Ask the Listeners: What do you recommend?

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This is the first of the ‘Ask the Listeners’ posts, inspired by Ikumi’s comment in Show 15. She loves Manga and says that there’s much more inspiration out there than mainstream art.

So I’d like to pose this question to you, the listeners:
What is something that everyone should see, but probably haven’t?

It can be an artist, a comic book, a film, a short film – anything that you think is great that doesn’t get enough exposure. For example, I’d like to know that if I was to read only one Manga in my life, which one should it be? Or which European short film will knock my socks off? Or what is an awesome Anime film?

Let’s see what inspires you…

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77 responses to “Ask the Listeners: What do you recommend?”

April 23, 2006

AnimationPodcaster

I’ll start this off by mentioning a comic that always makes me laugh called Grickle. The artist Graham Annable has such a simple style of drawing that is perfect for maximizing his wild expressions. I love the mouths and eyes on his characters. He doesn’t always hit it out of the park for me, but he’s had me laughing out loud plenty of times.

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April 24, 2006

Benjamin DS

Lately, I’ve just been incredibly inspired by the drawings of the classical artists. Especially Rembrandt, but also many others. I pick out Rembrandt cause there is so much of his observational work available. He didn’t have the best anatomic knowledge of them all, but his work’s just so full of life. His gestures were amazing, and the way he observed everything, I’m sure he would’ve been a fantastic animator.

Just look at this stuff:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rmbrndt_selected_drawings/two_women_and_child.htm
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rmbrndt_selected_drawings/teaching_woman.htm
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rmbrndt_selected_drawings/youth_pulling_rope.htm (this one always makes me think of Jim in Treasure Planet)

Or look at this! It’s a selfportrait, but as probably one of the only old masters, he put true personality in it. Most of his selfportraits are serious as well, but this one just stands out because of the personality and life.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/histart/images/questions/rembrandt.jpg

great site: http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rembrandt_drawings_start.htm

There are many many many more inspirations, but this is one bigger one right now.

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April 24, 2006

Adam Levin

Hey there. As far as comics go, Daisy Kutter by Kazu Kibuishi is great fun (check out http://www.boltcity.com/daisy.htm for a look). Also, Eric Drooker’s wordless comic Blood Song tells a powerful and beautiful story, its a must see (http://www.drooker.com/books/bloodsong.html). As far as Anime (passing over the obvious Ghibli films), Last Exile is a very well done series.

Thanks for doing the podcast. I love it!

-Adam

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April 24, 2006

emma

Disney:

Snow White… I know that it may be obvious, as it was the first animated feature film, but still alot of people i know havent, or rarely watch it… i my self fell into this category… I bought the dvd, but like a lot of people tend to watch my favourite, more high-tech and recent movies. Watching this movie enables yourself to really critically analyse the quality of animation of recent times, and after seeing it for the first time in years, only the was i able to realise just how far animation has come in recent, and the years after this movie. Just remember when watching it that it is very old, and if you are like me and cant quite get over how squeeky her voice is, the 2nd and following times, just press mute!

Also, the older disney shorts (ie. the old mill) are impressive and should be viewed for their use of special effects, and are easily obtainable in the Special features of most Disney DVDs….

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April 24, 2006

Stephani

Manga:
The series “Monster” written by Naoki Urasawa. It is similar to a John Grisham novel but executed much better in my opinion. The art is excellent, it does nt recycle the same faces with different hairdo and the plot is really intriguing. And unlike A LOT of manga, this one has an ending.

Anime:
Azumanga Daioh
It’s a warm sitcom about 6 highschool girls enjoying their life before university. There’s no typical male crush, just 6 girls enjoying their lives. Cleverly written & funny.The humour style seems like a perfect mix between “Friends” and “Monty Python”

Excel Saga
It’s basically a parody of EVERYTHING. From anime, musicals to even “animating”!! It is a whacked-out , weird series that I can’t really describe you should see for yourself

Bande Dessinee (French Comics)

Le Petit Spirou
It’s about young Spirou and his adventures in his small neighborhood town before he becomes the famous adventurer in the Spirou series

Lucky Luke
A tale about Luke’s adventure across America. There’s a whole lot fun in it and really well researched. Stories are based (more often than not) in events in the “West”

Oum-Pah-Pah
A tale about a Native American (Oum Pah Pah) and his French friend (Double-Scalp) back when the French are trying to colonize the “New World”. Runs for only 3 books and an experimental series done by the same people who does Asterix.

Le Scorpion
A story set in 17th century France about a rouge who travels to find about his heritage and his past. The story is executed really well. The guys will most likely like this book due to gratuitous amount of sexy ladies accompanying Le Scorpion himself.

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April 24, 2006

Randy Hayes

Jack Kirby’s Fourth World / New Gods saga is awesome.
New Gods (Amazon.com)

Great stories, great poses, lotsa life in the drawings, and good themes to inspire. It’s in four volumes now, but I’ve only linked to one. The others shouldn’t be hard to find from there, though.

~R

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April 24, 2006

Michael Howe

One film that I’ve been watching alot recently is the film ‘Whisper of the Heart.’
Released by Studio Ghibli, it is one of their first films that was not directed by Hayao Miyazaki (though he did work on the storyboards and screenplay). I won’t go into a lot of detail, but it speaks to me because of it’s message of art. The lead, Shizuku, is a young girl who likes to read. Along her journey in the film, she meets a young boy named Seiji Amasawa. Seiji is actually studying to make violins. His goal is to study abroad in Italy and continue to work on honing his skills. This makes Shizuku do some ‘soul-searching’ into herself. Seiji is also her age, but he seems to have a clear sense of direction, something she can’t find in herself. This causes her to declare that she will write a story.
It has some basics of a Japanese manga, but there’s a lot of heart in this film. It’s wistful, and also contains references to a time when libraries actually had card cataloguing (Shizuku actually finds that all the books she’s checked out were previously checked out by Seiji).
There’s some wonderful limited animation here (I’ve come to the conclusion that much of Ghibli’s filmms are done on 2’s). The characters are not constantly moving about, but even their subtle moments read well.

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April 24, 2006

Ryan Summers

As much as I love Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s earlier manga, Domu, always left an impression on me as a work just dying to be animated. It’s kind of a cliche at this point, but FLCL also is a must see anime, as it feels like version of a more adult Warner Brothers short filtered through an animation studio at the top of its game.

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April 24, 2006

Patrick Burke

I’m inspired by many different artists. Recently, as in the past 4 years I’ve been very inspired by the work of Mike Kunkel. His work can be seen in the wonderful comic book known as Herobear and the Kid. The site to view his work is http://www.theastonishfactory.com/ Consequently, Mike’s work got me inspired by other Animators turned comic book artists. Tom Bancraft http://www.funnypagespress.com Has a wonderful book called Opposite Forces. I just picked up Lions, Tigers, and Bears which has some amazing artwork as well. http://www.runemasterstudios.com/ Just look at the artwork and I think you will see why it is inspiring to artists that love animation.

Regarding actual animated films. Miyazaki continues to inspire but I also found an awesome short film called Le Building. If you haven’t seen this, PLEASE DO! It is a great mix of 2d and 3d. http://www.pocketmovies.net/detail_350.html Other things that inspire me are the “art of” videogame books. I highly recommend that Art of Final Fantsy 9 and 10 as well as Chrono Cross which all can be purchased at various Japanese import shops. Take care!

Pat

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April 24, 2006

Christiaan Moleman

The Mysterious Cities of Gold (or “Les Mysterieuses Cites D’or”). Fantastic series about three children in search of their history during the time of the conquistadores. Giant golden flying condors, Spanish invaders hunting for treasure and an ancient civilization in its final days… need I say more?

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April 24, 2006

Corey

This may seem strange to mention, but lately I’ve been inspired by more ancient artworks, such as Mesoamerican art and early Greek art, especially from the island of Crete. The artwork and architecture coming from Crete always remind me of cartoons & I think their style would translate very well into an animated feature.

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April 24, 2006

Corey

Cretian art
http://www.eleganza.com/fresco-minoan-gallery/2-01-art-murals-knossos.html

(sorry I html’ed in my original post, but it didn’t show up!)

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April 24, 2006

Nicolas Martinez

There’s only one film I think every animation fan should see:

The workprint version of Richard Williams’ “The Thief and the Cobbler”. It’s on my list as my most favorite animated film of all time. That film really convinced me that animation can be a true expressive artform to its extreme, and it shows from 25+ years of production. It’s too bad the public didn’t get to see it as its creator intended. You’ll immediately fall in love with this movie. It’s a work of art.

Also, I highly recommend Bob Clampett’s cartoons from Warner Bros. I love the animation, style, and charisma he puts into them. There is such lovely and specific acting in them and you can always tell a different animator drew them. It shows in “Falling Hare”, “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery”, “A Gruesome Twosome”, and many others. Watching them frame-by-frame really shows you how the animation works, and that’s half the fun 🙂

It’s also nice to see some of Chuck Jones’ earlier or more obscure work. He’s not just known for “One Froggy Evening” or “What’s Opera, Doc?”, There’s a bunch of other films of his I love, like “The Dover Boys”(the first stylized cartoon), “Feed the Kitty”, and “The Rabbit of Seville”, and “The Bear that Wasn’t” (an MGM short)

The black and white Fleischer cartoons are really worth watching, as well.

There’s also a really great article on Ed Benedict( who sdesigned a lot of the Hanna Barbarra characters) from John K.’s blog.
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/04/design-3-ed-benedict-and-fred.html

Enjoy my suggestions!

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April 24, 2006

Ali Matar

Little Lulu comics by John Stanley. These are perhaps the best written character driven comics ever. I’ve become addited to them lately. The stories are the definition of simplicity and very, very funny. The character Tubby is more real to me than most people I know. OK, I’m exaggerating but it’s that essential.

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April 24, 2006

Brenton Simpson

Interstate 60:

A Bob Gale (wrote and produced Back to the Future) film. Great cast, great writing – one of the funniest films I’ve ever seen. The distributor went out of business so it never got the attention it deserves, but do yourself and your friends a favor and pick up a copy. =)

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April 25, 2006

James

Hey everyone,
If you wanna know what can really be done with the animation medium, you need to see Studio 4C’s MindGame. It’s amazing beyond anything I’ve ever seen before, yet also extremely overlooked. Track it down if you can – you won’t regret it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452039/
http://www.mindgame.jp/
http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/002668.html

Also, take a peek at London’s very own Studio AKA. This is highly talented bunch of guys and gals, to say the very least.

http://www.studioaka.com

And these suggestions are just for starters! As Ikumi rightly said, there’s a great deal more out there to draw inspiration from than just the Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks stuff.

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April 25, 2006

Rob

For inspiration, I like to check out the blog’s of Pixar artists Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa (just add a “.com” to those names to find them!). They post sketches and bits of their personal comic book work, which I find very full of life and always makes me want to pick up a pencil and keep trying.

In film, I will second Michael Howe’s recommendation of Whisper of the Heart. I do need to see that one again. But all wonderful Ghibli work aside (you should see it all), I truly recommend anything by director Satoshi Kon. Mainly I recommend his films Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers. He has a way of filling his movies with heart that all ages can appreciate, but never sacrificing the drama or insulting an adult’s intelligence. (His first film, Perfect Blue, while good, is definitely NOT a film all ages should see!)

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April 25, 2006

sheala

I agree with the original comment. I’d love for America to get away from the idea that animation is just for kids. It’s funny that two of the longest running TV series in the US are animated (Flinstones/Simpsons), yet animated movies are considered kids fair. Anime, Manga/Am. Comics are considered geeky and looked down on.
It’s great that the recent trend of animated films often includes jokes for the adults accompanying their kids. Some newer shows are doing well (Venture Bros., robot chicken), but even they are pushed off into late night, small channel venues.
I’d love to hear about some others animated forms, like claymation (Wallace and Gromit) or Stop motion (Burton’s work). And how about some Warner Bros?
I’m glad smaller companies like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network are finally making an impact. When I saw Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars, I wished I could have seen all of Star Wars in his style. I also like the look of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (Craig McCraken).
As for outside US influences: it’s endless really. Some of my recent favorites would be: Princess Tutu, Triplets of Belleville, FullMetal Alchemist, Azumanga Diaoh, Samurai Champloo, Spirited Away, Fruits BAsket. It’s astonishing that there is such a wide range of subjects and ages in Japanese animation.
I love Disney and Pixar, their stuff usually amazes me. But I admit, that when I hear they’re doing something new, I’m secretly horrified at how much whitewashing may go into the story line.
So my advice is Watch everything, Try it at least once!

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April 25, 2006

Jenny Lerew

I always, always have to push seeing films that are insanely good, but little known–or sometimes well-known(by reputation), but misunderstood and never actually seen–in that last category I’d put the great Busby Berkeley musicals of the pre-code period: Footlight Parade, 42nd Street, Golddiggers of 1933 and 1935; the musical numbers in all those films are mind-boggling–they actually outdo a lot of animation without benefit of what we think of as special effects–they’re a pure use of movement to music and GREAT imagination. As I was saying just yesterday, they’re a lot more than just “overhead shots of girls whose legs make kalideoscope patterns”. Check those out, for starters…

Also, some of the rarer British films: anything by the writing, producing and directing team of Powell & Pressburger: “Stairway to Heaven(aka “A Matter of Life and Death”), “Black Narcissus”, “The Red Shoes”–and their other work. There’s some of the most intense use of Technicolor and monochrome in those ever seen or attempted.

Also “Dead Of Night”, an omnibus ghost story…and anything by David Lean–see “Great Expectations” again; also check out some GOOD prints(i.e. restored)on DVD of silent films–a Mary Pickford like “Daddy Long Legs”(I know it sounds corny but it’s really great), Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, or a drama like “The Wind” or “Sunrise”–some of the most beautifully photographed films ever made. Okay, that’s it for a taste!

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April 26, 2006

Jeremiah Matthew Benziger

I recommend you visit a place. A place that I didn’t know existed until last weekend. The Hearst Castle in San Simeon, CA is a castle built by William Randolph Hearst who lived around the turn of the century and met wide-spread fame through yellow journalism. He is also the man responsible for creating a film studio in the 1910’s which If I’m not mistaken created the Betty Boop cartoon series.

When you first hear the name of the town, San Simeon, you may wonder where this enchanting place is. My parents dragged me down on a roadtrip from Monterey down Highway 1 to San Simeon which is approxiamately forty minutes north of San Luis Obispo. The extremely small town does not deserve to be called a town. There were like five hotels, three mini markets, and like four restaurants all within a distance of a hundred feet.

The Actual castle that I recommend you visit is filled with art. The grounds are covered with sculptures from ancient Greece and ancient egypt. Mr. Hearst was a collector of art and created his hilltop castle to create a proper shrine for the art and to create a suitable getaway. He built the castle with several differen’t European castles in mind. The main buiding of the castle looks more like a mission than a castle. This part was modeled after a tower in Spain where Mr. Hearst had taken many trips in his youth. I completely recommend you look into this. Just Google ‘the Hearst Castle.’ The tour we did only costed me ten dollars, but only because I’m seventeen. 🙂

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April 26, 2006

Will Harrison

I second the call for Satoshi Kon movies… I especially loved Tokyo Godfather’s. It is amazing.

However, I believe that Koh’s greatest work is a show they placed on the Cartoon Network last summer… and totally dismissed.

PARANOIA AGENT was interesting to me because it was about modern Japan. No robots, nothing unworldly… or so I thought.

The story is… amazing. It is SO psychologically twisted, but it isn’t twisted in the way that americans look to twists. Not funny, not scary, but different ideas on psychology and sociology that are weird and very Japanese.

There are 13 episodes available in the US from Geneon.

And the Miyazaki films should all also be seen… especially Nausicaa, Castle in the Sky, Poco Rosco, Totoro, and Princess Mononoke. Aw, heck… see everything from Ghibli!

Will

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April 26, 2006

Gary

How about Russian made animation of Shakespeare plays with voice talent from the Royal Shakespeare Company? The styles vary from play to play, some are cel, some are stop motion puppets, some are oil on glass. The title of the set of four dvd’s is “Shakespeare The Animated Tales”

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How about that animated feature that George Lucas produced in 1983 called “Twice Upon a Time” made with an animation technique called “lumage”? Synonamess Botch is a great character. Lot o fun.

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April 26, 2006

Carl Campbell

I would second the recommendation of titles such as FLCL, Excel Saga, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Paraonoia Agent.
The things that really makes me go crazy about said Animes is that everything is so well though out, from the Music to the Characters, the Backgrounds, etc… some of it brings tears to my eyes.

Speaking of which… does anyone know of an excellent book(s) talking about origins of Anime or the inner workings of it ?† la Illusion of Life, Animator’s Survival Kit? It just seems that its pretty easy to find out about Western Animation but Anime and Manga are kept on the low. I’m sure there’s so much to learn from it regarding timing and form…

Cheers

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April 26, 2006

Steve

I love this podcast but animation isn’t just limited to the Disney style or just for all ages content.

Anything by Hayao Miyazaki
he is a true master, if you could set up an interview that would be fabulous. But he only speaks Japanese so you’d have to get a translator.

FLCL
This wonderful, cool, awesome thing. If Tex Avery did anime.

The Animatrix
a wonderful collection of Matrix inspired shorts

Heavy Metal
I know the animation isn’t up to Disney snuff but it’s got style and heart

and I’m going to say it…

Beast Wars
Aa 3D animated series from the 90’s. The animators are not masters, but they have been very inspiring to me personally in my own hobbyist work.

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April 26, 2006

Ikumi

Hi people!
Sorry for the long voice message! I hope I didn’t come across sounding like an ass in my voice mail. I am so embarrassed with my fifteen minutes of fame (partially because my boyfriend thought that I was hitting on Clay. I don’t know what he’s talking about, I flirt with all men equally!)
But anyway… since this thread was originated by my comment, I will contribute to the list of recommended reading this weekend…with link to sites and pictures! Oh, and I want to clarify that I have nothing against Star Wars or Hellboy! I just wanted to say that there are many different stories that could be told through graphic novels and cartoons…especially when it comes to cartoons for girls. Not all girls want to form a rock band or be girl spies!

Ikumi

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April 26, 2006

Jeremiah Matthew Benziger

I love the painting “The Girl With the Pearl Earring” by Vermeer. It’s HOTT STUFF! I love the French animated film “The Triplets of Belleville.” I’ll let you borrow it if you want.

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April 27, 2006

emma

Ikumi…

I have heard that name before…. do you work on a manga series? I think my sister has a book by you or something cos i have heard that name before…..

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April 28, 2006

Jacky W. Chen

I‚Äôd like to share two of my favorite illustrator – Charles Robinson and S.C Hua. Both of them drew delicately yet their work speaks in bold. You could find some of Mr. Robinson‚Äôs work on nocloo.com‚Äôs gallery page. And some of his children‚Äôs book still can be found in Amazon. I put 8 of S.C Hua‚Äôs work in my site http://www.jwchen.com/archive/schua01.htm since I can‚Äôt find any related page in google.

**off topic
**To Emma:
I googled Ikumi and to my surprise she worked on gotham girls http://www.gothamgirls.com . I saw the flash animation a year ago and liked it very much (I love Bruce Timm‚Äôs style of character design). She also worked on a comic called ‚Äúmonkeysuit‚Äù. I guess I have to get myself a copy next week to find out more.

**To Ikumi: well, at least you didn‚Äôt sound like a crack-head. I thought I was rather humorous when I send Clay the massage few weeks ago. But to my horror mine retarded voice message show up on the first Glen Keane episode, I mean if the guest was John Kricfalusi I would of felt fine, but for god sake GLEN KEANE?! I was seriously wondering if committing Seppuku is the right thing to do.

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April 28, 2006

John Sanford

Clay!!!
Here is a list of things that inspire me!!!

Comics:
Anything by Simon Leturgie. He is a french comic book artist who draws in a fun cartoony style. His books include “Spoon and White”, “Space Cake” and “Polstar”. These are available at Amazon France.

If you’ve never seen Walt Kelly’s Pogo, go now and get it! Kelly was an animator at Disney in the 40’s and it definatly informs his drawing. He’s a funny writer too.

Manga:
I dig Rurouni Kenshin, and Dr. Slump.

TV
If you’ve never seen “Freaks and Geeks” or “Undeclared”, bye, borrow or steal them. Great stuff.

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April 29, 2006

Uriel

Hi Clay, since I’ve left a voice message, I might as well post something here as well.

Check out a comic book called Blacksad, by former Disney Paris animator Juanjo Guarnido. The art is absolutely awesome (and Juanjo deserves to be successful, he’s a real cream !)

Also anything by Nicolas de Cr?©cy, the artist who influenced Sylvain Chomet for “Les Triplettes de Belleville”.

I’d recommend anything written by Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman (and certainly NOT the movie adaptations…), as well as (in no particular order) bande dessinn?©es by Cyril Pedrosa, Boucq, Olivier Vatine and Guy Delisle.

And of course, the great master Franquin. If you have never read his Spirou comics or Gaston Lagaffe, go get them. Now. You’re in for a treat. The Gaston comics are some of the few books you can read over and over and still laugh like it was the first time.

For animation, everything has already been covered by previous posts (couldn’t agree more with the recommendations), except maybe films by Canadian animator Frederic Back, which I really love.

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April 29, 2006

Josh Carrollhach

As far as inspiration, The Complete Calvin & Hobbes is a wonder. You get to really see Watterson’s illustration and storytelling style evolve. It’s fairly expensive, but worth every penny.

For cool shots, you can’t go wrong with Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil re-edited by Walter Murch. A masterpiece even in its earlier incarnation, it has now achieved perfection.

For Anime, I really like Serial Experiment: Lain. The story is really convoluted and sometimes incomprehensible, but the backgorunds are extraordinary. There are also some great money-saving animation techniques (such as showing a closeup of a character’s eye that slowly pulls in even closer while the character is talking).

For classics, the Fleischer Studios Betty Boop and Superman, the Otto Messmer silent Felix shorts and the Disney features Melody Time and Make Mine Music are great.

And as for modern: Lilo and Stitch, The Emperor’s New Groove and (of course) The Iron Giant .

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April 29, 2006

Ikumi

Here is my long list of manga that I love. Most of them are from the 80‚Äôs or early 90‚Äôs therefore the drawings may look dated. But they still look good to me, none the less! Many of them have been made into anime form, but I still suggest reading the comic version.
Most of them don‚Äôt follow the typical ‚Äúrules of drawings‚Äù that is stressed so much in American cartoons, but I personally think that they‚Äôre unthreatening, soft, attractive and just plain cute! I don‚Äôt really care for the rules as long as I find the art attractive.
The images on the links are rather large for easier viewing.

‚ÄìAkira Toriyama
Dr. Slump
(Available in English)
Comedy. From the creator of Dragon Ball. I used to read this when I was 6! It took over 20 years to finally be translated into English. Trust me, just read it and laugh to your heart‚Äôs content. No brain work required to enjoy, yet so much fun!
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/slump.html

– Koi Ikeno
Tokimeki Tonight
Romance-comedy. Ranze is a girl from the underworld who can transform into anything she bites. She has a big crush on her classmate Shun, a normal human being. But her kind is forbidden to fall in love with a human, so her dad (a vampire) and mom(a werewolf) try whatever they can to have her fall in love with Aaron, the prince of the underworld. Despite of seemingly tragic theme, this is a light hearted comedy.
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/tokimeki.html

– Aoi Hiiragi
Hoshi no Hitomi no Silhouette
A comic book by the author of a Ghibli film, ‚ÄúWhispers of the Heart‚Äù.
Kasumi is a painfully shy girl in Jr. High. Her treasure is a ‚Äúpiece of a star‚Äù (actually, a crystal) that she received from a boy when she was little, and she longs to see the boy again. Meanwhile, she meets a boy named Kuzumi from her school, and begins to have feelings for him. But her best friend also has a crush on him, so Kasumi decides to suppress her feelings and root for her friend instead.
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/hoshi.html

-Bill Presing
Rex Steel: the Nazi Smasher
I swear that I‚Äôm not being partial, just because I‚Äôm dating this guy! Bill is an excellent artist, and I fell in love with his drawings the moment I saw his sketchbook. Then I fell in love with him much later.
http://www.monkeysuit.com

‚Äì Hidenori Hara
Heya ni Oideyo (Come on a my house)
This is a realistic love story between an aspiring photographer, Mikio, and an aspiring pianist, Fumi. They fall in love and move in together, but their relationship gets strained as their careers take them to different places, respectively. The author does a great job at depicting the icy silence during their break up by just using series of panels of drawings. The comic book ends with a 2 page spread of their empty apartment. Sigh.
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/house.html

– Naomi Yamauchi
The Change!
Based on a novel written during the Japanese Heian peiod (794-1192 )
Kira and Kira are twin prince/princess. However, princess Kira was raised as a boy, while prince Kira was raised as a girl. One day, Mikado sees the girl Kira bathing in the lake, and falls in love with her, not knowing that she‚Äôs usually disguised as a prince. He assumes that girl was princess Kira(who‚Äôs actually a boy) instead, and he schemes to make him his bride. Kind of twisted, but soooo much fun! It‚Äôs my all time favorite!
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/change.html

– Osamu Tezuka
Black Jack
(Available in English)
Drama. A story about an unlicensed, but superb surgeon named ‚ÄúBladk Jack‚Äù that handles many strange, yet fascinating medical cases.
http://en.tezuka.co.jp/manga/sakuhin/m089/m089_01.html

– Tsukasa Hojo
Cat‚Äôs Eye
Action-comedy. Toshio is a cop, whose mission is to capture ‚ÄúCat‚Äôs Eye‚Äù- an elusive thieve that steals the most heavily prized artworks and jewelry. What he doesn‚Äôt know is that ‚ÄúCat‚Äôs Eye‚Äù is his very own girlfriend Hitomi, and her two sisters.

City Hunter(Available in English)
Action-comedy. Ryo Saeba is a private marksmen/bodyguard with a weakness for beautiful women. He constantly has a huge erection. (yes, THAT erection) and gets pounded by his partner Kaori with a big sledgehammer that she pulls out of nowhere. But he never fails to deliver when he needs to, and that makes him oh, so cool.
This page gave me a good belly laugh.
http://www.meetiku.com/manga/hunter.html

http://www.ex.org/5.2/35-book_cityhunter.html

Angel Heart
Drama. A sequel to the City Hunter story. A girl assassin who struggles too make peace with her dark past
http://www.ex.org/articles/2002/2002.02.19-rev_manga-j-angel_heart.html

‚Äì Katsura Masakazu
Video Girl Ai
(Available in English)
Romance, action, comedy. A LONG love story between a shy boy named Yota, and Ai, a girl robot who appears from Yota‚Äôs TV to ‚Äúcheer him up‚Äù. I empathized with Yota‚Äôs low self- esteem as a young teenager in the beginning, and was touched by his transformation that was brought on by Ai. This was the one and only time I cried from reading a comic book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Girl_Ai#Characters

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April 29, 2006

joe

All 14 Movies in Disney’s Platinum Collection:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Aladdin
Bambi
Cinderella
Lady and the Tramp
The Little Mermaid
The Jungle Book
101 Dalmatians
Sleeping Beauty
Pinocchio
Peter Pan
Fantasia

All of Pixar’s Features, more specifically:

Toy Story
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles

All of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio ghibli Features, specially:

Kiki’s Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away

Anything by Tim Burton, specifically:

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Corpse Bride

The works of Bruce Timm specifically:

Batman The Animated Series
Justice League

Classic 20th Century Japanese Anime, especially [not as bad as the crap they show nowadays]…

Gundam Wing
Dragon Ball Z
Sailor Moon
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Rurouni Kenshin
Astro Boy

All the Looney Tunes Cartoons, especially:

What’s Opera Doc?

others…

The Triplets of Belleville
Heavy Metal
Family Guy
The Simpsons
Beast Wars
Disney’s Tarzan
Disney’s Pocahontas
Disney’s Lilo and Stitch

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April 29, 2006

Carl Campbell

What do you mean ‘crap they show nowadays’? Agreed there is quite a bit of trash anime but in all genres actually. But there are plenty of good shows to go around, you just keep on looking 😉

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April 30, 2006

Stephani

Carl Campbell

Hi, I think I can give you little pointers on what NOT to get for the books for anime/manga type of “Illusion of Life”. I’m a big imported book whore, so yeah. Firstly, I don’t think there are such things of “Illusion of Life/Animators Survival Kit” type book out by the anime industry titans. (Miyazaki, Kon, etc) However, there ARE books like that sold in (usually) North American Chinatown bookstores. I don’t really reccomend these types. (ie the “How to do ANIME! with crappy cover that’s both cheesy and cheap-looking) Why?

They suck 😛

They explained about the “really general” stuff. Stuff that had been explained in Illusion of Life like overlay, underlay, FX, animation layers.How they’re painted in cels and shot in computer/rostrum camera. So if you really want THAT sort of knowledge, you should apprentice under a Japanese animation studio. I did apprentice in the Japanese system for 3 month on a subcontracted studio that does inbetween for Japanese shows like Slayers. They had one copy of Animator’s Survival Kit, which the animators find far more helpful than the stuff that the Japanese animators ask them to do. But perhaps, the Japanese animators who came there on briefing what to inbetween were just looking at us as “lowly inbetween subcontract studio”. I’ve heard people coming in to the REAL Japanese sudio (in Japan) as apprentices said many good things about the studio they worked in. (ie: they were helpful, friendly, etc) So perhaps it has something to do with where I apprenticed at. I apprenticed in Indonesia, where usually anime shows are inbetweened. Perhaps we got one of those “middle manager animators” in our studio.:)

Anyway, good luck!

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April 30, 2006

Bruce Wright

I second the recommend of Whisper of the Heart. It’s one of my all-time favorite Ghibli movies….really deep and about the terrifying leap of faith it takes to pursue a life as an artist. It’s the one animated film I’d show anyone who hates animated films. It’s utterly without the conventions and cliches of animation.

There’s a lot of great stuff… not a lot of it is obscure. I’m not going to recommend something everyone knows already.

Here’s a great one. A film called “The Magnificent Dope.”

It’s a great little screwball comedy that symbolizes everything that was great about old hollywood comedies when the formula worked.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035016/

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May 2, 2006

Matt Phelan

From the children’s book world, I highly recommend “The Gardener” by Sarah Stewart and illustrated by the justly Caldecott Honored David Small. It is a perfect example of the picture book with an engrossing, emotional story told simply…and there’s nothing harder than simplicity.

For movies, I love “Whisper Down the Wind,” a sixties british film with Hayley Mills and Alan Bates as an escaped murderer who a group of children mistake for Jesus. Unsentimental, powerful storytelling with some of the best child performances I’ve ever seen. Stunning black and white cinematography, too. Sadly, it seems to be only available on VHS…

I also second all of Jenny Lerew’s recommendations, especially Keaton.

Thanks for the great and inspiring shows, Clay!

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May 2, 2006

AnimationPodcaster

HOLY COW! What a jackpot of resources! I’m going to really take my time and check out as much of this as I can. There’s enough here to last a very long time, but if someone hasn’t thrown in, go on and do it. There’s no qualifying required. If you like something, that’s good enough for us.

I have another recommendation that’s kind of out of left field. Whenever I talk about great screenplays I have to mention Lethal Weapon by Shane Black. Even if you’ve seen the movie too many times to count, you owe it to yourself to read the script. It’s almost more fun than watching. Black has his own writing style which, surprisingly, isn’t often immitated.

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May 2, 2006

dan

the five obstructions (foreign “reality” film… great great show)

pre-american-cinema john woo and sergio leone spaghetti-western flicks.

invincible and the walking dead by robert kirkman (comics)

rubin and ed by trent harris (cult flick here in utah starring crispin glover – weird)

darkstar (i remember watching this with my dad when i was a kid, crazy-campy sci-fi, but so fun to watch)

and i am a junkie for adult swim. most notably: aqua teen hunger force (can’t wait for the movie), sealab 2021, home movies, venture brothers, and space ghost: coast-to-coast.

i’ll second clay’s recommendation of shane black. i’ve never read the screenplay for lethal weapon, but he writes some of the coolest stuff. when long kiss goodnight came out i saw it at least 5 times in the theatres. and kiss kiss bang bang was great too. i wonder if he wrote his own dialogue in predator?

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May 3, 2006

C. Edwards

I think that the Gorillaz is some of the most relevant traditional work being done today. It’s current, engaging, progressive and above all else, (to me) the character work has a flat, cartoon-y movement that looks best when done in traditional animation.

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May 4, 2006

Samy H.

Well, there are quite a lot of great mangas and anime films but if you ask me, THE ultimate manga would be ‘Bleach’. There are abotu 22 volumes up until now (23rd would be coming out next month I think), and it’s really, really popular in Japan and in other parts of the world as well. I really would recommend that manga, because the story is just awesome, it’s always so exciting, and it’s also quite funny hehe.

And now, since Bleach has just been released in Europe a month ago, I shall go by myself the second volume (I’ve read all 22 volumes, but I just buy them to collect them)

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May 4, 2006

James

This anime show always helps to keep feeding me with ideas, and inspiration for furute projects that I may work on. Though I’m still young i still practice on my computer animation skillz.

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May 5, 2006

Diego Stoliar

I’m not a big fan of anime but i reaaaaaally like a short filme called “Dead Leaves”, I think that the guy who did it is really a genius.

In live action movies I’m really looking for some films called The Cre Master Cicle, from the director Mattew Barney, I think. Those are non-story films that are visually amazing, as far I saw.

And take a look at Rembrandt scketchs on Benjamin DS post (top of the page). I’m like those very much, I like to take a look on them when I’m reading Walt Stanchfield notes on animationmeat.com.

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May 5, 2006

Carl Campbell

Haha, Diego, that film is lasts around an hour so I hardly think it qualifies as ‘Short Film’. =)
That is an awesome film by the amazing talents of the folk at Production IG, always delivering quality entertainment. They really go out of their way with perspective distorsion and interesting timing, there’s SO much to learn from them. I even know some people that find this movie too shaky and dizzy, but I just love it to bits!

The more I see all this new up and coming animation I really feel like some of these people are making a stand against the statement that CG Animation is the replacement for traditional. And I mean, come on! Let’s face it, no matter how good the Character TD’s or the Animators are on any sort of CG production, the freedom of ‘simply’ being able to draw all this wacky stuff directly on paper really adds to the expressiveness of it all.

They’re not even drawing the character anymore, its more like a few abstract paintings per second, and in CG unless you modelled a different image for each frame, I really doubt you’d be able to do most of the stuff these new experimental shows and movies are doing…

Cheers!

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May 5, 2006

Ash

Awesome Anime film ?? sure…

One of the Artistically Favorite one’s iv’e seen is this Film called “Beyond the Clouds , the Promised Place .” . You Guys might want to check that out , since it really has some quality artwork , animation , and a good solid story and great enviormental setting to go along with it . It was dont by a Guy known as Makoto Shinkai , who was famous among the Circle’s for a while back since he managed to make a Great Movie known as ‘Hoshi no Koe’ , which is an Anime too , all by himself , including all the Pre-Production , Animation and Post-Production , and that too on an 800 MHZ Mac Laptop (PowerBook) . So yeah , definitely he can create some magic with his movies .

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May 15, 2006

Paul

Ok…I’m gonna make this short and sweet…Trigun. It’s an anime that been out 4 a while. It’s the perfect anime 4 anyone who’s never watched anime before. Why should you use your valuable time to watch this you ask? Because this 27 episode series will keep you hooked till the heart gripping climax. The animation is excellent, espicially since it still holds up since around 1998 or so. It’s funny, action-packed, sad and just plain lovable. I can GUARANTEE that everyone that has listened faithfully to your show , has at least heard of it, if not tried to watch every single episode. So, that’s my recommendation. Trust me, you’ll love it.

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May 29, 2006

Kevan

“The Big Knights” by Astley & Baker. An amazing animated show commissioned by the BBC. Sadly this is only available on PAL VHS at the moment.

“Pocoyo” http://www.pocoyo.com
Great Spanish TV Show for children.

“A Flatpack Project” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7YxD7LOpSc

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May 30, 2006

Carl Campbell

Pocoyo, yes! Animated frame by frame I’m sure, the key behind their style is ALL about the timing and poses. Its so simple yet SO entertaining.
I’d like to add that it’s a Spanish show but it doesn’t screen in Spain… just goes to show what kind of TV our country likes to watch…

Cheers

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May 30, 2006

Pablo Martinez

Pocoyo is CGI animation with XSI and will be on screen in spain next september, now is on air in Japan, UK, Australia, and Canada
theres more info at http://pocoyo.blogs.com

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May 30, 2006

Carl Campbell

Well that’s good news! I thought they’d made a terrible mistake by selling it off to so many other countries but underestimating the potential it could have on the Spanish market… strange forces are at work here =D

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June 6, 2006

Nicholas Baranowski

Some stuff to look up- to give a taste of my perspective I have been on a research binge so do forgive me if I I seem a bit out of touch with the current vouge.

Although I enjoy his draftsmanship more then his painted work, Leda Atomica by Dali, if you can find a decent scan or photograph is ^%$#@ awsome.

Arthur Rackham’s version of the Chesire Cat. It kills me how nice the cat seems in almost every other version, Rackham delivers a far more menacing(maybe drug induced paranoia)inky scratch. Hell just about anything the dude did past his newspaper work is about as fun as you can get. The sense of volume kicks my ass.

And since I’m on a Polish kick look up Jan Matejko, if you can find his sketch-work, not to mention his paintings have great light.

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July 19, 2006

Andy Latham

Well it certainly isn’t the best animation you will ever see, but for sheer freakiness, go and see Salad Fingers at http://www.fat-pie.com/salad.htm

There are several episodes, each slightly more disturbing than the last. It’s a hoot!

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July 24, 2006

Adrian Hogan

Hope I’m not to late to contribute!

One of my favourite short animations by Russian animator, Yuri Norstein, is called the Battle of Kerjenets (released in 1971). Norstein’s work was largely inspired by Russian fairy tales but in this animation he breathes life into appropriated medieval imagery to animate a fierce battle.

Tale of Tales (released in 1979) is probably his best known and most critically acclaimed animated piece and is also highly recommended.

I saw these films at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (in Australia) a couple of years ago so I’m not sure where they would be available in the US however, a quick google search should come up with something.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582170223/002-1273027-1384031?v=glance&n=404272

or

http://store.russiananimation.com/cowoofyunodv.html

might be a good place to start!

Great work everyone! Keep up the good work Clay!

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August 4, 2006

Chris

I’ll put in my $.02 just in case anyone is still following this:

I’ll probably always stand by the Ghost in the Shell work. There’re definitely some things that could be done to take it further outside of adolescence (the Major’s costumes for instance). I think the thing that makes this whole franchise so great, is that while it has many sci-fi/cyberpunk qualities, I think we’ll actually see ourselves in that type of world some day–which grounds it and makes it more ‘real’. The philosophies of the movies are incredible, too. Even though I’ve seen the first movie a dozen times or more, I still pick up something new every time. Of course, we can’t ignore the influence it’s had on American cinema, either. The Wachowski bro.’s have admitted to using bits of it in their Matrix movies.

Some other places of inspiration include the National Film Board of Canada, the Jak and Daxter videogames (VERY good character animation), and of course the SIGGRAPH animation theater (Video Review). If you haven’t yet, check out this short student animation by some students from Gobelins in France http://www.le-building.com/movie.htm (along with the other work coming out of that school). I also thoroughly enjoy the some of the stuff coming out of Supinfocom as well.

-Chris

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August 13, 2006

Adrian Hogan

Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein is now up on YouTube so check it out! 😀

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VjgaGNRSFZA

(link via Vera Brosgol -http://www.verabee.com/ )

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December 11, 2007

Geoffrey

What about a lovely chat with Sylvain Chomet? He’s the guy who wrote, directed and designed The Triplets of Belleville, which was flappin’ incredible. Also, sort of as an aside, I’m wondering if you had any stories about taking really harsh criticism and how you dealt with it.

Geoffrey

PS How weird does the word “dealt” look?

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December 11, 2007

Clay

I can’t believe how great the comments have been here! Again, I’ll keep chipping away at all this stuff you guys are recommending.

Thanks for keeping the thread alive Geoffrey!

Any criticism I’ve had has always been welcomed by me, so it’s hard to categorize any of it as harsh, but I definitely have felt the sting of it. I’ve been fortunate to work with many perfectionists who only had good intentions, so every time I get feedback that was hard to swallow, I knew that it was to make my work better. Seems like an overly optimistic view, but that’s the best way to look at it.

The worst sting of all is when you watch something that you did and you find something about it that could be better, and it’s too late to fix. Seriously – the worst. So as long as criticism is pushing you in the right direction, it’s always good, even if it’s hard to hear.

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January 8, 2008

KI

ANIMATION HISTORY ONLINE

Hey folks,

I don’t need to tell you this but….I’m tellin’ ya anyway! Of course YouTube is a AWESOME resource for finding old documentaries, obscure media clips for just about anything on animation. I just wanted to list some of the clips that really grabbed my attention:

I stumbled across this BCC documentary on Disney called “Secret Lives” It paints not the most flattering picture of Walt Disney, but I think it’s certainly worth watching to gain a greater perspective of the conditions of the studios back in the old days and to contrast it with how much things have changed since then.

You can find the first clip at http://youtube.com/watch?v=UXA2hWgvZKo

Another one is a GREAT interview with Shamus Culhane
(simply one of the best animators of all time)

You can find the first clip at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qNOgMulQNyE

I am sure I am preaching to the choir, but if you simply type in:

Disney Family Album, you’ll find tons of stuff about the Nine Old Men

Richard Williams, lots of documentary clips

Or Glen Keane, ooodles of media clips to keep you drooling for days.

Enjoy!!

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March 4, 2008

Jason Poley

Hi

This film makes me go animate straight away afterwards. can’t be beaten.

Tekon kinkur?Æto (Tekkonkinkreet)

scan the previous entries quickly could see this film mentioned, apologies if it has.

a wonderful 2D animated anime, loose lines and fluid motion matched with truly great characterisation and an excellent story.

is available on most on-line stores (amazon etc)

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March 13, 2008

Human Sharghi Namin

Well, i really like Will Eisner¬¥s `New York¬¥ and `To the Heart of the Storm,¬¥ because Eisner is a great master of gesture poses.
He studied under George Bridgman (the famous life drawing professor) for a year at the Art Students League of New York.

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September 4, 2008

starlit

If you would like to see and episode guide to the anime series, Fruits Basket here is a link. http://www.squidoo.com/fruitsbasketepisodes and if you would like to know more on the anime go to http://www.squidoo.com/animefruitsbasket

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February 2, 2009

Liz

I honestly can’t recommend the Studio Ghibli movie, “My Neighbors the Yamadas” enough! I just got to see this wonderful movie and it has such a simple comic strip style combined with the most amazing animation. If you get a chance to see it, do! The storyline is very simple, but I think that’s what makes the animation and characters stand out so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbors_the_Yamadas
http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Neighbours-Yamadas-Isao-Takahata/dp/B000EMI5LU

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April 8, 2009

Arthus Belliqueux

Hi there !

As a french cinema amateur, I can only recommend those classic directors :

Fran?ßois Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Robert Bresson
Jean Cocteau
Jean Renoir
Luis Bunuel

Also have a look to the films of those :

Ingmar Bergman
Takeshi Kitano

And check out “The holy mountain” of Alejandro Jodorowsky.

In mess, you can also be interested in FlEsh Gordon, and also in the original Flash Gordon movie, that are both fun to watch and full of memories.

–

In animation movies you can check several of these ones :

Frederick Back
Andreas Hykade
Aleksandr Petrov
Bruno Bozzeto
Dudok de wit
Georges Melies
Emile Cohl
Konstantin Bronzit
Pjotr Dumala
Priit Parn
Raoul Servais
Ryan Larkin
Windsor McCay
Norman Mc Laren

Be sure to see some of the works of Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier ( those two work together ), Ren?© Laloux, Georges Schwizgebel, and Paul Grimault. (All europeans )

Chinese animation also exists and some are greats, so be sure to look for :

Te Wei
Ah Da
Zhou Keqin
Hou Jinqing

–

As for comics, you could find some interested things looking for “Tintin” and “Gaston Lagaffe”, from Herg?© ( I think Glen Kean spoke about it). he also did Marsupilami.

Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis”

Quino is a spanish author and does some great comics such as “Mafalda”.

Gotlib and Alexis’s “Fluide Glacial” is great too.

I can’t think of anything else right now…

Hope you’ll enjoy it !

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November 12, 2009

Tania Vincent

I know that this is kind of cheating as it isn’t an animation but watching anything with the muppets in is fantastic!

The life and movement that is produced from them is amazing.
I understand that a lot of this has to do with the voice but youd be suprised how easy it is to always understand whats going on in a scene even withour sound!

The muppets really helped me when i started lip syncing.
Getting to understand those first beats and where the important ephasis is in words really helps your work!

Hope that helps someone out there 🙂

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November 14, 2009

Mahesh

Hi friends …

i think of animation as an art … but on a very different level …
I am animation student .. and the first and most important thing that inspired me most was stories , as a kid , i used to made up and tell stories .. and people loved it and appreciated it …
as i’m growing now i have realized that its emotions and life that inspires the passion for Animation .

I mean , i wanna see all the new emotions i see and feel around me , like if something is going on in my life , or friends , or someone i’v heard of , that different emotions i wanna see in the animation …

I think we dont wanna replicate the incidence but the experience ..

When i see an animation , i am looking for experience , and i think we all are …

When i read the Disney Illusion of life .. there were sometimes when i was in tears … seeing the passion of all ..

I think we all wanna look around and feel the emotions that should be bring in our art ..

I love to write too … and more i feel the emotions in my life and surroundings that permeates through my writing ..

i really want to see all these emotions in animation…
and its the life that surrounding us that inspires animation …

i just wanna suggest … if the life inspires us so will be the animation … and its life and emotions that will be in our art …

thanks 🙂

Hope it helps some one …

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June 1, 2010

Donovan Peters

What a fabulous blog! I love reading your entries…you are such a fantastic writer. Keep it coming…You are amazing!

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October 9, 2010

Ki Innis

Hey Animation Enthusiasts

I am sure many of you may know of the French operated Art of Disney blog.

http://artofdisney.canalblog.com/

Despite being in French only, hands down it’s one the BEST resources online for information about Disney’s art, artists and films.

Sorry correction it WAS the best resource online. Please read further.

This site was chock full of art development sheets, model sheets from Plane Crazy all the way to Rapunzel—oops sorry “Tangled”. Not to mention it was a wealth of information on many of the noteworthy the artists who have worked at Disney, past and present.

Apparently the legal dept. at The Walt Disney Company caught wind of this awesome blog and has demanded it to be taken down.

As artists, animators or just plain animation enthusiasts, we all know how hard it can be to find good art of Disney material for our own references, inspiration or appreciation. The Art of Disney blog certainly when it was up was a great oasis.

The legal dept. at Disney has demanded it be taken down on the basis of “unfair competition”. I don’t see how that works considering 1) the blog is free and 2) it’s free viral marketing for Disney. Anyway my opinion is irrelevant.

What is relevant that this site should be rescued.

Please go to the website and click on the petition to save this blog. Yes, it’s it French, but I am sure you can navigate through it! If you have visited the Art of Disney blog in the past, then I shouldn’t have to sell you on how great the blog was….for people who have missed out, please join in and petition for the blog and hopefully someday you will see how “worth it” it was to so petition for the Art of Disney blog.

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October 27, 2010

Liz

Seems I missed this amazing resource… and maybe I’m half asleep, but I cant’ find the petition. Any chance of a direct link? 🙂

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November 15, 2010

Peter Palmiotti

If your into listening to podcasts about animation and you don’t already know about these…well, then that’s great…check em’ out!!!

Raul Aguirre jr. does one about animation, as well as comics and other artistic endeavors! It’s called Man VS Art…and you’ll see why. http://manvsart.com

GhettoMation This one has Raul as well along with Jim Lujan and Kevin Cross and its all about DIY animation! http://ghettomation.blogspot.com/

If 3D animation is your bag, go take a listen to Paul Caggegi’s The Process Diary! http://www.theprocessdiary.blogspot.com/

and finally check out Chris Oatley’s Art cast goes in deep into animation, pitching, tools, and much more. http://chrisoatley.com/

All of them can be downloaded on itunes, hope you enjoy, Peter.

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