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Las Vegas is hosting Showest which is a conference promoting movies to the key people in the film industry (distributors, producers etc …) On this occasion Dreamworks has decided to show a final sequence of Aliens vs. Monster in exclusivity and in 3D stereoscopic format. Kung Fu Panda will also be broadcast in its entirety at almost final stage. This is an opportunity to reveal a little more about the content of this delirious movie.

To clarify, there are two facilities/location working on Dreamworks projects and they work collaboratively. Dreamworks / PDI, which is located in RedWood City (San Francisco area) which has done Shrek (1, 2 and 3), Antz, and Madagascar. Dreamworks Animation, which is located in Glendale (Los Angeles area) which has done Prince of Egypt, El Dorado, Sinbad, Spirit, Shark Tale, Flushed away, Over the Hedge and Bee Movie. I work in Glendale, the campus is a great working place, very pleasant and relaxing. There are ping-pong tables, foosball game and other video games room … Here are some pictures of Dreamworks …

I can’t give much informations on these topics due to confidentiality clause. But on the other hand I can summarize the official pitches and express my hopes regarding the most promising projects. For sure all the movies following Kung Fu Panda will be in stereoscopic 3d. Madagascar, the crate escape (November 2008) The first one wasn’t my favorite movie, but I have to admit that the designs of the characters are still very good and this delirious collection of characters grows considerably. However, many believe that this second opus would be even better than the first, filling a number of …

Here we go, Bee movie has been released in US for 3 weeks now, and it’s doing well ( better than I thought). No break for me after the show, I directly jumped on the next project which is Kung Fu Panda. Dreamworks opened a nice website for the movie and you can find many thing there : trailer, wallpapers, descriptions of the characters etc. That movie is a lot smoother to work on for me and apparently for everyone in the lighting dept. It’s really nice to work on a slow pace and have time to polish the shots. …

Dreamworks animation is releasing its next feature beginning of November in US Voices talents are Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, John Goodman, Chris Rock… That’s the first feature I ever worked on , I learnt a lot during those 4 months but it’s been tough to learn all Dreamworks proprietary softwares at the end of a production. Anyway The next project I will work on is Kung Fu Panda and will release in May 2008 so look forward to this one too :).