The Inventor is ACW’s first feature length animated film. Done in connection with Curiosity Studio in Ireland and Foliascope Studios in France. Written and Directed by Jim Capobianco and Co-directed by Pierre-luc Granjon.
The Inventor is a stylized, stop motion puppet and 2-D hand drawn animated film about Leonardo Da Vinci. This exhilarating adventure is voiced by Stephen Fry (Leonardo) Daisy Ridley (Marguerite), Marion Cotillard ( Louise of Savoy ) and Matt Berry ( as Pope Leo X ).
The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, incredible machines, and studying the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question ~ “What is the meaning of it all? “
To learn more about the film go to The Inventor Film website
Directed by award winning documentarian Josh Kornbluth a series of videos aiming to persuade primary care providers (PCPs) to screen all their older patients for signs of dementia as early as possible.
Catching cognitive decline early is crucial in so many ways: The new drugs to slow brain disease are effective only in its earliest stages. When patients and their loved ones learn of their cognitive issues while they are still able to make good decisions, it gives them the power and dignity to plan ahead. Dealing early with dementia -- which is still incurable -- allows for treatments and lifestyle adjustments that can help keep it as manageable as possible, rather than leading to a series of crises. All in all, making early screening for dementia as much an essential part of a PCP's regular exams as checking on temperature, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, etc., can revolutionize healthcare in California and elsewhere, making tremendous improvements in the lives of individuals, their caregivers, their communities, and society at large. We are really proud to be supporting Josh and UCSF in this initiative.
A 25 minute mixed media film for orchestra created by Aerial Contrivance Workshop in collaboration with Grammy-winning Composer Mason Bates and Academy Award-winning Sound Designer and Director Gary Rydstrom.
Produced by Vulcan Productions and Masonic Music
Directed by Gary Rydstrom
Music by Mason Bates
Story by Mason Bates, Jim Capobianco, and Gary Rydstrom
Animation and Production Supervised by Jim Capobianco
Produced by Alex D. da Silva
Production Design: Louis Thomas
Art Director: Theo Guignard
Art Concept: Louis Thomas, Glenn Hernandez, Theo Guignard, Lauren Kawahara, Katia Grifols
Character Animation by Hanna Abi Hanna, Tati Moniz, Stephanie Alexander, and Tim Allen
Graphic Animation by Chris Anderson
Additional Graphic Animation by Nick DeMartino
Director of Photography: Donavan Sell
ACW and Jim Capobianco developed the story and oversaw the 2D animated “Royal Dalton Bowl” sequence for Walt Disney Motion Pictures 2018 film Mary Poppins Returns the sequel to the beloved 1964 Mary Poppins.
Directed by Rob Marshal
Animation Sequence Direction: Jim Capobianco
Storyboarding: Jamie Baker, Ovi Nedelcu and Jim Capobianco
Story Production Management: Alex D. da Silva
Story Reel Editing: Tom Christopher and Greg Knowles
Animation Production: Duncan Studios
Project for a short doc on the power of guided imagery to empower and help over come anxiety and fear. Made for the website Take Care. Website: Superpower
9 minute hand drawn animated short film about Leonardo da Vinci and his dream of flight. Drawn on paper and comped together in the computer with actual candle light to illuminate the animation.
Awards and Notices:
In the permanent film collection of the MoMA in NYC.
Best Film For Kids and Families - San Francisco Intl. Film Festival
Best Bay Area Short Film - San Francisco Intl. Film Festival
Audience Award - Imagine Science Film Festival
Grand Prize Film Made for Children - Kid's Eye Rhode Island Intl. Film Festival
Best Animation - Youth Film Festival Barry Wales
Best Animation - Marbella Film Festival, Marbella Spain
Special Jury Mention- I Castelli Animati
"For the way in which humour was used to attract children to art and culture."
Official Selection - Telluride Film Festival
Series of bi-lingual short films to promote and inform the benefits of breastfeeding.
Produced by - Aerial Contrivance Workshop
Client - University of California Davis
Story and Direction - Jim Capobianco
Design and Animation - Leonard Cohen and Karolien Raeymaekers
Narration - Claudia Medina
Editorial - Tom Chirstopher
Created by Aerial Contrivance Workshop and SuperMachine Studios in honor of 2010, the Galileo year. Using the actual audio, of Apollo 15 Cmdr. Dave Scott and starring The Astronauts, Revisiting Apollo: Apollo 15 was made to engage kids and adults to want to learn more about the Apollo program and space exploration in general.
ACW
Conceived and Directed by Jim Capobianco
Designed by Nate Wragg
Music by Alex Mandel
SuperMachine
CG Modeling - B. J. Christian
Layout, Rigging, Animation - Simon Dunsdon
Leonardo da Vinci joins March for Science.
Let your voice be heard on Earth Day, April 22nd visit www.marchforscience.com to find an event near you.
Director: Jim Capobianco
Producer: Alex D. da Silva
Line Producer: Kat Alioshin
Animator: Tim Hittle
Cinematographer: Peter Williams
Stock Image Research: Tom Proost
Editor and VFX: Kyle Parker
Sound Design: Tom Christopher
Shot at Athena Studios
Made for the feature documentary by Ensemble Pictures READY. SET. BAG! about excelling at what you do. The short was made to illustrate the proper way to bag groceries.
Archival footage and Animation created in Adobe After Effects
check out the READY SET BAG website readysetbag.com/
Produced by - Aerial Contrivance Workshop
Client - Ensemble Pictures
Story and Direction - Jim Capobianco
Design and Animation - Craig Foster
Narration - Craig Good
Sound - Berkeley Sound Artists
Test walk for proposed Galileo short film.
Created by : ACW
Design : Nate Wragg
Animation : Nick Butera
Our next concert film: Symphony of Worlds leads audiences through radically different, stunningly exotic epochs of life on Earth. Wordlessly, it conveys how human science pieces together – seemingly miraculously – the Earth’s past, even its deep past, and reveals the crazy, ever-changing story of life. Science is the means by which we time travel back hundreds of millions of years, to begin a fast-paced trek through many of the different worlds that have preceded ours. Dramatically punctuating this epic story are epic cataclysms, extinction events that devastated distinct worlds, and through which something of life had to survive. Volcanos, glaciers, heat, toxic gases, asteroids. Humans are only a very recent, and very short part of the long story of how life evolved, and survived, on this planet. It is an amazing story, filled with unimaginable landscapes and bizarre creatures, that is ultimately a story of change and resilience. Right now the planet and the human race are at a key inflection point. We struggle to preserve the world we’ve inherited, while simultaneously striving to understand the changes needed to survive into the future. The power to shape that future comes from our knowledge. That knowledge comes from science. Equal parts entertaining and educational, Symphony of Worlds tells a story bombarded by apocalypses but ending with hope.
