Sweet! Our beloved friends at Champagne Valentine just dropped a deliciously Tim Burton-flavored bonkers tea party spot on Vimeo for us all to flavor / savor. Featuring magical moving cakes made from all your fave Burton characters, miniature mischief-makers, and a custom remix of Danny Elfman film scorage, we recommend you keep it in your … 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
Not dissimilar to the aforementioned Panic Attack home-made sci-fi short which propelled a Venezuelan unknown to instant Hollywood gazillionaire status (almost), this very slick YouTube-premiered movie makes your eyes boggle in a “they NEVER made this with a 5k budget” stylee. A dashing young fellow known as The Raven utters just one word (the ever-pertinent … 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
Six months ago the Etappes published a superb video of the making of the Oscar-winning short on Vimeo. Very worthwhile even if you don’t speak French. There are clips of the animatic and character studies. Logorama creators Ludovic Houplain, Hervé de Crécy et François Alaux of H5 discuss logos and reappropriation.
Us SubmarineChannelers went on a little outing last night to a fancy old-school theatre, where a host in patent leather shoes and a dickie-bow took to the stage to MC through the night of YouTube selects to a packed audience of discerning, middle-aged theatre-goers.
In a sublime fusion of animation techniques – with just the right amount of live action thrown in – Kanizsa Hill is visual poetry in its purest form. The captivating, surrealist narrative of this animated short was conceived and created by young L.A-based filmmaker / power puff Evelyn Lee. As she draws us into the … Continued
Our absolute fave of the Oscar nominations for “Best Short Film (Animated)” is Logorama. Built by the Parisian collective of creative hotshots known as H5, it takes viewers on a spectacular voyage of high-speed car chases, human drama and hot sexiness, in a world where everything is made entirely of familiar brand logos (ain’t that … Continued
It’s crowd-sourced, inter-galactic buffoonery and you KNOW we like that! Have you always harboured a niggling suspicion that you can give George Lucas a run for his money? Now is the time to prove it! Log yourself in to Starwars Uncut, select one of the (rapidly depleting) 15-second Star Wars scenes still available and replicate … Continued
We stumbled upon (as in ACTUALLY stumbled upon) this special little animated journey of self-discovery, which boasts visual style that moves seamlessly from a Beavis/Butthead-like trippy glitch, to a retro-lovely pixel paradise, to a geometric fantasy sundae. With all the sumptuous sensationalism of a Disney cartoon, the story administers a classic fairytale teaching in a … Continued
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