Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
A penguin and a gorilla lead a small revenge on an over-zealous zoo keeper.
Animated by Nicole Mitchell.
h/t Futureshorts
This is the 1953 animation from UPA (who also did The Tell Tale Heart and Rooty Toot Toot) and shouldn’t be confused with the 1969 DePatie-Freleng version animated for the Thurber story-based tv show My World and Welcome to It.
In 1951 animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) announced a forthcoming feature to be faithfully compiled from Thurber’s work, titled Men, Women and Dogs. However, the only part of the ambitious production that was eventually released was the UPA cartoon The Unicorn in the Garden (1953) via
You can read the short story this is based on here.
A strange creature races against time to create his successor in this beautifully animated short.
Another wonderful short from the folks over at Bird Box Studio.
This sweet little film looks past the lust and ardor that is supposed to be love and into a little world of true devotion.
Last April Aunt Bee and I celebrated our 20th anniversary and I hope that when we get to whatever place these two folks are at that there will be this much romance in our lives.
By Ore Peleg
This music video is just plain fun. The animation has an echo of the 70’s pop-art animation walking the line of psychedelia (ala yellow submarine or sally cruikshank) and is driven along by a peppy techno track. You can’t help but root for the protagonist, and the ending is perfect.
This one’s going on the ‘shiny things’ list.
Animation by Ninja Tune.
Created in 1978 by the incomparable Sally Cruikshank.
Flip the Frog was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930 and the cartoon Fiddlesticks was Flip’s debut. If the style looks and feels familiar it’s because Ub Iwerks was the creator of Mickey Mouse and set the tone for all early Disney animation.
Besides the pedigree, this animation itself was the first sound and color animation when it was released in August 1930.
h/t Miss Cellania
The more I watch this video, the more I see, and the more I like it. Most striking is the use of color as a defining aspect of the story. Frenetic in pace, the backgrounds are complex and impossible to take in on one viewing. A fun and colorful romp and worth watching a few times.
Music by Manabe Takayuki
On the eve of the first flight to the moon, an astronaut ponders his ordinary-sounding name.
Released in 1962, it was set in the near future – August 22nd, 1970 – which ended up being about a year from when man actually landed on the moon.
From Format Films, 1962. Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, voices by James Whitmore and Ross Martin.
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