We were going to talk about this early 2012 Calarts student films…. we’ve done our own selection in previous years but we weren’t very inspired by this year’s works. Maybe we should however dedicate a few words to …
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Remembering John Halas
From Budapest and his painting studies along with his first animated steps (firstly influenced by Bauhaus’ leading light Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) to his London studio creation in the mid-30s. Not easy years for a Jewish to travel Europe at …
Lupin is back!
With the endless imagination that characterizes Japanese animation do they really, really, really need to do a remake of the classic from the 70s & 80s TV animated series? Posted yesterday and spreading like a virus the trailer that …
↓ La Saint-Festin
Recovering a great piece of French animation by Annelaure Daffis et Léo Marchand now that their new project La Vie Sans Truc is on its final production stage and we expect it to be finished next fall.
AnneLaure & Léo have created this blog (in French only, but you know the wonders of Google translate), so we can follow step by step their creative roadmap… their obstacles, unexpected events, scenario making process, story-board, sound editing, highlights… pretty much everything.
image from their upcoming short
Their new animated short (co-produced by the French national image & animated centre CNC & the cable-TV emporium Canal +) will bring us their unique with those radical graphic cuts & hotchpotch of different backgrounds that made them famous back in 2001 when they released their very first animated collaboration…
After working with Yann Tiersen, releasing their “La Saint-Festin” in 2007, short where a fearful ogre tries to get back his teeth for the annual “Saint-Festin” where each ogre eats a kid, and releasing their “Cowboys aren’t afraid to die” (an spaghetti western animated mix-mash), AnneLaure & Leo are now working on their two new projects: La vie sans truc and a new western: “L’immeuble”.
Hopefully we’ll see them very shortly!