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

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.

Telephone Thing, it was youtube.

More Jiri Barta.

A Ballad About Green Wood shows pieces of splintered wood having their own life. A crow eats some of the wood and becomes a part wood embodiment of death with a scythe tail. Lots of imagery about changing seasons.

Golem is a very impressive effort from the mid-90s with an old man observing a town that he seems to remember from a long time ago. The town shifts and morphs into a hostile mocking place and sprouts faces from the walls.

Vanished World Of Gloves shows gloves of different classes. My favourite part was the wealthy party with the fancy glove wanking a candle till it covers itself in runny wax.

The Last Theft is live action but uses animation techniques to alter things. A bunch of ghosts take a thief in their house and lure him into a false sense of security. This is really beautiful, great soundtrack. Has all the qualities I go to old European animation for.

Club Of The Discarded shows old shop dummies embracing all the crass things of modern life.

You can get these on a Jiri Barta dvd and I'd like to get it sometime.

He done a feature length film called Toys In The Attic that had famous actors voicing.

Yuki Onna is his most recent film but I can only see trailers for that.

Watched "When Marnie Was Here" in a theater a day or two ago
i have thoughts

Extravagant puppet film with cgi assistance from Taiwan.

https://vimeo.com/132423166

Arti: The Adventure Begins.

thunderbirds are whoa

that's a really strange combination. i like the idea of going mega with the thunderbirds stuff, but the CG creatures aren't much better than video game level

https://youtu.be/vo1qGR5DDw8

Вперед, время! / Forward march, time! - 1977 soviet film based on the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky

This upcoming film The Red Turtle looks interesting, it's a co-production between French studio Wild Bunch and Ghibli amongst others. Director is Michael Dudok de Wit who won an Oscar for this short in 2000 http://youtu.be/hVg5elLgSM8
http://www.catsuka.com/news/2015-09-15/the-red-turtle-premiers-petits-extraits-via-arte

Belladonna Of Sadness got lovingly restored and coming on bluray!

http://www.tcj.com/belladonna-of-sadness-interview/

never heard of that, looks amazing!

I talked about it earlier in the thread. It's pretty good.

the opening credits for the upcoming Lupin show has some pretty sweet animation http://youtu.be/dvaosZlQqrY

Has he always had such hairy hands?

1982 doc with interviews with bay area animators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cul_G3PJBos

Features: Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi

Not sure if this belongs on an animation "snob" thread, but here's the pilot episode of Super Science Friends, a new series by Brett Jubinville and Tinman Creative Studios:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjKGWvdSamQ

It's a little rough in the way pilot episodes often are, but it's really funny and charming, and I'm looking forward to seeing more!

at the risk of being kicked out, this is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6CAXKwexNA

Maybe worth noting here for Region 1 ilxors (I think the disc is region-locked but can't verify) that the Quay Brothers shorts are out on blu-ray now- the new stuff is a surprisingly non-intrusive and well-done documentary short from Christopher Nolan (his superfan backing got them a touring 35mm exhibition and this rerelease, so I really can't complain), Through the Weeping Glass (their Mütter Museum documentary, previously only available as a limited R1 PAL DVD for some fucking reason), Maska, and Unmistaken Hands (Ex Voto F.H.). I haven't had a chance to watch yet but the thought of seeing Maska in HD and Unmistaken Hands at all is exciting as hell. All I know about Unmistaken Hands is that it's working through the same Felisberto Hernandez obsession as Piano Tuner of Earthquakes.

And a quick update. I sold my DVD copy of the previous Zeitgeist collection (subtitled "Phantom Museums") before the blu-ray's specs were announced, but if you're in the same boat and considering an upgrade, hang on to it. Aside from the commentary tracks, none of the DVD's extras have been ported over. Most of this is minor (an interview, "The Summit," their entry in Peter Greenaway's The Falls) but also includes some animated work (a BBC ident, "The Calligrapher," and "Nocturna Artificiala," their earliest surviving film). Kind of sucks that they couldn't or wouldn't port those over, even if it was a question of leaving them in SD.

Don't let me scare you off, though, everything looks fucking AMAZING. I watched Maska and Anamorphosis to sample it. Maska is a revelation in HD with the full range of color (I'm ecstatic to see where they take this in Unmistaken Hands; starting with In Absentia they've done things with light that I didn't even know were possible, let alone in stop-motion), and Anamorphosis (chosen since we've just started in on Hans Holbein in one of my classes) looks brand-new despite being over 20 years old and is bookended with a clever detail I'd literally never been able to see before- the broken lute string in Holbein's The Ambassadors is made into an actual wire that extrudes from the surface of the painting.

I really wish there were more opportunities to see this stuff for animators who don't want to resort to vimeo. I'd like to see Unmistaken Hands.
Does netflix do much short animation?