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

Tekon kinkurîto (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)

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!!

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.

Geoffrey

PS How weird does the word “dealt” look?

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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

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!

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