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Posted on 04.05.09 by Widge @ 6:30 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Night of the Living Dead has had just about as much stuff happen to it as can happen to a film. It's been colorized. It's been remade twice (once with mostly negative results by Tom Savini and another time in 3-D). It's been revised. It's been the flagship of a genre, it's been the flagship of a franchise. It's had not only movie sequels, but comic book sequels (the UK one written by Clive Barker, in fact--it's not bad). I personally think it would make a great opera. And I'm not kidding. But now somebody's remaking the film--with animation. Basically they're rotoscoping it (translation into layman-speak: Ralph Bakshi) into a shot-for-animated-shot reworking. While the idea of doing this film in color at all is anathema to me (I could go on and on about what a gorgeous example it is of black and white filmmaking), I am intrigued about the idea of doing this (I assume with new images and the existing dialogue) just because it's so goddamn weird. Just so long as Ben (pictured) doesn't get a trusty talking animal comic relief sidekick, I think I'm willing to give this a chance. Thoughts? Found via Cartoon Brew. For more info, check out the filmmakers' blog here. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 03.24.09 by Widge @ 5:29 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. Just received word from my friend and yours, Craig Kausen--via his blog about his granddad, Chuck Jones, which we threw your way before--that Turner Classic Movies is debuting a new docu on Mr. Jones, "Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood." That's happening tonight at 8PM EST. Which, you know, is pretty cool. But the really badass bit is that following the docu, you get a barrage of animated shorts until 3am. Fan-tastic. For more information, go check out the Chuck Redux Blog or the program's page on TCM. And to whet your appetite (and because we love excuses to post Chuck Jones cartoons), here's one of the ones they're leading off with: "Elmer's Candid Camera" from 1939. Don't panic if Elmer and Bugs look different than their later model sheets...remember, friends: 1939. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 03.17.09 by Widge @ 11:49 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. St. Patrick's Day is almost over for another year, but how could we resist sending it on its way with this after being reminded of it by Mr. Paul Dini via Twitter? Directed by Chuck Jones, story by Michael Maltese, voices by Mel Blanc...fantastic. I did not realize this (and it's on Wikipedia, which is suspect, of course, but...) but it says it's the last cartoon in which Porky Pig was the only major character, i.e. he didn't get co-billing. Direct link for the feedreaders. This cartoon is available on Volume One of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. You can snag yours here. It's currently 60% off. Nice. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 03.03.09 by Widge @ 3:01 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Craig Kausen is a guy who's started a blog about his grandfather. Which is pretty cool considering his grandfather was Chuck Jones. He's sharing numerous goodies, including my favorite thus far--a tale of Jones' sixth birthday party...here's a snippet of how he tells it: The first surfacing of that part of my character that was later to show up in Daffy Duck occurred at the age of six. My sixth-birthday party, to be precise. I was immensely proud--it seems to me that all my life I have taken the most pride in things over which I have little or no control. Even though I had older sisters, it never occurred to me that anyone had ever become six years old before, and the splendid cake, candles bravely ablaze in salute to my maturity, was ample evidence that I had entered into manhood.
The story proceeds from there...here's the rest of it. And it comes with a recipe for Tiramisu Toffee Torte as well. Now this is a blog we can get behind for numerous reasons. Found via Misce-Looney-ous. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 03.01.09 by Widge @ 4:41 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. Every frame of an animated film is a different work of art because somebody had to make that grimce, or eyeblink, or reaction shot...or the frame that leads into one of those things. I think about the time and effort it takes to create anything animated and think I was pretty sane to go into moving words around on paper. Still, I have a lot of respect for the sort of mad genius it takes to do animation. And here we've got a particularly mental case: Reza Dolatabadi, who decided to animate a film comprised of full-on paintings and spent two years creating over six thousand of them. Total headcase. Still, the results are fascinating: Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Animation
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