Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Animation

  • Après la pluie (After the rain)

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    Après la pluie (After the rain) is a short (2 1/2 minute) whimsical animation created in 2008 by a group of then third year animation students at the always impressive Gobelins l’école de l’image in Paris. It uses what is apparently a blend of CGI and hand drawn animation and is beautifully realized. Watch full-screen.…

  • Word as Image, Ji Lee

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    Ji Lee is a designer and illustrator, born in Korea, raised in Brazil and currently living and working in New York. Inspired by an art school typography class assignment almost twenty years ago, Lee has been since then working with the concept of creating images out of the letterforms of words that depict something of…

  • Fleischer Studios Superman Cartoons online

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    I’ve written before about the superb series of Superman cartoons done in the 1940’s by the studios of Max and Dave Fleischer. These are beautiful examples of hand drawn animation, essentially film noir adventure stories with great design, rendering and animation; and, as far as I’m concerned, the best film adaptation of the character ever.…

  • Cartoon Brew

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    Cartoon Brew is a widely known and respected web portal devoted to animation. Founded and edited by animation authorities Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi, the site has been a go-to source for all things animation for a large and growing audience, including your correspondent, since 2004. Cartoon Brew has just released a newly redesigned website.…

  • Is animation older than civilization?

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    Based on current evidence, the development of writing, and with it, “recorded history” goes back at least 5,000 or 6,000 years, perhaps further. The development of agriculture, which we use to mark the beginnings of “civilization” can be set at roughly 10,000 years. (Those who choose to believe that the earth is 4,000 to 7,000…

  • One Day

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    Ever get tired of having the same view outside your door every morning? One Day (YouTube link) is a beautifully realized animated short (4 minutes) about a young man whose house apparently moves to a new location every night, leaving him with a different view outside his door every morning. It suggests that this is…