylmation set designed by Thomas Scott based on Blank. Here's hoping for one of those Dino looking cranes!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Episode 127 Sonny Eclipse
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
First Look at "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story" Photo; Web Series to Premier at D23 Expo
Disney Interactive has released the first images of the intriguing web series featuring Vinylmation called "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story." We learned of this web series months ago with a post talking about upcoming Disney digital projects and we know there is a Thomas Scott designed Vinylmation based on this web series that will be sold at the D23 Expo, although no photos have been released of the figure. But it was just announced that "Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story" will have it's world premier at the D23 Expo on Sunday, August 11 at Noon during the Disney Interactive presentation. And here is the "movie poster" to promote the event:
No real idea what we can infer from this graphic. Will it be stop motion with real Vinylmation? You can see that both the Mickey and Minnie platforms are used for this shot. I thought it would be more like a computer animated version of a Vinylmation, but if this poster is any hint, I will much more enjoy a stop motion version. My interest is now heightened. Here is the official press release for the Disney Interactive presentation that includes video game and other digital media announcements and demos:
Disney Interactive is inviting fans to experience the latest digital offerings from Disney at the D23 Expo, August 9–11, giving fans hands-on experiences, first-look presentations, and exclusive D23 Expo giveaways. With an unprecedented lineup of upcoming games and products, including Disney Infinity, Fantasia: Music Evolved and more, Disney Interactive is turning up the excitement with its largest D23 Expo presence ever including a show floor pavilion, daily presentations, and the D23 Expo Arena.
Arena Presentation:
On Sunday, August 11, fans won’t want to miss “To Infinity and Beyond: Disney Interactive Takes the Stage,” Disney Interactive’s first ever D23 Expo Arena Presentation. Kicking off at noon, Disney Interactive Co-Presidents, Jimmy Pitaro and John Pleasants, host an inside look at the division’s upcoming slate of games, apps, and online shows including:
Pavilion Experience:
Located in Hall B, the Disney Interactive pavilion lets Guests step into the world of interactive storytelling through hands-on experiences with the latest games and products from Disney Interactive. Gamers, fans and families will have the opportunity to discover Disney Interactive’s upcoming digital innovations bringing them closer to the characters and stories they love on the platforms and devices they use every day.
With exclusive collectible giveaways, still-to-be-announced panels and presentations, and first looks at the Fall’s hottest digital products, Guests won’t want to miss the surprises Disney Interactive has up its sleeve. Visit www.D23Expo.com and DisneyInteractive.tumblr.com for more updates leading up to the D23 Expo 2013.
The D23 Expo—The Ultimate Disney Fan Event—brings the entire world of Disney under one roof, providing attendees with unprecedented access to Disney films, television, and theme parks. For the latest D23 Expo 2013 news, visit www.D23Expo.com. To be part of the D23 Expo conversation, make sure to follow @DisneyD23 and tag your tweets with #D23Expo.
No real idea what we can infer from this graphic. Will it be stop motion with real Vinylmation? You can see that both the Mickey and Minnie platforms are used for this shot. I thought it would be more like a computer animated version of a Vinylmation, but if this poster is any hint, I will much more enjoy a stop motion version. My interest is now heightened. Here is the official press release for the Disney Interactive presentation that includes video game and other digital media announcements and demos:
Disney Interactive is inviting fans to experience the latest digital offerings from Disney at the D23 Expo, August 9–11, giving fans hands-on experiences, first-look presentations, and exclusive D23 Expo giveaways. With an unprecedented lineup of upcoming games and products, including Disney Infinity, Fantasia: Music Evolved and more, Disney Interactive is turning up the excitement with its largest D23 Expo presence ever including a show floor pavilion, daily presentations, and the D23 Expo Arena.
Arena Presentation:
On Sunday, August 11, fans won’t want to miss “To Infinity and Beyond: Disney Interactive Takes the Stage,” Disney Interactive’s first ever D23 Expo Arena Presentation. Kicking off at noon, Disney Interactive Co-Presidents, Jimmy Pitaro and John Pleasants, host an inside look at the division’s upcoming slate of games, apps, and online shows including:
- The world premiere of Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, the highly anticipated upcoming web series based on the Vinylmation franchise.
- An Expo-exclusive demo of the just-announced video game Fantasia: Music Evolved, complete with a live performance from the Disney Chamber Ensemble.
- Disney Infinity will pull out all the stops with several surprises fans won’t want to miss, including un-announced character reveals, brand new game features and an exclusive giveaway of a never-before-seen Disney Infinity figure for every fan in the audience!
Pavilion Experience:
Located in Hall B, the Disney Interactive pavilion lets Guests step into the world of interactive storytelling through hands-on experiences with the latest games and products from Disney Interactive. Gamers, fans and families will have the opportunity to discover Disney Interactive’s upcoming digital innovations bringing them closer to the characters and stories they love on the platforms and devices they use every day.
- Just days before Disney Infinity arrives in stores, attendees will be among the first to experience the new gaming platform that lets fans play in the worlds of their favorite Disney and DisneyŸPixar films.
- Fans can assume the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in the upcoming game Fantasia: Music Evolved and transform classic and contemporary music through motion-controlled movement like never before.
- Guests can join the “D23 Expo Story Scavenger Hunt” by using Disney’s new personal storytelling app, Story, to share their favorite memories and moments from this year’s expo to win great prizes throughout the weekend.
- Attendees will have the chance to demo an un-announced premium tablet experience which gives Guests unprecedented access to Disney’s rich heritage.
- Catch exclusive trailers and sneak peeks from the latest online shows like Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story, apps, and games at the Disney Interactive Main Stage.
With exclusive collectible giveaways, still-to-be-announced panels and presentations, and first looks at the Fall’s hottest digital products, Guests won’t want to miss the surprises Disney Interactive has up its sleeve. Visit www.D23Expo.com and DisneyInteractive.tumblr.com for more updates leading up to the D23 Expo 2013.
The D23 Expo—The Ultimate Disney Fan Event—brings the entire world of Disney under one roof, providing attendees with unprecedented access to Disney films, television, and theme parks. For the latest D23 Expo 2013 news, visit www.D23Expo.com. To be part of the D23 Expo conversation, make sure to follow @DisneyD23 and tag your tweets with #D23Expo.
Friday, May 3, 2013
A Vinylmation Themed Web Series is Announced
What is this??!! Disney artist Thomas Scott shared an article on Facebook today from the Disney Interactive Tumblr website that was posted on May 1, 2013. One of the announcements on the page points to a Vinylmation themed web series!
Blank: A Love Story — "In this web series based on Vinylmation, the vinyl collectible toys based on Disney characters, a blank toy is left unpainted by a factory machine and sets out on a dangerous journey to find the only other toy that may hold the answer to his destiny."
What might that toy be? Will Disney characters interact with "blank"? Does it interest you to see an animated Vinylmation? We have talked a lot on the podcast about how Disney is mainstreaming Vinylmation, this sure seems another route down that path. You can read the full article here.
During its annual Digital Content NewFronts presentation for advertising partners this morning in New York City, Disney Interactive revealed its upcoming slate of new family-friendly digital series premiering later this year on Disney.com and across its digital network. The new line-up of short form series builds on the success of Disney’s hit digital series Swampy’s Underground Adventures and Talking Friends which have garnered 27 million and 130 million views respectively.It goes on to list the various series and among them is this:
Blank: A Love Story — "In this web series based on Vinylmation, the vinyl collectible toys based on Disney characters, a blank toy is left unpainted by a factory machine and sets out on a dangerous journey to find the only other toy that may hold the answer to his destiny."
What might that toy be? Will Disney characters interact with "blank"? Does it interest you to see an animated Vinylmation? We have talked a lot on the podcast about how Disney is mainstreaming Vinylmation, this sure seems another route down that path. You can read the full article here.
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