Tag Archive | "animation"

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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… and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. I have adored Tom’n'Jerry (and Daffy, Bugs, Droopy et al) since I was a wee boy watching them with my dear dad (we both still love them, some things you never grow out of) – not just so funny, but so full of character [...]

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The Artists

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Sean Mullen’s The Artists is a cool little short animation, a pair of artists (as you might infer from the title) painting outdoors, their easels side by side, lose sight of their art as they grow increasingly competitive:

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Monkey Moon

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Emmanuel Gatera’s Monkey Moon is a short but sweet animation – an innocent monkey is enjoying a banana in the jungle when wham! Bam! Captured and shanghied into the space programme before he knows it:

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Batman opening in Lego!

Monday, December 19, 2011

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Now this really made me smile – take the cult, camp fun of the opening title sequence for the 60s Adam West starring Batman TV series and redo it in animation using Lego! Brilliant and geektastic! (via ReiWorks):

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Vigour

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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This short, worldess animation by Chang Dai is just delightful (thanks to Jamie Smart for the heads-up):

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Judge Tedd!

Monday, December 12, 2011

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Even the iron chinned face of The Law needs a good teddy cuddle sometimes! From Michael Carroll (tip of the hat to Richmond Clements for the link):

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Ralph Bakshi talks

Monday, December 5, 2011

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This is quite a neat bilingual video of the great Ralph Bakshi recorded at San Diego Comic Con – it comes from the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation archives folk but has been adapted with their permission to take subtitles in Portuguese while the audio remains in English. Well actually subtitles is the wrong term, I suppose – [...]

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Dreams of flying: Wing it

Monday, November 28, 2011

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“Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a windswept field Standing alone my senses reeled A fatal attraction is holding me fast, How can I escape this irresistible grasp? Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies Tongue-tied and twisted, just an [...]

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Frames

Friday, November 25, 2011

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Frames is a very cool, stylish short mixed-media animation film by Martin Thoburn and Matti Adoma, where the character becomes aware his little world is artificial. Breaking out of it takes him through a series of different worlds. Some lovely different types of animation effects mixed and combined here, well worth a watch. FRAMES from [...]

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Brave

Friday, November 18, 2011

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The trailer for Pixar’s Brave (due next summer) looks cracking, although I have heard a couple of folks on Twitter commenting that the Scottish accents have been watered down a wee bit to a more ‘Hollywood Scots’ brogue, which it probably has been, and oh look, Scottish people so must be red hair and blue [...]

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Neil in the Simpsons this month

Monday, November 14, 2011

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Comics Continuum has a couple of pics up and the US airdate for the Simpsons episode that sees one Neil Gaiman guest-starring – it should go out on November 20th Stateside, hopefully on Sky in the UK soon after. Neil teams up with Homer and others to group-write the next ‘tween lit’ hit. It’s nice [...]

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Nicholas Was

Monday, November 14, 2011

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Nicholas Was… is one of the shortest short stories I’ve ever read, not even a whole page, just a paragraph or two actually, in Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors collection, about a poor, lonely, old man, who feels he is being punished forever, isolated in a cold, distant place, surrounded by small elf-like creatures who [...]

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Mound

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Mound is a fascinating, weird but wonderful short animated film by Allison Schulnik – I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here and frankly it doesn’t matter, I am content to just go with it when it looks this lovely:

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Aardman consider moving production overseas

Monday, November 7, 2011

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British cultural institution Aardman Animation is considering moving some production overseas, the BBC reports. Mile Bullough, Aardman’s head of TV animation spoke on BBC Radio 4′s World This Week, explaining that while some film work in the UK can receive government help such as substantial tax credits, this support is not available to TV work, [...]

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Windmills

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Windmills is a lovely looking short animated film created at the famous Georges Méliès school by Guillaume Bergère, Guillaume Coudert, Maria Glinyanova, Bruno Guerra and Charlotte Jammet, following a young girl and her father, reeling from the death of his wife, in a world that is drowning, while she still tries to complete their dream [...]

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