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Category: Animation

  • Forget the film, watch the titles

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    What a great idea this is. The Submarine Channel, a web based launching point for independent film and multimedia producers, has started a new feature called Forget the film, watch the titles. This is the start of an ongoing collection of animated film titles, featuring examples of both opening and closing film credits divided into…

  • Hakjoon Kang

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    I’m constantly surprised and delighted at the growing number of artists, of many diverse genres and approaches to visual arts, who are chronicling some aspect of their work on blogs. As a result we get to see an insider’s look at many creative endeavors that would have been “behind the scenes” before. As a case…

  • Neil Campbell Ross

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    I came across Neil Campbell Ross as a member of Uli Meyer’s animation studio (see my recent post on Uli Meyer). Even among the other talented members of the studio, I was struck by Ross’s wonderfully drawn and designed concept illustrations. Ross is a concept and production artist, designer and art director. He has worked…

  • Uli Meyer

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    Uli Meyer is an animator, director and the founder of Uli Meyer Studios, a commercial and feature animation studio comprised of a group of talented animators and artists. Meyer has produced or worked on over 300 commercials, many of which you will immediately recognize. as well as animated films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, American…

  • Leonardo’s drawings animated

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    As part of an exhibit called Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the UK, there is an online exhibit of Animated Illustrations, in which the director of animations, Steve Maher and his team have used a combination of hand-drawn and computer-modeled animations to bring some of Leonardo’s amazing…

  • The Castle of Cagliostro

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    Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro) was the first feature length animation by Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki. Released in 1979 and soon overshadowed by films like Nausicaa, Laputa and Totoro, The Castle of Cagliostro is often overlooked in Miyazaki’s oeuvre, but undeservedly so. It’s a terrific film and one of…