Tag Archive | "animation"

Twenty years young lad…….

Friday, November 6, 2009

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Another anniversary, this time everyone’s favourite claymation man and his dog. Nick Park’s wonderful creations, Wallace and Gromit are 20 years old this week. Just like Sesame Street this week and Asterix last week they got their own Google Doodle, just as they should…. Happy birthday lads, here’s to many more. Aardman Animation W&G site.

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Doctor Who Dreamland clip online

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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The BBC’s Doctor Who site has posted up the first brief clip from the upcoming Dreamland, a six-part animated Doctor Who tale which features the voice of David Tennant. The show will appear on BBC digital (by the magic of – what else – the Red Button) and via the official Who site later this [...]

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Chris Ware animating This American Life

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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More Chris Ware goodness (can we have too much of it? No), this time via Boing Boing a link to the Ware talking about animating a story from This American Life. Fab!

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The Pig of Happiness

Monday, October 26, 2009

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“I wanted to make this film of my book The Pig of Happiness as a free project for anyone to view in order to try to increase, by however small an amount, the world’s reserves of happiness.” Thus starts this rather nice animated project by ‘Edward Monkton’, also known as Giles Andreae, creator of Purple [...]

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Everybody else except me saw this, right? Jason’s SHHH! gets animated….

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Jason’s delicious collection of short stories SHHH! has been animated, and rather nicely animated at that. Computer animation may not seem ideal for Jason’s stuff, but it works surprisingly well in these short clips. (Finally saw this via Drawn blog)

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From our continental correspondent – Ovni gets animated

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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DoublePlusBon notifies us that the cartoon series that French animation studio Blue Spirit was producing for Canal+ is currently being aired.  Ovni (a French acronym, roughly the equivalent of the English UFO) is based on the comic book of the same name, written by Lewis Trondheim, with art by Fabrice Parme.   It was their third [...]

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ABC Warriors get animated…

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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2000AD ABC Warriors from Firestep Films on Vimeo. Rather lovely looking promo video by Firestep Films produced with the full cooperation of Rebellion Games the Rights Holders to the 2000AD catalogue. Click here for the full sized trailer. Found via Mark at Bad Librarianship. And, like Mark said, the only thing it’s really missing is a [...]

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The Silent ‘toons – Winsor McCay

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Via Tom at Comics Reporter comes this charming silent movie of that great early pioneer of comics and animation, Winsor McCay:

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Iron Man Versus Bruce Lee!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

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It’s Iron Man versus the great Bruce Lee in this brilliant wee animation by Patrick Boivin!

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Tron Legacy to get Imax release

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Imax announces that Disney’s Tron sequel, Tron: Legacy, will be released simultaneously in Imax along with the general 3D release on December 2010; that will look pretty mind-blowing, I’d bet (via the Hollywood Reporter)

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Family values?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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We’re more than used to politicians espousing family values (and just as used to many of them later being caught out violating those values) but a councillor in Omagh is considering Family Guy values. His nephew told the politician that he had a resemblance to Peter Griffin; Mr Hussey said he was not exactly flattered [...]

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Futurama back on track

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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The BBC reports that the possible stumbling block to the new series of Futurama has been overcome – the voice cast were in dispute over their pay, with Fox not only refusing to meet their desired wage level but threatening to replace the dissenting actors. Which, let’s be honest, would have been utterly bloody stupid [...]

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John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, RIP

Friday, July 24, 2009

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(cover to the first Bodley Head edition of Captain Pugwash by John Ryan, pic borrowed from the Gregory & Company author’s agent site) The BBC reports the sad news that cartoonist John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, has passed away at the age of 88. The cartoon pirate captain of the Black Pig was created by [...]

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Doctor Poo

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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Viz, Britain’s great repository of delightfully vulgar, childish comics (bless ‘em) offers us up this cartoon riff on our favourite Time Lord with Doctor Poo. Crossing time and space desperately in search of a quiet loo where he can park his bum before the sanctity of his trousers are violated. Its crude (both the theme [...]

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Animated Owly!

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Top Shelf’s Chris Staros tells us that Andy Runton’s wonderful Owly comics characters (solid favourites with a number of us here) has been animated by Sprite Animation Studios and the cartoon will debut at the San Diego Comic Con later this month, where fans will be able to drop by the Top Shelf booth to [...]

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