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  • Jamie Caliri (update)

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    Though not the mini-masterpiece of its predecessor, the latest animated closing film credit from director Jamie Caliri is still a nifty piece of paper cut-out animation. The closing credits for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa can be viewed on a terrific site called Forget the film, watch the titles, that I’ve written about before here and…

  • Chris Appelhans (update)

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    Chris Appelhans, who I profiled back in 2006, has added some new images to his site, Froghat Studios, along with a fun short Superman animation. The latter is more of a slide show than an actual animation, but it works quite well, timed to music and with nice touches (I love the scene of Superman…

  • Shy the Sun: Bakers Animation

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    Shy the Sun, the South African animation production company formed around the talents of Ree Treweek and Jannes Hendrikz from the Black Heart Gang, has produced a new animated TV spot, this one for Bakers Precious Biscuits. See my previous post on Shy the Sun’s Sea Orchestra spot for United Airlines. The new spot dovetails…

  • Evelien Lohbeck

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    Noteboek, an animation by Evelien Lohbeck that recently won the prize for best NOFF-film 2008 a the Netherlands Film Festival, is one of the cleverest and most amusing animations I’ve seen in a while. Taking off from the notion of a sketchbook in which a computer keyboard and screen have been drawn, it goes on…

  • One1more2time3’s Weblog: Animation Treasures

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    One1more2time3’s Weblog is a blog written by animated film industry production designer Hans Bacher. Formerly based in Europe, the U.S. and Tokyo, Bacher is now in Manila, Philippines and writes about a number of animation and production art topics. According to Michael Hirsh’s Articles & Texticles, Bacher had been blogging previously on a different platform,…

  • Tekkon Kinkreet background art

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    Tekkon Kinkreet (or Tekkonkinkreet, a pun on the Japanese phrase for reinforced concrete) is a feature length anime (Japanese animated film) that has attracted a good bit of attention since its release in Japan in 2006. I haven’t seen the film yet, though I’m looking forward to it, but I came across a trove of…