I was going to mention Norstein but I forgot his name. I forgot Roland Topor stuff like Fantastic Planet too.
I was kind of interested in The Congress but I heed your warning. But I cant promise I'll avoid.
Even though it isn't firmly in snob-land, the recobbled cut of Thief And The Cobbler on the directors youtube is good. The ending with the thief bouncing around the tank at the end is fucking incredible.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Nina Shorina's "Room Of Laughter" here. One of the best films I saw last year. A prime example of what animation can do for horror. If you have ten minutes to spare, change the hxxps to https...
hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgZZY9K-WIc
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
i watched Millennium Actress for the first time recently. i thought it was really good
― Mordy , Sunday, 27 April 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
My ranking of Kon
PaprikaPerfect BlueMillennium ActressParanoia AgentTokyo Godfathers
I found Paranoia Agent quite disappointing and a bit of a slog at times. I don't think the balance of detective intrigue with surreal nonsense worked that well.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
anyone seen "oneamisu no tsubasa" aka "wings of honneamise" or "royal space force: the wings of honneamise"? the description in "the anime encyclopedia" makes it sound really interesting:
Shiro Lhadatt is a dropout, a wannabe pilot who wasn't good enough to get into the navy air corps. Instead, hejoins the only organization that will have him, a ragtag group of misfits called the Royal Space Force. Underfunded, undermotivated, and under extreme pressure, they race to get a man in space, but nobody believes it's possible. Nobody, that is, except for Shiro and his would-be girlfriend, a religious zeal ot called Lequinni. Space is waiting for humanity as a whole, but the project to reach it is the result oftwo nations' political and military agendas. Our hero joins up for all the wrong reasons but eventually realizes that he can turn the "fake dream" of his government's PR campaign into a real dream, and he becomes the first man in space. Despite the political skullduggery that follows, he refuses to let go of the hope that the realityjust might redeem all the failure and sacrifice of history and give us another chance to soar.
One of anime's greatest successes and greatest failures, WoH is a peculiarly Japanese take on the U.S.-Soviet space race-an outsider's view of the gung ho ideals of The Right Stuff, moved to an alien world to emphasize the viewer's own alienation. Made by the young, fiendishly talented Gainax collective, it was so expensive and so badly received in Japan that it didn't break even until 1994.
One of the shining examples of how cerebral and intelligent anime can be, it's far removed from the sex and violence that stuffs Western anime catalogues. It's a film that rewards repeat viewings if only for the meticulous design of every aspect of its world. The language, the names, the maps, and even the telegraph poles all scream to be rec ognized as triumphs of world-building almost unequalled elsewhere in sci ence-fiction film. Even the minutiae of everyday life are knocked ever-so slightly out of kilter, with little touches like triangular spoons, unidentifiable foods, and sunrise in the north.
― clouds, Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
as for kon, if anyone hasn't seen the short "magnetic rose" (orig. "kanojo no omide" or "her memories"), definitely do so — it was directed by otomo katsuhiro (akira dude) and written by both otomo and kon
― clouds, Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
Wings of Honneamise is a great film, and I agree with the review that the meticulous detail of the alternate Earth is what really invites you back for another watch. The story is a bit rambling but doesn't get boring, although the main character can grate at times. The VHS copy I got hold of cut out that scene, so I'm not sure how that would have affected by opinion of the film.
I love Kon, though I think he got progressively weaker with each film, with PB and MA being the clear high points of his output. Paranoia Agent has a lot of good stuff, but it's far from perfect overall - the three stand-alone episodes in the middle are brilliant, but they break the flow of the ongoing story, and the series never quite recovers.
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Mind Game is one of my favorite movies, and the director, Masaaki Yuasa released a Kickstarter-funded short last year that I love: Kick Heart
― Dan I., Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MPe7E1YrY4
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Is Akira a fit for this thread?
I really like the bit where one of the characters is using their weird psychic powers, and the way it's shown is a sort of invisible sphere radiates from them and crushes out the concrete wall around them - so perfectly drawn. And the city feels so thick and oppressive and realised.
― cardamon, Sunday, 27 April 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
And maybe 'The Thing' if we extend animation to include puppetry.
What I want to know is has anyone been making stop motion stuff since 2000?
― cardamon, Sunday, 27 April 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Henry Selick
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Sunday, 27 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
The Thing? I assume you aren't talking about Carpentar's film?
I think Akira and any other Otomo projects should be fine for this thread. Steamboy does kind of veer into the kid/family territory like Miyazaki (I'm just a bit wary of more conventional stuff flooding the artier stuff). Ralph Bakshi might have to be squeezed in this thread too.
Fear(s) Of The Dark had some good stuff but I'm lukewarm about the film in general.
I saw Wings of Honneamise when I was something like 11 or 12 and it flew in the face of what I wanted at the time. Apart from the chase scene and the fight where he barfs on someone's face, it is a very very quiet film. In retrospect it seems a lot more interesting, I can still remember the low key mood of it.
Redline is a bit different, but I thought it was a mistake to have the film so story orientated. I think they should have cut the story and just kept more crazy race stuff. Now that I think about it, I was just like Wacky Races, but not quite enough.
Secret Adventures Of Tom Thumb seems like an obvious one for this thread too. It's quite depressing though.
BELLADONNA OF SADNESS A Japanese classic that still hasn't had a proper western dvd release yet. It has very little in common with most anime, it has a sort of 70s psychedelic fashion illustration look with thin lines and watercolours. Kind of feminist fable of a once ordinary woman in medieval times who becomes empowered and oppressed at various points in the story but eventually becomes a martyr for womankind. Some really graphic stuff in there. There was quite a few bits I didn't understand the message but I'd recommend it a lot.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
watched don hertzfeldt's "it's such a beautiful day" yesterday, kinda like "synechdoche new york" but done w/ stick figures and brakhage-ish camera effects — really wonderful
― clouds, Sunday, April 27, 2014 4:27 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this film rules
― avinit garde (wins), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
i think goku could totally beat akira
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who cares about stop motion should wait for Hoffmaniada, which is an attempt to return to the glory days of Russian animation.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
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― avinit garde (wins), Sunday, 27 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
watched patlabor 2 for the first time in quite a while and was really impressed. love how the sustained muted, kinda flat tone and the music's great too.
http://youtu.be/1dmlwhaEEgE
I can't even tell you how disappointed I was at the lack of action when I bought it sight unseen as a teenager!
― original bgm, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
millennium actress is v beautiful, I think. definitely my favorite kon.
― original bgm, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
My favourite non-mainstream animation is probably The Illusionist, by the guy who did Les Triplettes de Belleville, based on an unproduced Jacques Tati script and set in Edinburgh.
― Alba, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
does oskar fischinger count here?
― rushomancy, Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
would like to point out that a second series of Mushishi is airing at the moment, 8 years after the first series and so far has been just as brilliant.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 27 April 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
I had never heard of Oskar Fischinger. From a brief search it seems to fit in fine. Isn't Stan Brakhage really animation?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Just dropping in to say that Mind Game is also one of my all-timers and I'll be watching the short later for sure, ty Dan I
― imago, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realise Mushishi was back, that's great news.
I generally preferred Oshii's earlier films (Beautiful Dreamer, Angel's Egg, Patlabor 2) to his post-GitS stuff. Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade (which he wrote, but didn't direct) was excellent, though.
Dreamer has an awesome moment when the characters board a harrier and see their city closed off on the back of a giant turtle; that's tied with the "Unnatural City" sequence as the best Oshii sequence
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Robert, just in case i'm the only one who flag posted you after the first sentence, it was me who flag posted you after the first sentence. cheers.
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
I love Angel's Egg.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
Noodle Vague- why flag post?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
tbf it was halfway thru the title. tbh, i think your premise is reductive, silly and distasteful. i celebrate yr right to disagree. the fp button is just underneath this post.
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
The Secret of Kells
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't give a flying fuck about the premise so long as i pick up some tasty leads itt
― imago, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Yep, same here
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
the new series based on the "Ping Pong" manga is worth checking out (there was also a 2002 live action film)artstyle is kinda ugly but really expressive, directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Kaiba, Tatami Galaxy)
http://i.imgur.com/Gp6t8JL.gif
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
the yuasa short upthread was cool, if not in the same league as mind game
― imago, Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
i think we had an animation thread a while back, but i totally agree with the sentiment in the original post. animation's been hijacked for exclusively kid and family movies, when it has so much more potential.
remake jaws as an animated film, plz.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
great animated films that aren't necessarily for kids
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
Noodle Vague- I'd prefer you disagreed with me in detail. I said I enjoyed many Disney films and Pixar films are generally good, so unless you work on Family guy(which just like many sitcoms, I still find a quarter of the jokes funny enough) or some associated cartoon, I don't know why you are offended. Surely not by my belief that animation has been neglected as a powerful expressive medium?
Maybe you are a 3d animator? I'm willing to be proved wrong about the possibilities of that style but from what I have seen so far, I think the strength of cgi is for rich colour and more abstract things, but I've always found character animation to be lacking. But I've been moved all the same by Pixar films. I said I'm not completely against uniformity in animation because Simpson's, Futurama and South Park at their best work just fine. I just think it's sad that the medium isn't really associated much with ambitious animation techniques.
I hesitated before creating the title because I don't find offending people constructive but since the word "snob" was jokingly in the title (who honestly calls themself a snob?), I thought it would be obvious that I wasn't being an elitist drawing a line in the sand by the end of the first post.
So what part of my premise was objectionable?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 April 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
I mentioned it on the Adventure Time thread, but Masaaki Yuasa is directing an Adventure Time episode, too!
― Dan I., Monday, 28 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
I just think it's sad that the medium isn't really associated much with ambitious animation techniques.
do you not think that this is tantamount to saying that writing isn't associated with ambitious techniques because the bulk of what's read isn't "ambitious"? by definition, within any medium, the less popular stuff is less popular.
i was just mildly snarking tbh but really, you can have an "i love this" thread without defining it in opposition to all that tawdry mainstream "that" that you don't dig. and it will probably make your appreciation all the stronger.
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 April 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
also you dismissed several nations' worth of animation in yr first two sentences which is like, gtfo
― you poll a lot, but you're not saying anything (Noodle Vague), Monday, 28 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
title wld've been fine with just the first three words, parenthetical and tbh 1st post just makes yr thread sound rockist son
but i guess you're guitarist from pink floyd right i guess i shouldn't expect more
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 28 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
and it is just silly to associate 'ambitious animation style' w/non-mnstrm stuff, have you seen One Piece that shit's ambitious as h*ck, and bigger studios have more freedom and currency to experiment on a big stage
and then 'letting in' miyazaki and akira cause you feel like it, come on. this is just taste, don't try to project all this other mnstrm/non-mnstrm stuff
but otherwise cool thread look forward to recs
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 28 April 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Again, I think my elaboration shows that I don't at all mean to completely dismiss major animation houses, America or Japan. But I don't think it's totally crazy to say that a lot of their output is very poor and that there might be legitimate things in them to object to. A lot of Japanese animators are totally scathing about the general animated output of their country.
I'm guilty as charged that I made a sensational title to get attention and I probably shouldn't have because it is a rampant problem on the internet that I'm not proud to take part in but again, I thought there was enough in the first post to backpedal from the oppositional element.
The oppositional gut feelings come easy when you're bombarded by something that you think has significant or even major problems while so many great things are marginalized. Particularly when it comes to comics. I'm sure most people here have called things "total shit" that in a fairer, more constructive mood they would admit to having some good qualities. Ideally I'd like to criticize everything as if I were talking to the creators face to face in the most constructive, bluntly honest but encouraging way I could. I'll often say I hate Friends, Big Bang Theory and Family Guy but a quarter of the jokes do make me laugh and some other things work occasionally. I often get angered by superhero comics and movies but I have genuinely enjoyed them on occasion.
I like to try and be reasonable as possible but then I remember the time I tried to talk about wonderful animation and its potential, with people responding "no I don't like Family Guy, Pixar, Avatar or anime", RAAAAAAAAAGE! I don't like snobbery and elitism because I think it is anti-intellectual in the way those things make people oversimplify, when the fact is that almost nothing can really be reasonably summed up as trash or shit. But if you really seriously care about culture, have starry eyed dreams about people believing in aspiring to greatness and raising standards, you'll know how easy it is to fall into dismissively oversimplifying things.
I assumed flagging posts was reserved for serious transgressions like horrendous racism, sexism, violent threats and legal boundaries being crossed. Not passionate disagreements about culture.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh nvm
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 28 April 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
Zachlyon says "bigger studios have more freedom and currency to experiment on a big stage"
Examples? Fantasia is the only time I can think of a major studio being really experimental. But there is loads and loads of low budget avant garde animation. A lot of people decide to avoid or leave big animation studios because lack of freedom. The big companies have the resources but how could they compare in this way with Piotr Kamler and Gyorgy Kovasznai?
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding you.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Forgot to mention Watership Down and Plague Dogs. They are quite special to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:32 (ten years ago) link
^^^these are incredible and their making is also p incredible, michael rosen was a true one-off. watership down also one of my favourite films ever
― imago, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
am cool with this thread coz RAG seems to have a not dissimilar taste to me, lol
MARTIN rosen, even. michael rosen's the shitty kids' poet
― imago, Monday, 28 April 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the link to the other thread Daniel Esq 2, I had forgotten Starewicz too until reading that thread.
There is a Japanese short piece that floats around on YouTube a lot called Mr Ando Of The Forest. It's quite funny and strange. When that thread came up about humanism being looked down upon, I think of that animation and the funny way a fish says "humanism".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 28 April 2014 03:09 (ten years ago) link
https://www.screenslate.com/articles/havoc-heaven
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Thanks to Bendk for catching this. Taiwan leading VR Animationhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-film-festival-taiwan-virtual-reality-1235007841/Sick Rosehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlcls5iyXRc
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 September 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 September 2021 11:52 (two years ago) link
Ilka Schonbein the puppeteer. Big thanks to Bendk for showing me this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGJ7ScBz1whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgz56-w9H0
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 26 September 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Found some similar recommendations
Natacha Belovahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13lFR6PhMQhttps://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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
Here's a 45min video about Yuri Norstein and his ongoing masterpiecehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs
― One-Eyed and Incredibly Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Saturday, 9 October 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Thanks
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 9 October 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
i sent the schonbein delivery puppet to my pregnant friend who found it amusing
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2021 06:36 (two years ago) link
Thankyou again Jonathan Hellion Mumble, I just finished it and that was really something
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 October 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
Rune Spaans/Dave Cooper. It's remarkable just how close they got to the look of Cooper's paintingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4oGh8yXJE
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 25 October 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
The House is on Netflix (UK at least), and looks pretty good.
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
I thought it was very good! Loved the Busby Berkeley bugs
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Friday, 14 January 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
The ex USSR channel relocates againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
hxxps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRw_wlOI-V7wXhws4ygx-w/videos
Don't know why the channel links don't work but replace hxxps with https
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 6 March 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
Found this again, always loved Akexander Gradsky's singing in thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbNas0oe9G4
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 17 March 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
Alexander Gradsky
Cartoons today vs cartoons when I was a kid: pic.twitter.com/0AUESWVaoq— Alasdair Beckett-King (@MisterABK) March 23, 2022
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
I prefer not to have to wear sunglasses when I watch animation too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
Here's the Denki Groove videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPUyybTsnRg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
Eduard Belyahevhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vDF284HOU
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 May 2022 20:04 (two years ago) link
All 4 of those Pictures Of Old videos are worth watching. Here's another by the same guyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMkdBt3XnGw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 May 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
Clip from Aleksandr Petrov's My Lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVx53tTJMdQ
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 15 May 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
Eureka bluray of Son Of The White Mare coming, very exciting
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
awesome, a definite buy
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 06:13 (one year ago) link
It's got a bunch of short films too
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
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?
― Nhex, Thursday, 1 December 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
(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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 3 December 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
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
― Nhex, Saturday, 3 December 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 February 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
isao takahata movies are great and much better than miyazaki ones
― CerebralCaustic, Monday, 6 February 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
there are moments where i too like grilled cheese sandwiches more than i like springtime boat trips
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
Richard Williams is new to mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OALIUJ-yie0This one is quite brutalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E11d5H9ca4
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 February 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.awn.com/news/restored-1987-romanian-animated-sci-fi-son-stars-coming-blu-ray
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 08:18 (one year ago) link
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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
Son of the Stars sounds intriguing.
― Bringing Up Initials B.B. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
upcoming release from Deaf Crocodile, looks incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Al2hDDoVQ
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 12 June 2023 10:28 (eleven months ago) link
Nice
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 12 June 2023 23:06 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITstgdnmp6Y
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Thursday, 27 July 2023 06:01 (nine months ago) link
Today at the ICA:
https://www.ica.art/films/jirtdan
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 10:12 (seven months ago) link
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
― 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
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 15:28 (seven months ago) link
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
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:47 (six months ago) link
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
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 11:26 (four months ago) link
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
― soref, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 21:03 (four months ago) link
Nice video about Christiane Cegavske (Blood Tea & Red String, Seed In The Sand) and Robert Morgan (Stopmotion) and superhuman patience. It does seem like the only animation I'm interested in now looks like it taken at least 4 years and 2 nervous breakdownshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKV3kH6YmLg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 19 April 2024 20:04 (three weeks ago) link