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Tippett Studio: The Making of The CG New Moon Wolf Pack

As the New Moon rises, so do the stars at Tippett Studio. Charged with creating the Quileute Wolf Pack for the Twilight sequel, some of the industries leading character artists sunk their teeth into just under 60 shots ranging from three to twelve seconds that were pivotal to the storyline. And those shots are getting noticed.

"Strong concept art will save a lot of steps in the CG process;
it helps to keep the artists from meandering from the final goal." - Aharon Bourland, Technical Art Director, Look Development.

Wolf Mountain and Frankenwolf
The challenge wasn't just to build a believable wolf, but to build five unique wolves of extraordinary size and weight, to portray that mass often with little more than the surrounding trees as comparisons, create believable fur and humanesque eyes that weren't distracting. Nate Fredenburg, Art Director, helped to make sure those requirements were fulfilled, combining real-world attributes and CG magic.
"At Tippett Studio, we always look to real-life creatures for reference on how to design our characters, real or mythical. For New Moon, we had a special opportunity to travel down to wolf sanctuary in Southern California to observe wolves up close and personal. The key to looking at live reference is to form a knowledge base, study the creatures, their quirks and behaviors, the language between the pack. We looked for signs of what the creature was about and added those to the visual effects to make them believable."

In Lucerne Valley, there is a sanctuary called Wolf Mountain where a dedicated group is trying to save wolves from extinction. This is where the Tippett artists traveled to spend personal time with the wolves, many tame enough to be approached and touched by strangers. There the artist could observe behaviors, pack interactions, hierarchy behaviors, and movement, and "closely examine the fur and its different lengths over the body, the coloring variations and markings, as well as the structure of the face, eyes, teeth and so on."

The trip was extremely fruitful, but Phil Tippett, with his honed eye for perfection, added a second method to study fur under different controlled lighting and wind. "We had a bunch of photographs of wolves that we were studying but Phil was insisting that we take it to the next level and have something to touch, walk around, and actually do your own," explained Fredenburg. This resulted in the creation of what became affectionately known as the "Frankenwolf".
Tippett bought wolf pelts and cut them up with an Exacta knife and pasted it onto a taxidermy blank "so that we could do a lighting lab in two conditions? controlled lighting on our stage where we could shine very specific lights and look at how the fur responded, then we took it outside on an overcast day, which was perfect for New Moon. We came up with strategies for how to artistically make the wolves look better in flat lighting, which is what we were dealing with and is a very difficult lighting situation."

Hair Raising
One of the key observations we made at Wolf Mountain was the complexity of the fur. From nose to tail the fur quality changes, prompting the painters to create a zone chart of the animal that divided the wolf up into fur zones; on the nose and the legs the hair was short and velvet, on the neck the mane was thick and long, belly clumped and long, the back more medium length while the tail was bushy. The coloring was not only unique over the length of the body, but the hair follicle had unique color ticking from root to tip.
Image courtesy Tippett Studio.

"Even with as far as computing power has come," said Fredenburg "it still is very difficult to accurately mimic real life, so everything we do to come up with our fur look is an approximation,
a cheat. It's not about replicating a wolf hair for hair; it's about getting the feel of a wolf. Even though we pushed 4 million hairs on this show, which is
twice what we normally grow, it is still not nearly the number of hairs a real wolf has."

A real wolf would have hundreds of millions of hairs but a digital wolf will only have perhaps four million, so some interpretation is needed to achieve the same effect.

To help achieve the fullness and fur realism needed, Aharon Bourland, Technical Art Director and Look Development, helped create Tippetts' in-house tool, Furator.

New Moon was the second Tippett film where this tool was used. Similar
to Shake in that is uses a tree-based system, it allows for characteristics
of hair to be added via nodes, then merged back together for the final groom.

It was developed to be highly flexible and extensible, such as the ability to twist a group of hairs from the tip and leave the base alone.

Another very helpful addition was Scraggle, a tool that used a CV interp node that increased the number of CV's and resulted in a scraggled hair, then further adjusted so that the majority of scraggle was towards the base, creating the illusion of a thicker undercoat with smoother fur on top.


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Vote For New Moon in Moviefone’s Year-End Movies Poll

Moviefone has their end of year poll up and New Moon is in several categories:
- Best Movie
- Best Chick Flick
- Sexiest Male (Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson nominated)
- Breakout Male (Taylor Lautner)
- Breakout Female (Anna Kendrick: Up In The Air)
- Scene Stealer (Anna Kendrick: Up In the Air)
- Which movie in 2010 are you most excited for: Eclipse

Go to Moviefone and vote!

New Moon Movie Trailer is #4 Most Watched YouTube video of 2009

This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama's inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected ("New Moon"), some surprising (Susan Boyle) — but all of them inspired, entertained and connected millions of people around the world via YouTube.

For these lists, we looked at view counts of YouTube's most popular videos this year (in some instances we aggregated views across multiple versions of the same video):

Most Watched YouTube videos (Global):
1. Susan Boyle - Britain's Got Talent (120+ million views)
2. David After Dentist (37+ million views)
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance (33+ million views)
4. New Moon Movie Trailer (31+ million views)
5. Evian Roller Babies (27+ million views)

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Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Interview on New Moon and Eclipse story

Melissa Rosenberg talks on ReelzChannel about working on New Moon and Eclipse screenplays.

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“New Moon” Worldwide number tops $473.7 million

Estimated international cumulative is now up to $243 million!

North American cumulative is now up to $230.7 million!


Monday 11/23 – $10.5 million

Tuesday 1124 – $11.5 million

Wednesday 11/25 – $14.3 million.

Thursday 11/26 – $9.2 million

Friday 11/27 – $17.7 million

Saturday 11/28 -$16.5 million


The five days from 11/25-11/29 is estimated to be $66 million!

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New grand total for “New Moon” Box Office in North America

North American cumulative is now up to $188.4 million!


Monday 11/23 – $10.5 million

Tuesday 1124 – $11.5 million

Wednesday 11/25 – $14.3 million.

Thursday 11/26 – $9.2 million



International numbers will NOT be available today. We will update you when we receive them.



UPDATE 10:40AM 11/25:

There are updated details on what was an estimated $132 million opening weekend in 24 international markets. Sources at Summit give the following breakdown:

Argentina – $1.36M market cume

Australia – $14.78M market cume

Brazil – $7.86M market cume

Belgium – $2.66M market cume

Croatia – $221K market cume

Denmark – $1.6M market cume

France – $18.9M market cume

Finland – $967K market cume

Greece – $2.3M market cume

Holland – $1.2M market cume

Hungary – $710K market cume

Indonesia – $47K market cume

Italy – $15.3M market cume

Mexico – $7.7M market cume

New Zealand – $1.9M market cume

Norway – $2.1M market cume

Poland – $1.5M market cume

Philippines – $2.4M market cume

Russia – $9M market cume

Spain – $15M market cume

Sweden – $2M market cume

Switzerland – $713K (French) + $95K (Italian) market cume

Thailand – $1.4M market cume

Turkey – $1.9M market cume

UK – $19.5M market cume

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Box Office: 'New Moon's' $14.3 million dominates 'Ninja' and 'Old Dogs'

How high can the box office for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" go? After making another $14.3 million on Wednesday for a new U.S. total of $179 million, the question isn't whether it will hit the $250 million mark it's whether it can hit $300 million. Considering the first "Twilight" made only $192 million a year ago that would be a stunning achievement. The Chris Weitz blockbuster hardly skipped a beat leaving the frame's three new wide releases far behind.

The Wachowski's "Ninja Assassin" performed the best of the newcomers with $3.3 million. Following close behind was the critically lambasted "Old Dogs" which dug up $3.1 million. "Dogs" still did better than one critic's favorite, "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," that found just $1.1 million on only 2,027 screens. Wes Anderson's stop motion animated endeavor will have to hope that matinee business picks up today and over the holiday weekend when more families are free.

A remarkable story that would be the buzz of Hollywood if not for "New Moon" is the fantastic coin Sandra Bullock's drama "The Blind Side" continues to rake in. In less than a week the Warner Bros. release has made $50.6 million and found $7.9 million on Wednesday alone. As one colleague noted last night, "It's making everyone forget about 'All About Steve.'" Indeed, along with "The Proposal" Sandra Bullock has reestablished herself as a box office force.

Dropping fast is Roland Emmerich's "2012." The end of the world event flick was good enough to place third with $3.6 million, but with a new cume of $116.9 million it's hard to imagine it hitting the magic $200 million mark. Sony Pictures will have to rest easy knowing the picture is making a killing overseas.

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“New Moon” #3 all-time best opening with $140.7M, shatters other records

UPDATE SUNDAY 12:00 PM:

Summit Entertainment now officially estimates that The Twilight Saga: New Moon took in $140.7M from 4024 theaters this weekend. This puts the film in third place for all-time opening weekends, behind The Dark Knight ($158.4M) and Spider-Man 3 ($151.1M) and ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($135.6M). The film also hauled in $118.1M from 25 foreign countries for a worldwide total $258.8M.

In addition to becoming the new champ in midnight box office and single-day totals on Friday, New Moon has now shattered several other records as well. It was the #1 biggest non-summer opening weekend of all time and the biggest ever box office opening for an independent film (and widest indie release in history). New Moon also broke the record for fastest to reach $100M, beating The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3, and had the highest opening ever for a "vampire" genre film (passing Twilight). New Moon passes Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen's $109M for the top opening weekend of 2009. It's per theater average of $34,965 was the fourth best ever. Of the top 34 films with numbers released today, New Moon took in more than all the 33 others combined. International markets are also reporting record box office receipts. Nikki Finke has a running list at Deadline Hollywood from Argentina to the UK.

After its record-shattering $72.7M first day Friday, there was a 41% drop from Friday to Saturday when it took in $43.2M. This was about the exact same percentage decrease Twilight had one year ago (down 40.8% Saturday, down 41.9% Sunday). Another 40% drop going into Sunday, based on advance sales, tracking polls, and other industry formulas, is expected to bring in another $24.8M for a weekend total of $140.7M and a per theater average of $34,965. Audiences were 80% female with 50% under 21. Many international regions have yet to release the film. Sources expect New Moon to eventually pass $500M worldwide. Twilight ended its run with $385M.

For those who are new to the box office numbers game, it may seem odd to have these figures when Sunday isn't even over yet. But it is standard procedure to have weekend totals announced at this time. After the Saturday box office totals come in on Sunday morning, studios always estimate Sunday and come up with a weekend projection. Of course, Sunday and weekend figures can only be estimates at this point. The actual Sunday numbers aren't known until Monday. But many years and literally thousands of projections have yielded formulas that allow the industry to predict fairly closely what Sunday will be based on Friday and Saturday's numbers and, therefore, what the weekend will look like. The actual numbers that come in on Monday are usually not too far off from the estimates made on Sunday. They usually adjust slightly up or down but are rarely far off.

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'New Moon' Has Third-Biggest Opening Weekend Of All Time

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#1 "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" ($140.7 million)
#2 "The Blind Side" ($34.5 million)
#3 "2012" ($26.5 million)
#4 "Planet 51" ($12.6 million)
#5 "A Christmas Carol" ($12.2 million)

The full extent of the "Twilight" phenomenon made itself known this weekend with the debut of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," the second installment in the supernatural romance franchise starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. There was little to no doubt that "New Moon" would emerge as this weekend's box-office champion, but perhaps no one was prepared for just how successful Summit Entertainment's "Twilight" sequel would be.

On Friday alone, "New Moon" managed to earn $72.7 million, surpassing "The Dark Knight" as the single best opening day in cinema history. A hefty $26.3 million chunk of that Friday change came purely from midnight showings, propelling "New Moon" past "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" with the highest-grossing midnight opening of all time. "New Moon" also debuted with the biggest November opening ever and the third-best opening weekend of all time, taking that distinction away from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

To put the success of "New Moon" in perspective, the first "Twilight" film — which opened almost a year ago to the day — earned only $69.6 million in its debut weekend, demonstrating just how widespread the "Twilight" craze has become in only 12 months.

The audience for the "Twilight" films isn't just made of young women pining for shirtless screen time from Pattinson and Lautner, either — the movie's audience, while mostly female, was divided evenly between viewers under and over the age of 21. Apparently, there is no age restriction when it comes to falling in love with vampire and werewolf heartthrobs.

The success of "Twilight" won't end with "New Moon" either, as "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" launches on June 30, 2010.

Despite the unprecedented victory for "New Moon," credit must be given to some of the film's other competitors this weekend. "The Blind Side," starring Sandra Bullock, managed a second-place finish with an impressive $34.5 million intake. "Planet 51," another newcomer, earned fourth place with $12.6 million. Holdovers "2012" and "A Christmas Carol" also performed adequately under the pressure of "New Moon," winding up with $26.5 million and $12.2 million apiece.

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Video: Twilight Saga: New Moon Red Carpet Premiere in LA

Watch the star studded New Moon Premiere Night Coverage video..




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New Moon Tour hits Houston & Philadelphia Videos

Here one of the videos of New Moon tour in cities of Houston and Philadelphia stop over from Hot Topic.

NEW MOON PRODUCER WYCK GODFREY INTERVIEW

MakingOf.com has an exclusive interview with New Moon Producer Wyck Godfrey:

New Moon Virtual Items from Habbo Hotel

DETAILS REVEALED AS THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
TAKES OVER HABBO HOTEL

Interactive Experience to Include Virtual Items and Chats with Cast Members
Hosted by the Largest Global Virtual World for Teens

LOS ANGELES – November 5, 2009 – Summit Entertainment and Habbo Hotel, the largest virtual world for teenagers, today revealed new details for the exclusive The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed activities, rooms, virtual goods and much more planned to kick-off at Habbo Hotel this week to celebrate the highly anticipated release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on November 20.

Beginning November 6, log in to Habbo Hotel or join for free by going to www.habbo.com and clicking on the “Register Now” button. Habbo Hotel will introduce The Twilight Saga: New Moon-themed virtual items and activities throughout its 31 communities worldwide. Users will have the opportunity to decorate their online rooms with virtual goods based on the film, including a dreamcatcher, a piano, the Volturi crest and a table topped with a birthday cake and gifts.

To show support for all the activities happening in Habbo Hotel, a select actor from The Twilight Saga: New Moon is scheduled to log in, which may be announced or may be a surprise, to check out the festivities and conduct an in-world chat. You never know who may be stopping by Habbo Hotel during the festivities. Will it be your favorite Twilight Saga character? Log in and don’t miss out.

“Habbo users have been very vocal in expressing their interest in the Twilight Saga film series,” said Teemu Huuhtanen, president, North America, Sulake Inc. “Our goal is to provide a fun and easy-to-access online venue for Habbo members around the world to meet up and share their excitement for the upcoming movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon.”

There are currently Habbo Hotel communities in 31 countries on six continents. To date, more than 148 million Habbo characters have been created and nearly 14 million unique users worldwide visit Habbo each month making it the largest virtual environment for teens anywhere in the world.

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New Moon Soundtrack available to Preorder on iTunes

You can now pre-order the New Moon movie soundtrack on iTunes, which comes with 4 exclusive bonus songs, including an original song from Lupe Fiasco entitled ‘Solar Midnite.’ As with all the songs on the soundtrack, these bonus songs will be heard in the movie and are previously unreleased.

Also, by preordering the soundtrack through iTunes now, you can immediately download Anya Marina’s ‘Satellite Heart.’ The song debuted yesterday exclusively through MySpace, and you can listen to it HERE!

iTunes ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack tracklist:

1. Death Cab for Cutie- Meet Me On The Equinox
2. Band Of Skulls- Friends
3. Thom Yorke- Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li- Possibility
5. The Killers- A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina- Satellite Heart
7. Muse- I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent- Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells- Monsters
11. Sea Wolf- The Violet Hour
12. OK Go- Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear (with Victoria Legrand)- Slow Life
14. Editors- No Sound But The Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat- New Moon (The Meadow)
BONUS:
16. Lupe Fiasco – Solar Midnite
17. The Magic Numbers And Amadou & Mariam – All I Believe In
18. APM Orchestra. – Die Fledermaus – Duettino: Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir
19. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox (Music Video)
20. Ulf Bastlein – Wandrers Nachtlied II, Op. 96, No. 3, D.768 (preorder only)

The soundtrack will be in stores on 10.20.09. Pre-order on iTunes HERE!

For more information please visit NewMoonTheSoundtrack.com and NewMoonTheMovie.com

New 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' Stills

Summit Entertainment has just newly released outdoor poster artwork for New Moon!


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New Moon Soundtrack Track List

* DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE — MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX
* BAND OF SKULLS — FRIENDS
* THOM YORKE — HEARING DAMAGE
* LYKKE LI — POSSIBILITY
* THE KILLERS — A WHITE DEMON LOVE SONG
* ANYA MARINA — SATELLITE HEART
* MUSE — I BELONG TO YOU (NEW MOON REMIX)
* BON IVER & ST. VINCENT — ROSYLN
* BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB — DONE ALL WRONG
* HURRICANE BELLS — MONSTERS
* SEA WOLF — THE VIOLET HOUR
* OK GO — SHOOTING THE MOON
* GRIZZLY BEAR — SLOW LIFE
* EDITORS — NO SOUND BUT THE WIND
* ALEXANDRE DESPLAT — NEW MOON (THE MEADOW)



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