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Category: Animation

  • Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)

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    Sita Sings the Blues is an award winning independent feature length animation by Nina Paley. The film combines an adaptation of the epic Indian story of Ramayana with a personal story from Paley herself. The film won the Best Feature award at the 32nd Annecy Animated Film Festival (see my post on student films at…

  • Watchmen as a Saturday Morning Cartoon

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    Anyone who is familiar with Watchmen, the darkly dystopian and very adult graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, or the much anticipated feature film adaptation that is being released today; and/or those familiar with 1980’s style Saturday morning superhero cartoons; will get a kick out of this perfect and spot on send-up by…

  • Animated TV Titles

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    In the 1950’s 60’s and 70’s, a number of non-animated television shows had animated titles, something that was also common in movies of the time. Undoubtedly influenced by the film title mini-masterpieces of Saul Bass, the TV titles were usually much cruder and less imaginative, but still amusing nonetheless. Some of them were in fact…

  • Reza Dolatabadi

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    Reza Dolatabadi studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, from which he is graduating with a Bachelor in Animation and Media Art. As a student project, Dolatabadi spent two years creating over 6000 individual paintings as frames for a five minute hand-painted animation…

  • Coraline Mystery Box

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    Back in 2003, I stumbled across a promotion for the book The Da Vinci Code, little known at the time, in the form of a series of web-based clues, originating on author Dan Brown’s web site and leading through a series of automated emails and other web sites to an eventual puzzle solution that garnered…

  • Max Fleischer’s Super Superman Cartoons

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    I sometimes despair that people younger than a certain age will think that the generally terrible state of current television animation is what 2-D or hand-drawn animation is limited to. True, many of them have been introduced to the high-points of Japanese anime as exemplified by great directors like Hayao Miyazaki, but how many more…