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Category: Animation

  • Forget the film, watch the titles (update)

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    If you’re a fan of pop songs, particularly from the 1960’s when the three minute pop song was perhaps at its peak as a musical form, you’re familiar with the concept of a “golden intro”, that delicious first 20 or 30 seconds of instrumental music before the vocals start, that was often a thing of…

  • The Animated Bayeux Tapestry

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    The Bayeux Tapestry is a 20 inch by 230 foot (50cm x 70m) embroidered cloth that shows the story of the Norman invasion of England in 1066, from the “portent” of Halley’s comet to the Battle of Hastings. It may have been completed within a few years of the invasion, but the earliest other record…

  • Animator vs. Animation (Alan Becker)

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    OK, I have to admit that this is something I find particularly appealing for a number of reasons, and may not appeal to everyone to the same degree, but I can’t help enjoying it as much as I do. First of all, I’m a sucker for comics stories or animations in which the artist interacts…

  • Gobelins students’ Annecy animations

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    Each year in June, the beautiful town of Annecy in the Rhone-Alpes region of eastern France temporarily becomes the animation hub of the world, as it plays host to the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market. Annecy is the number one international competitive animation festival. Animators, and animation students, from around the world come…

  • Ode to Summer

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    I stumbled across this little gem while browsing through painting tutorials on YouTube. Ode to Summer is a beautiful little animation in which what appears to be a traditional Chinese ink painting comes to life. A dragonfly flits through lotus flowers, koi swim through graceful reeds below the rippled surface of a clear pond and…

  • Gustaf Tenggren

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    Swedish illustrator Gustaf Adolf Tenggren had his roots (and judging from his illustrations, wonderfully gnarled and knotted roots they were) deeply into the rich soil of Scandinavian myth, and the fertile influence of other great illustrators, most notably the terrific and underappreciated John Bauer, who Teggren succeeded as the primary illustrator for Bland Tomtar och…