Looks like it hasn’t been delayed after all.

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The following is a collection of tests that explore the visual potential of a Mouse Guard movie. Everything you see here is rendered in realtime using Epic's UNREAL ENGINE. Basically what you're watching is very good looking previz, with environments capable of streaming live to stage during motion capture with our actors.

While the visual quality is impressive, it's important to note this is only meant to illustrate how the movie will 'feel' not how it will 'look'. Everything will ultimately be sent to WETA Digital to be recreated with cutting-age photorealistic CG. This was made from scratch in about 12 weeks with a relatively small team. Credit goes to our team at Halon (led by Casey Pyke) and Fox VFX labs (led by Glenn Derry)

Thanks for watching y'all!

~wes

What is The Mouse Guard?

From Wikipedia:

Mouse Guard is set in a world of sapient mice who live in a medieval era, paralleling the same age in human history, though in their world there are no humans. Its stories revolve around a brotherhood of mice known as the "Mouse Guard" who have sworn an oath to serve their fellow civilian mice in times of need, including making safe passage for them through the wilderness and protecting them from predators.

And the film:

There were plans for Mouse Guard to be made into a film, with Petersen confirming interest from a producer and director. In July 2016, 20th Century Fox announced the film with Matt Reeves as a producer and Gary Whitta as the screenwriter. Wes Ball signed on to direct the film the following year in September. In March 2019, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Andy Serkis joined the film, with Idris Elba in consideration to join as well. Sonoya Mizuno joined the cast later that month, followed by Samson Kayo and Jack Whitehall in April.

Later in April 2019, Disney (which had acquired Fox that March) halted the project two weeks before production was set to begin, after which it was placed in turnaround. Ball later confirmed on X (formerly known as Twitter) that production was officially cancelled. At the time of its cancellation, the film had spent about $20 million on pre-production, and was expected to have an overall budget of $170 million.

Another great animation from Paul "OtaKing" Johnson. Check out his other works including a brilliant Tie Fighter short and another based on the classic arcade game, R-Type.

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I spent a lot of time on this, let me know what you think!

Dragonfirefly is a sword fight scene from the pilot episode of Mana Seizure, an animated series I'm making for YouTube.

We take a look at B.O.O, an otherworldly animated film that DreamWorks cancelled when it was nearly complete.

Here's a piece I wrote a couple of years ago. I hope you enjoy it.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZETIwxKPs

For those that don't know, Medusa was supposed to be an animated film retelling of the classic myth. It was unfortunately cancelled by Sony in 2019. This is a pencil test by legendary animator James Baxter.

Outstanding Animated Program

• Blue Eye Samurai
• Scavengers Reign
• The Simpsons
• X-Men ’97

I think this is Scavengers Reign's award to lose. Also who is nominating The Simpsons? Does it actually deserve this spot? Somebody who watched it let us know lol.

Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

• Hank Azaria (Moe Szyslak) The Simpsons
• Alex Borstein (Lois Griffin) Family Guy
• Sterling K. Brown (Angstrom Levy/Angstrom #646) Invincible
• Maya Rudolph (Connie the Hormone Monstress) Big Mouth
• Hannah Waddingham (Deliria) Krapopolis

Out of this list I think Sterling K. Brown deserves it most. Although I'm sad Lenore Zann wasn't nominated.

I deeply apologize in advance for rambling. If you want a TL;DR, read the last two paragraphs.

Today, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part Three releases on digital, marking the end of the Tomorrowverse story arc, as well as the end of an era of DC animation.

In 2007, DC Comics, alongside Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video, announced the start of a new franchise of direct-to-video animated movies, called "DC Universe Animated Original Movies". Starting with Superman: Doomsday, the movie line adapted many popular comic storylines, such as "The Death of Superman", "The Dark Knight Returns", and "The New Frontier", aimed at comic fans who wanted to see their favorite stories come to life on screen. Or, as one Blu-ray.com user so aptly put it, "These are harmless direct-to-video features aimed at a specific audience that are probably cheap to produce and bring in enough revenue to justify their existence."

Unlike earlier animated DC films, the direct-to-video line is aimed at a more adult audience, featuring more profane language, more sexual and suggestive content, and harsher violent content. Most of the films are given a PG-13 rating, though a few have gotten PG ratings, and sometimes even an R rating.

For a while, the direct-to-video films were all standalone and did not share continuity with each other (with the exception of Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, which was a sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, and Justice League: Doom, which was a sequel to Justice League: Crisis on Two Eaths), but that all changed in 2013, when Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox was released, kicking off a new shared universe called the "DC Animated Movie Universe", or DCAMU for short. Some may argue that the DCAMU truly started in 2014 with Justice League: War, with Flashpoint acting as a prologue. Regardless, the DCAMU was made to tie into the then-recent New 52 comic storyline, with Justice League: War being an adaptation of *Justice League: Origin", and the next film in the DCAMU, Son of Batman, was based on the New 52 comic storyline of the same name.

Eventually, after the New 52 ended in 2016, the DCAMU was still going strong, and even started adapting storylines that were not in the New 52 continuity, most notably the two-parter film The Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen (one of the few DTVs to actually get a limited theatrical release!), and Batman: Hush. But due to the lower sales, the aforementioned end of the New 52, and a general desire to move on from the DCAMU, they decided to end the DCAMU in 2020 with Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

Later in 2020, a new shared universe of animated movies was created, starting with Superman: Man of Tomorrow. Though the new continuity did not receive an official name, fans were quick to dub it the "Tomorrowverse". Compared to the DCAMU, which lasted for 7 years and 15 films, the Tomorrowverse felt more rushed with only 10 films (7 if we count the multi-parters as one film) in 4 years. As stated earlier, the Tomorrowverse is coming to an end with Crisis Part Three.

A "Crisis on Infinite Earths" animated trilogy had been rumored to be in the works since late 2021. It was officially announced, alongside the Watchmen two-parter, around this time last year. Earlier in 2023, newly-appointed co-CEO of DC Studios James Gunn announced that the new DC Universe would span across multiple mediums, including films, TV, animation, and games, which grew concern for the future of the DCUAOM line. Gunn stated that animated movies would continue under the Elseworlds label, and while it's unclear how much was truly planned ahead, releasing the Crisis trilogy right before the new DCU kicks off with Creature Commandos seems a bit on-the-nose.

Anyway, Crisis Part Three will feature cameos from the DCAU, DCAMU, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Super Friends, and many more. It will also be the final time we hear Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill as Batman and The Joker, with Conroy having recorded his lines before his death in 2022, and Hamill announcing that he would be retiring from the Joker role after Conroy's death.

Does this mean that there will be no more direct-to-video movies? Unlikely. WB has made hundreds of DTV projects, and they seem to be making money, so I see no reason why they would stop completely. Besides, we've got Watchmen Chapters I and II coming up, along with Batman Ninja vs Yakuza League, but beyond that, they haven't announced any new projects. We'll just have to wait for Comic-Con in a few days for them to announce new DTVs, if there are any at all.

I would certainly hate to see the DTVs go, but if this truly is the end, then at least they went out with a bang. Whatever the futute holds for the DC Universe Animated Original Movie line, it's been a fun ride.

From Skydance, Production I.G, Masashi Kudō and Mattson Tomlin comes one of the most anticipated anime series of the year, TERMINATOR ZERO.Starring Timothy O...

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The back cover of the Blu-ray reveals that the voice cast includes Matthew Rhys, Katee Sackhoff, and Titus Welliver.