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Goofy meets Lynch

16. February 2010

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Its the cinematic collaboration we’ve all been waiting for: Disney’s Goofy working with master of the surreal, the auteur David Lynch. Apparently Goofy has been a huge admirer of Lynch’s work going right back to Eraserhead and Lynch has been keen to use the Hollywood veteran in one of his projects but has been holding [...]

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The Modifyers

15. February 2010

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Yes, it is Monday morning again, but here’s something to brighten the start to your working week – this is a cartoon called the Modifyers by Chris Reccardi and Lynne Naylor. BoingBoing notes Chris worked previously on the Powerpuff Girls and Ren and Stimpy while Lynne co-created the delightfully bonkers Ren and Stimpy and was [...]

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Gloomy Valentine

14. February 2010

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Its a day for fluffy pink hearts and very bad poetry with sentiments so sweet your teeth would rot. For the sake of balance and sanity, though (and for the cynics), here’s some nice Gothic animation from Isabel Peppard and her crew, Gloomy Valentine, which sees a woman driven mad from lack of love. Happy [...]

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Happy Star Wars Valentine

14. February 2010

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James Stowe gives us these cute lil’ Star Wars valentines, and there’s one for each film over on his blog. The Valentines love must be strong if we can forgive the Ewoks.

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alex’s audio roundup

11. February 2010

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It’s Thursday and that means its time for Alex Fitch to stop building his gigantic fluffy pink killer teddy bear robot he plans to unleash on an unsuspecting world on Valentine’s Day and tell us about the latest programmes he’s involved with; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to [...]

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Japanese ukulele animation

11. February 2010

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I love this short but really cute Japanese stop motion animated ukulele player piece! (via BoingBoing)

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The force is strong with… er, the Paris Metro?

10. February 2010

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Hubert de Lartigue has been creating more X-Wing fighters for the Rebel Alliance’s battle against the nasty Empire; Hubert has been crafting one of science fiction’s most distinctive spacecraft designs from Paris Metro tickets, using only a scalpel and a folding tool (an art I’m told is kirigami, as opposed to origami which I think [...]

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British Animation Awards – exercise your choice

8. February 2010

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Valerie from the British Animation Awards (BAA – hence the sheep logo they use), kindly updates me to events relating to the 2010 BAA. The BAA happens every two years in the UK and again in the run up to the announcement of the winners in April the public will get their chance to view [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

8. February 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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Animated zombies

8. February 2010

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We’ve had plenty of zombie comics, movies and prose recently but here’s a short teaser trailer for A.D., a CG-animated zombie flick, directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.Its currently looking for a home at a studio -- I know a lot of studios will just [...]

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Annies announced, British Animation Awards to follow

7. February 2010

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We really are in awards season right now and the latest this weekend were the Annies, the gongs given out to the year’s best animation works in many categories from Best Animated Feature to Best Animated Short to categories that celebrate the individual technical feats that create those animations, such as Best Animated Effects. There [...]

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Losers poster…..

7. February 2010

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This recently released movie poster for the new Losers movie does seem to point out one fundamental flaw in transferring comics to movies. No matter how good the movies are, sometimes you just can’t do it as well as the vision of an artist. It’s a great poster, iconic, striking, everything it needs to be. [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

4. February 2010

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As we shiver on a chilly February Thursday here’s Alex Fitch with the audio equivalent of hot chocolate and marshmallows; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip!: Transmission X, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast after transmission at Panel Borders Starting web comics month on [...]

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The Wizard of Oz – how it should have ended

4. February 2010

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How It Should Have Ended gives us what would have happened if the Wicked Witch of the West had been killed well before Dorothy started her journey down the Yellow Brick Road (for starters it would mean Elton would probably have never recorded Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road): (link via Gay Sci-Fi Nerds)

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Doctor Who and Torchwood auction

3. February 2010

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(just the thing if you’re planning some interior redesign – a section of TARDIS interior wall) The famous auction house Bonham’s has a number of props and costumes and other assorted collectables from Doctor Who and Torchwood going under the hammer on the 24th of February, from Martha’s costumes to a section of TARDIS wall to [...]

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