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
Via Damien Mulley’s blog, How To Deal With Death. This has moments of genius- watch how the wings linger over the woman, caressing her with each sweep. Beautiful.
