Graham Annable has teamed up with Telltale Games to create a new iPhone and iPad game – Puzzle Agent. The game ended up winning the award for Best iPhone Game at E3. Here’s a humorous trailer:
And I also spotted several behind-the-scenes pieces focusing on Annable and his craft, including this one that discusses Annable’s inspirations.
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After Monday’s post of the Gobelins student film Smoke My Christmas, I was thirsty for more. This morning, I drank in Jean-Luc, an equally wonderful film, that is infused with the rubbery lunacy that made me fall in love with animation in the first place. This traditionally-animated short was directed by Arthur Peltzer, Fabien Guillaume, Jean-Baptiste Maligne, Jerémy Macedo, Julien Daubas and Paul Nivet, third year students at the French animation school. It’s a fast-paced romp about a video game nut named Jean-Luc who suffers a seizure, only to be rescued by an amorous, dashing doctor.
…. and here’s a slideshow Paul Nivet put together of the development process behind the short.
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From the folks at Bird Box Studio and BBC Comedy who brought us Blues, and Ice Creams, had this little gem hidden away until now. Ok, maybe not hidden, but we just stumbled upon this short called Duel.
Credits Include:
Writer and Animator – Ant Blades
Producer – Jon Petrie
Exec Producer – Ash Atalla
Don Hertzfeldt, the Academy-Award nominated animator, continues to work on his trilogy, which so far includes Everything Will Be OK (2006) and I Am So Proud of You (2008). The third segment is apparently in the works. Clips are hard to come by, but this summer a segment from I Am So Proud of You was revealed on YouTube. The short won Best Picture at the Fargo Film Festival.
Brand New School recently teamed up with illustrator Meg Hunt to produce this stylish station ID for Cartoon Network.
Timothy Chan lead a small team of his fellow Sheridan College students through the production of Garra Rufa (Doctor Fish). The dialog-free, traditionally-animated short utilizes a fairly abstract metaphor to illustrate the methods of a psychiatrist who is battling his own emotional problems.
David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt’s traditionally-animated Slim Pickings Fat Chances is currently on the festival circuit, bringing the ol’ Looney Tunes flavor back. It’s the story of two saloons in a small town squaring off for customers. Take ya back to the gold old days, doesn’t it? Brunt and de Rooij are students at the Willem de Kooning Adacemy in Rotterdam.
