Motion Comic Trailer: The Art of Pho
Julian Hanshaw‘s graphic novel The Art of Pho has been turned onto a motion comic and I’m loving the animated trailer:
[Via FPI Blog]
Amazing Artwork: ‘Night Flight’ by Mattias Adolfsson
This absolutely fantastic piece of artwork is ‘Night Flight’, by Swedish artist and sketchblogger Mattias Adolfsson:
See the original, larger image on DeviantART or check out the incredible detail via Zoom.IT:
…as well as the making-of video:
I absolutely love this kind of massively-detailed illustration. There’s plenty more via MattiasA on DeviantART and mattiasadolfsson.se.
Graphic Novel Trailer: Thomas
This animated trailer is for a graphic novel called Thomas, by writer Michelle Lazzaro and artist Luca Brandi, from Italian publisher Persuna. It looks rather intriguing:
[via a random browse-around on YouTube]
Animation: ‘Vorare’
A short, rather beautiful animation by Tobias Szabo:
[via itsartmag.com]
Animation: The Joy of Books
If you’re in any way bookish, you’ve just got to smile at this:
[via Mark C Newton]
Movie Trailer: A Monster in Paris
This new animated feature sounds more than a little surreal: “An experiment gone bad turns a flea into an anthropomorphic monster (Matthieu Chedid), who eventually meets and is hidden by Lucille (Vanessa Paradis), a singer at the cabaret L’Oiseau Rare, where he develops musical abilities.”
The trailer for which goes a little something like this:
Book Trailer: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
This rather odd and intriguing animated trailer is for The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus:
[via SFSignal.com]
Animation: Electroshock
This is just fabulous:
By Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren of Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques.
[via itsartmag.com]
Movie Trailer: Upside Down
Upside Down: a sci-fi romance about lovers on opposable planets, apparently? Directed by Juan Diego Solanas, starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess, released later this year:
[via sfsignal.com]
Video: Maurice Sendak on the Creative Process
The creator of Where The Wild Things Are talks about his work in a short film for the Tate Channel:
[tate.org.uk/tateshots via i09.com]
Music Video: ‘Change’ by CHLLNGR
Some rather lovely sci-fi-esque visuals in this animated music video for CHLLNGR:
[via www.itsartmag.com]
Musical Interlude: Praise be to Jesus!
Take it away, Mr Tim Minchin (if the video hasn’t been taken down from YouTube by the time this post goes live…)
[Back-story via TimMinchin.com if you haven't heard already.]
And a happy winter holiday season of your choice to you and yours.
Movie Trailer: Prometheus
The official trailer for the new Ridley Scott Alien prequel(?) Prometheus:
[via the PrometheusNews YouTube Channel]
Link: xkcd – Advent Calendar
I know several people who’d give 11:59:58 a damn good go… xkcd.com.
Book Trailer: The Lewis Man, by Peter May
The second part of Peter May‘s Lewis Trilogy from Quercus Books has been trailered with this rather fabulously bleak piece of work:
[via @JoFletcherBooks]
Movie Trailer: The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey
A full year in ahead of the cinema release, so plenty of SFX still to be added, but looking pretty damn good already:
[cheers to Mark C. Newton for the heads-up]
Movie Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises
The final Christian Bale Batman movie hits the big screens next Summer and is being billed as the epic conclusion to the Dark Knight legend:
[via twitchfilm.com]