Indeed. 2009's been great for theatrical animation in general.

Coming in October to US theaters, will be great to see on the big screen.

are there torrents yet?

>>11058018
Probably. There have been rs links and whatnot here
Personally I didn't care for it all that much. Pretty though

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VZ9VD4JM

Concept art dump time

>>11058405

>>11058405

Ah, the rare and endangered pot bellied wolf loli.

>>11058418

>>11058431

>>11058442

>>11058458

what is this beautiful creation?

>>11058468
Irish animation.

>>11058468
The Secret of Kells.

...BASED ON THE NOVEL BY... WHOEVER WROTE THE BOOK OF KELLS.

>>11058495
>>11058489

Really now.
I think I have hope again.
But for some strange reason the style reminds me of the Iron Giant.

>>11058405
>>11058418
>>11058431
I'm glad they made her younger. Really fits the character more and brings out a type of innocence as a backup for her ignorance.

>>11058468
A nice Irish cartoon.

>>11058495
The Book of Kells is an illuminated bible, one that's incredibly beautiful and in surprisingly good shape considering all the crap that went on during its production. That's right, this movie was about making a bible and managed to not even use the word

>>11058508

Are you insinuating that this is a bad thing?

>>11058510
She's a magical being who lives in the forest. Of course she really wouldn't know as much about the human world.

>>11058542

Never! Iron Giant was a masterpiece in my opinion! I mean they showed it like every 4th of july on Cartoon Network. And I distinctly remeber them showing it Back to Back to Back for what? 24 hours or so?

I torrented it a few weeks ago. The art was good, but the animation was lacking

>>11057961

Interesting considering the actually book of Kells was created to give people hope in the dark times of the middle ages.

COINCIDENCE? I think not!

>>11058591
Re-watch the scene in the Scriptorium. The first exchange between Brendan and ... Brother... ugh, something.

THEN say the animation is bad.

>>11058594

>>11058642
Brother Aidan

>>11058642
I said lacking, not bad. There were parts that were great, unfortunately they were short lived.

>>11058652
Now someone should draw Brendan as a Blue Lantern

First Delgo, now this.

2009 is truly the best year.

>>11058591
>I only watched the first five minutes.

>>11058696
That prequel to Cameron's Avatar was 2008 not 09

So glad they gave the Abbot the beard. Looks much better that way

>>11058658
Characters with less spiritual connection where animated in a more jerky and limited manner.

>>11058696

>>11058684

You post that image every time there's a Kells thread.

>>11058764
Big deal, I'm the one that posts about every other image.

>>11058764
...better than a totally unrelated image...

Lagann-hen, Rebuild 2.0, Summer Wars and Red Line > Kells

So, who's anticipating Cartoon Saloon's next movie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2aDh05nqMI

>>11058805
What does that have to do with anything?

>>11058805

>attempting to stir up shit

I haven't even seen Secret of Kells, but dude...

>>11058813
Can't go wrong with selkies.

>>11058830
>This makes me have faith in the future of animation.

The future of animation was never bleak.

>>11058764
Posting an image that's related to the thread!!!!

>>11058805
I can't say I really liked the Gurren Lagann movies. Or at least not hte first one (is the 2nd one even out). Too much condensation, too little emotional impact, too obsessed with being flashy, and the only 100% original content was the Yoko fight on the deck of Dai-Gurren. Even the 4 generals appearing all at once was a lot of copy and paste from the actual show.

Rebuild... Well, I wasn't a huge fan of Eva the first time around. Eva, this time with budget isn't really appealing to me much.

>>11058805
Haven't even heard of those last two. And Lagann-Hen's only really good for making the last half of the show even more FUCK YEAH

>>11058853

Daww she's so cute. Like a kitty,

>>11058888

I watched this and was extremely impressed with the animation. And this was animated by the people who worked on Skunk-Fu?! Surprising.

Also, does anyone know what the cat's name was? I felt like a moron for not being able to understand it.

Someone needs to make an Aisling and Brendan pumped image.

>>11058945
Same studio, different team.

Cat is Pangur Ban

>>11058873
Was Lagann-Hen #1 or #2?

>>11058921

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>11058873
>>11058968

Lagann-hen is the second movie.

>>11058968
Lagann-hen is #2. Out in Japan, not online yet there's quite a few screenshots of it.

Final Battle involves everyone getting a galaxy sized robot and eventually combining into SUPER Tengen Toppa GUrren Lagann, which looks like an energy being version of Kamina

>>11058705
>I didn't read the whole thread

Jesus, a good animated movie that isn't in CGI or Flash, done well, finally comes out and /co/ acts like it's nothing? Choosing instead to bitch about EVERY OTHER HORRIBLE THING that exists?

Sometimes I wonder about you, /co/.

From an older draft of the Prequel Comic, but still very interesting.

>>11059000
Ah. Haven't seen that one yet.

Honestly, unless it's with the anime club my friends are members of, I don't watch much anime these days.

I'm gonna try to get a job at Cartoon Saloon in the next few years. :3

>>11059033
Not everyone is hating on this movie.

>>11059033

There's been a thread for this movie like at least once every day.

>>11058591

animated by reasonably attractive girls

>>11059016
Okay, one one hand, cool. On the other... I'm cautious. The first Gurren Lagann movie wrecked the series' pacing, taking much of the emotional impact out of scenes. Simon manning up and decided to kick ass after only 10 minutes of 'mildly depressed' didn't have nearly the impact of the similar event in the series. I'm just kinda worried that Gainax has the wrong idea about what made the series so good. It wasn't the 'Hey guys, look at what I can do' or 'isn't this awesome' it was the emotional thing. I mean, sure, a lot of it's rule of cool, but no story's even worth telling if you can't make us really care about the characters or the events that occur to them.

>>11059039
:(

>>11059102
That's from the French studio by the looks of it...

>>11059110

The second movie is half-an-hour longer and supposedly adds more emotional impact to scenes involving Simon and Nia by removing "filler", relatively speaking, related to Rossiu or Yoko.

>>11059110
There's a lot less recycled material, doesn't have anything like that rushed montage the first one had for introducing characters, and from the reviews, they handled the death of Nia a lot better then the show did.

>>11058846
With the literal deluge of 3-d oriented films like Delgo, seeing kells art style was a breath of fresh air

>>11059065
And it usually goes nowhere and is full of trolling and bullshit.

>>11059173
Hey Aisling Wanna help me get the eye of Crom?

>>11059195
Ah, so it might still be crap, but at least it'll be original crap.

That's good. God, I got in fights with my friends over the first one. The first hour of the damn thing was pure recycled material, the 2nd hour only had mild modifications here and there up until the finale.

THERE

>>11059102

>>11059219

...What's that you're planning on doing?

>>11059332
Where is this comic.

Also, am I the only one who liked the abbot? He was extremely closed-minded, sure, but he did truly care about his nephew and the people at Kells, and was only trying to protect them the only way he knew how. He wasn't trying to be an asshole.

Score was done by the guy who did the score to Coraline. Need to find more of his work more now.

>>11059039

HOW OLD IS THAT FRIGGIN CAT?

Must be immortal.

>>11059397
He reminds me of the Catholic Church.

>>11059397
They did a few prequel comics as backups for the comic book adaptation issues. None of the issues are online though, just some sample pages.

>>11059413

That's exactly what he was meant to represent.

>>11059411
That's not Pangur Ban, it's a younger Aisling.

>>11059425
Well, they did an awesome job.

>>11059448
>>11059291
:D

Final version of that page I posted earlier

>>11059499

>>11059448
"You want to help me?"
"OH YES PLEASE"

>>11059565
:)

>>11059565
I feel happy.

You know what would be a fun drawthread request now? Toon Link vs Crom Cruach.

>>11059565
Awesome

>>11059397
I thought the abbot was the coolest character.

I hate stylized animation, but this movie managed to surpass my expectations and give me hope for independent (not owned by a conglomerate) animated features.

>>11059641
On an interesting note, The whole Crom battle seems to have been based on sensory deprivation.
http://celticboar.com/texts/dennetthallucinations.html

>>11059704
I should not that the article just focuses on sensory deprivation and not how it directly relates to the film.

>>11059739
*note.

So I work in a shop where we sell cakes, and after seeing the movie, I think I'm going to ask my bosses if they'll draw this in frosting on a cake for me.

>>11059794
Just for the challenge or what?

>>11059794
>I work in a shop where we sell cakes
Go on...

I liked everything about Secret of Kells except for the shitty ending.

>>11059794
...Dude.

...This is beautiful.
It was SO not man-made in that time and day.

>>11060061
Well, it exists.

>>11060154
Yeah, I know.

>>11060061
Christfag detected?

>>11060173
Or he's attributing it to a generic sort of mystic past.

It was the Elves, man. Maybe the Dwarves. Man, the 4th age is DULL!.

Problem /co/?

>>11060173
Atheist, dude.
I'm just a sucker for all the fucking detail. And imagine a BOOKFULL of it.
With a quill.

>>11060388

Maybe ancient aliens?

>>11060222

This is just the start of it. Wait until the aliens, robots, and genetically-engineered mutants arrive. Shit gets REAL

>>11060358
No 34

>>11059794
The imagefile is called "Chi Rho".

I see the Rho (P), but where's the Chi (X)?

It is seriously the most beautiful 2-D animated movie I've seen since Howl's Moving Castle.

bump for ownage

Scenery Porn: The Movie

needs more porn.

>>11061191
Notice how the P isn't connected at the loop?
Yeah.

>>11061191
I felt extremely proud of myself for knowing that Aidan was saying "the Chi Ro page" and what that meant. Then I didn't feel so lame for watching cartoons!