The title sequence of the not so average triad movie Run, Papa, Run by art director Henri Wong of Parabucks revolves around the recurrent nightmare of the main protagonist. Wong combined hand-drawn animation with re-drawn live action footage and photo collage to create the titles. “I try to give audiences the feeling of rawness,” says … Continued
Damaged Goods brings to life Barnaby Barford’s much-loved ceramic figurines, in a 9-minute love story that has (drumroll please) shattering consequences. Made possible by Animate Projects, this short film merges the boundaries between art and animation and would, like many others in the Animate repertoire, sit as comfortably in a contemporary art gallery as it … Continued
This little lady sure loves her watermelons! She slips into her finest lingerie and bathes in pink juice before deigning to eat of her beloved fruit. Such goings-on are run-of-the-mill in the spellbinding world of London-based director Woof Wan-Bau, where film and animation cohabit in perfect harmony: an irresistably dreamy suspended reality which will have … Continued
Motion designer Laurent Brett, who you might know from his outstanding title sequences for Sky Fighters, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and Hostage, shows yet another side of himself with the end credit sequence for French war movie Intimate Enemies. More subtle and contemplative than his previous work, Brett created a sequence that seems … Continued
This week is Hoogerbrugge’s week. Besides the release of his monograph, Hoogerbrugge just announced the launch of the new Prostress website. Prostress 2.0 is a follow-up to his 2006 web project “designed to explore a cure for the painful side effects of the human condition.” Prostress 2.0 seems to expand on that concept, albeit without … Continued
Every year TENT. – an art space in Rotterdam – presents the TENT. Academy Awards. This is a competition between the best graduation videos, films, shorts and animation from the Dutch art academies. This year the winner of the Public’s Choice Award was Edward Cook with his short documentary on a hotdog stand. Yael Assaf … Continued
Hollywood loves China. In the year of the Beijing Olympics, several movies with a Chinese theme are released. (See also the title sequence of “The Mummy 3“). Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks’ latest animated blockbuster, tells the story of a lazy panda bear named Po who, against all odds, becomes a Kung Fu warrior. The end … Continued
Director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) was reportedly more than pleased with Airside’s animated opening and closing titles for the successful BBC TV pilot of the comedy/drama The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – the last film project before he died in March this year. Minghella said that Airside’s work was “meticulous, perfectly judged, beautifully executed … Continued
Intelligent Eye Candy The progressive British DVD label C0C0S0L1DC1TY operates in the vanguard of the audiovisual arts. Pronounced Coco-Solid-City I guess, this label is not about eye candy alone. It’s about fostering high brow collaborative projects between visual artists – animators, designers, filmmakers and the like – and (electronic) musicians that actually have something to … Continued
The title sequence for The Poker Club – a movie scheduled for release later this year – is a classic thriller opener. The score, the color scheme, the gun of course, and the splatters of blood all spell out MURDER! New York based motion designer Dan Savage got his inspiration from the details of the … Continued
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