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Category: Animation

  • Bruce Timm (update)

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    I wrote about Bruce Timm in this post last October. It’s been almost a year and, although he still doesn’t have a personal website, there is a significant amount of additional Timm material on the web, mostly on unofficial galleries. Timm is an animator, producer and comics artist. He is most widely recognized for his…

  • Bermuda Shorts

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    Bermuda Shorts is a UK animation firm that lists itself as the first animation company to represent individual animation directors in the commercial animation arena. Their site is organized that way. In addition to showcasing new work, the reels are organized by director and designer. You can also browse them organized by type: commercials, broadcast,…

  • Joan C. Gratz

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    With the Mona Lisa as a starting point, Joan C. Gratz took paintings by 35 artists, rendered her versions of them in colored clay, animated parts of them and morphed them into one another in a fun, short (7 minute) animation set to music and sound effects called Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase. Aside from…

  • Monster Allergy Animated Series

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    There is a new web site in support of the Monster Allergy animated series that has been developed out of the Italian comics created by Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa along with Iginio Straffi. I profiled Barbucci and Canepa and their Sky-Doll series in March and mentioned then again in June. I’m not certain how…

  • NFB Animated Shorts

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    Over the years the film industry has evidenced support for short films, particularly short animated films, that is reminiscent of the kind of outspokenly warm and generous relationship that upper class Victorians reserved for out-of-wedlock children. The problem, of course, has been distribution. Since the demise of the practice of showing shorts before feature films…

  • Little Fluffy Clouds

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    When I first saw the recent animated McDonald’s ad for their Aisian Salads (“Queen for a Day”), with its retro-sixties animated movie credits style images, I was reminded of the nicely crafted eSurance ads created by the Ghostbot animation studio (see my previous post on Ghostbot). The McDonald’s ad is the creation of a studio…