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Category: Animation

  • Gobelins Animation Students

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    France is the largest producer of animation in Europe, and the third largest in the world. Gobelins, L’Ecole De L’image (Gobelins, School of the Image), is a school in Paris that, in addition to studies in Graphic Arts, Multimedia and Photography, offers an apparently superb program in animation. I make that judgement on the basis…

  • Teshkeel Comics &
    Rubicon multimedia

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    If you are anything like me, you stared in slack-jawed disbelief as you witnessed the shameful debacle of the now infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It was shameful on both sides of the “conflict”. On the side of the cartoonists involved and the Danish paper that hired them to draw the cartoons, it…

  • The Tale of How

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    Some drawings just look like they should be animated. I would love to see Van Gogh’s lively stipple dance across the screen, or Miro’s already living line actually grow and move like the organic thing it is. Fortunately some drawings that look like they should be animated actually reach that state. When I first wrote…

  • Campaigntoons

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    By now we’re all acculturated to being sold things by way of animated cartoons. They start us early, dazzling our just-out-of-babyhood eyes with bouncing, sparkling bowls of chocolate-frosted, sugar-coated imitation food-like substances that are “part of this nutritious breakfast”, and move on to toys and games and even later to cars, insurance and everything else.…

  • tokyoplastic

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    I wanted to recommend this site to you because of its terrible navigation system (he said, grinning). If you actually want to find something, like a simple “About Us” or “Press” page, the navigation on tokyoplastic is abysmal. If, on the other hand, you want to be amused and delighted by series of clever and…

  • Tsukahara Shigeyoshi

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    I hope I have the name right. I’m taking it from the copyright line. The site is iyasakado.com. I’m a little sketchy about the details here, mainly because they’re in Japanese, and the Google translate feature, remarkable as it is, doesn’t work so well in translating from Japanese to English. (The results can be comical,…