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Category: Animation

  • Van Gogh Shadow, Luca Agnani

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    Van Gogh Shadow is a short (3 minute) film by video artist Luca Agnani, in which he has used CGI to add animation and lighting effects to thirteen of Van Gogh’s paintings. At the very least, a fascinating experiment. (Also of interest, see my 2010 post about Tilt-Shift Van Gogh.) [Via Cartoon Brew]

  • Koji Morimoto animated sequence

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    As I mentioned back in 2007, Koji Morimoto is one of my favorite animation directors, though he has done far too little animation in recent years for the liking of his fans. Morimoto has recently animated a brief sequence as part of a short film directed by Mitsuyo Miyazaki, and sponsored (with lots of product…

  • Deathigner

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    Deathigner (a play on designer), is a beautifully done short animation (6 minutes) about a little grim reaper in training, whose talents lie… elsewhere. The short was directed by Tzu Hsuan Fei and animated by Tzu Hsuan Fei and Ke-Ching Chang, with backgrounds by Kung Tien Chen and Li-Ying Fu, all of whom, along with…

  • Debussy Google Doodle

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    The Google homepage today features a beautifully elegant, and deceptively simple, animated Google Doodle in honor of the 151st anniversary of the birth of French composer Achille-Claude Debussy. The piece is, naturally enough, set to Debussy’s most celebrated work, Clair de lune (“Moonlight”). After today, look for it on this page of Google Doodles. [Suggestion…

  • Contre temps

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    Contre temps is a beautifully designed and wonderfully realized short (8 minute) animated film that was the graduation project of a group of talented French animation students. It uses 2-D backgrounds and 3-D animation that has been given a hand-drawn feeling. Contretemps, when used as a single word, means an unexpected or inopportune event. When…

  • New Mickey Mouse cartoons

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    I had long ago given up on Mickey Mouse as a viable cartoon character and resigned myself to his role as a standard bearer for Disney corporate licensing and merchandising. However, a new series of short animated cartoons from Disney Television, led by animator Paul Rudish, has changed that, and put the character back in…