Chris Yambar Animation Partnership
Chris Yambar and Cinemanix Productions have announced a partnership aimed at bringing Yambar’s well-known comic characters to TV and film via CG animation.
Project Overview
Cinemanix Productions will be bringing to life the broad array of characters and comics created by Chris Yambar through the use of motion capture, 2D and 3D animation. The development of these properties will initially focus on a few of the many characters available.
El Much Grande Teaser (YouTube)
Spells Teaser (YouTube)
Although there is an extremely large array of characters and stories to choose from, we are taking the first steps out of the gate with a few ideas to test the waters. The use of 2D and 3D software as well as “in house” motion capture will be used to lift the characters and stories off of the print pages of the comics into the world of animation. Characters like “El Mucho Grande-Wrestler for Hire,” will be modeled, animated and rendered in 3D whereas “The Mr. Beat Show,” and “Spells” will be built and rendered in Flash. The animation and production of these properties will serve a broad range of formats including broadcast, web broadcast and an animated feature length film.
About Chris Yambar
The artistic whirlwind known as Chris Yambar (www.yambar.com) has painted more than 2,000 pop art images since 1987, while creating his own comics, including “The Mr. Beat Show,” “El Mucho Grande-Wrestler For Hire,” “The Fire-Breathing Pope,” “Suicide Blonde,” “Itsi Kitsi-Happy Adventure Cat,” “Spells,” “Life Maxx,” “Misfits,” “Buttler-Everyone’s Favorite Impacted Pup,” and “Suckulina-Vampire Temp.” After additional caffeine, he has also written for several popular comic book titles, including “Bart Simpson Comics,” “Elfquest,” “Radioactive Man,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Mister Magoo.” In 1993 Yambar won Cinescape Magazine’s award for Best Sci-Fi Comic Writer for “Suicide Blonde”. That same year he co-produced a graphic novel adaptation of the lost 1910 horror movie classic, Edison’s Frankenstein, with movie storyboard artist and illustrator, Robb Bihun to critical interest.
Yambar expressed his dreams for this next phase: “Seeing Bryan’s people at Cinemanix bringing my characters to life is more than exciting for me as it would be for any comic creator. I’m thrilled that they want to keep the characters as ‘on model’ as their previous print designs and adventures. Knowing that they want my hand in the production mix is an opportunity that most never get. Did I mention that I’m jazzed? I’m jazzed!”
