Thursday, May 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Monday, May 4, 2009

excerpt from It's a Bird, Charley Bowers, 1930

I tried to find the whole thing for you, but I couldn't.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Muto, Blu, 2008

The Italian animator and graffiti artist who calls himself Blu is an interesting fellow. He is best known for making animation by painting on walls. Muto was made in Buenos Aires and Balden, and includes the sequence Fantoche.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Les Escargots, Rene Laloux and Roland Topor, 1965

Rene Laloux and Roland Topor are best known as the creators of the 1973 cult animated feature Fantastic Planet.
Roland Topor was also a founding member of the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodoworsky, and an actor who appeared in, among other things, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu.

Friday, May 1, 2009

The Mighty Heroes: The Junker, Ralph Bakshi/Terrytoons, !966

As I understand it, Terrytoons was fairly notorious for wanting to crank out animation as cheaply, crappily and quickly as possible. Ralph Bakshi directed this series when he was a young man of 27. It bears the early marks of his thoughtful television character design, which was styled specifically to work well with limited animation.