Tag Archive | "animation"

Animation: Wolfsong

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Tonika Pantoja’s short animated film Wolfsong is very sad but also rather beautiful: a mother wolf tries to regain her dead cub, now a hunter’s trophy, to sing it to its final sleep, but the hunter follows her… Wolfsong from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

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Art For Art’s Sake: Ray Harryhausen special

Friday, May 10, 2013

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I’m shamelessly borrowing Richard’s regular Art For Art’s Sake column (which appears each weekend) for a special one-off themed around artwork pertaining to the great effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, who we lost this week. Ray’s magical effects, bringing inanimate objects into glorious moving life, from dinosaurs to wondrous creatures from ancient mythology, delighted so many [...]

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Film: RIP Ray Harryhausen

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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Sad news today, we’ve lost not only one of the most imaginative creators to work in the fantastic film genres, we’ve lost a man who fired the imagination of so many of us when we were kids and left an indelible impression on our collective sense of wonder – Ray Harryhausen, friend to Sinbad, father [...]

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Animation: Cadaver – a bittersweet love story

Monday, April 29, 2013

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Now here is a delightfully odd, slightly macabre yet at the same time charming piece of short animation which I think will appeal to those of you who (like me) have a penchant for Addams Family style or Tim Burton-esque twists of humour with the dark or Gothic. A dead body gifted to science suddenly [...]

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Animation: the Super Rope Solution

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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Now here is a short animated film to make you smile: student Auke de Vries’ Super Rope Solution is a nice, clever wee satire on the couch potato/consumer culture that sees us groaning if we are expected to rise from our comfy seat in front of the telly for any reason. And why rise when [...]

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Animation: The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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The Man Who Was Afraid of Falling is a lovely short graduate animation film from Joseph Wallace and friends. Ivor is an elderly gent who enjoys looking after his potted plants in his high-rise apartment – until he has a small accident and knocks one of the plants off the window sill. Witnessing it’s plummeting [...]

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Animation: Shelved

Friday, April 12, 2013

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Here’s a brilliant and funny short animated film from Auckland’s Media Design School and directed by James Cunningham; Shelved follows a couple of work-a-day robots on a low-end job, one trudging through the monotony of his warehouse work, his friend insufferably upbeat and determined to impress the higher-ups so he gets promoted. The animation, movement [...]

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Animation: Caldera

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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Now this is just a stunningly beautiful short, award-winning piece of animation from Evan Viera and friends. Caldera draws on Evan’s experiences with his own father, who suffered delusional states because of his schizoaffective disorder, following a young woman herself dealing with mental health issues, experiencing remarkable visions, which she controls with medication, bringing her [...]

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Upcoming: Doj-Con in Dundee this Saturday

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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On Saturday 13th April there is more geeky fun to be had at Dundee University, following hot on the heels of the recent Dundee Comics Expo (see here for a report & pics): Doj-Con will be Scotland’s largest free anime, comics and video games convention, and will take place in the Uni’s Student Union this [...]

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Animation: The Man in the Comic Strip

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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Now here’s something a wee bit unusual – “The Man in the Comic Strip” is a poem by well-regarded Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead. The BBC’s educational arm has a neat reading of the poem – with a poor chap whose life works like a character in a comic, right down to the Asterix [...]

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