Douglas Coupland - The Tragic Death of the Channel 3 News Team

'Crush Inc.' created this short motion comic adaptation from a Douglas Coupland novel. They've taken the approach of slowly panning across a virtual comic book vista that contains comic book panels, speech bubbles and a combination of static image and animated segments. The resulting animation combines familiar elements of comic book aesthetics with a spatial dimension that is rare in conventional animation practice, where the screen format or mise-en-scene is one unified frame.

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Bio
Coupland is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is worth checking out for it's surreal apocalyptic and metaphysical properties.