Attention all vegetables, fruit and spuds of a weak disposition: Look away now! The scenes you’re about to see might have been prepared with the best seasonal animation ingredients but the recipes may contain traces of dark culinary humour and a dash of Dexterian greenery horrors.
Designed/Directed/Animated by Tom Bunker for MTV Gonzo on MTV Rocks.
A while back we passed on the news that Disney had been given the green light on an animated series called ‘Fish Hooks’. Well the series is now rolling out in the U.S. and it will be arriving in the U.K. this month, here’s a little clip, enjoy!
Fish Hooks is a brand new animated series coming to Disney Channel in November! Get to know Bea, Milo and Oscar before it hits your screens!
Now this is a very special work, created by the wonderfully twisted brain of Tom Bland and London based freelance animator and illustrator.
He created this for a short film competition as well as for fun and practise.
The competitions theme was ‘B Movie’ and all entries should be about 3 minutes long. He won the competition but only one other person entered it that time.
Based on the popular Daily Telegraph comic strip of the same name by Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor. BreakThru has worked with Charles and Russell to bring Alex off the page and on to your screens.
Alex has been shot, kidnapped, run over, abducted by aliens and marooned in the Amazon rainforest. He’s endured two weeks as a homeless person on the streets of new York (a team-building exercise), been called to the priesthood by God (he declined) and he’s had vivid nightmares about being a pupil at Hogwarts, of going down with the Titanic and of being employed, ignominiously, as a milkman. For the most part none of these experiences have dented his blinkered complacency or wholly mercenary attitude to life.
Several ‘real’ people have made appearances in the strip: Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Prince William, Nicola Horlic, Martha Lane-Fox, Robbie Williams, and Bill Clinton.
In 2002, creators Charles and Russell were awarded MBEs for services to the newspaper industry. More information about the Alex comic strip is available at the alex cartoon website.
How do you fancy winning an iPod or an online 3D course from Escape Studios?
That’s what they’re offering as a thank you for those who have graduated from a UK university and don’t mind spending 5 minutes filling in their Graduate Survey. Basically, they’re interested in learning about how you got on finding a job, and how well you think your university prepared you for the world of work.
The winner will be revealed in a few weeks’ time.
It feels unsettling because is real and is close to all of us. This animation is a follow up to the award winning short ‘Blokes’ and was animated by Matt Frodsham depicting the word of Mat Lloyd’s poem. They are both tapping into major social issues here, so I am sure it will get all the attention it deserves, and hopefully it will spark some positive reaction, something that goes beyond the exchange of knowing looks between the viewers while they nod in agreement, but then do nothing.
Mat Lloyd says: “I wrote the poem on a canvas with a marker pen the morning after I was attacked.
The night before I was in my local park on the opening day of the skate park I’d helped get built, it was nearly midnight. We’d organised a DJ to play the day out in a marquee and I just popped out to take a leak. In my drunken state I was stumbling to find a bush when I heard, and felt, a sort of ‘boink’ sound. I knew I’d been hit on the back of the head, and I knew it wasn’t with a fist. I don’t remember much else other than being back at the marquee with a bleeding head…”
Matt has kept an in depth step-by-step log about the making of the animation.
Eyes with legs, zombie-like pandas, ghosts with long tongues, crabs, aliens, robots, a singing smartie. Anything you want, you name it! This video has it. Dry Fish is a very special creation by Andy Martin a freelance designer/director based in London. His recent work has included projects for clients like Channel 4, E4, Trouble, Sky One, DDB London, VW, Alfa Romeo, Tesco, and the BBC.
“Sometime you find yourself in a place that you just can’t explain and quite often it can be a little bit worrying. This animated short tells of one such occasion as our hero tries to express his feelings in the only way he can…via the medium of song.”
After an overwhelming response for the 2009 festival Encounters International Film Festival, Bristol, has once again teamed up with YouSendIt, to accept festival submissions digitally. In a bid to decrease waste and make life a lot easier for Filmmakers, with YouSendIt, filmmakers can upload an entry directly through the Encounters web site.
Submissions open 19 April and close on 30 June. This year sees the return of Animated Encounters and Brief Encounters as the two competitive strands. Films under 30 minutes of any genre are accepted, see the Encounters International Film Festival website for full terms and conditions.
My new reel for twenty 10.
I always struggle to make reels. I start off thinking that they’re going to be a load of fun and then slowly the realisation dawns on me that I’m my own worse client. To start with I’ve seen the work an unprecedented amount of time and although I’m pleased with everything I’ve included, I also know where the problems are — almost by timecode. I know what I’m capable of. I know what I’d like to be capable of and I never give myself enough time.
I had a sudden rush to create this reel after a friend and colleague sent a link to my web-site and a promise of a new reel to a Warner Records executive.
Years gone past I would create a montage of the prettiest bits of my work to my favourite track of the month, but last year i made the decision that I would reveal more of the work than try to hide behind a polished promo of bits. I think when putting a showreel together it’s easy to view other people’s and feel nervous that you have not got enough good stuff to include.
I have always been a big fan of the look of 60s American illustration, with very simplistic features that tell o much about the character, a dominant colour on each scene, basic compositions and very accentuated poses. This charming short has it all and it’s all handsomely delivered.
This short animation was commissioned by Faber & Faber to promote the release of Andrew O’Hagan’s novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe.
Robin Davey designed, directed and animated the whole short. The music is Bean Bag by Jeff Curry.
Robin says: “Drawing inspiration from film titles and cartoons of that era and incorporating quotes from the novel itself, I produced this minute long whistle-stop tour of Maf’s early life, tracing his journey from an English farmhouse kitchen to the company of the most famous woman in the world. The piece was conceived as a single sequence without obvious cuts, using colour transitions to reinforce the sense of movement.”
A bit of advice: Select the HD version and play full screen, it’s worth it!