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.
― lukas, Saturday, 19 December 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
It's a film I'd be happy to just show people the finale.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
it's a great achievement! I'm not sure it's much of a movie.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVehcHwOB8
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
That's amazing, never heard of Felix Colgrave before.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 January 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
i hadn't either before this piece. it's an entirely original vision.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 3 January 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
Due to an administrative oversight, he placed in the 2017 film poll.
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 3 January 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
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
― Dan I., Wednesday, 13 January 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKsG3E7TLl4
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 30 January 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2018/09/robbie-wards-animated-music-videos.htmlFor the retro-prog band Dedsa
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PGK7a2IFo
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
That's great
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
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
― rob, Monday, 29 March 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
Brothers Quay still at it thankfullyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkfQGkAIgo
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 18 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
New version of the russian animation channel. Person keeps getting their stuff deleted by copyright holders, it's annoyinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC9_pMHQC0Y
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:27 (three years ago) link
For some reason it wont let me link the channel but it's called "Russian Animation eus347 subtitles resurrected"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 May 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
The Mitchells vs the Machines was awesome. Great multimedia animation style, even including puppets this time
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 14 May 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it was a blast.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Friday, 14 May 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
yeah I really liked the animation style of The Mitchells vs the Machines. Story was much too typical though.
― silverfish, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 31 May 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
Maybe puppetry mre than animation, but I really liked Burning Buddha Man by Ugicha; lots of Clive Barker/Junji Ito body horror
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 15:37 (three years ago) link
Cool, I've got it sitting in the pile
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
New Christiane Cegavske trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEcXQ942x44
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 7 June 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
Cryptozoohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
oh that's dash shaw's thing right?
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:02 (three years ago) link
I did see his name in the trailer
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
We Bought A Zoo (With Bitcoin)
― ✖, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
Viy (The Underground Gnome King) 1988 EN subs Ukrainian animationm After N. Gogolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKl1bkhV6k
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
A terrible vengeance 1988 strashnaya mest EN & ES & RU subs Ukrainian Animationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgJY16tS9UNever seen anything quite like this. Watercolor rotoscoping? Another Gogol story. Crazy music.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 July 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
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/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
New film Mad Godhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
Howl From Beyond The Fog, a kaiju puppet filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8pnPdYwWw
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 August 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chQKSGowjg
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
woah!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 05:44 (three years ago) link
That's amazing
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 11 August 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMk2K_x956M
I enjoyed Cryptozoo - has anyone seen Dash Shaw's other stuff?
― a hallan shaker loon (dowd), Saturday, 21 August 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
i like his comics and looking forward to seeing the film.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 August 2021 15:11 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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