Epic Sketchbook: Liz Steel
Beautiful pages form Australian artist Liz Steel. Sydney based architect specialising in media projects, who is also an obsessive sketcher. Since discovering watercolour in a field kit in 2006 she has...
View ArticleAll In! –‘On-Air’ with Harry Corro
The National Book Development Council of Singapore launched the All In! Young Writers Festival, a festival that is tailored to young writers, on the 12th and 13th of March. All In! celebrates its...
View ArticleYoung Talent: Bobby Yi Xiong
I had the utmost pleasure to interview Bobby or as some of you might know him as YiXiong. I’ve been obsessed with his hamster guinea pig character since last year. His guinea pig is just too...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Suhita Shirodkar
Patrick Smith, co-founder and advisor of Cartoons Underground, and co-writer at ScribbleJunkies Blog, started exploring different types of sketchbooks from artists from all around the world. Looking...
View ArticleYoung Talent: Sandhya Prabhat
The first time I came across Sandhya’s work was on Facebook through my good friend and one of Cartoons Underground’s pioneers as well as director whom we screened in 2013, Arjun Chatterjee, who now...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Oyo
Patrick Smith, co-founder and advisor of Cartoons Underground, and co-writer at ScribbleJunkies Blog, started exploring different types of sketchbooks from artists from all around the world. Looking...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Miguel Herranz
Patrick Smith, co-founder and advisor of Cartoons Underground, and co-writer at ScribbleJunkies Blog, started exploring different types of sketchbooks from artists from all around the world. Looking...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Tia from Singapore
Patrick Smith, co-founder and advisor of Cartoons Underground, and co-writer at ScribbleJunkies Blog, started exploring different types of sketchbooks from artists from all around the world. Looking...
View ArticleYoung Talent: Adiba Mustafa
Cartoons Underground met Adiba Mustafa or more popularly known as Merry Leona on Youtube at Lasalle’s Animation Grad show a few months back. Adiba is a young, aspiring voice actor and animator, who is...
View ArticleArtist 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...
View ArticleArtist 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...
View ArticleCELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF UNDERGROUND ANIMATION!
WE ARE BACK! Cartoons Underground in partnership with Sideshow celebrates FIVE YEARS OF UNDERGROUND ANIMATION! Grab a beer and a fistful of popcorn and catch award-winning animated films by directors...
View ArticleIndustry Professional: Don Bosco
Cartoons Underground speaks to Don Bosco, the founder of Super Cool Books, and a talented writer who has established himself in Singapore’s literary circles. Filled with insight and expertise, Don...
View ArticleCU Interview: Vicky Chen, Wei Keong & Jia Lee
It’s less than 24 hours (!!) before the 5th edition of Cartoons Underground kicks off with a bang! In an exclusive interview, we speak to Vicky Chen, Co-Founder and Festival Director, Tan Wei Keong,...
View ArticleThank You 2016
2016 was a great year for Cartoons Underground (though sadly not so great for the rest of the world) We saw the biggest festival for Cartoons Underground in 2016, our fifth annual edition, with 600...
View ArticleArtist 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...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Enricho Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa. Big fan, especially of his girls. I bought his sketchbook Fragments years ago (he published with Ronnie del Carmen, another genius), and it remains one of my favorites. I was lucky...
View ArticleParticipate in Cartoons Underground 2017!
Cartoons Underground 2017 is happening in October 2017 and we are calling all independent animators to submit their short film and stand a chance to be featured in this year’s festival alongside other...
View ArticleEpic Sketchbook: Car Sketches by Lapin and Sagar
“It’s fascinating to look at the 2 very different ways we (Lapin and Sagar) choose to sketch this event. I spent my time sketching few detailed models while Sagar choose to represent the ambiance of...
View ArticleAn Invitation to the Singapore Premiere of “Extraordinary Tales”, directed...
“Extraordinary Tales” is an animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe and includes the voice talents of Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands and Guillermo Del Toro. Raul...
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