Enrico’s blog

Lee Unkrich director of the upcoming ToyStory3 has shared a bounty of wonderful videos on facebook featuring amazing storyman Joe Ranft, who tragically left us a few years ago … Joe would be fifty today. His talent and love for this craft are a real and palpable legacy that lives on. I feel simply honored [...]

As some of you might know our very good friend and amazing illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi has done production design work for Coraline. Two weeks ago he received an Annie Award for his contribution to the movie! We simply couldn’t be happier to see his work get such recognition. On top of that the japanese press [...]

Wow! The japanese trailer is an epic all onto itself, it might be showing a little too much of the movie here and there, but still made me choke up a little. The title is as usual a little more descriptive: “Ka-ru Jiisan Sora Tobu Ie”. “Old man Carl’s flying house”.

Ponyo is opening this weekend in the US … hope people out there will enjoy the movie. Fio loves watching the DVD, she loves the driving scenes especially. "brooom brooom" she goes every time the car shows up. Very cute. By the way, here’s an interesting post regarding Ponyo on Anipages Daily. A good read. [...]

My very good friend Rodrigo Blaas is not only one of the top animators here at Pixar, he’s also an amazing director! Here’s his blog with a teaser for his beautiful short “Alma”. I hope you get a chance to see this short on the festival circuit and maybe soon on the itunes store too!

This fantastic trailer for the upcoming videogame made by Passion Pictures just knocked my socks off!!! Amazing!!! Our uber talented friend Robert Valley surely worked on this, his style is all over it.

UP is about to hit theaters in the US. We’re pretty excited around here. The first weekend of a film release is quite an interesting experience for its crew, as of course you hope and wish for the movie you are so proud of to get a significant reception in Theaters. If the public’s response [...]

/film has posted a nice gallery of photos from the Up production, ranging from stills from the movie to the research trip to Venezuela. Also more reviews are starting to appear everywhere on the web, here‘s the one from Variety. The film is set to have its world premiere in Cannes tomorrow!

It’s on the Time’s website. A rave review. Read it here if you don’t mind reading reviews before seeing the movie. I can’t wait for all of you out there to discover this amazing film. We are so proud of it here.

A nice and to the point documentary regarding Storyboarding, narrated by Eric Goldberg. I think it was made for the Lady and the tramp special edition DVD. Wonder what this storyboarding thing is about? This will explain it quite clearly.