The Tome of Beasts!

Last year, 'The Flight of the Arrowhead' team began a new partnership with Seattle's Kobold Press, a publisher of 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks. Andrew Teheran, Joao Tarouco, Andre Marques, Andre Zatta and Dylan Alves, along with interns from East Side High School's Media Arts Magnet Program, have produced animated content for the game company. This partnership will continue this year with more media content, internships and other amazing geeky stuff. Here is the book release trailer we created for a huge bestiary called 'The Tome of Beasts.' Enjoy!

Newark International Film Festival Nominations

We are proud to announce the nominations of Joao Tarouco for Best Director and Jonathan Mercado for Best Actor at the Newark International Film Festival for The Flight of the Arrowhead.

We are proud to announce that The Flight of the Arrowhead is an official selection of the Newark International Film Festival. It will be screened at the Newark Museum during the Newark Filmmaker Short Showcase on Saturday, September 10th.

This film was produced and created by the students and alumni of the Media Arts Magnet Program from Newark, New Jersey's East Side High School and the Thaumaturge Workshop animation studio. This film, that started as a high school project, represents over a half decade of work by a cast and crew that hails from 5 continents.

For more information please visit the Newark International Film Festival website at www.newarkiff.com.

Honorable Mention Los Angeles SuperHero Film Festival

Official Selection First Annual Newark Comic Con 2015

“Awesome... This blows my mind!” - U.S. Senator Cory Booker

Thaumaturge team working on The Tome of Beasts book release trailer for Kobold Press. We are very excited to be working with Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur, one of the top names in Dungeons and Dragons design. Listen to his awesome interview on the official Wizards of the Coast Dungeons and Dragons podcast. The trailer scheduled to be released in June. Look for updates!

Thaumaturge team celebrates the premiere of Flight of the Arrowhead at Newark ComicCon on September 12, 2015. Keep an eye on this blog for the date of the film's public premiere, and more cool updates and Flight of the Arrowhead news.

Crew Builds Miniature Sets Using Games-Workshop Techniques

                                       Michael "Mikey-Mike" Raposo

The tradition of miniature building within the Thaumaturge Wonderworks animation house is a long one. Growing out of after school pen and pencil gaming sessions, scores of highly detailed 1in.=5ft. scale architectural and nautical pieces were made by the students of East Side's New Media Studies Magnet Program. Many of the techniques employed by the team were learned from instructional guides published by the gaming company Games Workshop.

All of the miniatures were built with mostly Styrofoam, card stock and cardboard. They were painted primarily with acrylic paints. Each of the individual pieces represent many hours of work. The images function, along with virtual CGI models as the sets for our film that was almost entirely shot on green screen. Enjoy the images below.

                                       CGI Artist Leonardo "Da Vinci" Gulli

                                       Port Keel

                                       Composited Frame (with CGI and live footage)

                                       Hugo "Kid Slow-Mo" Santos with "The Old Lager"

                                       Caroline "Carrie" Sincaruk at work

                                                Director Joao Tarouco and Keenen Jones build a church

                                       Jose "Shadow" Perez and Luiz Ataides

                                       Greco-Roman style piece for climactic final battle of film

                                       Final composite for Port Keel establishing shot

Thaumaturge Wonderworks Desktop Wallpaper

Please download, enjoy and distribute this early holiday gift! These awesome desktop wallpapers, in various sizes, feature our new robot animation 1u-C.

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