Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
The Story of Animation is an educational film about the process of animation. Although aimed primarily at potential animation clients, the film has something for everyone – animation students, animation artists, animation producers, and anyone who has ever wondered about how animation is made, or simply enjoys animation!
Read more about the production of this short at thestoryofanimation.com.
h/t Elven Dance
Working at the library I’ve seen a lot of Penguin Books. (their penguin classics series is a staple) This short is to celebrate the launch of the Penguin English Library series – sort of a ‘super-classics’ imprint.
by Woof Wan-Bau
How many of the movies can you name?
Fast Film is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.
A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy’s secret headquarters.
A triple play of classical music animations to help start the week!
Stephen Malinowski has been animating music since 1985 when he began the Music Animation Machine project with an Atari 800 and some custom software. Over the years Mr Malinowski has upgraded his computers, refined and rewrote his software, and even wrote a Conductor program as well as an iPad app.
The last video of this post is a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the Music Animation Machine.
Vivaldi, Winter, Four Seasons Allegro:
While they look quite different, the MAM videos share the concept of music-driven computer animation with Wayne Lytle’s work on Animusic.
Brahms, Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60, first movement:
Find more at his Youtube channel, smalin.
Debussy, Arabesque #1, Piano Solo:
A documentary of Mr Malinowski and the MAM:
An 8-bit character escapes the 2D world. (looks more like 16-bit, but who’s counting?)
Animated by Steve Jones
Saturdays need a good cartoon and this is a good cartoon.
Chicken Cowboy is the coming-of-age tale of a chicken and his horse in the old west.
Animation by Stephen Neary
Formed in 1993, the Squirrel Nut Zippers play an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, klezmer, and swing. They found some popularity in the late 90’s during a neo-swing revival that included artists such as Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Mocean Worker.
“Nut Zippers,” is a southern term for a variety of old bootleg moonshine, and the band’s name comes from a newspaper account which related the story of a highly intoxicated man who climbed a tree one night, refusing to come down even after authorities arrived. The article’s headline read: “Squirrel Nut Zipper.” It is also the name of a candy dating back to 1890. via
Winner of “Best Animated Music Video” at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival. Directed by Raymond Persi and Matthew Nastuk.
h/t Vital Vaudeville
UPA (United Productions of America) was a major player in commercial animation from the mid-1940’s to the mid-1960’s. They have a good sized library of quality and cutting edge (for the time) work so you can be sure that more will be showing up here.
This is an adaptation of the classic Edgar Allan Poe tale, a tale that follows a man on his descent into madness…
The road to Valhalla is a Hero’s journey, and can be nigh on impossible when paved under with good intentions.
This is an incredible little piece of animation. Akin to bringing a minimalist painting into three-dimensional reality, Omer Ben David uses shading, few lines, and movement to suggest forms and describe the world.
The film sets the story of an old house cat who bids farewell to his home, his owner and the world he used to know. via
I have lived with several geriatric cats in my time and Mr Ben David does an excellent job on the cat’s movements. The cat getting up onto the back of the sofa gave me a twinge, and by the time the film was over I was missing every old cat I’d ever had.
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