Tag Archive | "animation"

Is the Simpsons in trouble?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Den of Geek asks if venerable animated sitcom The Simpsons is in trouble and perhaps even potentially facing the final curtain. Fox is apparently keen that the show’s stars take a substantial pay cut from their not inconsiderable pay, which apparently run into the millions for each series (nice work if you can get it!). [...]

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What Light

Monday, October 3, 2011

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What Light is a very clever variation on stop-motion animation by Sara Wickens, using sunlight and various household objects to create a superb short animation on the Future Shorts YouTube channel (via Gawker and Adam Savage):

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Sheeped Away

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Junaid Chundrigar spent 7 months working on Sheeped Away, with the aim of making a short animated cartoon that could appeal to all ages – I think he did that very well and certainly put a smile on my face with this lovely little tale of a farmer who loves his sheep and is trying [...]

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Brick + Mouse + Kat = animated Krazy Kat

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Fantastic stop motion animation of Krazy Kat, except, just like Drawn point out, probably better with the sound off. (Direct You Tube link) (Via Drawn)

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Gilliam on his classic Python animation

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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I somehow missed a link to this video which combines a couple of my very favourite things: animation and Monty Python, as the great Terry Gilliam from the mid 70s discussing his method of cut-out animation (from Cartoon Brew via Bloghorn):

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M.I.C.

Monday, August 29, 2011

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M.I.C. is an interesting looking short science fiction film from Casey Pyke, “set in a future where robots are used as weapons of defense and attack, the two soldiers have to come to come to accept each other in the face of bodily disfigurement, revenge and corruption.” Filmed against a green screen the movie has [...]

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The Legend of the Scarecrow

Friday, August 26, 2011

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This short animation comes, like the lovely one yesterday, from Carlos Lascano. However this one has a voice over, but it isn’t in English (not certain, but sounds like Spanish perhaps?) and sadly there are no subtitles either, but I’m sharing it on here with you because to be honest the language really doesn’t matter. [...]

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A short love story in stop motion

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Now this short, mostly stop motion animated movie by Carlos Lascanos is simply gorgeous – a young girl sketching at her desk, idly daydreaming. A couple of birds she is drawing take flight out the window and through her young dreams of romance, a life loved with the right person into old age, in just [...]

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In August

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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In August is a very cool-looking fifteen minute animated short that took some two years to complete, written and directed by Andrés Barrientos and Carlos Andrés Reyes and well worth a look: En agosto from Andres Barrientos on Vimeo.

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Space Travel According to John

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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I am loving Jamie Stone’s very unusual animation Space Travel According to John, which according to his own comments was created using the medium of – wait for it – washing powder! Genius: Space travel According to John from Jamie Stone on Vimeo.

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Immortality is……

Sunday, August 14, 2011

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(Direct You Tube link) News from Dave Lander (Lando – of the Decadence collective – whose comics we covered back here) of a new animated vid – a collaboration with US rapper Sole and The Skyrider Band. Impressive sci-fi hand drawn animation going on there. From Lando: “The song and video deals with the idea [...]

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Moon Diary

Monday, August 8, 2011

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Moon Diary is a lovely piece of animation in which a child-like Moon keeps a diary of his lonely days, created by Curtis Randolph and Charlie Dougherty, based on the comic by Erin Tanner: Moon Diary from Curtis Randolph on Vimeo.

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La nuit de l’ours

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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La nuit de l’ours is a very stylish and lovely short animated work by Alexis Fradier, Julien Regnard and Pascal Giraud for their La Cambre Animation Workshop in Brussels, well worth a look: la Nuit de l’Ours from Alexis Fradier on Vimeo.

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The Shell Show

Monday, July 18, 2011

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Let’s start the working week with some comics-themed fun animation – The Shell Show! The Shell Show: The Punisher from The Shell Show on Vimeo. The Shell Show: Thor from The Shell Show on Vimeo. The Shell Show: Green Lantern from The Shell Show on Vimeo.

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Moore gets animated at the Barbican

Friday, July 15, 2011

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As part of the Barbican’s Watch Me Move season of animation they invited Alan Moore and music producer Paul Smith to contribute. Parissima from the Barbican tells us that they gave both of them complete artistic freedom to come up with their own event for the series and the result is a “tribute to the [...]

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