In the future, the bar comes to you.

BarBoy, man's best friend in 2057.

A BarBoy delivers an order to his master.

50 YEARS FROM NOW, ROBOTS ARE LIKE PETS.
BARBOYS are more popular than dishwashers in 2057 AD. These marvelous machines use Butler Extraordinaire© software and no one this side of the Andromeda Galaxy pours a bigger single malt or mixes a better martini. Most owners give their BarBoy's affectionate names like Fetch, RoomService or Jarvis, and they soon become part of the family, thanks to their brilliant software, which includes a million jokes and hangover cures.

Unfortunately, quite a few BarBoys have bitten the

dust when Billy Bazook needs something to kick.

Pink and chrome logo treatment, hmmmm?

Magimation is in the construction business.

Three faces of Pinky Cohoba, demon detective, one of the stars of Holy Hell!

1. WIREFRAME – Pinky's design is translated into a complex chickenwire construction.

2. CLAY MODEL – Pinky's wireframe is filled in.

3. TEXTURING – Pinky is textured, including sweat. "Bones" are then added so the model is fully articulated for animation.

A SUPERIOR NEW SPECIES.
IN THE WAY THAT SILENT MOVIES gave way to sound, how black and white films compare to colour, the move from traditional 2D animation to 3D animation is like an evolutionary leap to what can be termed "a superior new species". Traditional hand-crafted 2D animation looks like moving drawings because that's exactly what it is. 3D animation is like a quantum leap because it delivers amazingly lifelike animation – animation which not only includes height and width, just like 2D animation, but also what makes all the difference in the world: DEPTH.

Holy Hell! logo.

Magimation's Audio Supremo!

Tim Exile and his brave staff get ready for his next blast of inspiration.


TIM EXILE is a brilliant English chap who resides in the United Kingdom. Tim is completely responsible for the stunning tracks and sound design on ALPHA, ditto the theme tune and sound design for MICROMANIA and the action track on MAORI ON MARS. He's The Man in our opinion, we love his stuff and you can catch him working in his inimitable anglo-saxon fashion at: www.nothing-to-see-here.com/timexilelounge-musicvideo-v.php

The Jetsons would love this show!

Bugs have been a huge hit at the movies, but strangely no one's ever picked up the ball on television?

Until now that is.

Antics:Tales from the Bug Apple.

One million years from now, life is a buzz.

Space-age bugs head home after a hard day at the office.

WELCOME TO THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD of Antics:Tales from the Bug Apple. A sit-com fantasy for the whole family, the likes of which has never been seen before.

Antlantis City, aka the Bug Apple, the ant capital.

Soon after the last of the giant humans abandoned their polluted world for greener galaxies, the mysterious Forces of Evolution took up the slack. Now, a mere one million years later, Planet Earth has not only restored itself to its original breathtaking splendour, but highly evolved insects, including ants, flies and cockroaches, are all running their own high-tech civilisations.

One million years from now, a tiny piece of Florida
is like a whole new world.

That's right, we’re not talking about stone-age peasants like in Antz or A Bug’s Life. No way, Antics insects are modern bugs, with cell phones, credit cards, computers and shrinks. Who live in insect New Yorks and work in IT, the movies and top secret laboratories. Who love pizza and pasta and Sluggos, watch HDTV and drive jet powered flying machines called buzzwings.

The largest fast food franchise on Earth, one million years from now.

The two bug blockbusters demonstrated big time the popularity of insects, which sets up a great opportunity to make a fresh sit-com inspired show in 3D animation to perhaps even rival the mighty Simpsons. A large order, but we like to dream big at Magimation.

Captain Antlantis. One million years from now, superbugs are heroes.

Antics merchandising potential is vast. For starters, four insect nations are involved; the Democratic Republic of Antlantis, the evil Empire of the Flies, the downtrodden, totalitarian Cockroach Federation and aloof Wasp. Each bug civilisation a completely different culture with its own unique look and technology, providing almost unlimited opportunities for collectibles.

Imperial Fly Marines transporter.

Stay tuned for more exciting Antics developments.

Life under the microscope.

MICROMANIA
"The Kingdom of the Germs".

Mr Pox chasing Viro and Staphne.

There are good germs and there are baaaaad germs.

SMALLER THAN DOTS, CUTER THAN ATOMS, funnier than monkeys, welcome to the unreal world of the microscopic where Viro, Staphne and Measle spend most of the time being chased all over the place by their nemesis, the awful Mr Pox.

"Germs get bad press. We see them as a threat and strive to avoid them, even wipe them out. But we rarely hear their side of things, their struggles to survive and thrive. The truth is many germs are harmless to us, some helpful and some quite essential".

– Biography of a Germ by Arno Kralen.

MICROMANIA will be their story, a short format show for kids set in the tiniest, most amazing kingdom of all. MICROMANIA is now in development at Magimation. Deadline MIPCOM 2006.

ALPHA gets ready for mobile TV.

ALPHA IS LOOKING OUT OF THIS WORLD!

IT'S BEEN MANY MOONS since we last blogged. We’ve been lost in deep space getting the ALPHA design just right.

Honey has been having an affair with Zool and she's pregnant. Zool

explains how Zoo-o-light women give birth to big beautiful blue eggs.

ALPHA is a sexy soap for late teens and young adults. ALPHA is in-your-face black comedy, a zany mix of contemporary music, wild science-fiction and satire and we wanted it to instantly look like one heck of a lot of FUN! Now we’re very happy, we got there in the end and the new improved design (above and below) combines caricature and cartoon just the way we wanted it.

Honey freaks - "EGGS!"

Only one international distributor has had a peek at ALPHA so far and this is was their reaction:

“Alpha is really funny! Your animation is wonderful and the humour is great. I'm sure you're going to have some big hits on your hands!”– Monster Distributes, Dublin, February 7, 2006

THE PORTABLE DIGITAL VIDEO REVOLUTION
The blog below concerning Disney is now pretty ancient in terms of events which have overshadowed it since. The most significant being Disney’s takeover of Pixar, the most successful CG 3D animation studio on Earth, which has made Steve Jobs Disney’s largest single shareholder. Jobs was Pixar’s CEO and majority owner and of course he’s also the CEO of Apple Computer (and one of its two founders), home of the Macintosh, iMac, iTunes and iPod. These latter two inventions every bit as revolutionary as the Mac was when it was first introduced in 1984, because they're the absolute cutting edge of a new era for music and television.

No one knows more about this new paradigm than Jobs, iTunes is now the biggest retailer of music on the planet and last year it introduced video content. Disney was swift to supply iTunes with content for the new video iPods (another hit for Apple) and today Jobs is sitting on their board. But Steve Jobs can’t sit still for a nano second, so we say standby for big changes as Disney is bent into shape to fit his vision of digital entertainment on the go.

"Entertainment on the go."

But really, despite the phenomenal success of iTunes and the iPod, the party’s hardly warmed up. Mobile phone companies are fighting back with cell phones that will rival the iPod and the new Google VideoStore is just the first big challenge for iTunes, not to mention what Microsoft has probably got up its sleeve. This is an evolutionary situation with very exciting opportunities for new content, where we believe ALPHA fits like a cyber-glove.

How ALPHA looks on a video iPod.

And nothing looks better on these mini screens not much bigger than Marvel comic book frames than CG 3D animation, which Magimation produces in high-definition (HD) resolution.

NB: CBS is also developing a soap for cell phones (mobisoaps), Hey, It’s Me! will run a three to five minute episode seven days a week. Exactly how we see ALPHA being aired.