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High Resolution BlastOff! images
WOBURN, MA – February 12, 2007 — To celebrate
its twentieth anniversary, DreamLight® recently released its first 3D
animated short film, BlastOff!™ which has been chosen as an official
selection to screen at numerous film festivals nationwide and received
a merit award from its initial screening
at the inaugural 2D OR NOT 2D animation film festival in Everett
Washington with keynote speaker Roy E. Disney, Director Emeritus
of The Walt
Disney Company & nephew
of Walt Disney. The growing list of BlastOff! festival screenings
is posted at Telebites.com where
a QuickTime version of BlastOff! may be viewed online and the BlastOff!
Special Edition DVD is available for only $24.95.
“BlastOff! tells the story of how the worlds of reality and fantasy
easily blend together in the fertile imagination of a young child,” said
Michael Scaramozzino BlastOff!’s creator and DreamLight founder. “What
better way to launch a child’s imagination than a custom designed
space shuttle bed?”
BlastOff! – A Family Friendly Film
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 to play
space ship pilot. 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.
Inspired by the Original BlastOff! Bed as seen on HGTV
BlastOff! was inspired by a custom designed space shuttle bed that
Michael Scaramozzino built for his 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 episode #HLWID-106 of HGTV’s show Look What I Did! which first
aired in December and airs again on February 14, at 6PM ET/PT
and again on February 21, at 1:30PM ET/PT. Check www.HGTV.com for
scheduling details.
BlastOff! Special Edition DVD
The BlastOff! Special Edition DVD contains a higher quality version
of the film and includes behind the scenes content about the making
of the film, including director & animator
commentaries, production stills, animation tests and actual LightWave
3D files of props & sets
from the film. It also includes behind the scenes content about
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 Michael Scaramozzino used to build the original
BlastOff! Bed. The BlastOff! Special Edition DVD is available immediately
and may be ordered online at DreamLight.com/blastoff for
only $24.95 plus shipping & handling.
BlastOff! Lifts DreamLight’s 3D Animation Capabilities to New
Heights
BlastOff! was originally conceived as an initial test project for DreamLight
to exercise and refine all the tools and skills necessary to produce
a 3D animated short film, from concept to completion, focusing
on many aspects of 3D character
animation. It was used to build a LightWave 3D animation pipeline
and in-house render farm at the DreamLight studio in preparation
of creating a new series
of 3D animated shorts, named the Autiton Archives™, to be released
on the Web. DreamLight also uses this new pipeline
to produce a wide variety of 3D animation projects for its commercial
clients intended for various media such as CD-ROM, DVD, the Web,
digital video, TV or film. Samples of DreamLight’s commercial client
3D projects may be viewed online at DreamLight.com/3d.
DreamLight
is an award-winning interactive multimedia studio built upon
a solid foundation of computer science, design, illustration and
animation. Founded in 1987, DreamLight has
been pushing the cutting edge of digital media for twenty years.
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Press Contact:
Michael Scaramozzino – Info@DreamLight.com
NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional information, please visit
the online
BlastOff! Press Kit.
DreamLight, the DreamLight Interactive logo, BlastOff!,
BlastOff! Bed and The Autiton Archives are trademarks of DreamLight
Incorporated. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
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