Animation Snob Thread (no Disney, no Pixar, no mainstream anime, mention Family Guy and you get kicked out a window), puppet films are allowed

after loving space dandy + his adventure time ep i'm really interested in checking out more masaaki yuasa. what should i see next?

mindgame!!

ping pong the animation is also GREAT

didn't realize he's working on space dandy now. cool! still haven't watched it since I heard s1 was so/so

is his adventure time ep streaming somewhere?

here?

ah, thanks, have been on the lookout for that.

and doubling down on my mind game recommendation. p sure you'll dig it going by that adventure time ep. character designs and the look in general took me some getting used to but it's really fluid, lots of extreme camera movement, w/lots of drastic stylistic shifts. just a joy to watch once I got acclimated.

mind game (mindgame?) is one of the best films i've ever seen in any medium

Is "A Cat in Paris" (currently on netflix) worth watching?

it's ok.

Ha, I was a big fan of the live action Ping Pong movie, haven't seen the manga/anime, definitely wanna check that out

Ping Pong anime is excellent, easily best of the year so far.
If you want Yuasa at his weirdest watch Kaiba, that show is nuts.

I really loved how the wild animation amped up the intensity of ping pong matches (!) to a ridiculous degree. great stuff.

Just watched short piece Madame Tutli-Putli on YouTube. The film itself is fine but the technique they used for the Madame is incredible, a lot of the other figures looked amazing but the woman has what seems to be a combination of stop motion figure and a real woman's eyes filmed and stuck onto the figure. It looks beautiful and incredible, I've never seen anything like it.

i watched all of Over the Garden Wall last week and i really loved it - reminded me of Miyazaki in some places (and bizarrely the art style kept reminding me of Professor Layton). def worth checking out imho.

worth checking out is an ongoing series of 30 short films called Animator Expo, overseen by Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
a new one is being posted every week, up to 7 at the moment
http://animatorexpo.com/titlelist/ (click EN in the top right hand corner)

highlight so far (at least in terms of animation) has been the highly NSFW ME!ME!ME! http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/
they're all worth watching though, from a collection of Gundam key frames to a cycling short starring Bradley Wiggins(!)

i hope yuri norstein finishes 'the overcoat' before he dies. the parts of it that he's released look incredible.

i recently snarked over on twitter about "animation rockists" and stood up for hanna-barbera because of its awesome sound-effect library, but i'm really glad to see this thread because most contemporary mainstream animation is awful awful awful.

Anyone ever saw the Shinya Ohira interactive animation level of Asura's Wrath? It's pretty amazing, way more beautiful than you'd expect from an action game like that. So good that a lot of the fans of the game inevitably didn't like it. Pure excess in his super wonky style.

I overestimated how active this thread would be, I didn't want any embedded videos because I though there would be too many and lots of people wouldn't be able to load the page. So might as well start adding videos now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-rhQ8AKs7A

dammit, i should open that game.

I think that part is downloadable content, but I'm not sure.

forgot who recommended A Letter to Momo on this board, but that was a really sweet, beautiful film

yeah, i liked it

rewatched mind game 3 years on recently, discovered that it was in fact a bit shit :/

half liked a letter to momo, but couldn't help comparing it in my mind to studio ghibli's better work, the contrast doing the film no favors. also found her ghost friends annoying as often as comical. pretty ok overall, though.

mind game IS a bit shit, but it's still a fun watch - fast moving, nicely animated, visually inventive.

looking forward to song of the sea atm. from the writer/director of the secret of kells, which i love beyond all reason. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/reference

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27btal_08-ideya-garanina-1981-cabaret_shortfilms

Another virtuoso animation by Ideya Garanina. 20minutes.
I thought virtually all this era of Russian animation was aimed at children but there's a bit of sexual content in this one. There's another recenty uploaded Garanina one about a Japanese Crane fairy tale.

There's a guy who uploaded most of this stuff and I think his account was deleted off youtube because of the copyright holders (who for years have offered no alternate way to see this stuff) but he's got this account on Dailymotion, but his channel is clogged to fuck with adverts, so it becomes obnoxious to watch what he has for very long, shame because there's so much I'd like to see there.

Norstein's student Petrov did a 20-minute adaption of The Old Man & The Sea in OIL PAINT.

Clips from a few Petrov pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFlnwXKhsM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oldmansea_petrov.jpg

Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkfdzD8PeI

Strings... a self-aware marionette world... very well done.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHa1BqcNYQc

And an old tragic classic: Canada's Ryan Larkin -

Walking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwKMYYfWHHo

Early 80s Hungarian film Son Of The White Mare is one of the most psychedelic things I've ever seen.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtzy_RJQ7G0

Ah, meant those to be links, not embedded. Sorry.

I'll need to watch these soon, but I have seen the first one. I think my favourite Petrov ones were with the mermaid and another with cows. Can't quite remember but they have a nice warmth.

saw the rerelease of this a few weeks ago. it's gorgeous and well worth a watch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_the_Mockingbird

Thanks, I'll keep note. It's unusual stuff like that coming out.

that one is a major favorite in france.

any animation snobs recognize where this is from?

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/291/b/d/cat_soup_gif_fave_by_ellidegg-d3123fk.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Aba9-xg88

i'm not a snob tho, soz

woah trippy

cat soup is SO SO GREAT. one of my very favorite movies (not limited to animation, shorts, anything). writer-director tatsuo sato has directed for several anime series, including a bunch of ninja episodes, but has made no other-stand alone films that i know of. co-writer & animation director masaaki yuasa, however, has made or contributed to quite a few, including mind game, genius party, and kick-heart. he also recently wrote & directed a memorable episode of adventure time ("food chain").

BEST MOVIE

^ ninja scroll episodes

that looks amazing! putting cat soup on my list

Thanks again Dave Fischer, I watched those clips. Interesting stuff. Son Of The White Mare seems familiar, I hope to watch that soon.

Not sure if this is the right place to report this, but Twice Upon a Time is finally getting a DVD release. And they're even including the "dirty" version of the film!

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dvd/john-kortys-twice-upon-a-time-coming-to-home-video-exclusive-109606.html

Cool, was not aware of this film

Twice is great! Good news about the DVD.

just watched four of Tezuka's 13 short films: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiq0tMhi3HHRIpUMHbdrcWbqjhFAwMrdU
if you haven't seen Legend of the Forest, stop what you're doing and rectify that now; goddamn this guy is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec6CuE34pfU

Song of the Sea is drop dead gorgeous. I'm a sucker for sad mystical Irish shit, and this one socked me in the gut. Absolutely worth seeing on the largest screen available.

http://i1.wp.com/www.gkidsfilms.com/wp-content/img/song/tent_song_hires_2.jpg

Watched The Illusionist last night, really good stuff. I was impressed with the settings and I liked the scenes of being stuck in the car on the road with highland cows because that happened on a trip I was on a while ago.

All the settings were really well done.

Beautiful short made by French student Gwenn Germain over the course of 5 months as his final year project, influenced by Miyazaki and Moebius.
https://vimeo.com/124313553

Maska by Quay Brothers. Penderecki soundtrack and adaptation of a Lem story.
Just as good as most of their work. I had never seen it before, their BFI compilation is where I've seen most of their short films. This is quite a bit newer.

Jiri Barta's Krysar. Pied Piper legend told in extremely crooked stop-motion imagery and a mixture of other techniques with lovely flute and heavy metal guitar soundtrack. Just less than an hour. Really brilliant.

I love Maska! May I ask where you watched it? I've only been able to track it down in a really badly compressed Youtube video that loses a lot of detail :(

Song of the Sea was a hit with my 3yo niece.