Monday, November 14, 2005

Hellboy's Pepper Gorilla Diary

It's no big secret that one of my, possibly my only genuine, ambitions is to develop an animated series based around the characters in this short we did (who will also appear in the short that's about to go into production). So I was very interested, when fumbling around on Drawn, to discover the production diary for the Hellboy animated project. There's only three posts, albeit interesting ones, at the moment but I'm thinking I might be following this one quite closely.

I just noticed Frank has some interesting advice for newbie bloggers over on his 9mmfilm blog. I didn't really read it because, well, I have to listen to his drivel all the time anyway. However, at a cursory glance, I think I break every rule of blogging he has up there.

The Times (of London) has an interesting piece on The Gorillaz recent 'live' perfromance. Apparently, they use an old Victorian parlour trick called Pepper's Ghost - updated of course.

'To make Pepper’s Ghost appear, someone offstage would be highlighted so that the light waves bounced off a piece of glass, strategically placed at an angle. The reflected image would appear to be onstage. It is the same principle used in fighter aircraft, where a ghostly image of graphic flight and radar data float before the pilot.'

You can watch the performance here. Thanks to Drawn again. In fact, I don't know why you don't just read Drawn, it's much more interesting than here. Just don't tell Frank I said that, of course.