Animated Creatures: ilx animated film voting thread (polls close TUESDAY JULY 3RD, 8 PM EDT)

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Animated Creatures: ilx animation poll nomination thread (closes June 10th!)

Voting is open for Animated Creatures.

Official nomination list (filmographic data remains incomplete; if you spot a thing that was nominated in the thread and is missing here just post here and I'll rectify it)

How to vote

Rank your top 50 films from the list. List your films from your #1 to your #50 and email your ballots to creatures at jklol.net. To assist with tabulation, please:
- don't send your ballot as anything other than the body of your email or a plaintext attachment
- put each film on a separate line, with the film's ID from the list as the first thing on the line
- provide your ilx username in the email for uh verifiability or whatever

Votes will be tabulated using the unweighted Borda count method (i.e. the usual thing). I may also determine what the Condorcet winner of the poll is just to see if it's different.

How results will go

If I get less than 12 ballots, I'll just unceremoniously post the results.

If I get at least 12 ballots, I'll do a multi-day poll result rundown in the traditional fashion.

If I get at least 24 ballots, I'll do screencaps!

Please don't post your ballots in this thread, or spoil your #1 or anything. Please do stan for films that you think deserve a first or second look for people's ballots.

Anyway have at. Can't wait to see how this all comes together!

with the film's ID from the list as the first thing on the line

Which list?

Oh dicks pasted the wrong link

http://stuff.jklol.net/animation/

50! That's a lotta films. Can we do shorter ballots?

Yes, of course. Minimum of 20 preferably.

gonna have to do some serious thinking about this

I'm not sure if it played much outside of the UK, but The Wrong Trousers, by Nick Park's Aardman Animations, is amazing - properly funny film parodies*, a ton of background jokes, great characters, and an amazing slapstick / action sequence finale that really, is one of the best things ever.

*most of which I suspect I don't really get due to not knowing enough film noir - but it's okay, each of them is also a really funny joke!

A guarantee - if you watch The Wrong Trousers then say "Yeah but X is better" then I will watch the shit out of X before the poll closes.

Oh dang, I forgot to nominate any Duchamps. Might do a fairly small ballot for this one, I'm not so invested in it...

anyone else remember seeing this as a kid? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(film)

I would have liked to have nominated Brave if I had known when this poll was closing. Plus how did yall forget the Duck Tales movie?

or that Charlie Brown movie with the raft race

Last post I swear. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, 9 and Balto might have graced the bottom of my list.
k done

Akira but no Ninja Scroll??

Feel free to vote and rep for un-nommed films

other notable omissions from the nom list:

Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs
The Soldier's Tale (1984)

! Man, I will definitely be (thinking about) voting for Cloudy, so rare that a film gets so gleeful about science.

I'm not sure if it played much outside of the UK, but The Wrong Trousers, by Nick Park's Aardman Animations,

this is one of the best films of any kind ever, but Nick Park wrote and directed it, and does not own Aardman - he was a schoolboy when they started and didn't join until circa Sledgehammer (co-founder Peter Lord is still an active filmmaker, directed the Pirates! adaptation of this year)

also not on the list: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie aka The Great American Chase - this is a 1979 comp of classic Chuck Jones material, voting for which may be a good way to avoid vote-splitting among WB shorts.

support people repping for specific WB (& Disney, if there are any) shorts in this thread if dodgy youtube links are available - I dunno any by name

highly recommend the 1943 'chicken little' -- it's got the most shocking ending of any disney cartoon i know.

OK here is a bunch of stuff I found on NETFLIX fyi

Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures (A Close Shave, A Grand Day Out & The Wrong Trousers)
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Life & Death
The Iron Giant
Ghost in the Shell
Fritz the Cat
Fire and Ice
The Secret of NIMH
Gumby: The Movie
Mary & Max
The Book of the Dead
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Popeye - comp. of early shorts
The Secret of Kells
The Adventures of Tintin - comp. of episodes 1991-92
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Rango

anyone wanna recommend me one or two of Bill Plympton's feature-length films to seek out? I've not seen any of them, tho I really like what shorts of his I've encountered.

this is one of the best films of any kind ever, but Nick Park wrote and directed it, and does not own Aardman - he was a schoolboy when they started and didn't join until circa Sledgehammer (co-founder Peter Lord is still an active filmmaker, directed the Pirates! adaptation of this year)

I did not know that! And I'm glad to, as it means that he'll probably be active for longer than if he was a founder.

Also I can't believe I didn't know until now that the W&G stories were co-written by the author of The Claws of Axos / The Sontaran Experiment / The Hand of Fear!

0357 Un autre: Gandahar

ok this was only me being stupid, it's just called Gandahar.

done a quick tot up and i've already got 25 on my ballot, plan on trying to catch up on as many more as possible over the next couple of weeks.

on Plympton features: The Tune is the only one I've seen but it's great (however also spuriously tangents off to incorporate some of his shorts)

Also I can't believe I didn't know until now that the W&G stories were co-written by the author of The Claws of Axos / The Sontaran Experiment / The Hand of Fear!

First two were Park alone. But the ears on robot Preston in A Close Shave are a tip-off about the co-author.

Do you have a source for that? IMDB reckons otherwise.

spuriously tangents off to incorporate some of his shorts

I think (not 100% sure) they were always intended to be part of The Tune but Plympton released some scenes as shorts ahead of time to raise money to finish the film. It does feel a little disjointed but that's the series-of-musical-numbers nature of it I guess. I love it, btw.

Anyway The Tune and I Married A Strange Person are great, I didn't care for Hair High at all (standard new-kid-in-high-school plot moves slowly with occasional bursts of gross-out slapstick which, I know, is what you expect from a Plympton film, but it just didn't really gel for me), and I haven't seen anything else. Has anyone seen any others?

(actually I'm overspeaking, it doesn't claim he wrote A Grand Day Out, which was Nick Park's student film)

support people repping for specific WB (& Disney, if there are any) shorts in this thread if dodgy youtube links are available

RE: WB - following is a url w/ links (YouTube & otherwise) to all nommed Loony Tunes, Merrie Melodies & misc. related shorts: http://shorttext.com/ZoEp0F7

list is pretty lolhueg, so I chose not to post YT links individually. i tried to be thorough, but I imagine I may have missed a few.

Feel free to vote and rep for un-nommed films

― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:42 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, brilliant. I figured with the ID tag system that this was a no-go. Now, of course, I'll forget the ones I was bemoaning the absence of yesterday...

No fear, I am adaptable.

Thanks. I tend to not notice these polls until dire circumstances. I will enjoy watching animation films I've never seen before because of this poll

(actually I'm overspeaking, it doesn't claim he wrote A Grand Day Out, which was Nick Park's student film)

yeah I was also hallucinating another short between Grand Day Out and Wrong Trousers. in other news, holy crap how did he get so good so fast?

i started watching a bunch last night... a lot of these are really scary and/or depressing.

so far it's looking like my ballot will prolly be leaning more towards 50s/60s/70s/80s stuff...

bump because this fell off new answers so quick i didn't know voting had begun

ok cool, i submitted something... i hope i'm not the only one lmao

only one so far! I need to vote at some point probably…

let's get some votes!

i keep intending to find an evening before i vote to sit down and watch a ton of the clips from the other thread. too busy tho so far

i'm the only one?!?!?

yeah :( probably should've picked an earlier deadline just so's people would do their last minute ballots sooner!

this thread needs some links to get people excited........... i forgot how to post youtube without embedding

using the youtu.be links works…I really ought to have harvested links to shorts from the nomination thread (there are lots of links to the nominations in the nomination thread!) but I didn't have quite that level of commitment to copy-pasting things.

I would encourage anyone with the time to please watch the Sally Cruikshank films, Quasi at the Quackadero and Make Me Psychic. They're something like Fleischers done in the seventies, with music by R. Crumb's backing band and mostly animated (over a period of years) by Cruikshank alone. Particularly with the former, there's something richly nostalgic going on amidst all the weird cartoon geekery in the carnivalesque encounters with possible pasts and futures, huckster'd or otherwise. Make Me Psychic increases the pace does better in terms of sheer goofy cartooniness without going into hyperdrive like the remarkable but sort of opaque Face Like a Frog (1987).

Quasi: http://youtu.be/dH7LcVNusQE
Psychic: http://youtu.be/4PWPoHg2cRA
Face: http://youtu.be/dOptGLEOsJ8

Logorama kinda rules..

I found "Augusta Feeds Her Child" though I don't remember it having this terrible music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339oBGDPWPg

There's no way I'll have time to vote after tonight, so I've thrown together a rushed, conventional ballot. Everybody vote!

Got my shortlist down to 60. I suspect that Chuck Jones is going to suffer from vote splitting.

No nomination for Luxo Jr!

Due to work hilarity I'm off tomorrow - accepting any recommendations for non MM / LT stuff to watch.

Also a reminder that you should all watch The Wrong Trousers if you have a spare 30 minutes and would like to vote for the winner.

support people repping for specific WB (& Disney, if there are any) shorts in this thread if dodgy youtube links are available

RE: WB - following is a url w/ links (YouTube & otherwise) to all nommed Loony Tunes, Merrie Melodies & misc. related shorts: http://shorttext.com/ZoEp0F7

list is pretty lolhueg, so I chose not to post YT links individually. i tried to be thorough, but I imagine I may have missed a few.

― ➂ ➌ ➂ (Pillbox), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Reposting because this link is INVALUABLE.

we can still vote?!

Am unlikely to get to processing votes before Tuesday, so consider this a soft extension.

― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, June 29, 2012 10:41 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can someone, like, post whatever the new voting deadline is and change the thread title? you might get a lot more ballots if people know they can still send them and how much time they have to get them together.

New voting deadline is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8 pm EDT. If someone wants to mod the title.

aight cool i'm definitely voting

title updated

u da man

OK cool - will def be turning in a ballot as well. I was worried polls would be closed at this point.

bump

I need another extension. :(

fire and forget.

If the power at home refuses to come back on you might get your wish.

At the end, I was just opening 3-4 youtubes from that list and switching them, going "oh yeah that one oh yeah this one"

Only massive gap in the nominations that I noticed is Bully for Bugs, which is exactly the one you think it is.

Hastily sent, but some problems in my ballot in rush to submit.

finishing mine atm..

i voted!

just sent mine. stoked!

Did 24 people vote yet?

Going through some of the WB shorts -- damn, some of these are more affecting than I expected!

Bumping for status update!

status update is my power is on and I have 19 ballots, mine will make it an even 20. Gonna collate results this weekend and debut the countdown on Monday!

Even if we just missed the 24-ballot mark, :-D

i one thing to get off my chest: i regret omitting the 2nd Ghost in the Shell movie.

I regret not getting around to refreshing my memory of the classic WB shorts in time to vote for them!

2nd Ghost in the Shell = actually the worst thing I have sat through in the cinema.

(I'm aware this is probably not challops)

aside from being really confusing, i thought it was pretty great. the animation was amaz!

Soooooo. Is this happening? Or did it happen and I missed it?

it will happen soon! I'll post a link to the results thread in here when I make it. Sorry for delays and such, my life has taken an unexpected turn to the busy.

Come back silby. :(

I wanna but man I just started working full time this week, it's terrible timing. :(

take your time imo. ilx is not starving for polls or anything.

Yeah, full-time work is awful. (Congrats!)

I was on vacation and didn't vote :(

you might get lucky if you try to squeeze one in. you might not though?

yeah I dunno, don't wait up for me. feel like it would be an injustice to just throw a random list together

(Would it be a hassle to resubmit mine?)

i'm going to try to squeeze one in

submissions at this point or resubmissions must be sure to include the id #s i gave the films to assist rapid tabulation.

To anyone getting impatient - remember these things take time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YlEpI00ouU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EBdEoZUH7o

wow!

Aargh! I think I never sent in my ballot in the first place! /gets cracking

Sent (hopefully for real this time!)

pumped for the results.. it will be worth the wait

I generated the results! I'll make the results thread on Monday! thanks for voting everybody, this should be interesting!

argh i totally blew this :/

Stoked! (And I hope my ballot got to you (and did not inconvenience you terribly).)

DEPLOYED

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