From YouTube: “Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a long history of creating style and poetry unachievable through live action filmmaking. It is a tool for educating, a place for experimentation and play, and a way of telling personal stories that reach the viewer with powerful visual metaphors. ”
From Vimeo: An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead's 'The Music Scene.'
Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
Music by Blockhead.
I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago, it is utterly forgettable, but I was kinda expecting that given it's a story based in the despicable comic of the same name penned by Jeph Loeb (the man is to comics what kryptonite is to Superman, if you know what I mean). That being said, I have to admit that the gorgeous opening titles are a masterful excercise of graphic design and left me wanting to see more of the work created by Sarofsky Corp. for Warner Bros. I pretty much agree with their desciption (below) and it is always lovely to see how influential the work of Saul Bass has become in the field. In overall, it's a well deserved and unexpected homage.
“We created the feature main title for the new animated movie “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies” for Warner Video and DC Animation that tips the hat to Saul Bass. The project is a 2:17 long animated piece that captures the spirit of classic 1960’s film titles. Bold and slightly abstract, the animated twists and turns are geometric references to the power of comic heroes as pop culture icons and a playful lead-in for the graphic novel-style drama to unfold."
Via: The Art of the Title Sequence(You can watch the video in HD there. And if you're a clever cookie you can also download it but you didn't hear that from me.)
Cels from Kyle Baker’s DEXTER Animation for Showtime, a 12-part webisode animated prequel to Dexter named Early Cuts with Michael C. Hall lending his voice to the project.
«Appeal: Appeal was very important from the start. The word is often misinterpreted to suggest cuddly bunnies and soft kittens. To us, it meant anything that a person likes to see, a quality of charm, pleasing design, simplicity, communication and magnetism.»
[Atracción/Encanto: La atracción fue muy importante desde el comienzo. La palabra es a menudo malinterpretada sugiriendo conejitos "abrazables" y suaves gatitos. Para nosotros, significaba cualquier cosa que a una persona le gustase ver, una cualidad de encanto, de diseño placentero, simplicidad, comunicación y magnetismo.]
A couple of minutes ago I saw the first episode of a new animated series in Disney Channel (latinamerica) produced by french studio Xilam and I can honestly say that I fell totally in love with it. Randomly found while I was flipping through the channels it was like anything I have seen before. A stylish, fresh, modern and completely funny cartoon, needless to say is an instant classic to me.
The promotional pic doesn't make justice to the show, trust me.
Vibrant and wisely used colours, kinetic but not frenetic 2D animation and there's something 50's retro about the characters and yet they have anime-like expressions that hook me up immediately. Plus the talent voices, at least in the spanish version, really nailed the personalities.
The show is called 'Mi familia mágica' (but the original name is 'La Famille Féérique' or 'A kind of magic' for the english speaking markets) and it follows the adventures of Tom a boy who works tirelessly to keep his family on track (in the real non-magical world); Willow the Fairy and Gregore the vegetarian Ogre, who are the mother and father in the series; Ferocia, the sharp-tongued witch; His Highness the Toad, who is searching for a magical kiss (in my opinion he has some of the best and most quotable lines in the show, you'll see); and G the genie, who swapped his lamp for a mobile phone."
Heres's the official synopsis:
"In Fairyland, fairies and ogres don't get married. It just doesn't happen! Willow the fairy and her beloved husband Gregore, a reformed ogre, have no choice but to emigrate and settle in the real world with their children Tom and Cindy. And boy are they unprepared! Here in the real world, there is no guarantee of a happy ending, especially when you add to the mix the other dysfunctional members such as Ferocia, the colorful, sharp-tongued witch, or His Highness, the Toad, still in search of that magical kiss. This ill-equipped and maladjusted family of immigrants goes from one blunder to another and it is going to take every ounce of courage and street smarts that Tom can muster in order to protect his family from all the curious intruders, for whom magic is more than a little bit strange!"
So I prompt you to find more about this series no matter if you are not in the 6 to11 target that is aimed.
"This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skills, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain...
and a hundred percent reason to remember the name"
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