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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day

17. May 2012

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Denis Chapon created twelve drawings per day between the years of 2008 and 2012; each batch of twelve drawings equated to one whole second of screen time in terms of animation. After three years of this labour he edited them together into this rather cool short animation which, as well as being an enjoyable short [...]

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Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!

16. May 2012

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Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]

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Destroy Your Friends with The Darkest Hour

16. May 2012

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Click here to play! To celebrate the realise of The Darkest Hour on Blu-ray and DVD on the 21st May 2012, the folks at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment UK are giving Forbidden Planet International blog readers an exclusive opportunity to play promotional game DESTROY YOUR FRIENDS via Facebook. Click on the image above to [...]

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The Eagleman Stag

14. May 2012

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A couple of years back I flagged up a trailer for a very unusual and visually fascinating monochromatic animation by Mikey Please, The Eagleman Stag, which was attracting some positive buzz at various film festivals. It went on to glory at the BAFTAs and also scored another gong this spring with the recent British Animation [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

13. May 2012

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Another weekend and time to sit back, unfold your ears into a comfortable listening position and take in some of the programmes Alex Fitch is involved in, including, I am pleased to see, more on his series of European comics creators, talking to the artist behind one of my favourite books of last year, Uli [...]

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The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke

11. May 2012

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Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]

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Prometheus – win tickets to the London premiere!

9. May 2012

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Okay, peeps and fellow geeks, listen up, because we have a remarkable “money can’t buy it” type of prize up for grabs thanks to our friends arranging the screenings of Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated ‘Alien sort-of prequel’ (Sir Ridley notes it started that way but ‘evolved into another universe’)  Prometheus, starring Girl With a Dragon [...]

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Badger animated documentary

9. May 2012

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Regular readers will already be familiar with a self-published series of comics featuring Howard Hardiman‘s Badger, the poor little depressed creature that we’ve come to love for the emotional content of the tales and for the beauty of the artwork. Filmmakers Annie Kwan and Helen Omand have been working on a short animated documentary about [...]

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The art of the background artist

7. May 2012

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Over on Audrey Kawasaki’s LiveJournal she extolls an often overlooked yet painstaking, time-consuming aspect of creating animation for film – the background artist’s work. While the moving characters in the foreground take most of our attention (as indeed they are meant to, after all) the background details are often just that, a background, which is [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

6. May 2012

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Time for Alex Fitch’s weekly roundup of the audio programmes he is involved with, including, I see, one covering a subject very close to the heart of our own Continental Correspondent Wim – Belgian comics. As always check the Panel Borders site for more details and for archived podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Belgian [...]

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‘D’

4. May 2012

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D is a funny short animation from the Chiguire Animation Studios, in which an errant letter D has a bit of a disagreement with a rather fine-nibbed fountain pen across the desk and pages: “D” – animated short film from Closed Eye Visuals | DP on Vimeo.

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The Dark Knight Rises…

1. May 2012

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Okay, we’ve just had the Avengers open and I have to say it was indeed as good as the hype and as good as I had hoped for. Much as I have huge faith normally in Joss a multi-character superhero team flick is not an easy thing to pull off, but he did so and [...]

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Goody Two Shoes

26. April 2012

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I had no idea that comics creator and illustrator Rutu Modan (the acclaimed Exit Wounds and the Jamiliti collection), along with fellow member of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus Batia Kolton, planned an animated series called Goody Two Shoes which would have been about a group of teenage girls in the swinging 60s. Sadly [...]

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Two seasons of Star Trek at the same time

25. April 2012

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Okay, this is pretty mindblowing – 56 episodes, some two seasons’ worth, of the original Star Trek all running at the same time. What is a little alarming is just how many of them I can recognise from only a few seconds of video in those tiny little windows. This has nothing to do with [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Boule et Bill come to the big screen

25. April 2012

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WC Fields warned us so many years ago : never work with children or animals.  Still, a Franco-Belgian film crew is doing just that in the outskirts of Brussels these days, in an attempt to bring the adventures of Boule et Bill to the big screen. These classic one-page gags about a boy and his [...]

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