Category: Animation
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1923 aka Heaven and 1925 aka Hell by Max Hattler
1923 aka Heaven (images above, top five) and 1925 aka Hell (above, bottom 5) are two animated film by Max Hattler that were inspired by two paintings by French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. The two paintings are both named A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World, one painted in 1923 (above, middle left) and one…
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LOST: The Animated Series character designs (Michael Myers)
Illustrator and animator Michael B. Myers has given us his vision of what the characters from the LOST television series would look like if they were designed for an animated series. As unlikely as that possibility may be (except perhaps in alternate reality timeline limbo) it’s fun to have his nicely stylized treatment of some…
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The Making of Gobelins Shorts
I’ve written several times in the past about the wonderful student animation coming out of Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris. It seems that each example I see is another small triumph for hand drawn animation in a world dominated by increasingly formulaic computer CGI. Writing for On Animation, Daniel Caylor…
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The History of English
The History of English is a series of 10 very short animated segments, totaling about 10 minutes, from The Open University that chronicle the origins of the language, its growth and expansion into the bazillion word behemoth we know and love today. Narrated in a nicely cheeky tone, it’s amusing as well as informative. Word…
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Joe Banana’s “The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary”
As someone who very much enjoyed Dave Stevens’ comic book The Rocketeer, and the Republic Pictures 1950’s Commando Cody serials, to which Steven’s character was a loving homage, I couldn’t help but like 3-D animator Joe Banana’s The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary, which is in turn a homage to Steven’s character and the underrated 1991 Disney…