Author: Jonathan Clements

April 27, 2016 · 0 comments

Jasper Sharp investigates the hype over “free” animation software. Last month, a press release went out under the heading ‘TOONZ goes Open Source!’ The revolutionary 2-D animation software, developed for the professional market by the Rome-based company Digital Video in 1993 and originally distributed by Softimage as Creative Toonz, has now been placed freely within […]

April 24, 2016 · 0 comments

By Raz Greenberg. Following up on Andrew Osmond’s list of scholarly books on anime, the list in this post is meant to provide readers with a starting point for books about manga. On the understanding that manga does not exist in a vacuum, and that it’s also a part of the larger world of international […]

April 21, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. “We had a weekly script meeting which gradually turned into something like a terrorism planning session,” laughs Shinichiro Watanabe. He’s talking about his new series Terror in Resonance, set in a  realistic, hyper-detailed modern Japan, about two teenagers who go around blowing up Tokyo. Watanabe concedes it’s an edgy subject, to put it mildly. […]

April 18, 2016 · 0 comments

They’re a band of maids. Tom Smith wonders what they should call themselves. For many, MCM London Comic Con is the event for all things video game, anime and cosplay related. It’s got the retailers and licensors all in one place, it has panels, trailers and exclusive news announced there first. It packs so many […]

April 15, 2016 · 3 comments

Andrew Osmond on what’s chopped and changed in international animation. Recently on this blog, we reported on how DreamWorks’ new film Kung Fu Panda 3 had been re-animated for China, lip-synching the characters to the Mandarin-speaking actors. It’s a reminder that animation isn’t an unchanging, iconic medium; it’s malleable and fluid. Of course, the same […]