Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
I’ve become a fan of Gotye over the last year or so. His music is pretty good, but for me, it’s all about the animations; various styles, all quality stuff. From the album Making Mirrors.
Animated by Gina Thorstensen and Nacho Rodriguez.
Animator Renata Gąsiorowska uses colors and textures to excellent effect in this music video for Alphabets Heaven.
Directors: Karni and Saul at Aardman Animations
My son would agree that jazz is a destructive force and here is the film to prove it.
Neurologists claim that stuck songs are like thoughts we’re trying to suppress. The harder we try not to think about them, the more we can’t help it. The phenomenon is also known as earworms, and the ongoing ‘dim di da da dum’ causes a kind of brain itch you can’t scratch.
Jazz that nobody asked for is an ode to all those unwanted songs out there, that have nowhere to go. The music that haunts this film, is the amazing swing jazz tune ‘Quaker City Jazz’ by the long forgotten ‘Jan Savitt and his Top Hatters’. In 1937 they were the first jazz big band to feature an african american vocalist.
“Le Royaume” (The king and the Beaver), Student graduating film 2010 at Gobelins, L’école de l’image.
Written, directed and animated by Nuno Alves Rodrigues, Oussama Bouachéria, Julien Chheng, Sébastien Hary, Aymeric Kevin, Ulysse Malassagne & Franck Monier.
Music by Mathieu Alvado.
This is a Sally Cruikshank cult classic and one I first saw many moons ago. Made in 1975, the pop-psychedelia style fits the time quite well.
The murders of a series of prostitutes are spreading terror in the neighborhood of Blackchapel! While Scotland Black’s investigation flounders, Jack the Ripper’s violent justice rules the streets… and Sherlock Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate. via
Directed by Pierre Fernandez. From the National Film Board of Canada/Cannes Short Film Corner 7th NFB Short film Online Contest.
Different children are heard describing their favourite animal, and I then draw it according to what they say, so that the creature “grows itself” in a completely unexpected way. – Lara Lee
With Cruikshank-like animation, the folks at Rubber House Studio tell an allegorical tale of innocence lost.
Directed, designed and animated by Ivan Dixon and Greg Sharp. Additional animation by Neil Sanders, Gavin Mouldey, Alex Grigg, Peter Lowey and Jérémy Pires
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