On Animation: Stephen Spielberg

That's great, Stephen. Now what's your excuse for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

(via Jamaal Bradley)

The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper by graduates of the Gobelins School of Visual Communication in France.

(via Drawn!)

Something for the Weekend: Rings Around the Earth

Yes!

(via Boing Boing)

Happy Halloween!

(via X-Ray Spex)

Something for the Weekend: Cooties

Seeking a dog-faced bean, with a penchant for trivia? Look no further! From Japan, of course.

(via Drawn!)

Something for the weekend

This is pretty awesome.

(via Drawn!)

Milt Kahl's Mowgli

Wonderful to see this pencil test by Milt Kahl, courtesy of Victor Ens's Pencil Test Depot.

(via Drawn!)

Cat Shit One

This looks really interesting. It is a trailer for a proposed 12-episode series based on the manga, Cat Shit One (aka Apocalypse Meow), about American GIs surviving in the combat zone.

(via The Beat)

Brendan and the Secret of Kells

Congratulations to Tomm Moore, Cliodhna Lyons and all at Cartoon Saloon for bringing The Secret of Kells to our cinema screens! It's getting great press and as you can see from the trailer, the artwork is fantastic.

It's out this week. The Comic Cast recently interviewed Tomm Moore. Also check out the beautifully illustrated storybook - a nice helping of Irish graphic history - published by O'Brien, to tie-in with the movie.

(via Forbidden Planet)

Destination Earth

Here is a wonderful, evocative promo for the American Petroleum Institute, from 1956!

(via Internet Archive via Jon K?)

Soyanara salt!

Fighting condiments! Soy sauce kicks salt's ass: kikko-punch! For full enjoyment, listen to the awesome song. The original resides here.

[Flash embedding tutorial courtesy of Tenth of March]

Classic Graphic Novels

I'm on quite a comic/graphic novel kick at the moment, so yesterday I went on a spending spree and bought three classics.

• Black Hole by Charles Burns - an epic about mutant teenagers (aren't all teenagers mutants?)
• Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes - I was wowed by his beautiful artwork, in the ligne claire style.
• Sin City: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller - I read it years ago, but I had to buy it when I found a copy both pristine and on sale (for just €8!) at Chapters. Sin City is an amazing achievement of graphic stylism; if only the stories had a little more heart. Still essential though.

By the way, Charles Burns made a very strange animated advert for Altoids, with music by David Lynch. I loved it, but it didn't make me want Altoids.

Six of the Best! Video-sharing websites

Nothing illustrates the potential of easy-to-use digital video and video-sharing websites, like this incredible animation by Italian grafitti artist Blu.

Here are six of the best video-sharing sites I've come across:

1. Fab Channel - videographies of concerts from a wide variety of acts.
   
2. Vimeo - young pretender to the video-sharing throne!
   
3. Atom Films - comedy shorts and fan films with high production values.
   
4. Hobnox - edit video online and make acid house!
5. Youtube - the granddaddy of them all and an amazing resource. (If only there was a quality filter!)
6. Flickr - with a 90 sec limit on videos, Flickr will soon host videos of a 'photographic' nature.