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@animationanimation.bsky.social
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I post about animation. Mostly old or analog stuff, cuz I don't know enough about digital.
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New old books!
Books on a desk. Left: The Animation Bible by Maureen Furniss. Right: The Do-it-yourself Film Animation Book by Bob Godfrey and Anna Jackson.
December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Frank Mouris and his wife Caroline spent 6 years collecting the images for this autobiographical work.Try flipping through magazines and cutting out enough photographs of any item to fill an entire page two dozen times over. You’ll have approximated one second of Frank Film.
youtu.be/2K_YxteM5Yg
Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The screen is filled with photographs of noses, with a television set in the centre. Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. Photos of hands in different positions are arranged around the frame. On the left is a blob filled with small, whitish-grey pellets. Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The frame is filled with angel's heads. In the centre, a hand holds up an image of Mary and Jesus. Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The screen is filled with images of various cameras.
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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Why a monk? Because the shape felt like it would be nice to animate, according to the author. A monk is a blob, just a robed round blob with not much backstory. "He's not trendy, he's not sexy" says Michael Dudok de Wit.
"The Monk and the Fish", 1994 (plus interview)
youtu.be/s9dHJro69f4
Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. A monk stands at the edge of a pond, in which his reflection can be seen. A fish jumps over his head. Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. Against a dark night sky, the moon shines bright and round. The silhouette of a bridge or acqueduct fills the frame from left to right. The tiny silhouette of the monk can be seen running across. Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. The monk and the fish float or fly against a blue background. Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. It's nighttime.The monk stands at the edge of the pool, holding ready a net to catch the fish in. There are candles lining the edge of the pool on both his left and right side. The water reflects him and the candles.
December 2, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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It's 1963, and the future looks bright... but John Halas and Joy Batchelor's "Automania" warns us of the perils of reckless supply and manipulated demand. A dystopian film, but every frame is a little masterpiece of graphic design.
youtu.be/b-ymlIN2slQ
Title screen: a yellow background with a graphic of a city skyline at the left edge of the frame. The title AUTOMANIA 2000 fills most of the screen. Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. A conveyor belt carries plates of fruit and vegetables towards a machine which turns them into small white pills. Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. The frame is filled with layers of cars, packed so tightly together that it is difficult to see where one car begins and another ends. There are several people in each car. The colours of the scene are brown, grey, dirty and drab. Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. On the left edge of the frame we see part of a cathedral. The rest of the frame is taken up by an elaborately decorated car. It has stained glass windows and a golden dome on the roof, with cherubs, a bell and a cross on the top. Its front grate resembles church organs and golden wings are attached to the back.
December 1, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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In Darkness, Light, Darkness (1989) Jan Švankmajer uses the exceptional sculpting skills of his lead animator and frequent collaborator Bedřich Glaser to show us a quite literal 'self-made man'.
Warning: the film contains plasticine nudity and real meat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THM...
A small, unfurnished room with patterned wallpaper, one window, and a door on either side. Two large plasticine hands stand in the middle. One has eyeballs stuck on its fingers. A grey plasticine head fills the screen. It looks down at its nose, cross-eyed. A tongue protrudes from its mouth and licks the nose. The tongue is real animal flesh. A white door opens into a room with a patterned wallpaper and wooden floors. From the darkness outside, a brain crawls in. The brain is real animal flesh.
November 30, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Katsudo Shashin or The Matsumoto fragment is the first anime ever. Jokes aside, this is the oldest known animation originating from Japan. It was found in a collection of films and projectors in Kyoto in 2005. Dating from between 1907 and 1912, the images are stencilled directly on the film.
November 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Hi! My icon is Bimbo the Dog, from the 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation. Bimbo is captured by a cult which tries to indoctrinate him...can he escape their horror house and its mind-bending traps?
Featuring a cheeky dig at Mickey Mouse, and Betty Boop in her early humanoid poodle form. Oh yes.
Black and white movie title card. Text: Talkartoons. Max Fleischer Presents Bimbo's Initiation. Copyright MCMXXXI by UM&M Tv Corp. All Rights Reserved Bimbo tries to escape from a knife blade sticking out of the wall. The blade is licking its lips. Bimbo stands on a raised platform in front of four closed doors. He looks directly into the camera, scared. The doors are labeled from left to right with a skull and bones, the number 13, a question mark and a gloved hand. Bimbo sits on the ground in shock as Betty Boop (poodle version) dances alluringly in front of him
November 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM