Tag Archive | "animation"

From our continental correspondent – New Smurfs Failer…

Friday, March 18, 2011

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OK, so this year, two prime Belgian comics will be getting a 3D animation treatment.  When it comes to the Tintin movie, all visuals are closely guarded, and only released one tiny little bit at a time.  With the Smurfs, the producers are a little more daring : after a first teaser, which hardly featured [...]

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Ad Astra

Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Ad Astra is an utterly charming, bittersweet short animation from L. Ash, created from hand-made ink drawings and Photoshop; I think the result is rather lovely and moving (you should also check our her site for some lovely artwork to browse and admire too):

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A Pawful of Dollars

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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It’s the hottestt hiest movie of the year! I’m loving this brilliant short animation, A Pawful of Dollars, which had me laughing out loud, especially with its cast of cuddly toys. Enjoy!

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A retrospective of computer graphics

Monday, March 14, 2011

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1989: BoingBoing points us towards this interesting compilation by Metafilter which picks out a different example of computer graphics (from cartoons, animation tests and video games) from 1988 to today – the resulting contrasts are quite something to look at it. Seeing them back to back like this across some 22 years is a very [...]

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The Guest

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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The Guest is a rather lovely wee short animation from Henrik Malmgren about a lonely old widow who makes a fateful decision after a police shootout drives a crook into her home. I love the style and there’s something rather sweet about it all:

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Anima rocks Brussels again !

Monday, March 7, 2011

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From March 4th through to the  13th, the thirtieth edition of Anima, the International Animation Film Festival of Brussels, will take place, kicking off with The Borrower Arrietty, the latest film from the famed Studio Ghibli (a huge fave of ours – Joe).  Over the next ten days the festival will screen no less than one [...]

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Frozen Time

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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Frozen Time is a cool piece of short CG animation by Polish animators Paweł Rajch and Wojtek Sokołowski, created as a diploma project, set in 19th century Paris and falls somewhere between animation and a comic book, although thankfully not a ‘motion comic’ as such, more an animation where the time in some scenes is [...]

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Angelheaded hipsters burning: poetry, censorship and animation – Howl

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking [...]

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Captain Awesome

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Another cool offering from the Animation Workshop, this time we go down the superhero route with the highly enjoyable Captain Awesome from the team of Ercan Bozdogan, Mikkel Aabenhuus Sørensen, Andreas Husballe, Jonas Mølgaard Jensen, Ninni Munch Pettersson, Lars Kramhøft: Captain Awesome from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

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Mighty Antlers

Monday, February 21, 2011

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Mighty Antlers is an interesting, cool and also slightly creepy and disturbing short animation from Sune Reinhardt, Mikael Ilnæs, Michael L. Fonsholt and Jouko Keskital of the Animation Workshop, have a look: Mighty Antlers from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

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Gag me With a Toon

Friday, February 11, 2011

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LA Weekly’s Style Council reports from Meltdown Comics‘ Gag Me With a Toon 3 exhibition, which features a bunch of artists, including Jhonen Vasquez, Jessicka Adams, Roman Dirge, Jim Mahfood and more. The idea is to create modern art inspired by the classic cartoons the artists remember from childhood, which can lead to works like [...]

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Annie Awards

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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I missed this over the weekend, but the annual Annie Awards for animation took place in LA with awards spread over some 25 categories. Big winner of the night wasn’t Pixar, surprisingly, but DreamWorks with How To Train Your Dragon, which took the coveted Best Animated Feature gong (could that be an indicator of possible [...]

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Paper animation

Friday, February 4, 2011

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Cartoon Brew points us to this absolutely gorgeous short papercraft animation by Mandy Smith about moving house, inspired by a move in Amsterdam. I’m a sucker for all forms of animation, always have been, and as CB points out the papercraft method of animating is still relatively fresh and not so heavily used, so it’s [...]

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From our continental correspondent – happy new year from Moebius

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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It’s still January, which means it’s still not inappropriate to wish one another a happy new year.  And so I would like to draw your attention to the animated New Year’s card that French comics god Moebius created for the Fondation Cartier. 2011 E-Card, by Mœbius Uploaded by FondationCartier. – Arts and animation videos. If [...]

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Best of the Year – Cliodhna Lyons

Friday, January 14, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year is from the very fine artist, animator, comics creator, powering force behind the Irish 24 Hour Comic Day and she’s a champion level hugger to boot, it’s the lovely Cliodhna Lyons: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell [...]

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