Wes Anderson Animation: this short short short was created for Wednesday’s Little Cinema Wes Anderson night in Seven Galway. What a night! It went down a storm and it’s really lovely to see how my silly sense of humour goes down in front of an audience. They were very forgiving. Some day, when I grow … Read more
Here’s my entry to Wednesday night’s Little Cinema Sci-Fi Night titled It’s Always Sunny on Tatooine You might recognise some of the characters situations and events from existing cartoons here that I’ve remixed but there’s a whole heap of fresh stuff in there including a shiny new button for um… Dark Invader. It was such … Read more
Great new out of Kilkenny today: Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board welcomes the news that award-winning Irish animation company, Cartoon Saloon and Canadian firm Mercury Filmworks will launch Lighthouse Studios—a new venture, focused on 2-D animation, that will create 140 jobs in Kilkenny over the next three years. Supported by the IDA and … Read more
This is a guest post by DT Finn, who’s doing some brilliant stopmotion satire on his YouTube channel. I asked him to explain a little about the process of making the clips. I started Cutbacks almost two years ago, furious at what was happening with Lisbon and with Mister Cowen’s government. The stopmotion characters are … Read more
Apparently Matt Buck had this animation out within minutes of Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday. As a cartoonist I find that fascinating: the internet and specifically blogging have condensed the reaction time to events even for political cartoonists. And it’s no mean feat either, it’s a full-on flash animation rather than a static image. Great, more … Read more
