Tag Archive | "animation"

Kinky & Cosy

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

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NBM has a couple of short animated videos up to go along with the forthcoming Kinky & Cosy collection by Nix: Kinki & Cosy Video #1 from NBM GraphicNovels on Vimeo. Kinky & Cosy #2 from NBM GraphicNovels on Vimeo.

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Hook, Line and Murder

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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Eben McCue’s short animation Hook, Line and Murder is a simple-looking but highly effective tale where a fishing trip triggers some form of post-traumatic flashback. The art is deceptively simple but it all works perfectly to pack a short, emotional tale into a couple of moments: Hook, Line & Murder from Eben McCue on Vimeo.

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The Paper Girl

Friday, May 13, 2011

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I like Elena Peterson’s short animation of the Paper Girl, a cartoon sketch who isn’t too happy to be left unfinished on the drawing table and sets about finishing her own sketch: Paper Girl from Elena Peterson on Vimeo.

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Star Wars in bits and pieces

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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Joe Nicolosi was talking to his friend Amanda who, it turned out, has never seen an entire Star Wars film all the way through, just bits and pieces. Did she want to watch them, he asked her. Sure, except she knows pretty much what happens, so why bother? So out of interest he asked her [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Arrugas made into an animated feature

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The celebrated Spanish graphic novel, Arrugas, by Valencian cartoonist Paco Roca (who recently got high praise for his El Invierno del Dibujante (The Winter of the Draftsman), is currently being made into an animated feature length film, slated for release in 2012. The book, which was given nearly every graphic novel and comic award going [...]

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Director’s Commentary: Giving the Elbow

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Today we’ve got a not-quite-comics-but-related story for you, direct from the pens and brushes of one of our fave creators, the very fine Oli East. Now we know and love Oli for his wonderful and unusual Trains Are Mint comics (which have been collected by Blank Slate). Regular readers of the blog will also know [...]

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Baman and Piderman

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Baman and Piderman. As Jamie Smart observed on Twitter, how could we not know about this before?!?!? (tip of the hat to Viviane Schwarz for the re-tweet)

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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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