Logan.

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Video game or cinema? The lines are blurred.

Metal Gear Solid injected the world of gaming with stealth, subtlety and cinematic production. It set a precedent for the first person shooter, Snake became a hero to thousands, and smokers around the world delighted in being well represented; the protagonist smoked you see - how else would he manoeuvre around the laser-web alarm systems he’d never otherwise see?

The recent release of the new iPod Nano reminded me of the release earlier in the year of Metal Gear Solid 4. Eh? What does an aging Solid Snake have to do with an oh-so-brightly coloured mp3 player? The answer lies on Venice Beach, LA, at the headquarters of pioneering animation studio Logan. They created the new ads for the Nano, but far more brilliant were the teasers created for MGS4, as well as the opening sequence for the game.

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Categories Design Film Tags Animation games

By on 25/9/08

Fear(s) Of The Dark

Fear(s) Of The Dark

Rusty alleyways and vaporous ghosts.

Rare is the child that will happily kiss goodnight to his parents and head upstairs to bed alone in the dark, too young to reach the light switch as he goes. “No need to come and check on me,” he bleats. “I’ll be fine.” Grown men bristle when the lights go out; women shriek; kids freak. There’s no denying it, human beings just don’t get on too well with the dark. Fear(s) of the Dark, a new animated feature, brings together some of Europe’s leading artists in different disciplines to explore humanity’s frosty relationship with the dark.

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Categories Film Tags Animation Del Toro Film

By on 17/9/08

I MET THE WALRUS

I Met The Walrus

AN INTREPID YOUTH WHO WENT FACE TO FACE WITH AN ICON.

In 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room for a chat. The tapes form the basis for this intriguing animated short.

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Categories Music Film Politics Tags Animation Film Lennon Music The Beatles

By on 12/8/08

BUNNYWOOD

Bunnywood

What if you took a bunch of famous films, condensed them down into thirty seconds, and reenacted them with animated bunnies? Why, you’d get ANGRY ALIEN PRODUCTIONS.

Prepare to waste the rest of today. Favourites include The Exorcist, Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Jaws, March of the Penguins - all of them dammit.

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Categories Film Fun Tags Animation Film

By on 1/4/08

BYE BYE BUZZ

Bye Bye Buzz

Woody and Buzz set the tone. They kicked it all off. We fell to our knees so we might touch the cloak of this magnificent new thing: the Lord of animation; images of the mind rendered in three dimensions.


Oh the possibilities. Oh the brilliance of it. But like any regime, we grew tired.The great paradigm shift was forgotten, and then the improvements became smaller and smaller, and we ceased to care quite so much. Okay, so it’s not quite as black and white as that, but new advances in CGI animation aren’t enough anymore. We are human beings. We crave stories, meaning, emotion, not technological advance, and these are the things that even the simplest animations can support.

 

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Categories Film Tags Animation Film Imagination

By on 12/3/08

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