The first R-rated computer animated feature.

[MaDSheeP]

.....do we get to know the name of the film?

[roger]

Well, from the article it say's it's called "Party Animals". It's based on the book Frisco Pidgeon Mambo by C.D. Payne.

[MaDSheeP]

ohh... i wonder if i looked right past the link when i first looked at this post... heh...

i'm blind :cool:

[MCronin]

Great, but I thought SouthPark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut was done completely with computers. Was it not? I mean does it have to look 3D for it to be considered computer animation?

[MaDeuce]

Ya, i heard from several lectures at my old school that they use 3D Studio Max for SouthPark, which its really weird coz it seems like 2d programs would be more practical for the style. Its probably mostly 2d apps

[lricho]

I read in a magazine about 3 or 4 years ago that it was maya that they were using. They could set up blend shapes and sliders and stuff to easily animate their "2d" shapes. They could have easily changed programs between now and then though.

[ambient-whisper]

weird
i heard they used houdini on it extensively :)

[beaker]

They originally used an Power Animator on south park and then moved to Maya a few years ago. It's so simple they could have easily stayed on PA. I guess they just wanted to upgrade from the O2's that they were using.

The 3dsmax reference was probably to the movie. Blur did the full 3d sequence where Kenny goes down to hell. Blur is mostly a 3dsmax house.

[E.Z. Schwartz]

Yey for Rhode Islanders! This would be even better news to me if it wasn't a comedy. Still, non kiddie animation is always good in my books!

[Shade01]

This is a dangerous thing. If this movie isn't any good it will make other companies shy away from tackling R Rated cgi. Look what happened when Final Fantasy flopped. No it wasn't R rated, but have you seen any other all cgi movie hit the big screen that dealt with a mature theme? Nope.

[nimajneb]

Beautiful as it was, Final Fantasy fell prey to the classic blunder... no story. Or let me be more specific; Not no story, bad story. CG can't make a movie saleable. Only good direction, good writing, good acting, good editing, and portion of luck can do that. CG is the icing, not the cake.

[THX]

haha

[RormanKnockwell]

The article is misleading. It claims that the Farelly brothers directed Osmosis Jones, when they only directed the live action bits (which stank). The animation in that film was directed by Piet Kroon and Tom Sito.

Pretty outrageous that the Farelly's can claim to be "animation" directors, and can use their OJ screen credit to get animation jobs. It's a huge scam, but I guess that's the way Hollywood works.

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