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Category: Animation

  • Gobelins students’ animations for Annecy 2013

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    Each year my faith that the future of hand-drawn animation is in good hands is renewed by the graduating class of Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Goeblins School of Communications) in Paris, from which five teams of students create short (one minute) animations used to introduce the five days of events at the Annecy International Festival…

  • Mirage

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    Mirage is a 10 minute animated short from Iker Maidagan and Dana Terrace, (with help from others listed in the credits). The short was created for their thesis project as students at the School of Visual Arts and is remarkably sophisticated in its storytelling and overall realization. It starts with an Inuit boy making a…

  • Sendak Tribute Google Doodle

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    In celebration of what would have been Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday today (June 10, 2013), Google has a nicely done, affectionate, respectful and fairly extensive tribute to the artist in the form of an animated Google Doodle on the Google home page. After today, look to the Google Doodles archive, or view this video capture…

  • Russian Railways – Alexander Petrov

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    There is a nice sensibility of painted animation in this one minute short by Alexander (Alexandre) Petrov from Pascal Blais Animation Studio in celebration of 175 years of Russian Railways. [Via Catsuka, by way of the Drawn archives]

  • Classic Disney animators paint a tree

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    Bracketed by Walt Disney reading quotes from Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit, this delightful short from 1958 briefly visits four Disney animators in the studio, where three of them are at the time working on the classic Sleeping Beauty animated feature, and then follows them into the California countryside, where they paint an old live…

  • My Tor.com post on the Fleischer Superman cartoons

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    I’ve written before on Lines and Colors about the beautiful and groundbreaking series of Superman cartoons created by Fleischer Studios that ran before feature films in the early 1940’s. I’ve written a more extensive article for Tor.com that delves into their place in the onscreen history of the character. It was posted this morning and…