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Indian
Animation is truly on the ascendant these days!
Fresh,
hot & crisp, the latest good news regarding Indian animation
is that Bangalore based Ittina Animation Studios has announced its
teaming up with UK based Uli Meyer Animation to create MonsterMania!
a fully CG animated feature film comedy featuring all the classic
movie monsters. Switzerland based Cinecarat is also part of the
collaboration.
Scripted
by award-winning British horror writers Michael Marshall Smith and
Stephen Jones and based on an idea by Uli Meyer, Stephen Jones and
Michael Marshall Smith, MonsterMania! has been in active
development for the past three years and the $30 million CGI movie
is currently in production.
Ittina
Animation Studios has been in the project since February and will
be working with Uli Meyer as a team and will be involved in all
creative as well as production aspects.
Speaking
to Animation Xpress.com, Ittina Animation Studios
chief Manu Ittina shared,"It is really a great honor for me
to work with Uli Meyer who is a Stalwart and is revered in the animation
world. This is also a justification of the efforts put in by Ittina
Animation Studios to create high quality CG Animation and our commitment
to animation aesthetics"
"I
am delighted to be working with Manu and his team on this very exciting
project," revealed Producer/Director Uli Meyer. "They
are the talented partners I had been searching for to make this
movie something extra-special"
MonsterMania!
tells the story of a young scientist Max van Helsing, who is plunged
into an exciting and dangerous adventure by his late grandfather's
will. He embarks on a life-changing quest that takes him to the
heart of the Eastern European country of Wallachia. There Max encounters
all the classic monsters, including Frankenstein's creation, a werewolf,
a lagoon creature and many other bizarre and creepy characters,
as he sets out to save the girl of his dreams from the greatest
evil the world has ever known . . . Vlad, Count Dracula!
An
adventure for the entire family, combining the two classic film
genres of horror and comedy, MonsterMania! is a story of love, friendship,
courage and determination. But more than anything else, it is horrifically
funny and hilariously scary.
This
collaboration between Ittina Animation Studios, Uli Meyer Animation
and Cinecarat, Switzerland, MonsterMania! is currently scheduled
for completion in 2008.
Ittina
Animation Studios was started by a group of talented young Indian
artists who had worked extensively at studios such as DreamWorks,
Walt Disney Productions and Weta. Known for maintaining high-quality
CGI standards and their commitment to animated storytelling, the
combination of Ittina Animation Studios and Uli Meyer Animation
allows the more than 100-strong crew to create a visual experience
on a realistic budget that equals or surpasses those of most major
Hollywood studios.
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