Red Dragon

Bruce Lee's comes comes to life in this pencil animation with fight scene between Bruce Lee and a legion of hand-drawn enemies. It's as gritty as animation gets.

Earlier this year, we remembered Bruce Lee on the 35th anniversary of his death. Their is also The Legend of Bruce Lee TV series running in China.

Red Dragon

Lucy Liu in Tinkerbell DVD

Lucy Liu plays Silvermist in the new Tinkerbell DVD. (Lucy Liu has been busy with Kung Fu Panda and Dirty Sexy Money.) Water fairy Silvermist has a delightfully offbeat and upbeat way of looking at everything. Very much a free spirit, she often listens to her heart more than her head. She’s an easygoing soul who is eager to please and makes friends easily. Her sense of loyalty is unmatched, and rubs off on Tink. Sil’s guilty pleasure is listening to rumors and gossip from the babbling brook.

Have you ever wondered how nature gets its glow — who gives it light and color as the seasons come and go? Enter a land of adventure and mystery as Tinker Bell and her four best fairy friends turn winter into spring and, with the power of faith, trust and a little bit of pixie dust, learn the importance of being true to yourself.

Overflowing with fun and imagination, "Tinker Bell" is a celebration of the beloved sprite in her first motion picture. Experience this amazing tale bound to delight the entire family.

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Tinkerbell DVD Trailer


Lucy Liu as Silvermist in Tinkerbell Movie

The Tired City

The Tired City by John Chan & Pam Hung was just added to the YouTube Screening room. The film was the Grand Prize winner of the 4th annual TGSNT Digital Story Telling competition. You can watch the short film below.

Synopsis
The story happens to the busy her, and her story can also be your story. She is a character from a fairy tale: sweet, dedicated and rather naive. Facing the owner of Tired Out Incorporation, Bossie, and to earn her living, she pours herself into her work everyday, proficient, no complaints and never says no. The flower in the office is her only joy. But she has no time for it, or her friends or family... then the flower wilts and she comes to realize the true meaning of living...

The short was made possible by The Independent Short Film and Video Awards (ifva). The ifva, hosts annually by the Hong Kong Arts Centre, has been actively promoting innovative creative media since 1995. In addition to supporting short film, video, and interactive media, ifva also organises pre- and post-award activities to enhance public awareness of creative media and encourage media interaction. Committed to developing local indie talent, Independent Short Film and Video Awards seeks to break new ground and push the boundaries of innovation and creativity.

The Tired City


Artists Biography
Postgal Workshop is a multimedia and animation creation team; its client portfolio includes Coca Cola, Nike, Nokia, DHL , Levis, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and East Asian Games, etc on their mascot design, keyart design, animation and multimedia works.

Postgals been interviewed by Taiwan XFUN, Computer Arts and design book series Taschen, been invited to the Milia Digital conference in Cannes, France, Kinolab in Poland, HK TVB, FM 903 and HK Baptist University to share their view in design & animation field as guest speaker. Adobe CS3 and HKAC has held a workshop in early 2008 and Postgals director John has been invited for tutoring the animation classes. Postgal is also one of the judges for coca cola art bottle competition.

Postgals works have been awarded in HK IFVA, San Francisco Flash Forward Film Festival, Korea Senef Film Festival and Switzerland Fantoche Film Festvail, etc, moreover, its works have been screened in Hong Kong International Film Festival, Taiwan Animation Festival and Japan JVC TV Festival, etc.

Postgals latest creation is to create a mascot family for a famous beverage brands Hung Fong Took, along with its comics and animation for its 2008 promotion campaign. Meanwhile, we have animated Hong Kong Connection in a project with RTHK.

You can also follow the PostGal crew on their blog.

The Chestnut Tree

"The Chestnut Tree" is a traditional 2D hand drawn short film. A film about a girl revisiting her memories of her childhood spent with her mother under the Chestnut Tree. Hand drawn animation set to piano music by Chopin. A film by Hyun-min Lee. This short was also on the Asian American film circuit in 2007 showing at the New York Korean Film Festival, the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the Austin Asian Film Festival.



Director Hyun-min Lee is an animator from Seoul, South Korea. She came to the United States in 2000, and has earned a degree in painting from Wesleyan University and a Masters degree in animation from the California Institute of the Arts. She enjoys working in all areas of animation, but her work mainly focuses on traditional hand drawn techniques. She cites the early Disney films as an influence on her work, and has spent time training with animators Eric Goldberg and Bert Klein. Hyun-min currently resides in the Greater Los Angeles area and continues to work on various animation projects. The Chestnut Tree

Strait Jacket DVD release

Strait Jacket is described as Blade Runner meets Full Metal Alchemist

In a world where sorcery and science co-exist, the power of magic comes with a price: Humans who do not take proper precautions are transformed into horrific demons. Those who destroy these demons – and run the highest risk of all – are tactical sorcerists known as ‘Strait Jackets’. But when terrorists unleash a plague of demonic carnage, the Sorcery Management Bureau must enlist unlicensed assassin Leiot Steinberg to stop the slaughter. Even if this rogue killer and a mysterious young girl can end the outbreak, will they be able to face their own dark secrets? Monsters, murder and redemption collide in this explosive anime written by Ichiro Sakaki (SCRAPPED PRINCESS) and based on his popular light novel series.

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Strait Jacket Trailer

Jaman.com adds Japanese Anime

Jaman.com, a leading global community and online destination for quality entertainment, announced a deal to distribute film and episodic content from Starz Media’s Manga Entertainment, one of the premiere distributors of anime. This deal includes some of the genre’s most popular titles and significantly bolsters Jaman’s library of high-quality entertainment from around the world.

Among the Manga Entertainment titles that are now available for download at Jaman.com are: Ghost in the Shell, considered one of the most influential and visionary animated films of all time; Robotech, the landmark anime series made popular in the United States in the 1980s, and other well-known series such as Astro Boy, Street Fighter II V, Noein, Karas and Tactics.

Premium feature-length films from Manga Entertainment will be available for $2.99, while all series episodes will be available for $1.99.

Visit www.jaman.com/mangamovies to see the collection of Manga titles. New users joining Jaman receive two free movies: www.jaman.com/manga.

We also found a free movie section too. There were some Jackie Chan flicks, Bollywood films, and other martial arts movies. You can see the free movies here. You just need to register to start seeing movies.

CEO Gaurav Dhillon talks about Jaman

iaTV and Tokyopop enter anime partnership

iaTV, America’s only 24/7 television network for Asian pop culture, announced a program acquisition deal and strategic ad sales partnership with TOKYOPOP, the leading publisher and distributor of manga-oriented entertainment.

Through this agreement, iaTV’s ad sales team will represent the advertising sales activities for TOKYOPOP’s digital assets including www.TOKYOPOP.com, brand integration within original and user-generated video content, mobile advertising and other applications. TOKYOPOP.com averages over five million page views per month and over 400,000 unique visitors (according to Google Analytics), 70 percent of which are in the valuable tween and teenage demographics, and 60 percent of which are female.

Programming acquired by iaTV from TOKYOPOP includes two popular Japanese anime series – Initial D and Psychic Academy – and anime film Spring and Chaos have also been acquired, with Initial D being televised Monday through Friday, beginning September 1, at 5:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. PT and Psychic Academy joining the network’s Tuesday primetime A-Pop lineup at 10:30 p.m. PT on September 9. Also coming to iaTV are several short-form (three- to four-minute) ‘iManga’ series: bite-sized programs based on TOKYOPOP’s top manga titles, combining animation with still art, music and English voiceovers. In addition, iaTV has acquired the hardcore FMW Wrestling, which will air Fridays at 10 p.m. PT starting September 12, leading out of Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts, and creating of a two-hour primetime block of male skewing sports entertainment.

Here's a clip of Initial D

Yellow Sticky Notes

We spotted this film in the YouTube Screening Room. Yellow Sticky Notes is a fun animated short. After realizing that yellow sticky note "to do" lists were consuming his life, animation filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years. Animation meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score by Genevieve Vincent through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes. His latest award-winning film, Yellow Sticky Notes, winner of the 2008 CAEAA for Best Animated Short Subject and Golden Sheaf for Best Animation at the 2008 Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, is currently traveling on the international film festival circuit. You can also catch Yellow Sticky Notes as part of the Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation 2008 tour.



Jeff Chiba Stearns is an award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, born in British Columbia, Canada, of Japanese and European heritage (actually a mix of Japanese, English, Scottish, Russian, and German). Using various formats like animation, documentary, and experimental, Jeff enjoys creating works aimed at children and adults that combine different philosophical elements together to create humorous, inspiring, and entertaining stories. Watch Yellow Sticky Notes


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