Intel, Sony, Mass Animation, and Facebook make ‘Live Music’

A new animated short created by a worldwide collaboration of animators using a unique application built on the popular social network Facebook will be attached to the animated feature film ‘Planet 51′ scheduled to open in November.

Announced last year at SIGGRAPH, Mass Animation invited artists around the world to animate individual shots from “Live Music.” The collaboration phase ran from Nov. 17 through Jan. 30, giving animators, regardless of experience, about 2 months to submit work that was voted on by the Facebook community at www.facebook.com/massanimation.

Given the convenient timing (announced last SIGGRAPH, and completed just in time for SIGGRAPH2009), one has to wonder if they’ll attempt another one.

Mass Animation’s ‘Live Music’ Short to Play with TriStar Pictures’ ‘Planet 51’.

About the Author: Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

Graphics animation, facebook, intel, mass animation, short, siggraph, sony