Artists
Peter de Seve and
Carter Goodrich share similar career arcs. Both began their illustration careers in early 80's New York, drawing many businessmen and computers for trade magazines. Both became New Yorker cover artists. As the print market became challenged, both artists found new demand for the talents in emerging media, creating the look of the characters in animated films. Goodrich worked on
Ratatouille,
Despicable Me, and
Brave. De Seve is responsible for all the characters in the
Ice Age films.
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posted by TimTypeZed
on May 10, 2013 -
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Kyaraben (or charaben) is a style of elaborately arranged
bento which features food decorated to look like people, characters from popular media, animals, and plants.
Mari Miyazowa (
previously) creates stop-action animated shorts featuring her bento box creations.
Waking Up is the latest from the lunchbox
auteur.
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posted by Room 641-A
on May 1, 2013 -
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Partysaurus Rex , a new animated short from Pixar, in which we join the characters from Toy Story for an ecstatic bathtime rave (
poster). The short débuted ahead of ("opened for") Finding Nemo 3D in September 2012, and features an original soundtrack by electronic musician
BT.
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posted by Tufa
on Apr 27, 2013 -
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The criminally overlooked work of independent Canadian animator
Myles Langlois has my vote for best thing on the internet right now. Specifically
Apollo Gauntlet, the tale of a lone hero prone to quips and violence wandering an (imaginary?) wasteland in search of Dr Benign so he can return to Earth, and
Superspace, the saga of two mounties, a woman and her son, a criminal, a pilot, a robot and a bald guy who find themselves trapped aboard an alien spaceship.
The low-rent production style, like highschool binder doodles come to life, and hazy Sifl and Olly-style humour might take a little getting used to, but it's all part of the charm.
Here is a
teaser, a
trailer, and a
1992 Sales Presentation for Apollo Gauntlet.
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posted by Drexen
on Apr 24, 2013 -
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To celebrate
Doctor Who's 50 year(!) run, our friends at Nerdist bring you a new animated
web series featuring a stop-motion 11th Doctor investigating a mystery involving his previous selves. It's
Doctor Puppet!
(I wouldn't have though it was possible for Matt Smith to look even
more like a
Rankin/Bass stop-motion puppet, but these folks proved me wrong...)
posted by Ursula Hitler
on Apr 7, 2013 -
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In the (slightly twisted) animated short:
A Fight for Everyone, we get to see a frustrated Creator dealing with a less than cooperative world.
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posted by quin
on Apr 5, 2013 -
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Caldera. "Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness,
CALDERA glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death."
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posted by homunculus
on Apr 3, 2013 -
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Animated Engines has been mentioned a
couple times before, but I wanted to highlight the site entire, along with its sister site,
507 Mechanical Movements. Both sites have animated diagrams of a huge variety of engines and (relatively) simple machines, the latter based on an
1868 book by Henry T. Brown of the same name. While all of the engines are animated, the animated machines start on
page 3, and go on from there. And every diagram leads to a page that explains the machine's function — step-by-step in the case of the engines.
posted by cthuljew
on Mar 23, 2013 -
14 comments
Journey Through A Melting Brain (The Stratacut of David Daniels) David Daniels is the master of
strata-cut animation, "a form of clay animation in which a long bread-like "loaf" of clay, internally packed with varying imagery, is sliced into thin sheets, with the animation camera taking a frame of the end of the loaf for each cut, eventually revealing the movement of the internal images within.... [I]n strata-cut, you build your imagery not just in X, Y, and Z space, but also considering time as a dimension, and the most important one."
Daniels' films are mesmerizing explosions of color. In an interview with Art of the Title,
he discusses the history of the process, his own trajectory, and how to make your own strata-cut animation (in a video demo at the bottom of the page).
posted by ocherdraco
on Mar 4, 2013 -
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On Thursday, February 21st, influential British animator
Bob Godfrey passed away at the age of 91. (
Guardian,
BBC,
Cartoon Brew,
Mirror,
Rueters,
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posted by louche mustachio
on Feb 23, 2013 -
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The latest of Thomas Ridgewell's (aka
TomSka) animated short-humor videos has hit youtube:
asdfmovie6. (link in video to previous videos)
posted by The Whelk
on Feb 21, 2013 -
16 comments
Paths of Hate is a highly stylized Polish CGI animated short movie which to an extent mimics traditional cel animation, but goes far beyond what's practically possible with traditional techniques. It also has some excellent, high-intensity aerial combat. Possibly NSFW for some light blood and gore.
posted by Joakim Ziegler
on Feb 20, 2013 -
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The Eagleman Stag is an award-winning stop motion animation film directed by Mikey Please with a striking visual aesthetic. The website for the film offers a
"How It Was Made" video that is, in itself, highly engaging, but comes with a warning: "BEFORE WATCHING THIS, WATCH
THIS. THEN ASK YOURSELF IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW." If that link puts you off "making of" media, then perhaps you can watch more of Please's work:
Spectacular View,
Zombiegotchi,
Seven Legs,
Animation Tag Attack EP-10,
title sequence for The Rabbit Lover,
Picasso Pictures Christmas Card,
etc.
posted by ocherdraco
on Feb 6, 2013 -
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"Few characters are as memorable as he: tall, black-cloaked, face scarred, eyepatch over his right eye, and ever-ready with his saber-rifle.
He is the epitome of Leiji (Reiji) Matsumoto's male hero, an SF version of the wild-West lone gunslinger." The Space Pirate
Captain Harlock is coming back in
a new CG movie,
a decade since his escapades were
last animated, and back with
Toei Animation, who
first brought his one-eyed scowl to the small screen
35 years ago. If this is all news to you, read on for more of the mysterious man who fight's for no one's sake.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 3, 2013 -
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