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

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

Cool, I've got it sitting in the pile

New Christiane Cegavske trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcXQ942x44

Cryptozoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M

oh that's dash shaw's thing right?

I did see his name in the trailer

We Bought A Zoo (With Bitcoin)

Viy (The Underground Gnome King) 1988 EN subs Ukrainian animationm After N. Gogol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKl1bkhV6k

A terrible vengeance 1988 strashnaya mest EN & ES & RU subs Ukrainian Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgJY16tS9U
Never seen anything quite like this. Watercolor rotoscoping? Another Gogol story. Crazy music.

Eus's Russian/soviet animation channel is deleted again! Just going to link to his site, I'm sure he'll post about it soon. He has information about all the places he posts videos.
https://niffiwan.livejournal.com/

New film Mad God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg

Howl From Beyond The Fog, a kaiju puppet film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8pnPdYwWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chQKSGowjg

woah!

That's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M

I enjoyed Cryptozoo - has anyone seen Dash Shaw's other stuff?

i like his comics and looking forward to seeing the film.

https://www.screenslate.com/articles/havoc-heaven

Thanks to Bendk for catching this. Taiwan leading VR Animation
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-film-festival-taiwan-virtual-reality-1235007841/
Sick Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlcls5iyXRc

Animation seems like the most depressing creative industry there is. From all the behind the scenes talk I've heard, japanese industry is almost always exploitive or people are working on something they don't care for at all.

Seen Watership Down for the first time in decades and that scene where the rabbits get buried alive is just a tour de force.

Ilka Schonbein the puppeteer. Big thanks to Bendk for showing me this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGJ7ScBz1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgz56-w9H0

Found some similar recommendations

Natacha Belova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13lFR6PhMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZM0aHT1dTs

Nicole Mossoux (with music from Christian Genet of Univers Zero and Present)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhDdCXcp9Qg

Here's a 45min video about Yuri Norstein and his ongoing masterpiece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs

Thanks

i sent the schonbein delivery puppet to my pregnant friend who found it amusing

Thankyou again Jonathan Hellion Mumble, I just finished it and that was really something

Rune Spaans/Dave Cooper. It's remarkable just how close they got to the look of Cooper's paintings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4oGh8yXJE