Some time ago I wrote a short piece about my undying love for an old TV show for kids called ‘Round the Bend’ which was an anarchic, irreverent and sublime offering from the late 80’s / early 90’s. It resembled something akin to late night political satire show ‘Spitting Image’ except for kids. Being set [...]
I know, I’m a little late for Halloween. I had great plans to resurrect the site yesterday but horror movies and red wine prevented me from doing so. Still, somehow, the world still turned and dawn rose on another day. So, in typically understated fashion, let’s just say that I am back once again. To [...]
After reading The Guardian’s interview with Mike Judge (which was unfortunately as benign as most Guardian interviews) I was reminded that last year saw the release of a new animated series called The Goode Family, which was written, directed and starred Judge. This news will be greeted by a mixture of enthusiasm and apathy in [...]
It’s rare that any of the Best Picture Oscar winners will ever come as much of a surprise to anyone. Usually they are formulaic crowd pleasers which seem contrived and shallow to people who demand a little more from their movies. The one saving grace of the outdated celebrity parade that is the Academy Awards [...]
Out Of A Forest is a beautiful stop motion animation directed by Tobias Gundorff Boesen, shot on location in some pretty Danish forests. It is set to The National’s ‘Slow Show‘ which suits it perfectly. There were only four animators involved in this project. Four! Given the intense level of graft involved in any stop [...]
A few months ago, I posted a link to the website of Jessica Borutski, a young and highly talented animator who creates some of the most amazing characters. Inspired by Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, she takes the quintessential elements of classic animation and successfully transfers those ethics into a modern form. There are not [...]