Titmouse is nearly set to roll-out their latest production model – Motorcity. This turbo-charged series premieres on Disney XD on April 30th at 9pm ET/PT, and it looks like a hit in the making.
The team has set a new bar for Flash character animation. While Titmouse is employing “re-use” techniques, you’d never know it, as the animation so full and fluid. There’s certainly a lot of drawing mileage going into each and every shot, and the facial acting is really elaborate and engaging. Of course, Flash isn’t the only tool being employed – the Titmouse team is using After Effects, Maya and Photoshop as well. Here’s a few shots from the show:
Over at Cartoon Brew, you may have spotted the recent trailer for Epic Mickey the Wii new gaming title produced by Junction Point Studios. The 2D cinematics in the game were produced by Powerhouse Animation, who also produced the new Risk: Factions game we highlighted yesterday. Busy month for Powerhouse! The game is due for release in December 2010. Here’s a short look at one of the cinematics, which don’t appear to include a great deal of animation or elaborate lip-sync, but the layouts and models look great.
With The Princess and the Frog DVD arriving in stores today, it’s high time we mention that Toon Boom was the technology of choice behind the Oscar-nominated feature. Much of the animation process was traditional (flipping paper and such), but the crew at Walt Disney Animation Studios used the enterprise-grade Toon Boom package Harmony to bring it to the screen. In fact, many of the Annie-Award-winning effects were “paperless” – drawn with a Cintiq right into Harmony.
Ted Rall’s latest animated short weighs in on Disney’s acquisition of Marvel, and supposes that there may be some redundancy and downsizing in all corners of the business. Legion of Superzeroes was animated with Toon Boom by David Essman.
Titmouse is nearly set to roll-out their latest production model – Motorcity. This turbo-charged series premieres on Disney XD on April 30th at 9pm ET/PT, and it looks like a hit in the making. 
