Please find enclosed the inaugural animated short by Bricovision. With thanks to my pal Mal, ladies and gentlemen I give you: Boxing Tonight.*
This piece was animated by Camilo, a Parisian artist who has dabbled in all manner of image-pop mediums, from emulation and comics to java. The 8-bit chip-seizure music is by Sidabitball; tunes generated by tinkering on Nintendo's original handheld, the Gameboy. Find Sidabitball's webpage here, his MySpace there. Boxing Tonight's obvious pop-visual touch point would be arcade and NES box 'em up classic Punch-Out!!; a fine series that had bestowed upon it the coveted Mike Tyson seal of approval, and a superb parody in the first series of The Simpsons (Episode 6 Moaning Lisa). A little further off that beaten track, I can't help but think of Monkey Punch comics, low income boxing superstar manga: Ashita no Joe, MAD Magazine, Dragonball Z and Tetsujin 28 when I cue the short up for the umpteenth viewing.
A fantastic piece of work, and hopefully the first of a great many like it. Well done fellas!
*High quality version here.
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