Attn UK ilxors, BBC4 is doing a night of animation. It's Wallace & Gromit right now, but they promise more obscure stuff as the night goes on.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
Watching it now. Morph, Len Lye, animal farm, Bob Godfrey... It's nice but it's a bit basic so far
― koogs, Sunday, 2 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
If you're going to do popular stuff and not include smallfilms or Gerry Anderson then I don't know what. Or focus on the tiny studios and skip the aardman.
The dozen or so films now on are done as individual programmes on my PVR and it's cutting them to bits because the schedule isn't precise enough.
― koogs, Sunday, 2 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
Amazing trailer for A Casa Lobo/The Wolf Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gfk8e_WhM
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 December 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
So, I bought Zeman's 'Invention for Destruction' (that counts, right?), but now I'm worried it's just a renaming of his Jules Verne, which I think I have.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
Sigh, yeah it is. Still a awesome film though.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
And my old copy was kind of vanilla.
Can we talk about anamolisa
― spacedaddy, Friday, 21 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
With me? No, I haven't seen it. Kind of want to, although I'm not a Kaufman fan.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 21 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYOsdCr3pNEUn Homme Est Mort by Olivier Cossu of Les Armateurshttp://lesarmateurs-lesite.fr/en/projets/a-man-is-dead/
Sign up to see it here w/English subtitles: http://bit.ly/frenchlaborfilm
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 February 2019 22:49 (five years ago) link
I enjoyed that, thanks.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 8 February 2019 07:44 (five years ago) link
The Korean Film Council has uploaded a 1967 animated take on the classic Hong Gildong story to their YT account (on a sidenote: god, if every country was as good at taking care of its film legacy as South Korea...). It's not a masterpiece or anything, but there's some very good quality slapstick and action in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMY4NA7ONg4
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
Not really snobby enough for this thread, but Laika's Missing Link, which we saw yesterday, is tremendous.
― Stevie T, Monday, 8 April 2019 14:30 (five years ago) link
Laika is always great
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
still can't believe some of the stuff laika managed to do in stop-motion in the underrated kubo and the two strings, so i'm psyched for the new one for sure
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
I haven't absolutely loved a Laika film yet, but I think if I were working on movies, that kind of stop-motion is what I'd love to do.
― jmm, Monday, 8 April 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
Anomalisa is on film4 tonight. 2016 Oscar winning animation. Not seen it myself but...
― koogs, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
L'Animation Independante Japonaise volume 2 - First off, this cost about 45 pounds so I'll understand if you don't rush out to buy it. 8 short films, with French and English subtitles, DVD+Bluray, all region (I think).I paid so much because I've wanted to see the Keita Kurosaka films for years. His Midori-Ko is by far the longest film (55min), it's like a cross between Eraserhead and Little Otik with a bunch of other crazy stuff thrown in. It's about a vegetable seller girl who discovers a sentient vegetable, cares for it and protects it from neighbors including a fish woman, a frog, an old pervert and girls with fruit shaped heads. It's brilliant. Loved the wrestlers in particular.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwCd7SJaa8 His other film here is 3 minutes of a girl with a shapeshifting face.
Would have liked to buy all his films from his site but there wasn't enough info for me to order with confidence. But check out the pictures.https://www.midori-ko.com/
Airy Me by Yoko Kuno is one of my favorites because the lovely sad music by Cuushe (never heard of this band but sounds really promising). Here it is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5QvrGxTnQ
And And by Mirai Mizue has colored shapes moving around, much more impressively kaleidoscopic than her other film here.
In A Pig's Eye by Atsushi Wada is about a family living next to an enormous sleeping pig. Dad covers himself in pork slices. Mother can't get grandpa upstairs because his socks are so slippy. Huge pig shits out an old lady. Dog hides lipstick. I know this kind of animation is very time consuming so it's funny to imagine animators like these telling people what they've been working on so long.
There are 3 volumes of this series. This company (Carte Blanche?) makes similar animation anthologies from other countries too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
^saw the Mizue volume of this; holy shit it's insane and complex and beautiful and brainfrying.
Also finally got around to the recobbled Thief and the Cobbler. Pretty easy to understand how this never found an audience: it's visually an awe-inspiring art film and thematically made for small children. The plot is abysmally boring but the animation feels nearly computer created in its precision and buttery smoothness. Easy to love, hard to recommend.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
I think I'd maybe show hesitant viewers the ending, which is incredible.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.adultswim.com/videos/primal/spear-and-fang
― Mordy, Friday, 25 October 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
Good night, children/ Spokojnoj Noch, Malyshi! (1999) by Norsteinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkkE6tdQc4Extraordinary technique and the smiling rabbit is so cute.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Piotr Kamler's claymation masterpiece Chronopolis is sort of like a dreary Fantastic Planet, minus the plot.
saw this screened last night, v much worth a look
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
The Hungarian film Ruben Brandt, Collector is up on UK/Ireland Netflix now (not sure about other locations) and is definitely worth a look. I saw it at an animation festival not long ago and loved it, but was unsure about the ending... good reason for a second watch!
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
I didn't know Kamler did Claymation. The one I saw was 2d animation of a ball bouncing on stairs. Very surreal.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
DID NOT know Laika was Vinton's studio and that they forcibly ousted himhttps://tedium.co/2019/12/17/holiday-tv-alternatives/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
whoa, that's messed up. had no idea, and i'm a big Laika fan!
― Nhex, Saturday, 21 December 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
yeah, same. it's a huge bummer.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 21 December 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
Masaaki Yuasa has a new TV series called Eizouken ni wa Te o Dasu na! (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!).just watched the first episode and it's up to his usual excellent standard, the sequences where the characters live inside their own drawings are wonderfulhere's a trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acYbdQImkp4
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
yeah its good
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 January 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
thanks for the heads up on this; really enjoyed it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link
how would you watch that, Funimation sub?
― Nhex, Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
i mean, Crunchyroll?
yeah crunchyroll or illegal means
will probably finish in march if you want to be patient and watch it all on a free trial
― ciderpress, Thursday, 9 January 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Norstein is master of the form, but I'm now resigned to the likelihood that The Overcoat is never going to be finished in his lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO2QqDervCU&t=71
It blows my mind that I can remember it being discussed on TV documentaries from around 20 years ago, and it's still only around halfway done.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, December 21, 2018 7:23 PM (one year ago)
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2880-three-fantastic-journeys-by-karel-zeman
I don't have a 4k TV but 1080p blurays with a nice looking box & features sounds nice.
― brain dead operatus (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
family guy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
BANNED
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 30 January 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Zeman box looks very nice! Not sure I’m going to rebuy them though.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Saturday, 1 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Newish director called Ujicha, cant wait for these!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxSIDpPBR8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFmFwQpfOQ
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 February 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
i watched half of violence voyager; didn't do much for me... kind of a motion comic.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 23 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link
oscar animated nom I Lost My Body is on netflix - is it worth a watch?
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
Found Oscar winner "Hair Love" online. It looks great and means well, but is ultimately kinda mawkish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 February 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
Quite amazing episode from a series called Operavox. I imagine this would have been astoundingly difficult to make. The faces are so expressive too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR7MdhB6GEc
After all my talk of patience recently, I've been guiltily skipping around most of my youtube backlog of animation.
Some of Piotr Dumala's films are really impressive, scratchy, with lots of large dark mysterious spaces with people moving in and out of the light. One of the most recent is a pretty heavy piece about domestic abuse.
It can't be emphasized enough that "Russian animation eus347" is an essential channel and without that person there would be a gaping hole in this world.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
i watched Fierlinger's 'Drawn From Memory' last night, very solid... voicework from Vaclav Havel! this is a decent accompanying piece with selections from it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9AS_0Da0xM
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
thanks for that youtube channel btw; found tons of neat stuff immediately!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I hated the way Aeon Flux looked when I was a kid (didn't The Phantom cartoon look the same?) but I've heard some people say it was genius and this video explained why nicely enough. I'll probably never watch it but glad to know more about it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOT_-VQfi8
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
It's why I joined this board in the '90s! Life-changing.
― Nhex, Sunday, 17 May 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
Animation? Aeon Flux?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 18 May 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
AF, in specific. Different handle back then, though.
― Nhex, Monday, 18 May 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link