Animators
Meaningful Animations: touching stories for #PinkDot12 and MyQueerStorySG
A few weeks ago, we shared a beautiful animated video of 3 powerful stories in 3 different animation styles that shared the struggle and created awareness of LGBTQ+ real experiences. We promised you we’d have an interview with our Director of Communications and Animator, Jerrold Chong to follow shortly and here it is! Jerrold was…
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 MoreCU19: Film Selection
Cartoons Underground is happening on 9th November, 6PM at Kult Yard! Get Your Tickets Here! This year, 19 works are selected from 1,416 entries submitted from 80 different countries. Out of these 19 films, 6 student films coming from LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Technological University, will compete for the ‘Best Singapore Student…
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…
Read MoreAn Interview With Tiffany Lim
Title: Artist Interview: Tiffany Lim Writer: Matthew Bates Date: Monday, 2nd July 2018 _________________________________________________________________________ Introduction In order to learn more about Singapore’s budding talent, Cartoons Underground dives behind the scenes with Tiffany Lim, an artist who has garnered an impressive resume at the age of 24. Having worked with several notable organizations in Southeast Asia,…
Read MoreArtist Interview: Jeremy, Huang Ji and Derrick
Eat Pray Bird is the graduation film of Jeremy Teo, Huang Ji and Derrick Fun, made during their final year at NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM). In November, their CG animated short made waves across Asia, winning the “Special Mention Award” at the 18th DigiCon6 ASIA Awards Ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan.…
Read MoreArtist Interview: Ang Qing Sheng
Having premiered at the Singapore Chinese Film Festival, Qing Sheng’s film “Lak Boh Ki” may seem like a straightforward suspense film on first viewing, but upon seconds, one begins to peel behind layers of hidden meaning. The composition of shots and timing of animation masterfully toy with our feelings over and over again for this innocent little baby tethering…
Read MoreArtist Interview: Harry and Henry Zhuang (aka Zhuang Brothers)
The Tiger of 142B, a short film by Harry and Henry Zhuang and produced as part of Utter 2015, was selected to compete in the Grand Competition category of the 26th Zagreb Animafest. The film’s narrative, adapted from a short story by Dave Chua, explores the spaces – at once physical and metaphysical, visible and invisible – that…
Read MoreThe Little Prince by Mark Osborne Review
Shannon Sawyer, Cartoons Underground’s guest author, reviews The Little Prince, an animated movie based on the book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The year of 2015 already feels like a long time ago as January comes to a close, but it’s also a chance to look back on events, but for the sake of time…
Read MoreInterview with Mark Wee, Director of ‘The Animals’.
[vimeo 85452691 w=500 h=281] Animation Reel 2014 from Mark Wee on Vimeo. Indie Animator Mark Wee seizes the opportunity to explore his favourite medium, Animation. Having screened his short film; The Animals in the previous edition of Cartoons Underground, we caught up with local independent animator Mark Wee to discuss the challenges of being a young independent…
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