Animation Selection
Updated: 1 decade 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago
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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 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 3,267 views • 4:12"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 1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,992 viewsI hope this doesn't happen to me...
posted by plastiquemonkey 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,571 views"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 1 decade 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 3,201 viewsDrawn by Geoff McFetridge. Music is 'Golden Cage' by The Whitest Boy Alive.
posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,987 viewsAn 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 1 decade 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 2,197 viewsI'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite like this - very cool style.
posted by Eden 1 decade 7 years 4 months ago • 1,598 viewsIn "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 1 decade 7 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 2,764 viewsGotta love that birdy, you stupid cat! Viciously funny cartoon by John Dilworth. WARNING: the music will be stuck in your head.
posted by plastiquemonkey 1 decade 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 2,159 views • 4:27From 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 1 decade 7 years 3 months ago • 19,812 viewsThe 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 1 decade 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,071 viewsMy 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 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 2,146 viewsAmazing 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 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 2,605 viewsGive 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 1 decade 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 5,174 viewsFilm by Jeff Desom Music by Hauschka
posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 6,890 viewsUsing 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 1 decade 5 years 6 months ago • 3,497 views