Odd, isn’t it, how the marketing of a film involves both the precise identification and targeting of likely audiences, while at the same time trying to maximise its appeal to the broadest possible market. Focusing and defocusing in one go. How wide of the mark this effort can sometimes be.
Now if somebody had [...]
Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band [...]
For some years, the final year students at the Gobelins school in Paris have provided the opening shorts for screening sessions at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival & Market that takes place in early June.
Every day’s proceedings at the festival are introduced with a new short film.
Details of these animated films have been posted [...]
Absolutely extraordinary.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Link to the artist’s website…
While sorting through some papers recently, I discovered a few internal memos from the Richard Williams studio in the 1970’s. These were circulated among staff and freelancers (like me) with the aim of setting the highest standards, team building and flying the flag.
The first of these - the Memo To All Artists - [...]
Should you ever be stuck while trying to recall how to draw a tricky pose, or even a walk cycle, and you haven’t got a lay figure handy, then posemaniacs.com might be just the right online tool for you.
(As usual, click on these thumbnails to enlarge them)
You can rotate all the models clockwise or widdershins. [...]
The Russian Archive Cinema Season (1908 -1925) will be showing in London on the 3rd, 10th & 24th February 2008 at the Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon St, London W1
Tickets: 0871 703 3989
www.curzoncinemas.com
The highlight for animation fans will be The Cameraman’s Revenge, showing at noon on the 24th Feb. Directed by Wladyslaw Starewicz, this 12 [...]
This is a drawing from early in Paul Terry’s career, in the days before he became an animator. He later went on to produce over 1,300 cartoons between 1915 and 1955 including the many Terrytoons cartoons, making him one of the most prolific film producers in history. (Wikipedia)
I found it on the Otis Historical Archives [...]
The online “daily magazine” The First Post is currently showing an exhibition of animation online. It’s described as a festival, but I’m not sure how it could be described as such if you are looking at short animated films on their website, all on your own, and there’s with no-one to go for a [...]
As part of their Masters of Cinema series, independent distributor Eureka Entertainment have recently published three DVDs featuring feature length films by the late French animator René Laloux.
Laloux’s work has championed sci-fi themes, and his skill and vision have created some amazing movies in his 44 year animation career.
His psychedelic sci-fi animated feature Fantastic Planet [...]
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