Epic Mickey opening trailer

The fine folks at Junction showed off the 3d trailer for Epic Mickey at Gamecon this week. Check it out:



Its exciting to see this and everyones reactions to it. Though we did not do the 3d on the piece, we did storyboard and animatic a lot of it. Can't wait for more of the cutscenes we worked on to get out.

The Tony Abbott Time Warp

Powerhouse Animation just finished up a project for our friends down under at C & C Group in Sydney. We put together a short piece for Michael Allen and team as part of a campaign project for Australia's upcoming federal elections that will take place on August 21st. Check out the wacky Rocky Horror Picture Show parody on youtube:



Apparently it was taken down on the above, this one still seems to work:

Risk: Factions on Yahoo! front page

Risk: Factions has made the front page of Yahoo!


You can read the story here.

San Diego Comic Con, 2010

Just got back from Comic Con. If you have not yet been to the big one in San Diego, we highly suggest you make the trip. It is like nothing else. Don't believe us? Here are a couple that still don’t do justice to the sheer insanity:

We were mainly there to support our friends at Sony Online Entertainment.

It was very exciting to see the debut of the new Blur cinema and to watch the fans play the game. We were already excited about the game, but the energy at the con about the game has us more excited than ever.

If you have not seen the new cinema, you can watch it here:

Video Games DC Universe Online Exclusive Who Do You Trust Trailer

XBox 360 Playstation 3 Nintendo Wii

We got to attend some Sony panels and listen to fans ask about the game.

Sony directors Mike Daubert, Kris Kao, and Jens Anderson.

We also got a chance to catch up with other folks we have worked with including Frank Cho, William Vaughn, and Stephen Silver (below) who had some great classes promoting his Schoolism project.

We also got a chance to meet new folks, like Homie creator, David Gonzales

Hope everyone had a good con, see you next year.

Sony Online Entertainment: DC Universe

Powerhouse Animation Studios is excited to finally be able to announce that we are working with Sony Online Entertainment on the new DC Universe MMORPG.

Though we can't show you what we are working on quite yet; please, check out the official website. they have some great content up there including some interviews with Chris Cao, who really is doing a fantastic job, with the rest of the crew, designing a innovative game.

Check out these videos they have of some of the features in the game, including superspeed.

Here is some artwork from the official website:

Hopefully in the coming months we will be able to show more of our work. We are really excited about the way things are coming together. Plus the game is already getting some good buzz out of E3.