Media Asia is producing its first English-language 3D animated film, called Monkey King Reloaded. Directed by Felix Ip and Paul Wang of Hong Kong-based Unicorn Studios, the former production team of the now-defunct Imagi Animation Studios that previously brought us Tmnt and Astro Boy. Canto pop-star Leon Lai serves as producer.A zoo monkey in Sichuan travels to New York City to rescue a human friend from a trio of nefarious kidnappers, only to realize the Demon King is behind it all. With the help of a huge pig, he learns to channel the power of the Monkey King to defeat the villains.The animated comedy is expected to see a release before the end of 2014. You'll find the teaser embedded below....
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- 4/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
It’s been a little over a year when we last posted the first concept art for Imagi’s CG animated film Gatchaman. Since that time, Tmnt director Kevin Monroe has dropped out and the release date has been push back to 2009 according to the press release. Many rabid Gatchaman fans has been asking when the studio will throw them a bone and so Felix Ip, the creative director of Imagi has answer their call and got the go ahead from his superiors to reveal some new concept art. At his blog site, there is three beautifully render artwork to show the “look” of the animated film and a new logo design with more to come later. Very cool “look”. Hopefully, we will get to see these artwork translated into animated form sometime in the near future. As of now, the film is still in development.
- 8/1/2008
- by Al Young
- Screen Anarchy
If you're a sci-fan in the least, you definitely need to stop and take a look. Imagi Animation's creative director Felix Ip has just released a few new concept art photos from the upcoming Gatchaman CGI film. We've mentioned this movie a couple of times before, but I can't seem to find any of the original concept art so I've added some of the older artwork below as well. Gatchaman is a sci-fi CGI movie being developed by the same studio that brought us Tmnt. Originally, Kevin Munroe, who also directed the recent Tmnt, was attached to direct Gatchaman, calling it "one of those [experiences] that was a big formative thing as a kid." However, at the moment, no director is attached and the project is still stuck in early development. Maybe these new concept art photos will start some buzz and push it back into production? Gatchaman is based on...
- 8/1/2008
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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