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

Cartoons today vs cartoons when I was a kid: pic.twitter.com/0AUESWVaoq

— Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK) March 23, 2022

I thought he was going to compare it to the lessons at the end of He-Man. I certainly prefer the aesthetics of 80s american/japanese cartoons

I prefer not to have to wear sunglasses when I watch animation too.

Burning Buddha Man and Violence Voyager - The artist/director of these said the tv version of Cat-Eyed Boy and the music video for Denki Groove's Mononoke Dance inspired him to make paper puppet films. I preferred Burning Buddha Man because the ideas seemed wilder and the drawings rendered more beautifully (in a very grotesque way). Violence Voyager is heavily inspired by american films (Westworld and Jurassic Park were mentioned) and it's perhaps that because it seems so much like a children's film that the ruthless violence seems all the more surprising (even after the title prepared me for lots of violence). There's a few short films too. A nice mixture of horror and humor, very much looking forward to more of Ujicha's films or even any visual art he makes. So I guess he's my favorite japanese animator after Keita Kurosaka.

Here's the Denki Groove video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUyybTsnRg

Eduard Belyahev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vDF284HOU

All 4 of those Pictures Of Old videos are worth watching. Here's another by the same guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMkdBt3XnGw

Clip from Aleksandr Petrov's My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVx53tTJMdQ

Eureka bluray of Son Of The White Mare coming, very exciting

awesome, a definite buy

It's got a bunch of short films too

whenever they announce something like this, a 2K Blu-ray remastered from a new 4K source, do you feel like waiting for a possible 4K UHD release?

(geez, i need to check my bookmarks more often)

I'm not really invested in 4K but I'd be surprised if it came, though some 4K releases have surprised me.

the thing is in these cases, you know off the bat there is a 4K master sitting on a hard drive somewhere, ready to go, since they used it to make the 2K version. that doesn't mean there will be a physical release, of course, but it usually means it will at least go to cable/streaming at some point in the future

Another trailer for Seed In The Sand. Voice acting by Gitane Demone and Suzy Gardner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh2X8uraXnA

Completely blanking on the name of an animator who did really quiet noir-ish, realistic but vague stories in maybe pastels (lots of vivid red), maybe the 80s and 90s but that's not much help. Hope I find him again because I didn't have the patience for his films when I discovered them, some of them were quite long but never feature length.

isao takahata movies are great and much better than miyazaki ones

there are moments where i too like grilled cheese sandwiches more than i like springtime boat trips

Richard Williams is new to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OALIUJ-yie0
This one is quite brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E11d5H9ca4

https://www.awn.com/news/restored-1987-romanian-animated-sci-fi-son-stars-coming-blu-ray

Hey @Kickstarter can I get a retweet for my brutal stop motion horror film I’m finding on your benevolent platform? Here’s the trailer! https://t.co/E4K2aoF05G pic.twitter.com/e4XBsWPNU2

— the art of Skinner (@SKINNER) March 13, 2023

Son of the Stars sounds intriguing.

upcoming release from Deaf Crocodile, looks incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Al2hDDoVQ

Nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITstgdnmp6Y

Today at the ICA:

https://www.ica.art/films/jirtdan

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.

― Robert Adam Gilmour

i was just watching some videos about minky momo, there are people who say that the episode where she becomes an animator is the bleakest episode in the series, which is impressive given that there's an earlier episode where she gets HIT BY A TRUCK AND KILLED.

i'm increasingly into mirai mizue. "dreamland" is the closest representation i've seen to what the world looks like to me as an autistic/adhd person.

https://vimeo.com/273493052

also, have the little nemo pilot films from the '80s been posted here? amazing stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iTj6Jbgt8

This survivor's reign series is frustratingly both cheap and expensive-looking; really great and uncanny visuals sabotaged by spoken dialogue that conjures voice actors cycling through multiple takes emoting in a booth (though to be fair that's true of most "adult" animation):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQH8cMpWTU

Pinchliffe Grand Prix apparently still holds the record for highest box office of all time in Norway; it is shown every Christmas Day. Available via Apple in the UK. All I can say is: Wes Anderson could never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuQwPOfQ1M

insisting that yorkshire television made the only good TV ever would be a solid and possibly a sustainable bit (bit tougher with kids TV maybe)

― mark s, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 20:39 (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yorkshire Television produced Doris (created by Hilary Hayton, who also made Hilary Hayton), someone has recently uploaded several episodes to youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lf7vJTQnYo