Matt Jones Animation
@mattj0nes
Storyboard artist live-action & animation. Ronald Searle scholar.
All was sounding good in the article until I reached “sunshine noir”… #bladerunner
The legendary political artist Pat Oliphant died this week. Watch the brilliant doc on his career on @kanopy.com
Soderbergh’s ‘film school’ app on the production of JAWS is now available to download! #thestevens
On my Patreon this week: video, drawings and film reviews from the Annecy Animation animation festival! Plus a look at the Hitchcock lectures at the Academy by Guillermo Del Toro and this famous shot from Notorious www.patreon.com/MattJones235...
Zero reviews out of Annecy on Dick Williams’ final short. Worrying.
My latest e-sketchbook available on Gumroad. Pt.2 of my Parisian discoveries: mattjones99.gumroad.com?section=UAH_...
The horrors of Israel’s detention centers and concentration camps sees the roles reversed from Spiegelman’s MAUS. #freepalestine #stopthegenocide
In the educational tier of my Patreon today I'm looking at the classic film noir ‘Body & Soul’ (1947) and the techniques of goat cinematographer James Wong Howe. Join/follow at the link below. #cinematography #filmnoir #jameswonghowe #patreon www.patreon.com/MattJones235...
On my YouTube channel today @realgdt.bsky.social on his notebooks as “idea incubators” youtu.be/b1cmn-I8QHY?... #guillermodeltoro
It has that green/orange color palette of every Netflix action movie
On my Patreon today the genius of Pixar color master & Production Designer Ralph Eggleston www.patreon.com/MattJones235...
On my Patreon: the best new French comics. My bande dessinée haul from my last trip to Paris. www.patreon.com/MattJones235...
Since reading Mo Sutton’s book I anticipated keenly her also completing Dick’s unfinished chapter of his Lysistrata project. Annecy attendees this year will see it! One last film from the master animator and his partner and collaborator Mo. #RichardWilliams
Barry Sonnenfeld’s unfortunate tv placement in his video-conf background makes him look like Chairman Mao! But he tells great anecdotes on Jason Alexander’s podcast. Why isn’t he directing?
New post on my Patreon on my mega French comics haul! #bandedessinee www.patreon.com/MattJones235...
This original Asterix cover by Uderzo sold for $360k yesterday at Heritage Auctions +$90k on top for the Buyers Premium!
More animation at Cannes next month: an animated feature will open the Critics Week for the first time!
Looked for it in the Archive and found it was serialized & illustrated:
Describing the harsh prison life you almost feel sorry for him but he remains a monster. The piece is frank and critical and confronts him with his crimes but it still comes off as an effort to rehabilitate his career!
The Q&A section is all victim-blaming and playing the victim. He takes credit for among other things casting Kevin Costner in Yellowstone and helping this year’s Oscar kings PTA and Coogler early in their careers.
The @thr.com interview with Harvey Weinstein should’ve been titled ‘Raging Bully’. The set-up is written like a movie or play - the interviewer showing up at the imposing Riker’s Island prison, the ogre in his cell, flashbacks to glory days, the cute end line from a guard: he used to be a contender…
Trumpstein awarded himself Sean Penn’s Oscar tonight at the Donald J Trump Has a Small Penis auditorium. #AcademyAwards #seanpenn
