New Kickin' Momma Trailer from Hothead

Our friends from Hothead Games have release a new preview trailer for Kickin' Momma, for which Powerhouse created some cinemas.  This game is going to be great, be sure to pick it up when it comes out this week.

The Art of Epic Mickey

The Powerhouse team was extremely excited last week to receive a copy of the brand new book The Art of Epic Mickey!

It was such a pleasure to work on this project with the legendary Warren Spector and the rest of the gang at Junction Point Studios, and we are so grateful to them for this opportunity.

Go buy the book and read all about the hard work that went into making this truly epic game. Also... make sure to check out the chapter on Cinematics!

AnimationsFabrik "Monsterbacke" Commercial

Powerhouse Animation is excited to show this commercial we worked on with AnimationsFabrik in Germany:



Powerhouse handled all of the 2d animation in the piece.  Congrats to everyone who worked on the piece, it turned out really well.

Now we just need the client to send us some of that yogurt.

Whiteboard Animation!

Here at Powerhouse Animation we frequently get client requests for whiteboard-style animations. Thanks to the team at Appleseed Partners we were finally able to bring this idea to life!



We made this video for local company that provides an extremely technical (albeit extremely useful) product that may be difficult for your typical layperson to understand. We used our animation savvy to put together this introductory video that we hope brings their ideas to life in a way that is both easily understood as well as creative and entertaining.

Stay tuned for more whiteboard-style pieces from Powerhouse in the future...

Lightbox's Starhawk comes to Comic-Con!

Our good friends over at Lightbox Interactive are in San Diego this week promoting their upcoming game, Starhawk, at Comic-Con and it is getting a ton of buzz!

The game, which officially debuted at e3 a few weeks ago, is set to release in Spring 2012, and we cannot wait! The team at Powerhouse has been working on creating cinematics for Starhawk that are a hybrid form of motion comics and animation. The space-western universe and "wanted" poster style that Lightbox designed really lends itself well to some amazing cinematics that we are all really proud of!

If you're at Comic-Con this week, make sure to check out the Starhawk panel on Sunday, July 24th!

Also, check out Lightbox President, Dylan Jobe's post on the official playstation blog! Thanks to Dylan, Lars, Adam, and the rest of the crew over at Lightbox for this great opportunity, and good luck at the Con!