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Lupo the Butcher! I still remember the MTV bumpers with him (and yes, The Brothers Grunt). Fun stuff!
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Nice! This one came up in the related videos list, and what better place to post it than here. Ivan Maximov's 2015 piece 'Benches'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR3YcECBezE Animator wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Maximov
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Very good stuff, everyone! Terry Gilliam is an inspiration, so seeing his inspiration is awesome. The Backwater Gospel short was really well done, and the sound on it provided just the right level of darkness. I stumbled upon this one, from the Fantastic Animation Festival of 1977. It's an animation based on the song Moonshadow by Yusuf Islam (a.k.a. Cat Stevens), and the characters can be found on the Teaser and the Firecat album cover.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0awe6OJB0o
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Happy Saturday, everyone! Here is a really quick one from Bhim Sain called The Climb (1970). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Nema9XTcs This one comes from Zlatko Grgic via the National Film Board of Canada, and is about fire safety - I give you Hot Stuff (1971). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht6lRb8y_AQ
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Sep 16, 2017 22:10
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These are great! And the music video was just lovely. The combination of 2D and stop motion animation reminds me of the short Nougat, although the only version I can seem to find is on YouTube (and of low quality). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLxFhxaZyTg Going back to the Canadian stuff, I really enjoy the subtle humor that pops up. It did help me locate another good one, and I feel every ounce of pain that the protagonist feels. This one is called The Wrong Type, and I am pretty sure it has yet to be posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBKfcr2-jw
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Sep 18, 2017 14:30
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I saw this on TV once while flipping channels as a kid, and then never saw it again - until my husband found it. This is Quest (1985). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhGz_7mYnj4 From the closing credits: quote:"The music for this film was generated on Apollo workstations.
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Sep 22, 2017 00:47
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This is certainly crisp in terms of graphics. I think my brother also had a folder that looked like something out of this short. Update: Just had a look at that Mind's Eye stuff - wow, it's like someone mashed up Rez and The Lawnmower Man.  It's also neat looking at how computer animation evolves between mid-eighties demo reels and early nineties shorts.
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sigma 6 posted:Anything by Anthony F Schepperd These are all pretty rad! Especially fun when good music is paired with the animation.
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Sep 30, 2017 06:03
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More is a classic. Fallen Art has some fantastic dancing. And I seriously enjoyed the crap out of The External World. These are all great, everyone! Please feel free to post more. 
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Oct 3, 2017 02:47
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We were watching some old Halloween cartoons and found this short starring Casper The Friendly Ghost. While released for children, I found the short too messed up to not share in this thread. "There's Good Boos Tonight" (1948) - sometimes the most demented animation comes wrapped in saccharine packages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB2cJDq9rOY
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Oct 4, 2017 22:31
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There is a neat little write-up on the Adam Jones directed Tool videos, which you can find here: http://loudwire.com/tool-videos-directed-by-adam-jones/ Seriously cool learning that their own guitarist was the mastermind behind these iconic videos. Somehow I'd gone this whole time without knowing that. 
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Oct 8, 2017 04:09
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Absolutely love these! The last one had an error message and would not play. What was the title of it?
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Oct 15, 2017 23:54
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Awesome! I'm going to have fun pouring over this. Thanks for sharing! 
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Oct 16, 2017 23:58
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Okay, that was pretty cool. There is a beauty to well done stop motion animation.
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Oct 19, 2017 09:18
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Totally fine here, and that was a lovely short film. Loved the use of layering, and for some reason I kept hoping that the wolf and the buffalo(?) would just run off and play jump rope together.  For my part, I bring this really weird short from 1987, animated and directed by Vladimir Goncharov: The Stone Age. Linked for animated neanderthal nipples. If you turn on captions, you can get the English subtitles for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7I7xXCpuvQ
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Those were really dope - the door sequence was hypnotic. I was trying really hard to identify the animations for Sega Sunset and 555-5555, but I had no clue where to begin. Those were pretty neat! While not necessarily animation as a whole, I am sharing this from the PYF Creepy Images Thread* because Halloween is this Tuesday.  [ *Posted here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3683389&perpage=40&pagenumber=58#post477736092 ] My house walk-through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E MakinG of My house walk-through Is surprisingly upbeat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJ5rVfHkCA This was made by one person, in their own house.
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Oct 30, 2017 02:56
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Mastodon's live shows are killer in part because of those rad visuals. Loved the Timber Timbre stuff - the first song reminded me a bit of a mash-up between The Doors and the song See Saw by Pink Floyd in some spots. I hope everyone enjoyed a pleasant Halloween/Dia de los Muertes! This one not only combines music and madcap animation, it brings social commentary from 1973. As you may notice, not much has changed. Born of a collaboration between Bruno Bozzetto and Guido Manuli, I bring you Opera. Linked for animated boobs and a couple of problematic references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6H0lx7CLQ
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Nov 3, 2017 04:18
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I love how a Corman-funded animated take on R. Crumb & Bakshi still comes off as somehow cheaper than anything Troma would release. That was still a good rare find, so thank you for sharing that one!  And Bill is always welcome here. Seeing his animations (and the work of so many talented artists) on MTV was inspiring when I was a kid. Speaking of MTV, check out these bumpers! Who does anything like that now? Does Cartoon Network still have fun with bumpers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrUfMqRlYpk Someone gathered up a bunch of advertisements and bumpers for a more complete collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_UQoMViEM
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Nov 5, 2017 05:50
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Are we already creeping up on Thanksgiving? Where did the year go?  It seems fitting to look back at the beginning, as we come up on the end of the year. quote:It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swh448fLd1g Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasmagorie_(1908_film)
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Nov 17, 2017 07:53
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I hope this finds everyone enjoying a lovely Thanksgiving (or normal day for those not in the US)! Since today is a national day of feasting, please enjoy a demented short about starvation, cannibalistic urges, and water fowl. Along Came Daffy - 1947 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dovom
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Nov 23, 2017 22:52
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Having a hard time, too. Was it hand or computer animated? Anything else you can tell me would be hugely helpful for things like search parameters. While looking, I did find this one*. If the animators look familiar, I can go from there. Let me know either way, because I would really love to see some cute birds singing in antlers. *This short: "Elk Hair Caddis" - by The Animation Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHmuMYVlfgg
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Nov 28, 2017 13:07
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Thanks for posting these! The brutal teddy bear attack, the melon crisis, and the rabbit hole were all a pleasant break from this week of terrible headlines. I had to share this weird one, because, well... ...in 1931, someone at Oldsmobile thought that it would be an absolutely capital idea to get those trendy Fleischer Brothers and their animation studio to whip up an advertisement. Don't let the thumbnail fool you -- this one was deemed fit for the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PPX7gps4iI
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Dec 11, 2017 03:34
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Yes! Liquid Television was the absolute best back in the day. I don't have cable anymore, so maybe you cable-having folks can tell me: do they have any channels devoted to animation on this level? Or is Adult Swim the only mature animation game out there right now?
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Thank you for finding this one! There Will Come Soft Rains is a very good bleak and gloomy take on post-nuclear war and the human dependency on AI/robots. It's a bit sad, since there was a point where kids no longer felt the same angst and fear that kids in the seventies and eighties knew growing up (because the cold war had ended). But now, the nuclear threat has returned, and these shorts are once again relevant. Just replace the goose-neck robot with an Alexa. On a related note, this one came up, and I feel that it fits here. From 1977, here is Полигон - Polygon by Anatoliy Petrov. When you combine mind reading, AI, and a tank, sometimes things go a bit wonky... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJbtbh4tDE
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It's Christmas Eve here in San Francisco, therefore I am revisiting a Spike and Mike holiday classic: I Never Ho'd for my Father https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39PC2LvpXE Feel free to post your favorite bizarre holiday animated shorts. Have a great holiday, everyone!
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Squidtamer DA posted:There was a similar topic several years back on GBS and someone posted an old Estonian animation on Suur Toll, a mythological giant who likes cabbage and fought with a wagon wheel. All the designs, soundtrack, and expressionless violence are super unsettling to me and I love it to pieces. Make sure to turn on subtitles. sigma 6 posted:Kinda twisted but mostly just funny. Finally had a free moment to sit down and watch these. Tyll the Giant was great! The abstract soundtrack reminded me of the really dark soundtrack used in Polanski's version of Macbeth (choral, mostly acoustic and folk sounding). The art style here is unlike anything I've seen before. The battle sequence sounds like it could easily be recreated on the stage, with dancers and a chorus (which is  ). Thanks for posting it!The Separation was also very well made. The wet look to the characters really helped to sell just how messed up the story was. Beautifully captured emotions in this short! Mr. Madila was fantastic as well. I loved the combination of philosophy and slick talk, and liquid animation. Very cool stuff! For my contribution, I bring an energetic piece from director Velislav Kazakov: Cuckoo (1983). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UftRbl9iYJs
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is The Separation by Robert Morgan. It's about two conjoined twins who were separated and regretted it ever since:
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Today felt like a good day for an animated distraction, thererfore I bring you the following: An astronaut sleeps while helplessly orbiting Earth in a damaged ship in Vladimir Tarassov's 1980 short The Return. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwTSp26jB0 From the same team that brought us La Faim (Hunger) earlier in this thread, I bring another short. Made using a similar early computer aided technique, Metadata (1971) is full of trippy social commentary and weird visuals.  due to some animated(?) sex. Directed by Peter Foldès, music by Alain Clavier & Maurice Blackburn.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkxrVpzPK4U
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I hope today finds everyone in good spirits. For today's contribution, I bring you something short, but neat. From the description:quote:Here's some early stop motion animation from when S.S. Wilson, writer of such films as Tremors & Short Circuit, was at USC's Film school in the mid 1970s. This was shot on Super 8mm film. You'll note that the desk lamp predates Pixar's by many years. Here is Desk of Destiny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGcEkBhaJpU
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These are awesome! Keep 'em coming! Continuing on the trippy theme... ...From 1971, here is Mačka - The Cat. From the YouTube description: quote:Short animated inspired by the Aesop's fable. Written and directed by Zlatko Bourek, Music by Franco Potenza, Lyrics by Zvonimir Golob. Co-production Corona cinematografica and Zagreb Film. 1971. Linking because it's due to psychedelic nudity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obGb8hFwZj4
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This week I bring more from the Cold War era. From the YouTube description:quote:Animated Soviet Propaganda S01: American Imperialist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRSsybt9wAo
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Going corporate for a moment here - imagine sitting in a boardroom in 1975, and someone is showing you a demo reel involving this newfangled computer technology. Ads, logo splash screens, and bumpers. Computer Image Corporation 1975 Demo Reel features some groovy music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETXbPu73Zc quote:This is a 16-minute video demo reel for the Computer Image Corporation of Denver, Colorado, circa 1975, titled "Sight & Sound '75." The demo tape featured logos and TV opening titles for CBS' "The Mama Cass Show," ABC's "Wide World of Entertainment" and "Monday Night Football," "Jack Paar Tonite," WPLJ-FM, WABC-TV, HBO, Bell Telephone, Pontiac, and many other products of the era. Computer Image used an early imaging system called Scanimate, which created vector graphic images that were rendered and then rephotographed off monitors and combined with video switcher effects. While the results are crude compared to what is now done with CGI, the effects are an important historical record of the computer graphics industry of the early-to-mid 1970s.
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Feb 9, 2018 12:37
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Wowzers - these were really good! Love some fluid animation, no matter how grim the message. Please keep 'em coming - I'll be on the lookout for more as well. Thanks for posting!
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Feb 11, 2018 07:11
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Holy cow, I forgot about that one! Just read the Wiki for that, and had no idea that Rodney actually wrote it, or that Harold Ramis had any hand in the story. Explains the more mature-ish plot.
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I watched this one last night on a whim, and felt that it was a nice follow up to Rover Dangerfield. I won't quote the description because it's pretty long, but a good summary is "don't be a dick during leave, lest you make the locals hate ALL military personnel." This one is not as problematic as most early 20th century animation, but you may find that some bits just don't hold up well over time. From 1956, I bring you US Air Force Training Film SFP-366, or Killjoy Was Here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pay_BLPpJ4
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Feb 14, 2018 20:20
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How have I never heard of this movie? This sounds interesting! I doubt this is on Netflix...
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Good to know - I will be keeping an eye out for that one.
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Thank you for posting these - don't think I'd ever seen Cure before, but I liked the style a lot. Since I am playing tour guide this week, I apologize for the tardiness of my update. The twisted nature of this short is subtle, as it was originally designed to promote more than just oil. From 1956, here is Destination Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qpjLyr-FY
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Thank you for your patience! Had a great week, and I hope that you did too. This time around, I thought it would be fun to pick a year and do a comparison. 1956 in the US brings us Your Safety First from the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Apparently the future was The Jetsons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8pvcGWtXXE Meanwhile, in Russia, Roman Davydov directed Kolobok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBhy0vg1zfg The puppets for the latter were made of wood. I wonder if someone has these floating around in a garage somewhere?
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This one was lovely - I had CHON stuck in my head all day - and thank you for introducing Faith Hubley's work to me! In fact, let's check out more of her work. Moonbird (1959): quote:Moonbird is a 1959 short animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley in which two boys have an adventure in the middle of the night as they sneak out and try to catch a 'Moonbird' and bring it home. Voices: Mark Hubley and Ray Hubley. The film was animated by Robert Cannon and Ed Smith. This film won the 1960 Academy Award for best short subject (Cartoon). Moonbird featured the voices of the Hubley's sons, Mark and Ray ("Hampy"). For the Moonbird, the Hubleys secretly recorded the boys sharing an imaginary adventure before going to sleep in the darkness of their room. Their parents afterwards took the tapes and created an animated film to fit their sons' story. And I am 99.99% sure that this is her E short made for Sesame Street - E-Imagination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrdAbj3JiXg
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Hope you all enjoyed a fun Saint Patrick's Day yesterday! I bring you a mixed bag this week, so let's get started. First, let's go back to the early days of animation with (gasp!) sound. From F. Lyle Goldman and Max Fleischer, here is the 1929 educational short Finding His Voice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkc2gy3rc8A Next, we take a more somber turn. From the description: quote:The Queen's Monastery (Water Colour Animation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndNJGlBNRUY And on a lighter note, something weird that has popped up in at least one other thread - from Animusic, here is Pipe Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR8Oz8Pp8hI Have a great day out there!
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