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Burton signs for double Disney 3D duties


Tim Burton has signed a major deal with Disney to direct the 3D films Alice in Wonderland Wonderland
See also Heaven, Paradise, Utopia.

Annwn

land of joy and beauty without disease or death. [Welsh Lit.: Mabinogion]

Atlantis

fabulous and prosperous island; legendarily in Atlantic Ocean. [Gk. Myth.
 and Frankenweenie.

Burton will begin shooting Alice in Wonderland as soon as he has completed work on his shock opera Sweeney Todd Noun 1. Sweeney Todd - fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers
Todd
, which is being positioned as one of the year's major Oscar contenders.

The director plans to end filming by late May on Lewis Carroll's celebrated slice of literary nonsense Literary nonsense refers to a genre of literature, whether poetry or prose, that depends on a balance of sense and nonsense, on order and chaos. It usually presents a topsy-turvy world but is distinct from fantasy. . It is understood the project will combine performance capture pictures similar to those used in Beowulf, which opens here and in the US today.

After Alice, Burton will get to work on Frankenweenie, a feature-length version of a short film he made in 1984 about a person who reanimates his dead dog.

3D animation is slowly gaining traction Traction Definition

Traction is the use of a pulling force to treat muscle and skeleton disorders.
Purpose

Traction is usually applied to the arms and legs, the neck, the backbone, or the pelvis.
 in Hollywood, where all eyes will be on the release this weekend of Beowulf, starring Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie.

Earlier this week the Hollywood animation super-producer Jeffrey Katzenberg suggested that 3D cinema was the future of CGI CGI
 in full Common Gateway Interface.

Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program.
 animation.
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