Tag Archive | "film"

Totoro meets penguin: Ghibli films as old Penguin paperbacks

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Just how lovely are these illustrations? The films of the wonderful Studio Ghibli re-imagined as if they had been old school Penguin paperback editions. Smile inducing work by Jason K, who is selling them as postcard sets on Etsy. (via Live For Films)

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Grendel Teaser

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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I know nothing about this fan-film teaser for Matt Wagner’s superb Grendel series – is it just a trailer, a wish for a the film they’d like to see or is it a teaser for a fan-film they are actually planning to make? It doesn’t really say, but it is still a nice teaser and [...]

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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Denis Chapon created twelve drawings per day between the years of 2008 and 2012; each batch of twelve drawings equated to one whole second of screen time in terms of animation. After three years of this labour he edited them together into this rather cool short animation which, as well as being an enjoyable short [...]

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Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]

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The Eagleman Stag

Monday, May 14, 2012

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A couple of years back I flagged up a trailer for a very unusual and visually fascinating monochromatic animation by Mikey Please, The Eagleman Stag, which was attracting some positive buzz at various film festivals. It went on to glory at the BAFTAs and also scored another gong this spring with the recent British Animation [...]

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The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke

Friday, May 11, 2012

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Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]

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Prometheus – win tickets to the London premiere!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Okay, peeps and fellow geeks, listen up, because we have a remarkable “money can’t buy it” type of prize up for grabs thanks to our friends arranging the screenings of Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated ‘Alien sort-of prequel’ (Sir Ridley notes it started that way but ‘evolved into another universe’)  Prometheus, starring Girl With a Dragon [...]

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Badger animated documentary

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Regular readers will already be familiar with a self-published series of comics featuring Howard Hardiman‘s Badger, the poor little depressed creature that we’ve come to love for the emotional content of the tales and for the beauty of the artwork. Filmmakers Annie Kwan and Helen Omand have been working on a short animated documentary about [...]

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The art of the background artist

Monday, May 7, 2012

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Over on Audrey Kawasaki’s LiveJournal she extolls an often overlooked yet painstaking, time-consuming aspect of creating animation for film – the background artist’s work. While the moving characters in the foreground take most of our attention (as indeed they are meant to, after all) the background details are often just that, a background, which is [...]

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‘D’

Friday, May 4, 2012

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D is a funny short animation from the Chiguire Animation Studios, in which an errant letter D has a bit of a disagreement with a rather fine-nibbed fountain pen across the desk and pages: “D” – animated short film from Closed Eye Visuals | DP on Vimeo.

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The Dark Knight Rises…

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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Okay, we’ve just had the Avengers open and I have to say it was indeed as good as the hype and as good as I had hoped for. Much as I have huge faith normally in Joss a multi-character superhero team flick is not an easy thing to pull off, but he did so and [...]

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Goody Two Shoes

Thursday, April 26, 2012

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I had no idea that comics creator and illustrator Rutu Modan (the acclaimed Exit Wounds and the Jamiliti collection), along with fellow member of the Israeli comics collective Actus Tragicus Batia Kolton, planned an animated series called Goody Two Shoes which would have been about a group of teenage girls in the swinging 60s. Sadly [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Boule et Bill come to the big screen

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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WC Fields warned us so many years ago : never work with children or animals.  Still, a Franco-Belgian film crew is doing just that in the outskirts of Brussels these days, in an attempt to bring the adventures of Boule et Bill to the big screen. These classic one-page gags about a boy and his [...]

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Shaun Tan interviewed

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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The Submarine Channel has a video Skype interview with the excellent Shaun Tan online, cutting between Shaun and scenes from his very fine award-winning animation as well as talking about how he is trying to learn about screenwriting, specifically because he is looking to a big screen adaptation of his own very well received graphic [...]

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Fare

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Jon Haward alerts us to an IndieGoGo campaign for Brit Indy movie Fare, in which an arrogant City businessman struggles to get a taxi late one evening in London, until one cab does pick him up – but you know you are going to go into surreal, fantasy realms when your cab driver taking you [...]

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