Chris McKay has signed to direct the sequel to The Lego Movie for Warner Bros. Pictures. He is an Emmy-winning frequent director of Cartoon Network\'s \"Robot Chicken,\" was the animation co-director of the first movie. He succeeds the first film\'s helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who remain attached to produce.
March 14th, 2014
Chris McKay has signed to direct the sequel to The Lego Movie for Warner Bros. Pictures. He is an Emmy-winning frequent director of Cartoon Network's "Robot Chicken," was the animation co-director of the first movie. He succeeds the first film's helmers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who remain attached to produce.
Michelle Morgan and Jared Stern are writing for the next installment, which will be a straight sequel. The film is scheduled for a release on May 26, 2017. The LEGO Movie, which has earned over $360 million globally, features the voices of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Cobie Smulders.
Budget 2012 - 10 years tax holiday required for animation industry, says FICCI
FICCI in its pre-budget memorandum has given the following recommendations for Animation, Gaming & VFX industry:
On the lines of IITs and IIMs, Government should consider setting up Centers of Excellence for the Animation, Gaming & which also offers opportunities for applied and commercial and others type of arts.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
