Dear Diary of a Cartoonist

Bean News

Mr BEAN is back as a cartoon. Bloody hell. The series was animated in London, and at a guess done using Macromedia Flash. The characters are designed in a fashion I tried on comic strips a while back. It's done using a line method borrowed from the comic book industry where you thicken the outer line of the characters. Disney did this more recently for 101 Dalmations animated series. Although many had done it before them. Mainly Hanna Barbera. Worth checking out anyways, it starts in Australia tuesday 3rd December on the ABC @ 8.30pm ?

Ginger Meggs cartoonist

Other news recently in of note ...

Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois - the two guys featured on the main page to the site for a while, co-writers/directors of the animated hit LILO & STITCH, have entered into a deal with The Walt Disney Co. to write, direct and produce animated and live-action guff. Future projects include an untitled CG animated project directed by Sanders, and THE GUMSHOE CHRONICLES, a live-action family film that will be written and directed by DeBlois. The guys will produce each project under their newly formed Stormcoast Pictures company and will be able to join each other's projects as writers under the terms of the deal with Disney. Sounds like more competition for the likes of Tim Burton who also left Disney Feature Animation to go on and do solo projects in Live action.

A CGI/live-action adaptation of GARFIELD is in the works at Fox. Production will involve TOY STORY writers Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow scripting. There are plans to broadcast a newly produced GARFIELD 25th anniversary television special in June 2003. Is this is a god thing or a bad thing ?

Posted by Lee at December 2, 2002 4:06 PM