Warning: this article contains spoilers. I recently settled down to watch Charlie Brooker’s new series of techno- nightmare anthology Black Mirror, eagerly anticipating what I hoped to be at least a continuation in quality on from the previous series, and suffice to say it didn’t disappoint. However during episode four, San Junipero, I found [...]
Animation history shall be made in the year 2017 as the first fully hand painted animated feature film is released. The film named Loving Vincent is directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, and starring big names such as Douglas Booth (The Riot Club, Romeo and Juliet), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, the IT crowd), Saoirse [...]
Since the opening of PIXAR’s 1995 hit Toy Story (Lasseter) CGI animation has taken over the field of animation with many studios leaving traditional animation behind in the dust. The use of CGI to entirely animate a film has only been around for 21 or so years. In the early 1990’s PIXAR studios was [...]
Music videos are a precarious combination of art form and commercial necessity, usually hovering somewhere between seen-it-before drudgery and headline-grabbing sensationalism. But now and again a director or artist sees the endless possibilities inherent in the medium and produces something breathtaking. Pour yourself a lemonade and grab your sledgehammer as we take a [...]
In today’s society, is anything even about ingenuity or is it just about making something aesthetically pleasing without any context? With the rise of pink lighting and colourful bubble-gum aesthetics in modern music videos, from the likes of hip hop’s alpha male Drake, Ariana Grande, pop music’s new princess – move over Britney Spears [...]
