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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day
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 [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
François Schuiten’s never been one for straightforward comic work. His long-running series, Les Cités Obscures (with Benoît Peeters) always involved intricate imagery combined with almost labyrinthine storytelling. Just doing a comic doesn’t seem to be enough of a challenge for Schuiten. Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples [...]
Continue reading...The Eagleman Stag
Monday, May 14, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Badger animated documentary
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Kinky and Cosy at Angoulême
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Okay, I admit this very short video is in French, with Dutch subtitles, but it’s a live-action version of Nix’s Kinky and Cosy making an appearance on stage at Angoulême and frankly, language barriers aside, it’s too funny not to bung it up here to to share (plus it is very short!): And, as Wim blogged [...]
Continue reading...The art of the background artist
Monday, May 7, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...‘D’
Friday, May 4, 2012
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.
Continue reading...Goody Two Shoes
Thursday, April 26, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Shaun Tan interviewed
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Submarine Channel has a video Skype interview with the excellent Shaun Tan online, cutting between Shaun and scenes from his very fine award-winning animation as well as talking about how he is trying to learn about screenwriting, specifically because he is looking to a big screen adaptation of his own very well received graphic [...]
Continue reading...My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill
Monday, April 16, 2012
Jean Regnaud and Emile Bravo’s lovely but bittersweet My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill (translated into English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon), has been made into a 75-minute animated film, reports Animationsfilme. The story concerns a young boy, Jean, just starting school and in a family with a busy father, absent mother and [...]
Continue reading...Load
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Load is another great wee short animated film from the students in the Animation Workshop in Denmark, created by David R. Christensen, Lasse H.N. Smith, Blake Overgaard, Jeppe Døcker, Kristoffer W. Mikkelsen, Malte Burup Jelshøj and Mark Kjærgaard, it deals with a man drowning and lost in overwork and responsibilities losing sight of actually living [...]
Continue reading...The Moro Studios remembered
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Until the 6th of May, the Sala El Águila exhibition hall in Madrid, Spain, is putting on an exhibition about the legendary Moro studios. Dubbed The Announcement of Modernity, the show illustrates the groundbraking genius of Jose Luis Moro who from the 1940′s until the 1970′s, together with his brother Santiago, pioneered modern animation in Spain, [...]
Continue reading...Lego Captain America splatterfest
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
This Lego Captain America animation that our own James pointed me towards is filled to the brim with lashings of the old ultra-violence and downright splatter. And like most splatter it is very funny in that OTT grand guignol kind of way:
Continue reading...DreamGiver
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
DreamGiver by Tyler Carter is a gorgeous short animation, as the titular dream giving elf cracks open dreamstuff eggs in a room full of slumbering children. All is well as one has ballerinas in her dreams, another an astronaut, but then one of the children moves in his sleep knocking over the pile of as [...]
Continue reading...British Animation Awards
Monday, March 19, 2012
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Every two years the BAA – British Animation Awards – comes around; we’ve already mentioned the 2012 nominees on here before but I’m afraid I missed the actual ceremony announcing the winners at the end of last week. One of the nice things I have liked about the previous BAA shortlists has been the fact [...]
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