Animated Creatures: ilx animation poll nomination thread (closes June 10th!)

You guys are all awesome; these nominations are all exciting; everybody voting should definitely be making an effort to watch some stuff, especially shorts, since they're short after all!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, relatedly.

Poll title = Animated Creatures, so yeah!

Enter Life (Faith Hubley, 1981) - just watched this, and it is totally rad. Will almost certainly make my ballot.

Ineligible: any episodic content whatsoever, including TV series (Adventure Time), OVA (FLCL), web series (Homestar Runner), or individual episodes of same. (Maybe we'll poll this in Animated Creatures II.)

FYC Animated Creatures II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0

I haven't seen all of it yet, and I'm not sure if it'll make my ballot, but I want to nominate:

The Adventures of Mark Twain (Will Vinton, 1985)

Purely on the basis of this insanely terrifying scene.

no betty boop noms yet, or felix the cat. i love both but i don't know what's considered their best work. i love them in aggregate.

Meh, I'll go ahead and nominate:

Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHog9UD8RSU

adventures of mark twain is not good but definitely terrifying

i love it! xp

I wouldn't drink chandelier punch tbh

everybody voting should definitely be making an effort to watch some stuff

yeah I am definitely looking forward to watching some of these! hope I can find time to watch LOTS of nominations before voting

Mordy, I nominated a few Betty Boops upthread but there were a lot more to go through.

Gotta nominate Boop classic "The Old Man on the Mountain" if it hasn't been brought up yet.

seriously y'all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7vuwj3AlE

it's not hard to find a subtitled copy out there through various not-quite-legal means.

The Stolen Lump (1929)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXeUd9I_4Ao

Couple of things which I'll nominate as I think they're significant even if I probably won't vote for theM.

Irresistible Attack By Jeff Keen. This is more as a torch bearer for his work, as much of it's equally mind blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foXj5jZCww

Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4

The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov, 1979)

http://youtu.be/cZ1Hz_iRvIY

Great stop-motion work, terrible song. Only 3 minutes, worth checking out -- used to be (probably still is) a comics/sf/fantasy con staple.

what the shit

I'll take that as admiration.

that was awesome, thanks for posting WmC!

Please keep posting links to awesome shorts. ^_^

jac mac & rad boy go (1985)

80s night flight staple, and huge influence on beavis & butthead obv

http://youtu.be/DMP9njfyX6U

What are you talking about with your 'crap song', there, WmC? That's a great song.

the Jittlov short was everpresent in convention movie rooms in the early 80s -- I remember one Atlanta Fantasy Fair where they were pretty much showing it between every feature, since it was so short. Favorite bit -- the film clapper animated as a little bitey yappy dog.

I haven't seen the 1989 feature based on the short.

xp -- I just don't like the song, ehh.

deep anime nerdery, one of the first gainax productions (before they went pro), something i've always had a soft-spot for thanks to its sheer love of pop-culture goofiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy1RNJBUo4

khrjanovsky's the butterfly (1972)

a butterfly kidnaps a young boy, then apparently gives him a lot of acid

http://youtu.be/_FRr-_GABuU

Well that explains some of FLCL doesn't it

xp

"Luncheon" - Csaba Varga, 1980

Claymation, 4:53

http://youtu.be/SMzx_e6l0cM

Labyrinth (1970) by Piotr Kamler, sound by B. Parmegiani
http://youtu.be/CuA3B4i3fBg

Chronopolis (1982) by Piotr Kamler, sound by L. Ferrari
http://www.ubu.com/film/kamler_chronopolis.

Science Friction (1959) by Stan Vanderbeek, great collage stop motion
http://youtu.be/rvmXDeNGy3s

Fantasy (1976) by Vincent Collins, flat out shameless commercial for the lsd experience
http://youtu.be/Era_8CuPLYc

Reading a little more about Csaba Varga, apparently he did quite a few shorts featuring Augusta, the character in "Luncheon." The only other one I've seen is "Augusta Feeds Her Child," which is hysterically funny.

I want to nominate Gumby, but I don't even know where to start. Suggestions? (Besides "Gumby: The Movie" (1995)

After a day of watching animated shorts on youtube, I see no reason to bother getting high ever again.

i want to watch every single one of these movies

Bill Plympton's "Your Face"
um, A Goofy Movie
SPACE JAM

Oh man, I love "Your Face"

your face, guess i can't embed from vimeo

I love "Your Mom"

here are the two shorts from allegro non troppo (an italian seriousface satire of fantasia) worth watching:

Bolero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmgI_kgPhM

Valse Triste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Oc_J1Lu-o

That McLaren box set is a mind-blinder. And "Neighbors" is canon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAYGi8rQag

The Iron Giant
The Cat Returns

Strongo, I watched that Patlabor 2 clip you posted last night and it was very unsettling. I'd like to see the rest of that.

I'm gonna have to have a nice, long think about this, but since I didn't see it, I'll throw this one out off the top of my head:

Destino (Salvador Dalí/Walt Disney, 1946-2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIznsAdTOE

Bad Luck Blackie 1949 - maybe my all-time favorite. Later period, but it's the best distillation of all of Avery's signatures rolled into one really simple, really funny cartoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRluE1ZMbY

Hamateur Night 1938 - really silly but I still love it. Lots of great Blanc voices too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7CkuKmz_A

Who Killed Who 1943 - great parody of Whodunits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgHalJ1-p4

Sh-h-h-h 1955 - Tex's last directing effort. The soundtrack is really surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w0QoQX48kw

oops, I laid that out badly but those 4 above are all Tex Avery joints that I'd like to rep for.

Not aimed at anyone in particular, and not mad if everyone prefers doing it the other way, but would it be possible to people to consider linkifying the youtubes instead of putting them up so they embed? Even with a fairly new laptop it still adds a bunch of load-time.

Yeah, yeah. Sorry, didn't see that's where we were headed when I posted mine. That's quite a good idea because this could become a browser killer in pretty short order.