Derek Salvatore made this short animation about fuzzy bits of things trying to illustrate some ideas on matter by Bertrand Russel. That narrator is Derek Jacobi. Simple, effective beauty.
Category Archives: Animation
Paraphernalia: Animation by Sabrina Cotugno
Here’s a film by Calarts animation student Sabrina Cotugno. She made most of it at Gobelins in France where she is studying for a semester. It’s a charming tale of a flying adventurer and a girl in an attic.
The Moon: A Short Film by Phoebe Parsons
Here’s another short film by Phoebe Parsons. Her deliberately low-tech romantic science fiction tales are captivating because they are actually poems. My favorite part of this one is the amazing rocket ride.
100 Year Old Little Nemo Animation by Winsor McCay
The Los Angeles Times’ Hero Complex blog has a post about Winsor McCay’s early animation efforts from 100 years ago. This is a film that features the cartoonist impressing his skeptical artist friends with moving characters from his great comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland.
The actual Nemo animation starts at the 8:15 mark. Enjoy!
Thanks to Short of the Week for the tip.
Justus 2: A Film by Ryan Spring Dooley
Ryan Spring Dooley (aka MarvinTiberious on YouTube) and Juppy Nash made a catchy little tune and played it on an Italian rooftop where they could enjoy the place they were in and become infected with art. Dooley’s films are a constant stream of creativity and artistic perception unlike anything else. He combines old and new and creates works so easily expressive that you wonder why anyone needs anything more than paper, paint and a camera to do anything. Watch this film and wonder at just how good it really is. Masterful.
The filmmaker is also using Kickstarter to fund a bigscreen project:
My Favorite Artistic Advice
Mature Language
Levni Yilmaz has released another episode in the Tales of Mere Existence series.
This is the best artistic advice you could possibly give to anyone in any artistic situation anywhere.