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

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, 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.

family guy

BANNED

Zeman box looks very nice! Not sure I’m going to rebuy them though.

Newish director called Ujicha, cant wait for these!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkxSIDpPBR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AFmFwQpfOQ

i watched half of violence voyager; didn't do much for me... kind of a motion comic.

oscar animated nom I Lost My Body is on netflix - is it worth a watch?

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

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.

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

thanks for that youtube channel btw; found tons of neat stuff immediately!

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

It's why I joined this board in the '90s! Life-changing.

Animation? Aeon Flux?

AF, in specific. Different handle back then, though.

Ya Idu Iskat (I Go Seek) 1992 by Fessenko.
Seems to be his only film. Some really impressive sights, most of them early on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOASL4UzZg

WAAAH by Sawako Kabuki from 2018
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=npiEBAiRBHI

Nice

There's a lot more Takashi Taniguchi on youtube than there used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubX_aqXctRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_7_HvNSSg
This one is just a stomach complaining about things people eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3OywZK4Tc

oh mr stomach

I've come to the posistion that the funniest thing in Mr Ando Of The Woods is the titular character saying "Strike, Mr Ando Strike!"

Sadko The Rich (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOWC3OtwAno
New Year's Wind (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOvknsKKuuw
Outpaces The Wind (1978) music by Alexander Gradsky. This is a total downer, I don't know if the horse couldn't eat or people wouldn't feed him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbDXdihoic
The Breeze (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0Ffl1F87A

Romance Helgolandská - opening - music by Luboš Fišer-
This mainly for the music. just stunning! And what a shame how little of his music there is to buy, but tons on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUwsq-8JPc

It's probably quite mainstream but Henry Selick has an upcoming film with Key and Peele.

Shelter by Carl Burton - it's rare that I feature any cgi animation but it helps that this 6 minute piece has no humans or animals, just a surreal twisting house with otherworldly qualities
https://vimeo.com/37156003

Shingo Tamagawa. I could have put this in the anime thread but this looks like real labour of love stuff, quite amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWnqX41JHuM

that's lovely

Wolf Walkers is beautifully realized but it is unmistakably made for children and lost my attention after a half hour.

Just watched The Thief and The Cobbler for the first time, holy moley the high points are high.

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.

Yeah it definitely doesn't work as a mass market feature. I'm sort of glad it is the way it is, because the simplicity of the plot works really well with the dreamlike quality of the whole thing. But maybe I'm just too smitten to see clearly.

It's a film I'd be happy to just show people the finale.

it's a great achievement! I'm not sure it's much of a movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVehcHwOB8

That's amazing, never heard of Felix Colgrave before.

i hadn't either before this piece. it's an entirely original vision.

Due to an administrative oversight, he placed in the 2017 film poll.

Key Animation: Wes Archer (0:07 - 0:21)
Peter Chung (?)
Cartoon: Rugrats (Pilot) (1990)https://t.co/SIdlyweDS1 pic.twitter.com/pueranGLk6

— randomsakuga (@randomsakuga) November 1, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKsG3E7TLl4

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2018/09/robbie-wards-animated-music-videos.html
For the retro-prog band Dedsa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo

That's great

I watched Kirikou & the Sorceress last night and was surprised to see nearly zero mention of it on ILX. It's so good! Among many highlights (beautiful backgrounds, some classic Looney Tunes/Disney animation on the human characters at times, great [French] voice acting), Youssou N'Dour does the soundtrack and the in-film songs are fantastic. If you have the Criterion Channel it's available until the end of the month

Brothers Quay still at it thankfully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkfQGkAIgo

New version of the russian animation channel. Person keeps getting their stuff deleted by copyright holders, it's annoying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y

For some reason it wont let me link the channel but it's called "Russian Animation eus347 subtitles resurrected"

The Mitchells vs the Machines was awesome. Great multimedia animation style, even including puppets this time

Yeah, it was a blast.

yeah I really liked the animation style of The Mitchells vs the Machines. Story was much too typical though.

Been meaning to see Felidae forever, it's often compared to Watership Down and Plague Dogs, based on a german series of 8 books (only 2 were translated into english), it's a noir murder mystery with nazi science. More gore and sex than Watership Down, cats are violently experimented on, Boy George sings the theme tune.
I think the drawing is quite weak, but there's one memorable nightmare sequence that obviously had a lot more work put in. The fight scene at the end explicitly references (or just copies?) the original Watership Down animation.
If you'd prefer the english dub, that's on youtube too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oAI33tkxFI

Maybe puppetry mre than animation, but I really liked Burning Buddha Man by Ugicha; lots of Clive Barker/Junji Ito body horror