Animation

The History of Everything, In Wondrous Stop-Motion Street Animation

It’s hard to imagine Italian artist BLU producing a more involved work than 2008’s astonishing MUTO street animation. And yet! “Big Bang Big Boom” tackles the history of life itself in frame after glorious frame of wall-painted animation. It’s unreal. https://gizmodo.com/muto-is-among-the-more-astounding-videos-weve-seen-onli-5021854 The effect is essentially stop-motion: a still image is painted on a wall, photographed,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 7

Bender’s Delivery Service: If Hayao Miyazaki reimagined Futurama

What if the animated show Futurama came from the brilliant brain of anime director Hayao Miyazaki? It might look a little something like this. We love an earthy Bender! But is his “body matching his brain?” [Bouletcorp via /Film]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 7

Korea’s taekwon-do-practicing giant robot gets a Transformers-style makeover

The live-action movie of Korea’s animated classic Robot Taekwon V has been in the works forever, but it’s finally coming in 2011. And some new concept art shows that the taekwon-do-champion robot could look a lot like Michael Bay’s Transformers. It’s not surprising that this newly released Robot Taekwon V concept art looks Transformers-ish, since…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jul 7

First trailer for Space Pirate Captain Harlock film washes up

Check out the impressive space battle happening in Space Pirate Captain Harlock’s CG-animated movie trailer. The detail is there, right down to Harlock’s larger-than-life facial scar and the massive skull mounted on the front of his ship. The trailer was screened at the Tokyo Anime Fair, but all we’ve seen thus far are a few…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 30

Futurama leads Comedy Central to its best Thursday night ever

Comedy Central gambled on bringing back Futurama, and it’s already paid off, big time. Thursday was the channel’s best night of the year, and its best Thursday evening ever. Futurama got 2.9 million viewers and ruled among key demographics.

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28

New footage of live-action Starblazers movie rocks the cosmos!

I defy you to watch this new trailer for the live-action Space Battleship Yamato movie, complete with the original TV series theme tune, and not get goosebumps. You can’t do it. See more incredible VFX and tense drama below. Spoilers… We showed you an ultra-short teaser trailer for this film back in January, but now…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28

Nerdvana achieved: Summer Glau is the voice of Supergirl

Not content with winning every poll, decimating Reavers and seducing John Connor, Summer Glau will now be the voice of Supergirl in the direct-to-DVD movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, which adapts the second storyline of Jeph Loeb’s run on the Superman/Batman comic.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 28

The bootleg Brazilian animation of Video Brinquedo

Yesterday we paid tribute to confounding news of Taiwan’s Next Media Animation. Today, we salute the cheapo rip-offs of Brazil’s Video Brinquedo, that stalwart animation house notorious for its shameless rip-offs of Disney, Pixar, and Universal animated films. https://gizmodo.com/al-gore-as-a-randy-computer-avatar-the-future-of-news-5573454 At Video Brinquedo, the quality of their films is only matched with their flicks’ creativity. Be…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jun 27

The sexual habits of blue Play-Doh…the movie!

On this week’s Cult Movie Worship, watch the adorable stop-motion sex habits of blue blobs in Tibo Charroppin’s short film Blue – An Erotic Life. Who knew Play-Doh was so kinky? Read on for more Cultiness… Agnosia Twitch film pointed out Eugenio Mira’s Agnosia, calling it the next Pan’s Labyrinth. We’ll have to agree visual-wise…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 27

Al Gore as a randy computer avatar = the future of news?

Taiwan’s NMA News creates computer-animated depictions of current events that drive a flaming dune buggy into the uncanny valley. NMA’s 3D take on the Leno-Conan tiff was amusing, but their version of the Al Gore sex scandal allegations is transcendental… So this week, a masseuse alleged that in 2006 former Vice-President Al Gore came on…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Jun 26

We’ve seen the first two episodes of Futurama season six…

…and they’re good! Futurama makes its Comedy Central debut until tomorrow, but we’ve had a sneak peek at the first two outings. It looks like there’s plenty of life left in everyone’s favorite animated scifi comedy that refuses to die. We’ll save our complete recap for once the episodes have officially aired, but we have…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Jun 23

Fly into the 4 Nations of Airbender with a video tour

These four landscape videos are your first look at the way the live-action movie represents the expansive animated worlds of Avatar: The Last Airbender. From the looks of things, Shyamalan’s mastered the land. Now what about the heart and humor? Northern Water Nation Air Nation Fire Nation Earth Nation The Last Airbender is out July…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 21

The psychokinetically gorgeous animation of Akira

Remember that awesome “Art of Akira” show that’s now open in Pittsburgh? io9 caught up with its curator, Joe Peacock, who gave us the scoop on the exhibit’s history and allowed us to showcase some of its best cels. What’s the story behind the “Art of Akira” exhibit? I started collecting Akira stills since I…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jun 19

Nothing says “Our civilization is doomed” like the first Smurfs teaser trailer

We had held out hope that the live action Smurfs movie would be fun for all ages, like the NYC-set fantasy film Enchanted. Instead we got more chipmunks. At least there’s a Neil Patrick Harris intro. Did you hear what they did? By mixing the Smurf theme song and “Wild Thing,” they made Smurfs cool,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 17

Why do we need a third Toy Story film? We asked the producer

Pixar hasn’t done many sequels – where’s my Incredibles 2? – but Toy Story is getting its third installment this weekend. We asked longtime Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson why Buzz and Woody deserve two sequels when others get none. We caught up with Anderson at Wondercon and got a chance to talk to her…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Jun 16

Terrifying biopunk webseries Chadam premieres

It’s been a years since we’ve heard anything from Alex Pardee’s webseries Chadam. But the block-headed alien’s post-apocalyptic adventure has finally aired on the WB.com. And you can watch the first 5 episodes right now. Artist Alex Pardee’s twisted images and warped take on the everyday world never stop surprising us. So we’ve been excited…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 16

Watch the first 90 seconds of Futurama’s new season!

Want to see how Fry and the Planet Express gang make it back to Earth? The first 90 seconds of the new season (part of which we showed you before) are out, including space battles and bad hair! [AceShowbiz]

Television Charlie Jane Anders Jun 13

Voltron uses last mecha-kitty life to save its film project

Even though we heard reports last week that the Voltron movie had been put down, the producers say there’s still life in this old mecha kitty yet. In fact they claim they’re very close to hiring a screenwriter. [MTV]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jun 11

Technotise: What the hell is it and why is Hollywood spending millions to remake it?

Thanks to a deft faux trailer edited together by Jaron Pitts — using footage from Avatar, Resident Evil, and The Island — Warner Bros. hired the writer of Shutter Island to adapt this little-seen Serbian animated scifi thriller. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Technotise ball was set in motion when producers Scott Glassgold and…

Movies Marc Bernardin Jun 11

Days Of Futurama Past: The Futurama characters redrawn as X-Men!

Check out this clever re-imagining of the Planet Express crew as X-Men. And this time Fry is Cyclops, not Leela. And Dr. Zoidberg is an Adamantium lobster-clawed Wolverine. Art by GottaBeCarl at DeviantArt. Don’t forget Futurama airs June 24th.

Television Meredith Woerner Jun 10

The History of Everything, In Wondrous Stop-Motion Street Animation

Bender’s Delivery Service: If Hayao Miyazaki reimagined Futurama

Korea’s taekwon-do-practicing giant robot gets a Transformers-style makeover

First trailer for Space Pirate Captain Harlock film washes up

Futurama leads Comedy Central to its best Thursday night ever

New footage of live-action Starblazers movie rocks the cosmos!

Nerdvana achieved: Summer Glau is the voice of Supergirl

The bootleg Brazilian animation of Video Brinquedo

The sexual habits of blue Play-Doh…the movie!

Al Gore as a randy computer avatar = the future of news?

We’ve seen the first two episodes of Futurama season six…

Fly into the 4 Nations of Airbender with a video tour

The psychokinetically gorgeous animation of Akira

Nothing says “Our civilization is doomed” like the first Smurfs teaser trailer

Why do we need a third Toy Story film? We asked the producer

Terrifying biopunk webseries Chadam premieres

Watch the first 90 seconds of Futurama’s new season!

Voltron uses last mecha-kitty life to save its film project

Technotise: What the hell is it and why is Hollywood spending millions to remake it?

Days Of Futurama Past: The Futurama characters redrawn as X-Men!

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