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2008-09 Production Report
Screen Australia has released the findings of its annual Production Report on the state of film and television.
Never wanting to paint a bleak picture, it manages to find optimism with a healthy state of production, if boosted by the big investment of George Miller’s Happy Feet 2 and the $100m Hollywood animation Guardians of Ga’Hoole in Sydney.
TV Tonight has taken a look at the television sector separately, and the results are still very good. While series / serials were down, mini-series (which also includes telemovies) were up.
The …
Aussie animators storm(troop) the world
After Adam Elliot won an Oscar for Harvie Krumpett, Australian animators have really been taking it to the world. Films such as Happy Feet, and series like Animalia continue to do us proud.
Another Aussie animator is Justin Mettam, a 3D story artist on Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars series.
For the past eight years, Mettam has been based in the US. As a 3D story artist he has responsibility for creating the cinematography from the script.
Since finishing Film & TV studies in Western Australia in 1992, Mettam went to London where …
Airdate: The Clone Wars
Here’s another curious programming decision from TEN. The brand spankin’ new animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars from Lucasfilm Animation is coming later this month.
But despite a legion of Star Wars fans, it has been given a timeslot of 12pm Saturday November 22.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog called preview footage “likely the most photo-realistic animated TV series ever produced.” It was the most-watched series premiere on the Cartoon Newtork ever.
The series, which premiered on October 3rd in the US, was launched with a feature film which was released in …