Category Archives: Animation

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A multi award-winning 2015 Royal College of Art graduation short by Rory Waudby-Tolley, Mr Madila (or The Colour of Nothing) dramatises a series of conversations between the film-maker and a gifted spiritual healer, by turns funny and unexpectedly deep, exploring the inner mind, the fabric of the universe, and the nature of reality itself. To wit:

Everything is mostly nothing. Look closely and you can see all the little bits and pieces, and all the gaps in-between.

shortoftheweek

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A compilation of sumptuousness from Disney by film editor Jorge Luengo Ruiz: 79 years of hand-drawn and latterly computer aided animation from Snow White And The Seven Dwarves (1937) to Moana (2016).

curiousbrain

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An excerpt from a speech given before Election day 2016 in which Barack Obama describes the origin of his “fired up, ready to go’ chant, illustrated by animators Emily Eckstein & Ege Alper, Alex Silver, Lynn Tomlinson, Jovanna Tosello, The Duke & The Duck, Amy Lee Ketchum, Juan Camilo Gonzalez, Musa Brooker, Miguel Jiron, Sara Spink, Lou Morton, and Daniela Sherer.

quipsologies/danfipphen

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A 2011 collaboration between author Lucas Loredo and artist Lauren YS using a lightbox with puppets and props, cut from construction paper, to tell the story of a magician whose time in the real world is limited.

juxtapoz

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A wonderful, flowing title sequence created for the Style Frames Design Conference in New York last November by Tel Aviv-based animator Eran Hilleli featuring music by Disasterpeace.

Watch it (ideally full screen with the sound up) then watch it again.

colossal