The fifth and last short film made by the 2nd Year Gobelins students’ work has been shown as the curtain raiser at the Annecy International Animation Festival.
It’s titled “Jelly Sunday”. (Believe it or not)
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This short seems to me to have strong influences from John Kricfalusi and Bill Wray
The mix [...]
DODUDINDON made its debut at the Annecy International Animation Festival today.
It’s the fourth of a series of films by students from the Gobelins School of Communication, in Paris.
The production crew, Lucrèce Andreae, Julien Chheng, Tracy Nowocien, and Rémy Schaepman, have concocted a story of a plucky young turkey who wants to woo a buxom lady [...]
The rays of the sun wake FENRIR the wolf from a millennial sleep in the tangled roots of the colossal tree Yggdrasil, and from its topmost branches he attacks the sun. Behind him, a hero appears ….
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The action is fast and furious in this film, with some astonishing [...]
In just over a month it will once again be time for the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. This year, for some reason, it will be called “Annecy09“. (How do they come up with these crazy names, eh?)
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Here’s a crop of this year’s festival poster. (The rabbit is [...]
The Haunch of Venison Gallery in London used to be The Museum of Mankind, a fabulous treasure trove of ethnological exhibits housed in the same building as the Royal Academy Schools, where I spent two years life drawing and cast drawing so long ago.
The museum has upped sticks and moved house to The British [...]
20 February, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Test your attitudes and knowledge about liberty, privacy and rights using this interactive test on the British Library’s website.
The accompanying exhibition continues until the 1st of March. Only 9 days left! Use it as an informative warm up for the Convention on Modern Liberty taking place on the 28th of February.
(Via Jeremy Barr)
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8 February, 2009 – 2:01 am
You probably know all about The Government Art Collection (GAC), that contains some 13,000 paintings and other works of art.
The majority of these British based artworks have been paid for by taxpayers. Others have been added to the collection by gift or by bequest.
There’s no point in clicking this image to [...]
12 November, 2008 – 2:58 am
An art exhibition featuring work by 26 of London’s animation stars kicks off on Monday 17th of November (Private View) and continues until the 22nd of November. 11am – 6 pm.
Waterloo Gallery Baylis Road Waterloo London SE1 7AA – Very close to London Waterloo station.
Brendan Amphlett Jen Arthur [...]
3 January, 2008 – 12:19 am
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 [...]
7 October, 2007 – 1:48 am
This amazing series of prints by Emily Allchurch turned up on Art Knowledge News recently, and I was immediately captivated by the mixture of wit and seriousness behind these large backlit prints.
They are based on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s (1720-78) famous series, Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), first published 1749-50, and give us a sharp reminder of [...]