Por fin aparece esta interesante adaptacion (extracto, mas bien) de la estupenda novela Titus Groan de Mervyn Peake. A destacar la ambientacion tenebrosa y muy cuidada la de este corto que supuso el proyecto final de carrera de su directora, Joan Ashworth.
El ripeo es en xvid y ac3, de calidad perfecta, no hay dialogos y hay unas diez o quince fuentes. Lo pongo en lanzamiento por si acaso.
Capturas:A nightmarish tale of castle intrigue and giant wandering spiders with three main characters built of soft leather.
The Web was first shown publicly in 1987. The initial idea for the film began after Joan had found a tattered paperback copy of Titus Groan while she was staying at a youth hostel in Holland. Currently professor of animation at the Royal College of Art, London, Joan has been invited to show the film at many international animation festivals around the world ever since.




How Mermaids Breed (Joan Ashworth, 2003)
Segundo y ultimo corto hasta la fecha de su directora, es una historia bastante pintoresca acerca de como se reproducen las sirenas. La animacion es por ordenador tomando como base figuras de arcilla.
Capturas:How Mermaids Breed is a sly look at interspecies breeding that finally answers the ancient maritime riddle of where baby mermaids come from. In ten droll, wordless minutes, we take a trip to the seaside and the undersea side as a man in a boat is tossed overboard thanks to the machinations of a team of mermaids.
The piece, created entirely in CGI, teams with characters that resemble moving versions of the sculptures of Henry Moore. Stoutly-proportioned beings with stocky limbs and suggestions of eyes, the clay-like characters in fact originated with clay models, infused with a Bronze Age sense of robust fertility.


