If you look in the background, you'll see a person--I think it's Shelton actually--peeking through the door at 3-D versions of his creations and in the teaser clip above, there's some really weird like meta stuff, like the guy peaking up from under the road as Fat Freddy's Cat looks around, and the end...who knows if the plot is some weird our reality/their reality claymation head-trip (let's hope it is) but it says "Copyright 2006" and although awesome animation like this probably takes forever, maybe this project hasn't been dead-ed, but there's not really any info on it since this initial teaser.
Extra sad because so many small details that often get lost in the shuffle towards converting something into a movie seem to still be there. They maintained the near-faded color-scheme of the comics, the animation's really fluid and rubbery which is a good translation of Moebius' art to animation, and the music, this chugging trance of 808 snaps, it's perfect. The animation style fits too in part because it approximate the Moebius style on Incale well enough but also because in the late 80s, Moebius' work got increasingly clean and pure and often looked like stills from lost or never-were fantasy films, especially his Magic Crystal stuff and some of Silver Surfer: Parable.
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Moebius is an amazing artist. His Airtight Garage, and Incal, including so many of his other drawings and stories could be made into movies, if not animated movies. He played conceptual artist on so many movies including Alien, Abyss, Dune and more. He's one of my all time favorite artists.
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