Friday, January 29, 2010

Manhag (Eat Everything, Eat Yourself) Paul Hamilton and Hamm Williams, 2006

Usually I find animation, but sometimes, it finds me. In this case, user freakyoffspring left this as a comment on one of my crummy videos, and I fell madly in love with it.






(This is my crummy video. Don't watch it.)

Monday, January 25, 2010

The Selfish Giant, Peter Sander and Gerald Potterton, 1970

Based on a story by Oscar Wilde.

Part One:


Part Two:


Part Three:


Part Four:

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Hole, John and Faith Hubley, 1962

Oscar winning short by John and Faith Hubley.

Part one:


Part two:

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Food Fight, Stefan Nadelman, 2008

The animator describes this short thus:
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

His site, Tourist Pictures has a scene by scene breakdown of all the battles depicted.

You will also be pleased to note that he and his dog consumed all the food portrayed in this film.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Latvieši - īsā vēsture, Astrida Bema and Rita Dadzite, 2007

More animation from Latvia. A brief history of the country, brought to us by Animācijas Brigāde.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Laimes Lacis, Andreja Upisa ,1985

Animation for Latvian television by Studio Dauka.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010

Shop Town, Tom Servello

Short film by illustrator Tom Servello

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Gumbasia, Art Clokey, 1953, plus lots of Gumby and Pokey




Yesterday the world lost a great animator. Art Clokey, stop motion pioneer best known as the creator of Gumby and Pokey, died at the age of 88. We can only hope that in our lives we bring so much happiness to so many. RIP.




In his honor, I'm posting several Gumby shorts for us all to enjoy.

INTRO:


TOY CRAZY:


THE MOON BOGGLES:


GABBY AUNTIE:


SHADY LEMONADE:


WEIGHT AND SEE:


EL TORO:


CHICKEN FEED:


LION DRIVE:

Friday, January 8, 2010

Boldog vilagvege matamoscas,Reisenbuchler Sandor, 1999

Normally I don't quote Youtube comments, but this pretty much says it:

thesquidley (1 month ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply I don't know what this is but its some kind of fucking masterpiece!