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Urashima Taro
Sun, Oct 08 2006
Donna Kendrigan has taken her animation style into a whole new direction for her Japanese inspired film Urashima Taro.
"The animation I’m doing is based on a well-known Japanese folktale. It’s roughly about a fisherman who saves a turtle from being killed by these naughty boys on the beach. The turtle comes back a few days later and rewards the fisherman by taking him on an underwater journey to this amazing palace and he falls in love with the princess there."
The Twelve Months
Sun, Oct 01 2006
Anyone who has seen Jonathan Nix's previous film, Hello, knows that he likes to give his characters weird objects for heads. In The Twelve Months, Jonathan has again played around with this notion, cleverly incorporating twelve different characters from the original Russian folk-tale into one calendar-headed giant.
The Traitor Friend
Sun, Sep 24 2006
A couple of months at summer camp in America gave Ross Williams all the inspiration he needed to turn the Jordanian fairytale, The Traitor Friend, into an edgy, 1980's style horror-toon.
A Tiny Alliance
Sun, Sep 17 2006
Sonia Kretschmar has had a long and successful career as an illustrator. Having recently moved into animation, Sonia says she has gone from making her pictures say a thousand words to making a thousand pictures say one word.
Tam and Cam
Sun, Sep 10 2006
Melbourne-based animation company Square i have developed a new style for their World Tales animation, Tam and Cam as Scott Vanden Bosch and Adam Duncan, two of the five-member team explain.
