Hey gang, it's pretty late and I shouldn't even be up doing this right now, but since I love you guys and I love this film, I thought I'd pass on four new gorgeous hi-res images from Shane Acker's 9, the CGI animated film about a twisted dystopia where living rag dolls battle for survival against techno monsters. It was produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) and will be hitting theaters next week on 9-9-09.

The images are great , so we thank Focus Features and the team behind 9 sending them our way (we've been championing this film for awhile now). I'm not going to say much more than that, it's late, I gotta jet, so here are the images (the first one is posted in the header above).

Observe the eye-popping finished product of Shane Acker's uniquely imagined film, 9:

If those pretty pictures are really catching your eye and you want to learn more about the film (as you should), be sure to check out our entire 9 gallery: there's posters, trailers, cool interactive sites, clips from the film and the even the Oscar-nominated short film by Shane Acker that inspired the movie.

9 features the voices of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and John C. Reily. It will be in theaters, as stated, on 9-9-09.

Update Source: MTV