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Moore gets animated at the Barbican

15. July 2011

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As part of the Barbican’s Watch Me Move season of animation they invited Alan Moore and music producer Paul Smith to contribute. Parissima from the Barbican tells us that they gave both of them complete artistic freedom to come up with their own event for the series and the result is a “tribute to the [...]

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Patronus!

15. July 2011

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Brittney Lee created this simply gorgeous piece of Harry Potter artwork, with Harry defending Hermione and Ron using his Patronus charm – how fabulous does this look? I think it looks almost like a scene from a Secret of Kells style animation. (via Jamie Smart)

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Kevin F Sutherland’s comics masterclass

15. July 2011

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Kevin F Sutherland often gives very well received comics masterclasses in schools, libraries and other venues on top of his comics artwork and his hugely enjoyable Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre (always worth catching if it is in your area). And recently he did an interview and comics masterclass for Arts Live on BBC Northern [...]

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The Dark Side is so cool!

13. July 2011

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The Dark Side may be the evil side of the Force, but we know they are also cooler – I mean instead of brown bathrobes the Dark Side guys wear cool black, they get to stay up later and they have the best music. And that cool Imperial March/Vader’s theme music by the mighty John [...]

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Electric Man trailer

12. July 2011

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(Scott MacKay and David Barras of Dugbus at a fundraiser for Electric Man last spring, pic from my Flickr) You may recall last year I blogged about the micro-budget Indy comics movie that Dugbus was aiming to shoot in and around Edinburgh, Electric Man (see here). I’ve just heard recently from the guys that they [...]

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Scottish Comic Book Heroes on the Beeb tonight!

11. July 2011

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Artworks Scotland tonight has a special, Scottish Comic Book Heroes, looking at some of the creators from Scotland who have become some of the biggest names in the global comics biz like Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Alan Grant and Mark Millar. From the looks of it the programme is only being broadcast in the BBC [...]

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Migration

11. July 2011

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Migration is another short animation from the Artfx channel, by Elie Ly-Kok and Mathieu Clopez, but migration patterns in this deserted city are a little different from the sorts we see on a David Attenborough programme: Migration from Artfx on Vimeo.

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We Are Words + Pictures – the radio show…

9. July 2011

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The latest We Are Words + Pictures radio show is up online – this time round it’s Howard Hardiman, artist of The Lengths and Badger: “Spring has passed, and now we’re in tropical monsoon season here in WAW+P-land. So WAW+P Radio host Michael Leader took shelter at the Old Police Station in Deptford, in order to [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

7. July 2011

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As we dash from brilliant sunshine to heavy showers and back again, here’s Alex Fitch to offer us some aural delights away from the unpredictable British summer weather; as ever for more details or to listen to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site. Panel Borders: Interactive Comics, tonight at 5pm on Resonance [...]

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Blik

6. July 2011

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Blik is a rather sweet short CG cartoon from Polder Animation, where a young boy moves home and finds his first crush, on a friendly new neighbourhood girl – alas she is too old for him, but, well, things have a way of working themselves to a more suitable conclusion. The animation is nice and [...]

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Magnus

4. July 2011

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Let’s start the working week with an absolutely beautiful piece of CG animation by Meradi Omar and Dos Santos Nelson (with music by Rey Philippe), a lovely bit of short animation work of an old steam train charging through the landscape towards a vast, old industrial city, created for their masters degree project at the [...]

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Douglas Noble on Hardware…..

2. July 2011

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Over at The Electric heep, Douglas Noble‘s turned in a review of the 1990 movie by Richard Stanley – Hardware:

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Billets S’il Vous Plaît

30. June 2011

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Following on from the cool looking The Archiver yesterday, here’s another neat piece of CG animation for Artfx, this time by Elodie Hickson, Remi Julien, Tristan Jeanbourquin, Lucie Lavergne and Oscar Aveline: Billets S’il Vous Plaît sees a couple of families trying to dodge paying their fares (and is it just me or does the [...]

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The Archiver

29. June 2011

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The Archiver is a short but very slick and cool looking science fiction CG work by Thomas Obrecht, Guillaume Berthoumieu and Marc Menneglier for Artfx 2011 The Archiver from Artfx on Vimeo. And I’m quite pleased to see they have also uploaded a short making of video behind the animation – nice touch: The Archiver [...]

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Hicksville

27. June 2011

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Nick Lemmens posts up a short partly animated segment for a documentary about Dylan Horrocks’ Hicksville: HICKSVILLE – DYLAN HORROCKS from Nick Lemmens on Vimeo.

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