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Category: Animation

  • The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside and Going West

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    The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside and Going West are two more short animated films picked out by Irene Gallo for her continuing weekly list of “Saturday Morning Cartoons” on the Tor Books site. The Dog Who Was a Cat Inside (image above, top) is wonderfully stylized in an almost cubist design, artfully realized…

  • Florian Satzinger

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    Austrian production and character designer Florian Satzinger has a drawing style with a snap and verve that harken back to the best of classic Disney and mid 20th Century Warner Brothers animation. The lines with which he delineates his characters zing, bounce and swoop so delightfully that they suggest lively motion even before they’re animated.…

  • The Boing Boing Cartoon Circus

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    For the past week or so, Stephen Worth, Director of the always amazing ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive (which I have mentioned on several occasions) has been guest blogger on Boing Boing. During that stint he has given us a series of treats including the Boing Boing Cartoon Circus, a list of some wonderful classic cartoons. These…

  • This Is Where We Live

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    This Is Where We Live is a short stop-motion animation by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. It is a promo for 4th Estate Publishers, and the “where” it refers to is the world of books. The designers and animators have taken a literal take on the phrase and created a world made, literally, from books.…

  • Parkour Motion Reel

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    This is an amusing little animation that was made as a course assignment by a design degree student in Singapore, who goes by the handle “saggyarmpit” on Vimeo. She points out that it was done fairly quickly, the drawings illustrated with technical pen and rough around the edges, and expresses surprise at the degree of…

  • The Animator’s Survival Kit (Richard Williams)

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    In the 1990’s, Richard Williams, the Canadian animator responsible for the brilliant animation in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, began teaching an Animation Masterclass in various locations around the world. It was attended by members of major studios like Disney, Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks/PDI and Warner Brothers; who knew a Good Thing when they saw it. Williams’…