Thursday, December 24, 2015

Monday, December 14, 2015

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Heaven and Earth Magic (feature) Harry Smith,1957

I have posted an excerpt from this film before, but now you can see THE WHOLE DURN THING.


Saturday, November 14, 2015

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Driving, Nate Theis, 2014

One of the short films under consideration for an Oscar - via Cartoon Brew

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Vagabond Mutant Liquid, Tobias Stretch, 2015

Hey y'all, Tobias Stretch broke his clavicle and really needs help.

Having recently been broken myself (right arm, broke the olecranon process off my ulna - I broke my elbow off) I can attest that the nerve pain is no joke horrible, losing the use of your art-making arm is psychologically draining, and medical bills are insane. And I am fortunate enough to have insurance.


Friday, September 25, 2015

Cat In The Rain, Alexi Denim, 2001

eus347 writes-

Normaly I translate & subtitle animations on russian texts I receive from my friends. I made an exception for this one because of it's history.
At the heart of the animated film "Cat in the Rain" is a song about friendship between a lonely old women and cats, which many years ago was written by Milkina Sofia - wife of filmmaker Michael Schweitzer. Once Schweitzer and his wife were on vacation in Voronezh. There they envisioned the cartoon character in A local old lady, always surrounded by a bunch of cats, catching fish, apparently, just for their pets.

After some time, the couple remembered the old lady, and Milkina dedicated her cheerful song to her. In 1985, the song was recorded on tape: sang by her whole family - soloist Sophia Abramovna, children sang and Schweitzer played the role of one of the cats. In those same years, they met with the director-animator Yuri Norshtein. The idea of ​​the film in the song about the old lady was born itself. At first it was just talk, then they evolved into detailed discussions, Norstein even found a talented young artist who started to create drawing images. But the work progressed very slowly, and then completely stalled.

In 1997, Sofia Milkina died. Michael Schweitzer, has decided to return to the film about the old woman. Yuri Norstein was busy filming. Then he asked Alexei Demin. "Sonia Milkina drew cats from morning till night, - said Alexey Demin in an interview with NTV.RU. - I've seen all these pictures, and I think in mood they are very close to my film. Maybe someday I will be able to "revive" them. "

Because of scarce funding the work dragged on longer than 2 years. The director worked virtually alone. The film "The Cat in the Rain" has been finished February 8, 2001. At 12 o'clock in the morning Alexey Demin came out of the studio, at 11 am on February 9 he went to Tarusa to the festival, where the animated film "Cat in the Rain" was a real event. The director received several awards, including "For the most humane film."

Michael Schweitzer never saw the movie, having died a year before the end of the work on the cartoon.
Story

In a small house on the edge of a lake a lonely old woman lives surrounded by cats. On a rainy day the old woman goes on a fishing trip. Behind her come the cats, who, sitting on the shore, wait for treats. But suddenly a large catfish bit and the old woman could not help falling into the river. The cats come to the rescue and save an old woman. At home all together celebrate the salvation of the old lady, and the cats gets plenty of entertainment.



Wednesday, September 16, 2015

AA: Doors, Buck, 2015

Animation commissioned by Alcoholics Anonymous.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Monday, August 31, 2015

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Janzilker, Micah Buzan, 2015

Highly anticipated (at least by me) brand new music video for Pala Leda by Micah Buzan.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Monday, June 15, 2015

Fisher's Fritz, Wolf Matzl, 2015


"Fisher’s Fritz“ is a fictitious commercial, which will be shown in the movie „Sky Sharks“ (a tongue-in-cheek movie featuring zombies flying on sharks.)
I wanted my animation to be reminiscent of the vintage Lucky Strike and other commercials from the 40s.

The animation was done with paper cut-outs combined with some real objects (can, wire and hook), and everything was shot in camera.


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Alô Amigos, Walt Disney, 1942

Animation by Walt Disney for the song Aquarelo do Brasil.


Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Boi Aruá, Chico Lierato, 1984

Browning Automatic Rifle, U.S. Army (anonymous) 1925

I was looking for something to post yesterday and came across this hypnotic military training film from 1925, which is mostly a detailed animation of the mechanics of the Browning automatic rifle. No audio.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Hey Animators!

Just a reminder, because I absolutely LOVE this - if you want to see your work featured on this blog, you can always send me a message at yourdailycartoon.gmail.com with a link to an embeddable video (Vimeo or Youtube preferred, some other sites don't play well with Blogger) and some information about the piece and yourself - basically, what year the piece was completed and where you are from.

I can't guarantee that I can use everything, but I have posted all but maybe one thing I received. All I ask is that it be a complete short or substantial excerpt - I try not to post trailers, demos, or showreels unless I post them with something else.

Artists who have contacted me include Emanuele Kabu, Kari Jo Skogquist, Will Finn (via the comments) Micah Buzan, Alexandre Fatta, Thomas Berkley, and... probably more that I am forgetting. The point is that you would be in distinguished company, and your work will be seen by TENS of people around the world! TENS of them!

Hey, it's not quantity, it's quality.

Upward Mobility, Emanuele Kabu, 2015


New music video for The Helio Sequenceby Emanuele Kabu.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Sós lötty, Péter Szoboszlay, 1968

Google translates the title as "Salty Slop" which may or may not be accurate. Google also provides the subtitles here, and they... are interesting.

Like, I am not sure how one would go about pianisting someone's ass, but I'd be willing to give it a shot.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Bird Benny, Kristof Luyckx, 2012

Tip o' the pants to Redditor Vesperige for hipping me to illustrator and animatorKristof Luyckx, and for recommending the Lisa Barcy film from Tuesday. (I was posting from my phone so I couldn't get too fancy.)



Wednesday, April 15, 2015

excerpt from Cheatin', Bill Plympton, 2015

Hey, guess what? I met Bill Plympton last night. I have met him before, but that was in the early 90s, it was a long time ago, things might have been a bit hazy.

Anyway, he was very patient with me.

Here is a clip from his most recent film, Cheatin' which was screened at the Minneapolis/st. Paul International Film Festival.





ALSO ALSO ALSO Here is the Kickstarter for his next feature, Revengeance:GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY











Monday, April 13, 2015

Dumb Ways To Die (Game of Thrones Edition) Egor Zguhn, 2015

I have posted the original before, but if you enjoy Game of Thrones as much as I do, this will make you happy. If you don't want spoilers for the previous seasons, this will probably not make you happy, so.. yeah, spoilers.


Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Creatures, Dave Borthwick and Dave Riddett, 2014

Music video by The Bolex Brothers for the song by Startled Insects.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Live Stop-Motion Animation, Wolf Matzl, 2015

shot and animated in one day at NEXTCOMIC festival 2015 in Linz, Austria.


Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Smooshies, Episode 1 - Toilet, Paige Jordan, 2012

If you would like your very own Smooshie after watching this .. well, you are SOL at the moment, but you might be able to get one here in the future.

As I do not own a Smooshie myself, I cannot vouch for whether or not they are housebroken.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Whoopass Stew - A Sticky Situation, Craig McCracken, 1992

Here are the Whoopass Girls in Craig McCracken's pilot for what would eventually become The Powerpuff Girls. McCracken made the pilot while a student at Cal Arts.

Despite the name change, they still whooped vast quantities of ass.


Sunday, March 1, 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

EGG, Felix Colgrave, 2011

Music video for the band Shoe. Contains tapirs.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Star Trek, The Animated Series, Episode 1, Hal Sutherland, 1973 (R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy)


I can't say much about Leonard Nimoy that hasn't already been said better elsewhere. He was an incredible actor and a kind, thoughtful and generous human being.


Thursday, January 29, 2015

SKRBLDRONE 1 and trailer for Drone Not Drones 2, Emily Kaplan, 2015


Because if I can't use my own blog for a bit of shameless self promotion..


I, along with three other very talented individuals (Wonderhaus, Jenny Schmid and Ben Arson) will be providing visuals for this year's Drone Not Drones, a 28 hour continuous drone/concert/art piece that will be taking place at The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis from Friday, January 30th at 7 PM to Saturday, January 31st 10 PM. Proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.


The trailer with the full roster of performers, which uses footage I compiled of me messing around with projections on tulle:



And some of the generative watercolor animation I made and messed with, along with a drone generated from an MQ-9 Reaper taxiing, launching, and landing (Audacityfied all to Hell)






Friday, January 23, 2015

Couch gag from The Simpsons: What To Expect When Bart's Expecting,Michal Socha, 2014

So this came on last night, and I jumped up and down on the couch and said 'OOH! I think that's Michal Socha!"


It was really dorky and nobody cared.


Thursday, January 22, 2015

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Bun Whoopee Cushion, Dave Packer, 2015


A few days ago, I was in an aggressively awful funk. I had spent, nay, wasted, too much time, talking to overly serious people about overly serious things. People who were very convinced of their rightness, and convinced that their seriousness made them smarter and more important than they actually were.

This was not true at all. However, pointing that out to them would have been unnecessarily escalatory and entirely unproductive. So, rather than pointing out that serious does not equal important or intelligent, I backed away quietly and made my way to better places, where people remember that little things and funny things are important, too.


In that darkest of times, I saw this on Twitter, and it was exactly what I needed, distilled to its very essence.

Thank you, Dave from Sheepfilms. This is perfection.