Lonesome, autumn/spring/summer/winter (insert as appropriate), afternoons are made infinitely better by sharing a banana and a boogie with a supercute monkey in a nostalgia-drenched, papercut, dreamland. You Were in My Dream is a brand new, big-dollar winning, interactive animation project by Australian artists Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine. The project takes your pretty face and … Continued
Fast-paced, violent, loud, in-your-face and brilliantly executed. That just about sums up PIC‘s opening title sequence for The Final Destination. The perfect introduction to the fourth installment of a successful horror movie series. We discussed the ‘Making Of’ in an email interview with art director Jarik van Sluijs and executive producer Pamela Green of this … Continued
With a title akin to the standard motion picture gauge which has remained unchanged since 1892(!), 35mm is a fun guessing game in the form of a 2-minute animation by one German-Italian Pasco Monaco. It features no less than 35 classic movies, pulled together under a rather pleasing series of ultra-simplistic visual emblems (like a … Continued
Playing on the frankly ridiculous moniker given to American-led military actions since the 90s, Coalition of the Willing is a damn goodlookin’ collaborative animation that venerates the potential power of the swarm offensive (a.k.a collaborative, open source, tech-hippy-type activism) as the answer to all our “we all gonna die of over-consumption” issues. Written and directed … Continued
“Just how insanely eye-popping can one B-Grade film get?” That was the question posed by CGSociety for this year’s B-Movie CG Challenge. Design teams from all over the world competed for hardware and software prizes as well as the exposure with their home-concocted imaginary, freaky-amazing-shock-horror movie trailers and poster designs.
That and feathered fans are just a few of the Neo-Burlesque references in Deubal’s bouncy animated title sequence for the award-winning French movie On Tour (Tournée en Francais) – a road movie about a troupe of American Neo-Burlesque dancers touring France. And when you’re a title designer working with such fancy credits as Kitten on … Continued
Coming right up: a feature-length 100% 8-bit pixel animation about aging 80s rocker Roddy Stones and his troupe of cling-ons, as they try to save their beloved recording studio from the predatory hands of their evil arch enemies. Against a synthesized 80s soundtrack, cameo appearances from the likes of Adam Ant, Lipps Inc, and a … Continued
Animations rock! But we already knew that, and so did you. The mighty film selectas in Cannes, however, are only just beginning to grasp this it seems. As someone mentioned in an opening speech at the Semaine de la Critique’s launch party, it was Logorama’s winning the Oscar for short animation feature that encouraged the … Continued
Pixellated creatures that you might recognize from your 1980s 8-bit repertoire invade the Big Apple, in this glorious animation by French superbot Patrick Jean. With Tetris-towered levels of satisfaction, we follow the beloved Kong Donkey and his chums (Pacman, Space Invaders and other usual suspects) in an orgy of cubic fractal mischief, to an exquisitely … Continued
Ooh yeah we love it when two worlds collide! A Spanish creative known as Hexagonall re-creates title sequences for new stuff in the style of title sequence über-lord Saul Bass (who we often bang on about in our Forget the Film, Watch the Titles musings). Complete with the Lalo Schifrin-esque intro music, he’s done super-sweet … Continued
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