Posts by cartoonsunderground
Brainwashed By Robots: An Interview with 2021 Story Lab participant Luther Chuah
We speak with Luther Chuah, a participant of Animated Visions: Story Development Lab 2021. His project pitch “My Maths Teacher is a Robot?!” received a Special Mention in the Story Lab.
Luther shares his experiences at the lab, how the mentors’ feedback helped him improve his story, and also why it’s important to write with a clear audience in mind.
Read MoreIt’s A Love Story Baby Just Say Yes: An Interview with 2021 Story Lab participants Simone Tam, Kimberly Wee and Wai Zi Ying
The Animated Visions: Story Development Lab aims to help participants develop their animated project ideas into a fully realised pitch with a concrete logline, treatment and character biography. There, participants will have the opportunity to receive one-to-one feedback from award-winning filmmakers Jerrold Chong (Finding Pictures) and Harry and Henry Zhuang (Weaving Clouds) on how to…
Read MoreAnimation 101: Athira’s Guide
Animation 101: Athira’s Guide to Taking Animation One Step (or Keyframe) at a Time! Here are some tips and tricks to get you thinking about how to get started in the magical world of animation
Read MoreFilms to Watch During the Pandemic
What an intense few months we’ve had! I think we can safely say no one was expecting 2020 to unfold the way it has, and it’s been a challenging time, to say the least. Coronavirus has had a huge impact on the world, and the way we choose to make meaning out of our lives.…
Read MoreFilmmaker Interview – Ji Hee Nam’s “Knife Hanging From A Tree” Explores an Exacerbating Case of Sour Grapes
Ji Hee Nam is an animator/ motion graphics designer from South Korea, currently based in L.A. Knife Hanging From A Tree is a film by her which explores the theme of sour grapes. She is inspired by humour from her daily life and finds dark humour very intriguing. One of the key features of her films…
Read MoreFilmmaker Interview – Jamie Goh’s ‘To Be Apart’ Explores the Innate Desire to Fit in
Jamie Goh, is an artist based in Singapore who has recently graduated from LASALLE College Of The Arts. To Be Apart, is the final year film she worked with her team mates Jeraldine Ong and Zheng Ying Jie at LASALLE. They share the common passion of wanting to tell stories that would be relatable to…
Read MoreCartoons Underground 2019 Tickets
Get Your Tickets Here! Cartoons Underground in partnership with Sideshow celebrates its 8th year with a new set of awards for the best animation from the region and the world. Celebrating our 8th year, 19 works have been selected from 1,416 entries submitted from 80 different countries and will be competing for the Golden Durian Awards featuring…
Read MoreFilmmaker Interview – Experience Old Hong Kong With Esther Cheung’s In Passing
Esther Cheung is an artist who is based in Toronto and is a recent Sheridan College graduate. In Passing is a film that she worked on during her final year there, it portrays 70s Hong Kong through the eyes of her parents. With a strong liking and appreciation for Art and Cinema, she finds Animation…
Read More2018 Cartoons Underground
Southeast Asia’s first and largest underground animation festival is back! Get Your Tickets Here! We are back! Cartoons Underground celebrates more than half a decade of independent, underground, adult-friendly animation for you adult-kids! Get ready for heart palpitating scenes, and plots that will drive you to the edge of the seat! In our 7th year,…
Read MoreHave a chat with the poster designer for CU 2018 – Ben Tan!
Ben Tan, the poster designer for Cartoons Underground 2018 Name: Ben Tan Where do you live: Singapore 1. Tell us more about how you got started as an artist? I think this is a rather premature question because I’m not really an artist, or at least not yet- I’m only 19. But I…
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