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Robb Denovan
Robb Denovan (aliases: R. Deadly, Ron Donovan, Robbo Choyan etc.) is an animator from Canada who has won international acclaim for his work. He currently lives in London, England. Robb was born to Jack and Janet Denovan on June 1, 1978, in Carleton Place, Ontario. He attended St. Mary's Public School and Carleton Place High School. Robb studied at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, from 1997 to 2001, and got his first big break as an animator in 2004, when he worked on the Oscar-winning National Film Board of Canada short film ''Ryan''. He later worked on '' The Wild'', a project for Disney. His next big project took him to New Zealand, where he worked under Peter Jackson on the award-winning film '' King Kong''. Currently, Robb works as an animator for Pixar and his work can be seen in ''Cars 2'', ''Brave'' and ''Monsters University''. Robb has also engaged in, and done popular art for, such social groups as ''Gentlemen's Club'' and ''Medical Architects''. Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robb Denovan
Robb Denovan (aliases: R. Deadly, Ron Donovan, Robbo Choyan etc.) is an animator from Canada who has won international acclaim for his work. He currently lives in London, England. Robb was born to Jack and Janet Denovan on June 1, 1978, in Carleton Place, Ontario. He attended St. Mary's Public School and Carleton Place High School. Robb studied at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, from 1997 to 2001, and got his first big break as an animator in 2004, when he worked on the Oscar-winning National Film Board of Canada short film ''Ryan''. He later worked on '' The Wild'', a project for Disney. His next big project took him to New Zealand, where he worked under Peter Jackson on the award-winning film '' King Kong''. Currently, Robb works as an animator for Pixar and his work can be seen in ''Cars 2'', ''Brave'' and ''Monsters University''. Robb has also engaged in, and done popular art for, such social groups as ''Gentlemen's Club'' and ''Medical Architects''. Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, California, United States. Since 2006, Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is another studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group, before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney purchased Pixar in January 2006 at a valuation of $7.4+ billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering API. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan (film)
''Ryan'' is a 2004 short animated documentary film created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Landreth's chance meeting with Larkin in 2000 inspired him to develop the film, which took 18 months to complete. It was co-produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and its creation and development is the subject of the NFB documentary ''Alter Egos''. The film incorporated material from archive sources, particularly Larkin's works at the NFB. The film is an animated interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth, and includes interviews with Larkin's previous partner and coworkers, as well as Landreth. Development of the characters was partially inspired by the plastinated human bodies of the Body Worlds exhibition. The distorted and disembodied appearance of the film's characters is based on Landreth's use of psychological realis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surly Squirrel
Surly Squirrel is a fictional character created by Peter Lepeniotis and the main protagonist of The Nut Job franchise. He first appeared in the 2005 computer-animated short film ''Surly Squirrel'' and the 2011 short film ''Nuts and Robbers''. He then appeared in the 2014 computer-animated movie ''The Nut Job,'' and its 2017 sequel, '' The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature''. He is voiced by Will Arnett. Reception A reviewer for the ''Washington Post'' described Surly as a "selfish scurrier" with a "grouchy attitude and a "mind for schemes", concluding that "He's not a very fun character to travel with". In 2014, a reviewer in ''IGN'' described the character as "admittedly quite surly", but also "trapped in a bizarre and contradictory social commentary about the importance of sharing and the dangers of socialism." A reviewer for the ''New York Times'' described the character as a "dour squirrel" prone to tantrums. See also * The Nut Job ''The Nut Job'' is a 2014 computer-animate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Caspian
''Prince Caspian'' (originally published as ''Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia'') is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951. It was the second published of seven novels in '' The Chronicles of Narnia'' (1950–1956), and Lewis had finished writing it in 1949, before the first book was out. It is volume four in recent editions of the series, sequenced according to the internal chronology of the books. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions. ''Prince Caspian'' features a "return to Narnia" by the four Pevensie children of the first novel, about a year later in England but 1300 years later in Narnia. It is the only book of ''The Chronicles'' with men dominating Narnia. The talking animals and mythical beings are oppressed, and some may be endangered. The English siblings, legendary , are magically recalled, once again children, by the refugee Prince Caspian. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10,000 BC (film)
''10,000 BC'' is a 2008 American action-adventure film directed by Roland Emmerich, starring Steven Strait and Camilla Belle. The film is set in the prehistoric era and depicts the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunting Neanderthals. The world premiere was held on February 10, 2008, at Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The film was a box office hit, but consistently regarded by professional critics as Emmerich's worst film, as well as one of the worst films of 2008. Plot Circa 10,000 BC, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl live in the Ural Mountains and survive by hunting woolly mammoths. The tribe is led by a hunter who has killed a mammoth single-handedly and earned the White Spear, and venerate Old Mother, an elderly woman with shamanistic powers. The mammoths begin to dwindle, and the village chief finds a young girl named Evolet who survived a massacre of her village, perpetrated by what Old Mother calls "four-legged demons" who will come when "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (film)
''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the ''Harry Potter'' film series and the sequel to ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' (2007). It stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger respectively. The story follows Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts as he receives a mysterious textbook, falls in love, and attempts to retrieve a memory that holds the key to Lord Voldemort's downfall. Filming began on 24 September 2007, leading to the film's worldwide cinematic release on 15 July 2009. With an estimated budget of $250 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made and the most expensive film in the ''Harry Potter'' film series. ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' was released in 2D cinemas and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolfman (2010 Film)
''The Wolfman'' is a 2010 American horror film directed by Joe Johnston, from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self. A remake of the 1941 film '' The Wolf Man'', it stars Benicio del Toro (who also produces), Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving. In the film, after his brother is brutally murdered, an American actor named Lawrence Talbot (del Toro) returns to his ancestral homeland where he is bitten by a werewolf and cursed to become one. Mark Romanek was originally attached to direct the film but left weeks before filming due to creative differences and budgetary issues. Johnston was hired four weeks before principal photography, under the impression he could shoot the film in 80 days as Universal intended. However, re-shoots extended production, inflated the budget, and delayed the film's release several times. The film underwent numerous alternative versions during post-production. Danny Elfman was briefly replaced by Paul Haslinger as the film's compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Luna (2011 Film)
''La Luna'' (, Italian and Spanish for "''The Moon"'') is a 2011 American computer-animated short film, directed and written by Enrico Casarosa in his directorial debut. The short premiered on June 6, 2011 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, and it was paired with Pixar's '' Brave'' for its theatrical release on June 22, 2012, being shown before the film's beginning. ''La Luna'' was released on November 13, 2012, on the ''Brave'' DVD and Blu-ray, and on a new '' Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2'', the second collection of Pixar's short films. ''La Luna'' was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards. Plot A young Italian boy, Bambino, goes on a midnight boat trip with his father Papà and grandfather Nonno in Genoa, Italy. After they anchor in the middle of the sea, Nonno presents Bambino with a cap similar to the ones he and Papà wear. The two men disagree on how Bambino should wear it, with Papà pulling it low over his eyes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Out (2015 Film)
''Inside Out'' is a 2015 American computer-animated film directed by Pete Docter from a screenplay he co-wrote with Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios, it stars the voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, and Kyle MacLachlan. The film follows the inner workings inside the mind of a young girl named Riley, as five personified emotions administer her thoughts and actions as she adapts to her family's relocation. Docter conceived ''Inside Out'' in late 2009 after noticing changes in his daughter's personality as she grew older, and it was subsequently green-lighted. Based on the remembrances of Docter and the film's co-writer and co-director Ronnie del Carmen, they adopted an idea involving emotions for the film. During production, the filmmakers consulted psychologists and neuroscientists in order to achieve greater accuracy in their portrayal of the mind. Development o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finding Dory
''Finding Dory'' is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Lindsey Collins and written by Stanton and Victoria Strouse, it is the sequel/spin-off to ''Finding Nemo'' (2003) and features the returning voices of Ellen DeGeneres and Albert Brooks, with Hayden Rolence (replacing Alexander Gould), Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, and Eugene Levy joining the cast. The film focuses on the amnesiac fish Dory (DeGeneres), who journeys to be reunited with her parents (Keaton and Levy). Disney planned to make a sequel to ''Finding Nemo'' since 2005, tasking its new studio Circle 7 Animation after disagreements with Pixar. Through it never went into production, a script was uploaded to the official Raindance Film Festival website that includes elements of the unmade script. Disney's acquisition of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robb Denovan Gentlemen's Club
Robb is a surname of Scottish origin, formed from a diminution (reduction) of the name Robert. Robert was a popular name, especially after its use by three Scots Kings in the fourteenth century. Rob is first recorded as a surname in the mid-15th century, with a handful of individuals recorded in the decades either side of 1500. As the 16th century progressed there were early groupings in Aberdeenshire, Lanarkshire and later in Perthshire/ Stirlingshire. It is likely that the name originated with the offspring of a Robert or Rob, when surnames began to flourish, but unlike some surnames there is no one source for the name. The surname was originally spelled Rob, sometimes Robe, but by 1800 the vast majority of families had added an extra 'b', an exception being a wealthy farming family of Perthshire origin that settled in Thirsk, Yorkshire. Although the surname originates in Scotland, Protestant branches of the family settled in Ireland during the sixteenth century Plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
