New Trends

CARTOON MOVIE  CURRENT TRENDS IN ANIMATIon




CARTOON MOOVES IS

 a yearly pan-European festival that 2012 brings creators of animated feature films at various stages of production with financiers, co-producers and distributors. The organisers have looked over the 50 films being pitched and drawn out current trends including a big leap in stereo 3D and a growth in adult-focussed productions
 

•The organisers note that european animation has not only taken a definitive leap to CG animation, which accounts for half of the projects, but also moved decisively towards stereoscopic 3D, with 40% of the projects conceived to be made in this technology, doubling last year's figure.

•France – which remains the region's powerhouse – will be represented with 19 projects, followed by the Nordic countries – led by Denmark – with 13, Belgium with four and Germany with two. This year's projects have a global budget of €291.2million, with an average cost of €5.8million per film.

•The trend of adult-skewed films in European animation is growing: 20% of the selected projects target an adult audience and tackle political or sensitive subjects ranging from the Angolan civil war and its child soldiers (Another Day of Life), World War I (Cafard), Nazism in the biopic of a boxing champion (Young Perez), child neglect (It's a Zucchini's Life, The Island of Lost Children), Alzheimer's disease (Wrinkles), and the story of life on Earth (Alpha).

•Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival

•Several deserving young men and women walked away winners at the 2010 Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival. The Festival, which concluded in grand style at the Academy of Performing Arts in Port of Spain on November 28th, saw a number of submissions in seven different categories including Most Promising Animation Feature, Best Trinidad and Tobago Short, the D.E.W Most Outstanding Caribbean Short and a Festival first - the Best Latin American Animation Award.

New Upcoming Move 2013

This Year in Movies - Movie-going in 2013 will once again be filled with prequels, sequels, reboots, remakes and films based on established properties. In May, Robert Downey, Jr. will reprise his role as billionaire Tony Stark and a technologically advanced superhero in Iron Man 3. Besides the Marvel superhero, the summer season will lead off with a 12th feature-length Star Trek movie, The Hangover boys in a third adventure, a Great Gatsby remake, and sixth installment in the revved-up Fast and the Furious franchise.

In June, a much-anticipated prequel to 2001’s Monsters Inc., Monster’s University, will reunite the voice talents of John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Mary Gibbs. With the talents of Christopher Nolan as a producer, Warner Bros. Pictures will try to reboot the famed Superman franchise for worldwide audiences again. The month will also see the latest M. Night Shyamalan film, Seth Rogen’s End of the World, Brad Pitt-starrer World War Z and a sequel to Kick Ass.

A second installment of the mythology-laced Thor, a Johnny Depp-led remake of The Lone Ranger, the second installment in The Hunger Games franchise, and Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great And Powerful, will likely be huge box office hits too. Other sequels will include The Smurfs 2, a sequel to the comedy-actioner hit RED, family-friendly Despicable Me 2, and a sixth installment in the revved-up Fast and the Furious franchise. The second part of The Hobbit will open in December 2013.