Watch the Slamdance short 'BOTTLE'

Watch THE RED ,"Do You want to hit your teacher?"

Watch Nick Cross Animated Short THE PIG FARMER

Never Too Old For Sex Education - Teaser trailer for Anime Health And Physical Education For 30 Year Olds (30-sai no Hoken Taiiku)

One of the genres I really want to do a bit more this year is animation and anime in general, covering a little more news/trailers but not really the big mainstream animes. So lets start with an 'educational' well sex education with the trailer for Health And Physical Education For 30 Year Olds (30-sai no Hoken Taiiku). Trailer after break...

WATCH Some Matchstick men in Don Hertzfeldt's WISDOM TEETH

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Don Hertzfeldt has made a name for himself as the crazy filmaker whose made matchstick men famous on the screen but not in a childish likeway but some times violent but 'artistic' way, that it even got him a Oscar nomination. His latest creation WISDOM TEETH making its debut at this years Sundance/Fantastic Fest and is now part of Showtimes  "Short Stories", So sit back and enjoy folks!

Enjoy Ryan J Woodward'a Animated short THOUGHT OF YOU

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You dont see much traditional animation these days but Short movie THOUGHT OF YOU hasn't forgotten its roots. Created by Ryan J Woodward, (Iron Man 2, Spiderman2/3, ) the animation is a love story expressed through figurative drawing mixed with contemporary dance and very pretty watching the animation  express the figures lines when they dance, enjoy the short movie after the break....

Watch Remi Gamietter's CABLE Animated short

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What do you get when you cross a French Sculptor with Dave Cheungs Aeon Flux? CABLE  a short animated feature from  Remi Gamietter which took him over two years to create using no motion capture techniques which the whole feel of the movie a jaggey affair visually similar to Aeon Flux but a little more organic I say, there is a feel of early sega style gaming design too. Nothing spectacular here but its worthy of been watched  as is the artist first short movie.

Seething with rage, a woman dives into the deepest darkness of this world:



a tortured tower made of steel and cables amid which she throws herself headlong to recover her three abducted little girls.

Full short movie after the break....

Waych The Animated Short TEMPLE RIDER (奇廟單車遊)

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Check out with wonderful little 12 minute animated story TEMPLE RIDER(奇廟單車遊). Its a very surreal style of animation which though its in catonese (sorry no English subs) its till wonderful to watch as its in High -Def and even if you cant speak Catonese you'll able to get the grasp of the animation.
To prove how good this little gem is it recently won Hong Kong Regional Award Gold winner and the Encouragement Award winner awards at last months  12th TBS DigiCon6.

The girl in our story (Yan) is a reflection of the new generation in Hong Kong. She is very protective by her family and does not even have the guts to ride on a two-wheel bicycle. One day, she finds a magic temple and her new challenge begins.

movie after the break...

Your Guide To Survive a Post Apocalypse, Animated Short DUCKED & COVERED

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Been a kid of the 1980's and a unfortunate tag of been labelled Thatcher's children, the thought of a nuclear attack from Russia was always driven into our minds a possiblity especially when you have a tyrant dictator like Margaret Thatcher eager to blow us all up. So what if a Apocalypse was pending would you know what to do to survive? No fear not I have the answer below!
Lets put things into perspective no fashion, no sports, tv or any of those treats or things you love to do will all be gone on the aftermath, but like any disaster we must move on and try to survive the best we can and Nathaniel Lindsay has the answer with DUCKED & SURVIVED!
Lindsey's brilliant little animated guide to survival of the aftermath is a hilarious dark look at surviving the holocust everything from fashion styles, weapons, becoming a warlord and funniest of all hw to defend yourself against killer robots!!! The movie has done the festival circuit this year picking up numerous awards including one at the maelstrom film festival in Seattle for best animation, so have a giggle, take notes and watch the full short film after the break.....

Sublime Trailer For Animated PATHS OF HATE

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When comes to animation here in the west we seem to be very one dimensional and play things safe by really only following the big studios like Walt Disney and Dreamworks. Like Hollywood and Independent movie time after time theres proof that going outside mainstream things can be better qaulity and thus people should check out the smaller companies like  Platige Image  from Poland who from the evidence of the trailer are a re studio people should check out as there simply a talented bunch. PATHS OF HATE is a prime example of how underated the studio is, withs it sublime visual style which has been created so beautifully the whole look at times looks realistic.

"Paths of Hate" is a dynamic tale about hatered which is the indispensable element of human nature. Damian Nenow has created a film that matches Visual attractiveness of American action cinema and European reflexive character of author cinema. The audience is being drawn into the middle of a fight, of an unknown origins. The finale of it is a bitter author's comment.

trailer after the break...

Watch Animated Sci-fi Short ELEVEN

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Everyone in there time has had to call some customer service call centre to buy, report or even complain about a product or service and all you want to do is get your point across so you can get some satisfaction but all you get is an automated system that ask you to press thousands of button s before you speak to some one human?! Yes we'v all been there but spare a thought for this guy in the the sci-fi animated short ELEVEN, as he calls for help behind enemylines  and all the automated system does get him into trouble with killer robot getting closer to the helpless man!
The short is only 3 minutes long short but really funny and created by  Anzovin Studio

The animated short and synopsis after the break....

Offical U.K Trailer For MARY AND MAX

Soda Pictures have sent me the offical UK Trailer for the 2009 Sundance clayanimation hit MARY AND MAX in time for its UK cinematic release this Friday 22nd October.

 

The movie is of those ones whilst promoting film festivals it catches your eye and you say to yourself "I hope it gets shown here (uk)" and despite a year on since its 2009 festival circuit it now arrives here in the UK!

 

To celebrate the release of MARY AND MAX in cinemas on 22nd October SODA PICTURES are running a competition on the theme Where do babies come from? Head Over to the movies website for details

 

 

Trailer after the break....

2 New Clips From Sylvian Chomet's THE ILLUSIONIST

Tomorrow in UK & Ireland sees the release of Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist a beautifully drawn animation set inEdinburgh and various beautiful spots around Scotland. The story centre’s around a old style stage magican in the 1950′s whose one of a dying breed of entertainers with the emergance of rock stars stealing his thunder and life is now work coming in the most obscure places. As things seem to be getting bad there’s one little girl, Alice who changes his life forever.

This movie will delight children and adults who love the tradition 2d form of animation which is completely different from the norm of the Walt Disney style but still has that enchanting element from the old disney flick. This is a qaulity film from a qaulity animator in the form of Slyvain Chomet who won 2 oscars in 2003 with his previous movie Belleville Rendez-Vous, so if you enjoyed that animation you’ll love this and if you love the legendary Jacques Tati (whose story this is based on) you really enjoy this.

The movie is on national release in UK & Ireland from tomorrow and Christmas day (25th December) in USA. Check out these two clips from the movie one called ‘Lady Singer’ showning the illusionist trying to win over the crowd and the second called Exercise showning our movies protaganist trying to get himself into a exercise regime!  Clips after the break...

TELPHONEME Short

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This is warped fun! as Cypress Hill once sung Insane in the membraine check out the new animated short from the MK12 gang with TELEPHONE ME animated short. There's not much too say is watch and enjoy!!!


TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Trailer for Thriller Restaurant (Gekijô-ban: Kaidan resutoran )

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It's not just the American's who like to bring Comicbooks to the big screen, the Japanese do to and have probably doing it a lot longer than there Yankee cousins. The trailer below is an fine example of Manga/Anime adaptation of Gekijô-ban: Kaidan resutoran:THRILLER RESTAURANT.
The movie is based on thepopular manga book series that ran from 1996-2007 based on a Kaiden restaurant Obake Garcon (Ghost Waiter) tells horror stories to children. The books have just recently been created into a anime which aired last october and this movie actually is a animtion/live action hybrid with the first 13 minutes all been in animation before converting to live action.
This is basically one for the young teens/kids and its strange that the movies director Masayuki Ochiai is more known for his adult horrors like Parasite Eve, Infection and Hollywood remake of the Thai horror Shutter.

Thriller Restaurant will be in Japanese cinemas from August 21st, trailer after the break...

Trailer For Chinese Anime KSITIGARBHA

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China isn't renowned for been a centre of producing animation,thats animation in the same frame and to the same qaulity as there neighbours Japan . Every so often there always comes a project which could match that qaulity of the Japanese anime masters and below theres a trailer for a movie that could be one of those projects, its called KSITIGARBHA.
The movie has been directed by Wu Hanqing and will be released by Beijing based animation house Vasoon. Visually it does look it does look really great, wait until half way when the action kicks in, the only doubt I have in this movie is the actual story is it good enough as you know a good story is usually a good movie (well 75% of the time!). There's a biggest religious feel to the movie especially Bhuddism  definately one of caution, I would love to get my hands on this movie and many other movies but Im only a blogger!
check out trailer after the break...

A GIANT animation short

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I was a bit unsure how to give this post a title without giving it a dodgy title which sounded like a punt, anyway below is a sweet , simple short animation called GIANT. The movies are only about minute or more long and are part of a series which takes us through the world of giants with a few untold truths & conflict.
Each episode will focus on a different giant and so nice to see something thats kind to the eye, series created by Yann Benedi enjoy...

UK Trailer For Sylvain Chomet’s Animated Feature THE ILLUSIONIST

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Tomorrow Evening in Edinburgh the oldest film festival in the world kicks off, only been 1 hours drive away I’m kicking myself that I couldn’t get my press passess plus the movies I want to see are full, but my work abroad saw I didnt get things sorted. The opening movie will be an animated one and below is the UK Trailer for the movie called ‘The illusionist‘ created by Sylvain Chomet.
Chomet’s visual style is just delightful like the old watercolour/pen drawing traditional style, the storytelling is great as well very inspired by the Great Jacques Tati like his movies Mr Hurlot’s Holiday, just angry I wont be able to see it as well.

The story of the movie is the illisionists are a ‘dying breed’ of entertainer’s been replaced by the in your face rock stars and the main protaganist of the movie meets one of his young fans and his life changes, delightfully simply but very charming. 

Sony Classics will be releasing the movie via the cinemas stateside probally in the autumn as for UK or Ireland there’s no news yet.

trailer after the break...

Teaser Trailer For Stephen Chow's CJ7: The Cartoon

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I just recently got a few glimpses at CJ7 from my friend who likes to delve into the unusal movies from the world I have to say I liked it, was made funnier by the dodgy english voiced dubbing they use as well.What I watched of the movie I have to say im not surpised a cartoon version has been made probably some of the live action version humour will be appreciated better.
Below is the teaser trailer for the animated version which will be out next month in China on July 6th, expect more whackiness/slapstick and if you loved shaolin Soccer there's even a little homage thrown in as well!!!
trailer after the break...

A New Trailer For Studio Ghibli's Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers)

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About 20  years ago its summer morning I get up switch on television I watch this animation which  just stunned me, beautifully drawn, well crafted story which memorised me and it wasn't until about 10 years later did I realise that animation I was watching was Laputa:Castle In The Sky. That day I woke up to Japanese animation and the magic of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
Anytime Anything new from Studio Ghibili is always worth a look and even when someone asks me 'Disney or Ghibili?' always Ghibli! Earlier in the year I posted the first teaser for Karigurashi No Arrietty (The Borrowers) and now another teaser trailer has appeared online. The movie is based on Mary Norton's The Borrowers classic story and the story is based around a family of tiny people who live hidden in a normal humansize house  surviving of 'borrowed' or discarded items.
The movie has been scheduled for a July 17th release in Japan but as for rest of the world no word yet but if they follow what they did for previous releases it could anything from next few months upto 2012 at least for UK & Ireland.

Tell us what you think of the trailer, what it after the break....