Tag Archive | "animation"

Little Tombstone

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Now this short animation really made me smile – Little Tombstone by Azais Frédéric, Di Malta Théo, Leymonerie Benjamin and Quillet Adrien is another product from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA), and is based around that classic staple of the Western genre, the shoot-out in an appropriately dusty frontier town. But it’s more [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Eric Khoo

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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This is something of a first for our Director’s Commentary feature today – we have an actual director as our guest! We’ve mostly used this feature for comics and books (although Oli East also talked us through creating his animated video for Elbow), allowing writers and artists to talk us through some of their new [...]

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Birdboy

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Birdboy is a Goya Award nominated short (and often disturbing) animation from Spain written and directed by Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez, animated at the Postoma Studio:

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Alex’s audio round up

Friday, January 13, 2012

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As we stride into 2012 resplendent in the new winter jumpers our aunties bought us for Christmas here’s Alex Fitch with news of his upcoming comic and film related shows; as ever check the newly revamped Panel Borders site for more info and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Collier’s War, Resonance FM [...]

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Tatsumi exhibition at the ICA

Friday, January 13, 2012

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London’s ICA will be screening the excellent new Tatsumi film by Eric Khoo, based on the work and life of the legendary manga creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi, from today. And alongside the film screenings the ICA is also hosting a free mini exhibition of work which includes never before seen material, concept art and new illustrations [...]

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The joy of books

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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This is a wonderful short stop-motion animated film created by Toronto’s Type Books; as the lights are turned off and the bookstore closes for the night, the books come to life and begin to move around (as a bookseller I am quite sure some of them do just that when we’re not looking). I especially [...]

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Electroshock therapy!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Darren at the Genre Files points us to this fabulous short animation in French (with English subtitles) from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques‘ Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren. In time honoured tradition a hapless dweeb has a serious accident that gifts him with superpowers – he determines to [...]

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The Flame Alphabet

Monday, January 9, 2012

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There’s a bit of a buzz among some of the science fiction reading crowd at the moment over the new book by Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet. As with the well received Pontypool it posits a situation where one of the most uniquely developed faculties that make humans what they are – complex language – [...]

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Alex’s Audio Round Up

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Windsurfing in on the recent gales comes Alex Fitch with news of the comics, film and sci-fi aural goodness with this new shows for the New Year; as ever check the (newly redesigned) Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Clear Spot: Cult animation, Tuesday 10th at 8pm on [...]

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Pingu’s The Thing

Friday, January 6, 2012

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This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

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Tatsumi

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Tatsumi Directed by Eric Khoo Zhao Wei Films/The Match Factory Singaporean director and former comic creator Eric Khoo debuted his homage to legendary Japanese comics creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last spring, an animated feature which draws largely on Tatsumi’s much-acclaimed A Drifting Life (published in English by the good folks [...]

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Animated Steranko

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Kerry Callen animates some classic comics covers, including one of my all time favourites (and probably one of the best comics covers ever) Steranko’s iconic Nick Fury 60s superspy cover (via the Comic Cast):

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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… and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. I have adored Tom’n'Jerry (and Daffy, Bugs, Droopy et al) since I was a wee boy watching them with my dear dad (we both still love them, some things you never grow out of) – not just so funny, but so full of character [...]

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The Artists

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Sean Mullen’s The Artists is a cool little short animation, a pair of artists (as you might infer from the title) painting outdoors, their easels side by side, lose sight of their art as they grow increasingly competitive:

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Monkey Moon

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Emmanuel Gatera’s Monkey Moon is a short but sweet animation – an innocent monkey is enjoying a banana in the jungle when wham! Bam! Captured and shanghied into the space programme before he knows it:

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