Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Snack Force
Jun 28, 2009
Man, 2-D animation is not getting the attention it needs these days. 3-D animation is just taking over. Just made me realize that. Anyway, anyone who loves 2-D animation should really know about this film, it's awesome and the animation is just my style- really distinct, purposeful yet simple line-art:

(YouTube Quality sucks rear end):
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/persepolis/trailer2/

Here's a few favorites of the animation genre:

2-D:
From a technical aspect this cartoon is just great. Actually the whole thing's great. Forget where I found it (watch in High Quality):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQt8uVWQyyc
Classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVYWJOEy9A
I realize that we're sadly getting to the age where people might not even know of the short "Rejected". Ugh. I first heard of it like 5 years ago or something but I'm playing games with like 8 year olds now so God knows. Not that there's any 8 year olds on the SA forums but you never know:

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI
Billy's Balloon by Don Hertzfeldt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM
Ah L'Amour by Don Hertzfeldt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqKucJTn2c

Absolutely NO idea why this is on MTV.com (only place I could find it). Bare with the commercials at the beginning, watch it, it's worth it:
http://www.mtv.com/videos/shows/the-animation-show/127706/mike-judges-early-pencil-tests-and-other-experiments.jhtml

Claymation:
Probably the best animated short ever. Not in a technical aspect but the whole message behind hit and how it is delivered:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHakjC-pLqg
Probably my favorite animated short ever next to the one up top:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDv5akmlVU4

I've always really loved Klayman's walk animation from "The Neverhood" from a technical standpoint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67f9ZaO2WEU
The cut scenes from that game were just hilarious/awesome too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIsgRgmT9MA
I'm pretty sure this is the first time I felt emotional attachment to a robot/video game character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xcsz43Kuw

3-D/CGI:

For the one person who hasn't seen this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
Everyone knows Pixar is awesome. This is my favorite short by them. Everything about this short is perfect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1AwY-KfB3Y
And last but no least for 3-D, the apex of 3-D animation (Colin's Bear Animation):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

Shmorky has some awesome poo poo too (back to 2-D):
http://shmorky.com/d/20040301.html- sometimes I just dissect his poo poo frame by frame and figure out how they were made.

I think one of his most underrate works is the very :nws: "My Anus Is Bleeding" he did for Stile Sux:
http://www.stilesux.com/sux21.html

Also, I always remember this car looking very awesome pulling away and I was right (skip to 7:15 honestly). Some really cool 2-D pixel art/animation in this game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWnnk9fyJE

Snack Force fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Oct 2, 2009

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply