Textspeak is for retards.

Or even animation but done in the styles of some of the distinctive artists that worked on the COMIC ITSELF (and yes G-novels too, like Amano)?!

All I can think is that they're doing it like the Nightmare (yes irony I know due to Selick) 3D where they have the original stuff shot flat, fix it up, then model simple 3d versions of everything and project it back onto itself like a digital matte painting/anamorphosis. It worked great with Nightmare (fuckloads better than Supes returns halfarsed Imax viewmaster retrofit) anyway. Lotta work though.

Any übergeeks out there that can enlghten me? I knew I shoulda gone this year instead of last year!

But yeah as for thinking aloud great idea (didn't actually mean to come off harsh before) and yeah the idea of an anthology thing (narrated/bookended by the crow?) is entirely appropriate.

As for McKean, yeah the first few covers were mostly illustrated but 'great stuff with photography' might be doing him a disservice. There were puppets, drawings, sculpture, collage, montage, paint, found objects, bones, photography and all massaged digitally in the end. He even used old photocopies for cryin' out loud! I think because mcKean's stuff is so seamless and natural people don't realise exactly WHAT he's done. WHich is probably the way it should be as the final image is what counts. I guess I prefer this sort of stuff the way you prefer the animé, which is all cool and groovy.

I was SO dissapointed with Mirrormask though. I was hoping for the second coming but... The most surprising thing to me though was that it was mostly Gaiman who stuffed up! O.K. McKean was on his first feature, under heavy constraints blah blah blah and did make some big mistakes in terms of contrast and mood (and even music), but it's not like Gaiman doesn't know about pacing and structure for Pete's sake (Pete being the audience in this case). Ah well. Give 'em another shot though. Not bad for 4 million.

I almost cried recently when I lost the first 16 issues of Sandman. My stupid fucking builder put particle board under the flooring and when the shower next door started leaking the water was soaked up, travelled along to my room, through the cupboard floor, and then the packing boxes and comics just sucked them up like a fucking sponge. All first printings of course. Not a huge comic collector but geez. The first I noticed was I guess weeks later when a stain appeared in the carpet leading me to open the doors. I couldn't even open them for ages as I just knew it'd be the Sandman and Hellblazer stuff. Couldn't even tell what was box and what was comic book in the end. At least my Signed Gaiman/McKean "Hold me" Hellblazer survived. Sorry. Had to share that.

I'd also have been interested to ask if they're shooting "for" 3d in so much as altering the language of the shots so that you don't get jarring or disconcerting/disorienting shots when chopping between shallow/deep & closeups/longshots. Most films done in 3d so far (outside docos) don't really accomodate how the third dimension impacts the visual storytelling (although apparently they did start thinking about it on Robinsons - too bad the rest wasn't given enough thought though).

So, all you guys asleep up there in the northern hemisphere eh?

It shits me that they've taken McKean's Kinoshow compilation of all his short films off Amazon with an explanation which says basically there's NO explanation as to why. It was supposed to hit next week or something, dagnabbit. And yeah I've used photoshop in my work since version 1 - almost 20 years ago, can you believe it?! People used to ask me where I got trained - but it was so new there was no-one TO train you back then!