
Animation Selection
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favorites from the world of animation, from any source.
most are hand-drawn, but there are also some computer-generated. some of the artists are famous, some are completely unknown. the time range here is nearly 100 years.
no stop-motion animation though, that's another playlist...

Doll Face follows a machine's struggle to construct its own identity. A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Created in its entirety by Andy Huang,... continue reading
posted by plastiquemonkey
"The Other Side" (1993) is a beautifully animated and funny short film by the Russian animator Mikhail Aldashin. Caution: bird-on-worm violence.
posted by plastiquemonkey
I hope this doesn't happen to me...
posted by plastiquemonkey
"I was sitting in my leather arm chair watching telly, thinking how marvelous it would be to be a werewolf. How fantastic and different my life would be..." Great writing, amazing sound design & original... continue reading
posted by plastiquemonkey
Drawn by Geoff McFetridge. Music is 'Golden Cage' by The Whitest Boy Alive.
posted by Eden
An excerpt from the 1926 feature-length animated film by German animator Lotte Reiniger. It features a silhouette animation technique using manipulated cutouts which is similar to Wayang shadow puppets. ... continue reading
posted by yoghurt
I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this - very cool style.
posted by Eden
In "I lived on the moon", a father speaks to his son. He explains how was his life on the moon. A place filled with flying snakes, fireflies and three tailed monkeys. A beautiful place, safe and far... continue reading
posted by plastiquemonkey
Gotta love that birdy, you stupid cat! Viciously funny cartoon by John Dilworth. WARNING: the music will be stuck in your head.
posted by plastiquemonkey
From Boing Boing: "In the 8-minute animated short "A Gentleman's Duel," what starts off as a sexist little cartoon about a Frenchman and a Brit vying for the attention and affection of an improbable-breasted... continue reading
posted by rembar

The Thief and the Cobbler (released as The Princess and The Cobbler in Australia and South Africa, and Arabian Knight in most other countries) was the twenty-six-year animated feature film pet project... continue reading
posted by gorgonheap
My Godson is obsessed with this. Efterklang (the Danish word for reverberation) is a post-rock group formed on January 2001 in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The group consists of five core members and... continue reading
posted by smibbo
Amazing animated short film based on an Apache myth about a time when the sky was too low. An elder of the tribe tells the children a story around the campfire. You'll want to hear the whole thing. Made... continue reading
posted by plastiquemonkey
Give this a minute: it goes from simple and formless to amazing very quickly (don't give up when it's fuzzy--wait for the soaring ink strokes). From the submitter: This is computer animation in the Chinese... continue reading
posted by oxdottir


Film by Jeff Desom Music by Hauschka
posted by Ornthoron
Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The... continue reading
posted by paul4dirt