akira 2011
Posted by dermot on December 3, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hm. The anime classic “Akira” is being remade for an American audience - to be released in 2011. I’m not a big anime fan, but this bodes ill. Will we even be alive in 2011? The jury is out on that one. Here’s a “preview”:
the mysterious stranger
Posted by dermot on December 2, 2008 at 1:55 pm
From Will Vinton’s claymation film, “The Adventures of Mark Twain”. The children meet Satan - who can do no wrong:
mark twain: war prayer
Posted by dermot on December 1, 2008 at 12:46 pm
An animated apaptation of Mark Twain’s “War Prayer”, written as a protest against the jingoism leading up to the U.S. - Filipino war in the early 1900s.
Part 1:
Part 2 (with a little blood):
my documentary: energy slaves
Posted by dermot on November 28, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Here’s a short scene from my work in progress. It’s a half hour long animated documentary about oil, energy and growth:
The animation of the man is taken from one of the old propaganda cartoons from the 1940s. I reanimated it in Flash, which allows me to resize it, and to reuse it in the second part of the clip.
I’ll post more clips soon.
she who measures
Posted by dermot on November 27, 2008 at 10:01 am
She Who Measures is an eerie piece about the consumer society.
Polish SF writer Stanislaw Lem dealt with this theme many years ago (long before “The Matrix” films) in his book “The Futurological Congress”. Don’t read this link if you’re going to read the book, as it contains spoilers:
mickey: downsized
Posted by dermot on November 20, 2008 at 12:11 pmI did this short piece as a going-away present to Disney back in 2006, when myself and three co-workers were “downsized”: