This is happening… I’m way too excited. #TheCroods!
iPad doodle. The Croods
The Croods:
DreamWorks needs to release a line of super-sized, super-dangerous firecrackers and put THIS DRAWING on the wax paper packaging. I know I’d risk losing a few fingers for something so cool looking!
So, so many GORGEOUS pictures in Noela Hueso’s The Art of The Croods. If you’d like to win a copy, CLICK HERE.
Related: Book Review: The Art of The Croods
Chris Sanders was picked as Cartoon Brew’s ‘Artist of the Day.’ Please click over there and say something nice in the comments section. You’ll get cartoon karma points!
Seeing The Croods later today, so I drew a Chunky for the awesome thecroods! Hope you like it! (And I hope you like the film, too!)
It’s FAN ART FRIDAY art from our VERY FIRST fan art friday artist! How cool is that?
Wanna Win A Copy Of The Art of The Croods?
It’s easy! Titan Books is using this Tumblr as the middleman for hooking one lucky Croods fan up with a copy of the book. To enter, SIMPLY LIKE AND/OR RE-BLOG THIS POST. Do both, and that’s TWO ENTRIES! A winner will be randomly chosen Sunday night at 11:59pm. It could be you!
NOTE: Due to the large and heavy nature of this beautiful book, I can only ship to U.S. residents. Is this a subtle form of xenophobia, or a frank acknowledgement of my flailing country’s failed economy? YOU DECIDE.
Related: Book Review: The Art of The Croods
ONLY 2 1/2 HOURS TO GO. ENTER NOW!!!
UPDATE: The free printout for this Chunky papercraft is now online. CLICK HERE!
Chris Sanders and Belt!
FUN-LOOKING FOOTAGE FROM THE NEW CROODS GAME
Check out this trailer for the upcoming Croods video game, The Croods: Prehistoric Party. Pretty cool looking, no? Incredibly colorful and shamelessly silly, it looks like the kind of game you could sit an entire family down in front of and they’d all have a good time. (Well, not MY family, but they fight at funerals, so they don’t count.) Extra points to the game makers for using Joe Moshier and Margaret Wuller’s stripped-down character designs on the menus and scoreboards. Honestly, I think I prefer these designs to the ‘official’ ones, and I can’t wait to see how they will be used in the future.
Related: Okay, This Is Weird
It’s yr Croods clip o’ the day, starring Thunk & Douglas!
Thanks Ju-osh, for The Croods stickers!
The Croods At Berlinale pt. 2
Extra special thanks to Janin Reinhardt for snapping these GREAT photos of the Croods crew attending this year’s Berlinale Film Festival.
Pictured in the top photo, from left to right: producer Jane Hartwell; German language voice actors Kostja Ullmann, Janin Reinhardt & Uwe Ochsenknecht; English language voice actors Nicolas Cage & Emma Stone; co-directors Kirk De Micco & Chris Sanders; producer Kristine Belson.
If you don’t automatically recognize everyone in the next three photos, SHAME ON YOU.
Nic Cage on The Croods:
“When I saw the family, my first thought was, ‘Gee, I hope I do not look like them!’”
Related: The Croods At Berlinale pt. 1
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The Croods at Berlindale pt. 1
Earlier today, The Croods premiered at the Berlindale International Film Festival. According to The Hollywood Reporter, its reception was “rapturous.” Hollywood being Hollywood (even in Berlindale!), the post-premier interviews immediately veered to sequels. Chris Sanders: The nature of this film was the road trip, of all the movies I’ve done this was the most heavily story boarded […]. So if we did have to put together another film quickly, we’d have a lot of spare parts to work with. Nicholas Cage: Yes, I would like to see another adventure with The Croods. As the night wore on and the dollar signs in everyone’s eyes began to fade, the talk returned to the FIRST Croods film. (You know, the one they all just watched. The one that everyone is there to promote. The one 99.999% of the world has yet to see.) In particular, the voice-over process. Nicholas Cage: 50 percent of a performance is voice and I consider all acting to be music on some level so this was an opportunity to stay in tune with my instrument. I just look at the lines as they were written that day and have at it. I’m be remembering images from my past, conjuring things up […]. And they could cherry pick what worked and what didn’t. Emma Stone: I’d done a lot of ADR work on my movies like Easy A, with the narration, so I thought it was going to be like that — I’d just read my line. Then I realized there was so much physicality involved — you are really playing an animated character. Which was great because I come from improv and sketch comedy — I always want to go bigger and bigger — and with a character like Eep in The Croods, you can’t go too big. From what the Croods crew said at Comic-Con, this is exactly the approach Emma Stone took. According to James Baxter, “Emma is so animated when she performs her line readings in the booth.”He went on to say that the animators quickly decided to use a lot of Stone’s facial reactions, building them into the character of Eep. As for Mr. Cage’s recording process, allow me to pull a few quotes from a 2012 CraveOnline interview with Croods co-directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco. CraveOnline: When I saw Grug making the scary faces, I could imagine Nicolas Cage in the recording studio doing it. Chris Sanders: Dude, you have no idea. CarveOnline: Well, tell me. Do you have some video on this and was there some amazing stuff that was just too extreme Nicolas Cage for the movie? Chris Sanders: There’s nothing too extreme. Kirk De Micco: Never too extreme. Chris Sanders: The one that really stands out in my mind is we had a recording session in Las Vegas, and Nicolas was about to go out to dinner with his wife. He was dressed up with his black suit, shiny black shoes, he looked like he was going to the Oscars. His hair was all combed and he had these sunglasses with black rims and blue lenses. The funniest thing in the world was when he was doing his lines, like, “Brhklhouih! I’m caveman!” He’s doing all that dressed like he’s going to the Oscars. I actually at that point had to stop and just say, “I’m sorry, I’m just enjoying this so much.” Kirk De Micco: It was like a one-man show that would be running forever. “Running forever,” eh? Hmn…maybe the cast and crew of The Croods are ready for more than just a SINGLE sequel?All photos were clipped from JustJared.com. To see the rest of JJ’s premier pics, click here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a999859a23b94f1e52837193f3bf3c7c/tumblr_mi9th8UwCL1r3c3dgo1_1280.jpg)
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The Croods at Berlindale pt. 1
Earlier today, The Croods premiered at the Berlindale International Film Festival. According to The Hollywood Reporter, its reception was “rapturous.” Hollywood being Hollywood (even in Berlindale!), the post-premier interviews immediately veered to sequels. Chris Sanders: The nature of this film was the road trip, of all the movies I’ve done this was the most heavily story boarded […]. So if we did have to put together another film quickly, we’d have a lot of spare parts to work with. Nicholas Cage: Yes, I would like to see another adventure with The Croods. As the night wore on and the dollar signs in everyone’s eyes began to fade, the talk returned to the FIRST Croods film. (You know, the one they all just watched. The one that everyone is there to promote. The one 99.999% of the world has yet to see.) In particular, the voice-over process. Nicholas Cage: 50 percent of a performance is voice and I consider all acting to be music on some level so this was an opportunity to stay in tune with my instrument. I just look at the lines as they were written that day and have at it. I’m be remembering images from my past, conjuring things up […]. And they could cherry pick what worked and what didn’t. Emma Stone: I’d done a lot of ADR work on my movies like Easy A, with the narration, so I thought it was going to be like that — I’d just read my line. Then I realized there was so much physicality involved — you are really playing an animated character. Which was great because I come from improv and sketch comedy — I always want to go bigger and bigger — and with a character like Eep in The Croods, you can’t go too big. From what the Croods crew said at Comic-Con, this is exactly the approach Emma Stone took. According to James Baxter, “Emma is so animated when she performs her line readings in the booth.”He went on to say that the animators quickly decided to use a lot of Stone’s facial reactions, building them into the character of Eep. As for Mr. Cage’s recording process, allow me to pull a few quotes from a 2012 CraveOnline interview with Croods co-directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco. CraveOnline: When I saw Grug making the scary faces, I could imagine Nicolas Cage in the recording studio doing it. Chris Sanders: Dude, you have no idea. CarveOnline: Well, tell me. Do you have some video on this and was there some amazing stuff that was just too extreme Nicolas Cage for the movie? Chris Sanders: There’s nothing too extreme. Kirk De Micco: Never too extreme. Chris Sanders: The one that really stands out in my mind is we had a recording session in Las Vegas, and Nicolas was about to go out to dinner with his wife. He was dressed up with his black suit, shiny black shoes, he looked like he was going to the Oscars. His hair was all combed and he had these sunglasses with black rims and blue lenses. The funniest thing in the world was when he was doing his lines, like, “Brhklhouih! I’m caveman!” He’s doing all that dressed like he’s going to the Oscars. I actually at that point had to stop and just say, “I’m sorry, I’m just enjoying this so much.” Kirk De Micco: It was like a one-man show that would be running forever. “Running forever,” eh? Hmn…maybe the cast and crew of The Croods are ready for more than just a SINGLE sequel?All photos were clipped from JustJared.com. To see the rest of JJ’s premier pics, click here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/cee9c5411507cf2046803e564e36611c/tumblr_mi9th8UwCL1r3c3dgo2_1280.jpg)
The Croods at Berlindale pt. 1
Earlier today, The Croods premiered at the Berlindale International Film Festival. According to The Hollywood Reporter, its reception was “rapturous.” Hollywood being Hollywood (even in Berlindale!), the post-premier interviews immediately veered to sequels.
Chris Sanders: The nature of this film was the road trip, of all the movies I’ve done this was the most heavily story boarded […]. So if we did have to put together another film quickly, we’d have a lot of spare parts to work with.
Nicholas Cage: Yes, I would like to see another adventure with The Croods.
As the night wore on and the dollar signs in everyone’s eyes began to fade, the talk returned to the FIRST Croods film. (You know, the one they all just watched. The one that everyone is there to promote. The one 99.999% of the world has yet to see.) In particular, the voice-over process.
Nicholas Cage: 50 percent of a performance is voice and I consider all acting to be music on some level so this was an opportunity to stay in tune with my instrument. I just look at the lines as they were written that day and have at it. I’m be remembering images from my past, conjuring things up […]. And they could cherry pick what worked and what didn’t.
Emma Stone: I’d done a lot of ADR work on my movies like Easy A, with the narration, so I thought it was going to be like that — I’d just read my line. Then I realized there was so much physicality involved — you are really playing an animated character. Which was great because I come from improv and sketch comedy — I always want to go bigger and bigger — and with a character like Eep in The Croods, you can’t go too big.
From what the Croods crew said at Comic-Con, this is exactly the approach Emma Stone took. According to James Baxter, “Emma is so animated when she performs her line readings in the booth.”He went on to say that the animators quickly decided to use a lot of Stone’s facial reactions, building them into the character of Eep.
As for Mr. Cage’s recording process, allow me to pull a few quotes from a 2012 CraveOnline interview with Croods co-directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco.
CraveOnline: When I saw Grug making the scary faces, I could imagine Nicolas Cage in the recording studio doing it.
Chris Sanders: Dude, you have no idea.
CarveOnline: Well, tell me. Do you have some video on this and was there some amazing stuff that was just too extreme Nicolas Cage for the movie?
Chris Sanders: There’s nothing too extreme.
Kirk De Micco: Never too extreme.
Chris Sanders: The one that really stands out in my mind is we had a recording session in Las Vegas, and Nicolas was about to go out to dinner with his wife. He was dressed up with his black suit, shiny black shoes, he looked like he was going to the Oscars. His hair was all combed and he had these sunglasses with black rims and blue lenses. The funniest thing in the world was when he was doing his lines, like, “Brhklhouih! I’m caveman!” He’s doing all that dressed like he’s going to the Oscars. I actually at that point had to stop and just say, “I’m sorry, I’m just enjoying this so much.”
Kirk De Micco: It was like a one-man show that would be running forever.
“Running forever,” eh? Hmn…maybe the cast and crew of The Croods are ready for more than just a SINGLE sequel?
All photos were clipped from JustJared.com. To see the rest of JJ’s premier pics, click here.
