Chris Ware, best-known for a series of comics called the Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, has produced another amazing piece of work. Brimming with geometric comic charm, this short story is narrated by the “husband and wife” and serves as an animated opening for This American Life, a 15-year-old, … Continued
It’s a remarkable paradox. How can something so explicit and elementary be so subtle and elegant at the same time? We are talking about the collection of pictograms that was designed by the German artist Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and which is now published online for everybody to study in minute detail. Arntz was connected to … Continued
An interview to read, this time. Piet Parra is one of the hippest illustrators in Holland. He’s also in a band called Lele (of Lele’s “Breakfast” by Parra and Sandder). His hand-drawn art work has graced many a flyer and poster, as well as big brand campaigns, CD covers and the T’s of his Rockwell … Continued
A wonderful blog that goes by the name of Snacked has compiled a list, or at least, attempted to compile a list, of Sweded movies. Definition according to the Urban Dictionary: 1. Sweded; The summarized recreation of popular pop-culture films using limited budgets and a camcorder. The process is called sweding. Upon completion the film … Continued
We’re featuring three title designs by self-taught animation and stop-motion director Balder Westein from Amsterdam. The animated main-on-end credits for the kids movie Gruesome School Trip (Originally De Griezelbus) have an almost Burtonesque feel to it. For Pluk van de Petteflet, Westein created a collage-like sequence featuring caricatures of the actors. The brand-new titles for … Continued
This new Chunk “Breakfast” is director Sandder’s fourth video for the brand-new band Lele. The art work for the video was done by another band member, who also happens to be one of the hippest illustrators in the Netherlands: Piet Parra. The result of the Sandder/Parra cooperation is an original, funny and raunchy video for … Continued
In the new animated film Waltz with Bashir, lead animators Tal Gadon and Gali Eldelbaum manage to bring to life the dark past of Ari Folman – former Israeli army soldier turned award-winning film director. The film just celebrated its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as the first animated documentary. Ari Folman takes … Continued
The new Arthur Jones short (the genius of Post-It Note Stories fame) is called ‘I Like Jessica’. It’s an animation of a phone conversation between author Rodney Rothman and the first girl he ever kissed, way back in Junior High. You simply must check out the cheeky conversation. ‘I Still Like Jessica’ was commissioned by … Continued
A big shout-out to Run Wrake! He completed a new short and what a nice one it is. Just like his Rabbit, that extraordinary little gem about two kids that slice up a rabbit and won’t live long to tell it, The Control Master is an animation that consists entirely of vintage images. The children’s … Continued
Must be something in the air (or in this case, something in the cosmos). Some of the most original, most talented and most wanted animators around have all completed new works recently. We just posted two stories about a new Run Wrake short and the latest works by Bryan Arthur Jones. And now Fons Schiedon … Continued
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