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I’m a monster

by kartooner on May 21, 2011

This short-film con­cept by Head­less Pro­duc­tions reminds me of some of the ani­mated films I had seen as a kid at Spike & Mike’s Ani­ma­tion Fes­ti­val, like Nick Park’s Crea­ture Comforts.

Road to Perdition

by kartooner on August 5, 2010

Every so often when I’m watch­ing a movie I get the urge to sketch, to cap­ture that par­tic­u­lar moment in the film. As I was watch­ing Road to Perdi­tion the other night I quickly grabbed a note­book, one usu­ally reserved for actual note tak­ing and sketched (…)

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District 9 (review)

by kartooner on August 31, 2009

There’s a scene in Dis­trict 9 when the main char­ac­ter, after endur­ing a lot of pain and humil­i­a­tion, has to make the choice of either run­ning into bat­tle guns ablaze or retreat. He chooses the lat­ter know­ing full well that his actions (…)

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Howard the Duck

by kartooner on July 8, 2009

George Lucas has cre­ated some won­der­ful movies and is unde­ni­ably a vision­ary film­maker, story-teller and influ­ence in the film indus­try. Recently, evi­dence of this has sur­faced in the form of a PDF out­lin­ing the “Raiders” story con­fer­ence. He’s also respon­si­ble for some (…)

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