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Reminder – Chronicle competition, film opens this weekend

2. February 2012

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Josh Trank’s upcoming new movie Chronicle takes on of the well-known clichés of the superhero genre – the sudden granting of superpowers through contact with a strange source – but treats it a little differently than the usual spandex-fest, taking a cooler, more lo-fi approach. When a group of high school friends find themselves developing [...]

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Temps Mort

1. February 2012

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Temps Mort is another nice slice of animation from the students at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA) in Toulouse, with Michael Lima Barbosa, Laura Sabourdy and Paul D’Herbemont offering up a short but funny tale of the Grim Reaper (love his collapsible scythe!), a young man and his elderly neighbour, which takes a [...]

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Build your own TARDIS

31. January 2012

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This is fab and Sillysparowness is so enthusiastic about it and so darned smiley you’ll find yourself grinning too as she describes just how she set about building her own TARDIS, because a girl just isn’t complete without her own TARDIS, is she? (via BoingBoing)

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Stan Lee at Sundance

30. January 2012

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The one and only Stan Lee was at the famous Sundance film festival, as there is a new documentary out, With Great Power: the Stan Lee Story, showing at the festival; MovieMaker Magazine interviewed Stan and posted up a video:

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The Badass Scooby Doo gang…

28. January 2012

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Love this; from Noelle Stevenson (and via Julia Scheele) – a great badass Scooby gang…

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You’re a creep, Charlie Brown..

26. January 2012

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Clips from the old Peanuts animated cartoon recut and edited to go along with the eerily beautiful Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s brilliant song, Creep. Somehow both funny and quite sad at the same time and it fits poor ‘ole Charlie Brown very well… (Linkage from Laughing Squid via that man Matt Staggs):

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Win a fab Macbook Air or Canon EOS with Chronicle!

25. January 2012

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Josh Trank’s upcoming new movie Chronicle takes on of the well-known clichés of the superhero genre – the sudden granting of superpowers through contact with a strange source – but treats it a little differently than the usual spandex-fest, taking a cooler, more lo-fi approach.  When a group of high school friends find themselves developing [...]

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The Whale Story

25. January 2012

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Tess Martin‘s The Whale Story is a beautifully imaginative piece of animation, painted using a canvas for 16 foot high wall in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park, telling a lovely story of a whale in distressed helped by divers and just executed in such a wonderful fashion it will leave you smiling for hours afterwards:

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Electric Man and more comics movies at the Glasgow Film Festival

24. January 2012

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You may recall last year we blogged about Dugbus seeking – and thankfully obtaining – funding for their micro budget Indy movie set in Edinburgh and based around the world’s rarest and most valuable comic – Electric Man #1 – and a pair of loveable losers in a failing comic store. The guys were kind [...]

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British Animation Awards

24. January 2012

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Yes, it’s approaching that time for the BAA – British Animation Awards – held every two years. While the BAFTAs has awards for feature and short animation only the BAA awards purely Brit-created animation and in numerous categories and those include the Public Choice selection. One of the aspects of the BAA I like is [...]

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“Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve…”

24. January 2012

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“Sir, may I quote General Order Twelve, ‘On the approach of any vessel, when communications have not been established...” Well, we know now Saavik was correct to suggest going to alert status when the starship Reliant approached the Enterprise in silent mode with the nasty Khan Noonian Singh secretly in command and about to wreak [...]

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DC Nation Aardman style

24. January 2012

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This is short but utterly brilliant animation – DC Nation featuring versions of Superman, Batman, Catwoman etc, but done as if it were one of Aardman Animation’s delightful Creature Comforts cartoons. Fabbity fab fab! (tip of the hat to Jamie Smart who was browsing videos when he should have been working, but we’ll let him [...]

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Star Wars Uncut

23. January 2012

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“In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was [...]

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7th

20. January 2012

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Sara Pocock’s short animation 7th is a very unusual wee film, quite a distinctive and different style of animation, following a young girl on her way to meet a new friend in LA when she gets off at the wrong bus stop and finds herself lost – the streets seem threatening, but there’s actually a [...]

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Firefley – les femmes

19. January 2012

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Ambling contentedly around the virtual environs of Deviant Art the other day I came across Chesheyre’s page and really admired the Firefly/Serenity artwork, like this tribute to the ladies from Joss Whedon’s far too short-lived series: And I loved Chesheyre’s “Come Fly With Me” poster with a grinning Kaylee astride a Firefly class ship. Ah, [...]

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