BlastOff! A 3D Animated Short

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BlastOff!™ Rockets Through the International Animation Film Festivals Winning Awards

Web Video/Animation Competition Awards

	BlastOff! wins a Silver W3 Award from the International Academy of the Visual Arts’ W3 Awards competition in the pioneering category of Web Video - Animation. Receiving over 2,700 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
		BlastOff! wins an Official Honoree Webby Award in the category of animation, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites.

Film Festival Awards & Official Selection Screenings

• Merit Award - 2D OR NOT 2D Animation Festival
  K eynote speaker Roy E. Disney, Director Emeritus of The Walt Disney Company & nephew of Walt Disney. Nov. 17-19, 2006
• Best Animation Nomination - Danville International Children's Film Festival
  Dublin, CA, May 18-20, 2007

Film Festival Official Selection Screenings

• Gem City Film Festival - Palatka, Florida - January 19-20, 2007
• Dam Short Film Festival - Boulder City, Nevada - February 8-11, 2007
• Big Damn Film Festival - Minneapolis, Minnesota - February 17-18, 2007
• 10th Ann. East Lansing Children’s Film Festival - Michigan - February 23 - March 1, 2007
• Foursite Film Festival - Ogden, Utah - February 28 - March 3, 2007
• Delray Beach Film Festival - Delray Beach, Florida - March 13-18, 2007
• The Other Venice Film Festival - Venice, CA - March 15-18, 2007
• 31st Annual Cleveland International Film Festival - Cleveland, Ohio - March 15-25, 2007
• San Fernando Valley International Film Festival - North Hollywood, CA - March 16-25, 2007
• Rebel Planet Short Film Festival of Hollywood - North Hollywood, CA - April 20-22, 2007
• Bare Bones International Film Festival - Muskogee, OK - April 23-29, 2007
• Detroit Windsor International Film Festival - Children's Film Fest - Detroit, MI - June 27th, 2009

BlastOff! - A Pilot Webisode for a New Web Series

BlastOff! is a pilot for an upcoming 3D animated web series where each night while a child sleeps in his BlastOff! Bed, his toy alien comes to life and flies through various space adventures. This 3-minute pilot webisode shows the BlastOff! Bed being constructed and its maiden voyage.

BlastOff! tells the story of how the worlds of reality and fantasy easily blend together in the fertile imagination of a young child, especially when supplied with creative toys and environments. The story begins at dawn with a child’s wishful drawing of a space ship. During the day his father builds him a custom designed space shuttle bed and fills his room with toys. As the sun sets, one of the child’s toys, a little green alien, comes to life and is excited pretending to pilot the space ship. As his imagination soon takes over completely, the room fades away and the shuttle bed blasts the little alien out into space for a wild rocket ship ride through the rings of Saturn. The alien finally comes crashing back to reality as the child returns home to find his room is a complete mess.

BlastOff! was inspired by the real BlastOff! Space Shuttle Bed that I designed and built for my son MJ when he was three and ready to graduate from his crib into a “big boy’s” bed. The story behind the design and construction of the original BlastOff! Bed was featured on HGTV’s new show Look What I Did!
	The BlastOff! Special Edition DVD includes behind the scenes content on 3D character animation including director & animator commentaries, actual LightWave 3D files of props & sets from the film, and the making of the real BlastOff! Bed, including construction video and photos as well as a BlastOff! Bed Construction Guide which includes the actual construction plans that I used to build the original BlastOff! Bed.

BlastOff! sets the mood for adventure with a superb custom musical score by Adam DiTroia.

I’d love to hear what you think of my first 3D animated short film BlastOff!, so please submit a BlastOff! Feedback Form if you have any comments about it at all.

Enjoy,

Michael Scaramozzino
President and Creative Director

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BlastOff! Insight Contents

Foreword:
BlastOff! Rockets Through the International Animation Film Festivals Winning Awards

Bringing Pixels to Life with 3D Character Animation

• Casting a 3D Character for BlastOff!
• Updating the 3D Character with Modern Technology
• 3D Character Rigging with Bones and Animation Controls in LightWave 3D
• 3D Character Animation in LightWave 3D with Inverse Kinematics (IK)
• 3D Facial Animation using Morph Maps and Morph Mixer in LightWave 3D
• BlastOff! Special Edition DVD Includes Behind the Scenes Commentaries, Videos & Images

LightWave 3D Props & 3D Sets from BlastOff!

• A Set of 3D Props as LightWave Object & Scene Files
• LightWave 3D Room Set with Windows, Curtains, Doors, Trim & a Full Spinning Light Rig
• LightWave 3D Space Set with Saturn, a Star Globe, Nebula & Hypervoxel Rocket Exhaust
• BlastOff! Special Edition DVD Includes LightWave 3D Props & Sets, Videos & Images

Building the Real BlastOff! Bed - the Custom Designed Space Shuttle Bed, as Seen on HGTV’s Look What I Did!

• As Seen on HGTV’s Look What I Did!
• Building the Real BlastOff! Bed
• BlastOff! Special Edition DVD Includes the Original BlastOff! Bed Construction Plans

High Resolution Production Still Gallery

Press Information for BlastOff!

• BlastOff! Press Releases & Image Gallery
• BlastOff! Synopses
• BlastOff! Director’s Statement
• BlastOff! Production Notes
• BlastOff! Awards & Screenings
• BlastOff! Film Facts
• BlastOff! Cast & Crew
• Director Biography - Michael Scaramozzino

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