Tag Archive | "animation"

Animated zombies

Monday, February 8, 2010

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We’ve had plenty of zombie comics, movies and prose recently but here’s a short teaser trailer for A.D., a CG-animated zombie flick, directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.Its currently looking for a home at a studio -- I know a lot of studios will just [...]

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Annies announced, British Animation Awards to follow

Sunday, February 7, 2010

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We really are in awards season right now and the latest this weekend were the Annies, the gongs given out to the year’s best animation works in many categories from Best Animated Feature to Best Animated Short to categories that celebrate the individual technical feats that create those animations, such as Best Animated Effects. There [...]

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The Wizard of Oz – how it should have ended

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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How It Should Have Ended gives us what would have happened if the Wicked Witch of the West had been killed well before Dorothy started her journey down the Yellow Brick Road (for starters it would mean Elton would probably have never recorded Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road): (link via Gay Sci-Fi Nerds)

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Brendan McCarthy’s showreel

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Looking for something completely different on YouTube at the weekend I somehow stumbled on this showreel by Brendan McCarthy. It’s from a two or three years back so probably old news to some, but I’m guessing still new to others and, let’s be honest, we’ll take any excuse to post some McCarthyisms; the reel takes [...]

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Animation archives

Monday, January 18, 2010

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BoingBoing has had Stephen Worth guest-blogging for them; Stephen is, as many of you probably know already, the director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (a site any animation lover should have bookmarked) and he’s been posting a series of blogs under the BB Cartoon Circus banner talking about early animation and the artists involved, including [...]

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Best of the Year – Joe’s faves

Friday, January 15, 2010

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Well we come to our last Best of the Year for the 2009 releases and before we embark on my own selection of graphic novels, books and movies from the previous year I’d like to thank all of the many guest bloggers who took part in our annual tradition; I hope you enjoyed them as [...]

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Parkour comics/storyboard/animation

Friday, January 15, 2010

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I don’t know if this short video of a parkour scene would be classified as animation, comics or a moving film storyboard, but its very well done and cooler than a penguin in Ray-Bans lounging on an ice floe. I got the link via Dave Gibbons’ Twitter and he seemed to be pondering the term [...]

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Alma

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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BoingBoing pointed me towards this gorgeous and delightfully creepy animation about a doll’s shop with a nasty secret; the animation is wonderful and I like the fairy tale feel of it (I mean fairy tales when they were still dark and disturbing, before they were cleaned up for tiny kiddiwinks). Mark on BB recommends watching [...]

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Cracking stuff, Gromit

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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How delightful is this? Yes, it’s contestants dressed up as Wallace and Gromit, complete with stunt-riding sheep (so based on A Close Shave, I’m assuming) for the sixth annual Hoar Cross downhill soapbox derby. Cracking. Thank goodness for the wonderful tradition of Great British Eccentrics and a national passion for a bit of silliness. (via [...]

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‘Twas the night before Christmas…

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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… and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve watched this (and every other) Tom’n'Jerry cartoon since I was a kid right through to now and I still love it; along with those 30s and 40s Bug Bunny cartoons they’re still [...]

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Simpsons turns 20, lots of us feel horribly old….

Friday, December 18, 2009

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Yes, 20 years ago yesterday, 17th December 1989, the very first full length Simpsons feature; “Simpsons Roasting On An Open Fire” aired on Fox. Now how old do you feel? (via Boing Boing)

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Epic Misney

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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Bring Marvel and Disney together and you make Misney – so why not make it truly epic on the crossover scale? (Epic Misney by T Campbell and John Waltrip; I especially like Dazzler having a sing-out with Hannah Montana, Beast waltzing with Beauty and the scandalised looks on Disney’s little princesses as they see Emma Frost’s [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Wesley, the gnome for the world!

Friday, December 11, 2009

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What do you get when you take a healthy doses of nonsensical and non sequitur humour, a relentless ear for pseudologic and a quite temperamental gnome?  Well, Wesley The Gnome is what you ge !  Wesley is angry at the world and constantly gets involved in things that happen for no reason, and don’t go [...]

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Black Hole Mouth

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Dash ‘Bottomless Belly Button‘ Shaw has a new animation to go along with his brand new Fantagraphics graphic novel The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century and you can check out the various segments on IFC.com – very cool! (via Heidi at The Beat)

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Annie awards nominations

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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The nominations for the 37th annual Annie Awards, one of the highlights of the awards in the animation world, have been announced. It will be no surprise to anyone that the Best Animated Feature category is dominated by major works -- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ( Sony Pictures Animation),  Coraline ( [...]

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