Before Walt Disney came along, animation was seen as just for kids. But through the release of a series of now iconic animated films, he was able to turn ‘cartoons’ into a serious art form, paving the way for blockbusters like The Lion King and Frozen. However, he couldn’t have done it without the help of nine well-known animators that are now further immortalized in this wonderful box set.
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I really love this animation of Joseph Gordon Levitt, perfectly rotoscoped in 89 frames by Carli Ihde, a 22-year-old published comic book artist, illustrator, and graphic designer with a great style. So much that I want to see an entire short movie done in this style.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Scruffage is spread. This growing trend among American youth is not some innocent, victimless high. It’s a highly-contagious parasitic infection that changes human physiology at the most basic facial hair level, transforming young men and women into cantankerous, chain-smoking, rail-riding hobos forever addicted to the simple freedom of the open rail, harmonica solos, and baked beans cooked in a can.
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I wish these 3D animation shorts were a full movie. Called Tiny Worlds, it shows miniature sized characters and machines solving normal sized problems. Cigarette flicked on the ground? A tiny submarine will blast it away. Matches left on the street? A mini semi truck will haul it away. Gum on the sidewalk? Let’s call the small bulldozer. It’s super cute.
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Repeat after me: ohm, ohm, ohm. Good, now continue chanting as you reflect upon the visage of two puppets as they recite the html code of a transcendental website in H(TM)L5 – Or The Longest Mantra Ever. Keep it up and you’ll be rubbing elbows with extra-dimensional beings on a higher plane of consciousness in no time.
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Layering dozens of asynchronous Gifs onto his digital canvas, Johnathan Gillie creates a hyper-kinetic allegory for our overly-stimulated, technology-saturated modern lifestyles.
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Mixing a manic first person prelude with a grotesquely deformed claymation style reminiscent of Adam Jones’ work for Tool, animator Sunshaku Hayashi delivers a hypnotizingly frantic story of police brutality, death, and zombied rebirth. And how to make all of it out of little balls of clay.
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Animation artist Caleb Wood recently took to the blank wall of Duluth’s Prøve Gallery to free-hand a series of teensy drawings. The installation looks like bunch of quirky hieroglyphics until you see this awesome clip of them in motion and then—it’s alive!
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"Dude, you sure you’re ok to drive? Your pupils look a little dilated" ranks among the top three things nobody wants to hear as the third blotter of acid kicks in—directly between, "Please bend of over the examination table and try to relax" and "Sir, step out of the vehicle right meow."
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And you thought Homer licking that toad was a bad idea? Just wait till you see the insane trip one unlucky heron takes after eating a psychedelic frog’s eye.
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