Check out this tailer for a short film called “In the Fall of Gravity”.
This is being made by a guy called Ron Cole, who is basically reinventing stopmotion animation by implimenting cable control to his stop motion puppets. This gives the puppets a really unique look, with facial animation that is more expressive and realistic than anything seen in stopmotion before! Really impressive and inspiring stuff.
Okay “Stardust” FINALLY came out in the UK this week – a film I have been extremely anxious to see due to my love of the source material on which it is based. I’ve always been a big fan of Gaiman’s work, and his original novel “Stardust” was no exception – I just fell in love it, an epic fairytale that quickly became one of my favourite books. And so when I found out a film adaptation was on the way that actually had Gaiman’s blessing (with Gaiman even involved with production) I was very intruiged. Could it possibly do one of my favourite books justice?
Okay, if you haven’t seen this you are in for a treat. “Adventure Time” was a short kids’ animation created for Nickelodeon’s “Random! Cartoons” – a stand alone animated episode that has since outshined its series competition (just check out the number of views on youtube!). It concerns the adventures of boy wonder Pen and his magical dog friend Jake and without further ado, please check it out:
The upcoming adaptation of “Beowulf” is easily my most anticipated film of the moment. For a start it is about time this story had a decent adaptation, a major feature production that ISN’T rubbish. Decent adaptations of the classic Old English saga have been very thin on the ground – the only one I remember enjoying was the “Animated Epics: Beowulf” version for TV. But it was a TV short, not a feature. Beowulf is dark, epic fantasy before fantasy even existed, and it has heaps of potential to be an all round awesome feature film (potential that has not yet been realised). It also looks like they are including the third act of the story, a section that has been frequently omitted from past adaptations, which is great, as cutting it out is like cutting out the last book of “Lord of the Rings”.
