Created by a team of alums from the legendary Supinfocom graphics school, this short animation tells the story of a little boy called Gary who falls in love with a hot older chick. Bringing a new twist to this age-old dilemma, Gary creates an alpha male fantasy with which he hopes to seduce her (suspension … Continued
This blindingly ugly website is the perfect setting for Trailers From Hell, an ever-growing collection of classic-era previews of the “It bites! It stings!” movie genre that are, more often than not, better than the films themselves. Grindhouse Gurus such as Joe Dante (Gremlins), Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead) and Alison Anders (The Fastest … Continued
French-Swiss creative duo Ben & Julia just dropped a charming puppet-animation-analogue hybrid clip for a ditty called 1973 by French pop-rockers Tahiti Boy and the Palm Tree Family. A month-long process of puppet-building, felt-tip painting, animating, and shooting in an Alpine forest leaves us with an irresistibly cute composition of mysterious marine creatures, singing trees … Continued
Under the creative direction of Michael Riley, Shine creates the opening titles for the brand-new HBO project Taking Chance – a movie based on the personal account of a US Lieutenant who accompanied the remains of a young Marine back home to his family in Wyoming. Shine’s main titles are based on handwriting and ink … Continued
Take a minute to enjoy Naked Love: a new online destination exploring the twisted truths of modern-day love in all their gritty glory, on the super-slick website of Robert Redford‘s indie-tastic Sundance Channel. From the mad-as-a-hatter Green Porno antics of Isabella Rosselini to a photo gallery of cult seductresses in the Catherine Deneuve genre, it’s … Continued
Plops is a deliciously absurd rotoscope animation: colorful and pop-arty on the surface, but with with deeper, darker layers of meaning hidden underneath. It’s the kind of subverted surrealism that we find in American b-movies, underground pop culture, subversive comics, and in the art of Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon, to name but a few. … Continued
Egyptian-Swedish creative hotshot and former graffiti hero Tarik Saleh, has kindly shared the first footage of his Kafka-esque animated feature Metropia on Youtube. Featuring the voices of Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis, the film takes place in a grim, futuristic Europe comprising a vast and scary web of inter-connected underground tunnels.
In the same data-moshing vein as Ray Tintori’s recent clip for Chairlift’s Evident Universal, director Nabil just dropped something pixel-morphingly brilliant for Kanye’s new track Welcome to Heartbreak. It looks like there’s a broken DivX codex or some serious keyframe trouble – but that’s the idea. Kanye’s crunchy blippy ditty provides the perfect audio setting … Continued
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles updates with a classic from 1983. Title designer Wayne Fitzgerald created a main title for David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone that doesn’t reveal itself till the very end of a slow paced but suspenseful opening sequence. The now respected title designer Kyle Cooper liked it so much, it made … Continued
David Oreilly, the talented young Irish animator and creator of the insanely popular Octocat series won a Golden Bear in Berlin for his brand-new series ‘Please Say Something‘. Oreilly made 25 episodes of this “30 Second Breakneck Heartbreak Uncut Turbodrama” which premiered this month at the Berlin Film Festival.
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