Category Archives: Animation

The WotWots: Excellent Pre-School TV Show

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Two fantastic, insane and rambunctious little alien characters travel around in a steampunk spaceship.  The WotWots is a children’s television show from Peter Jackson’s Weta Workshop, the company that did the special effects for Lord of the Rings.  This introductory episode shows the two WotWots landing at the zoo to explore the various animals there.  The WotWots are very inquisitive and energetic little beings with a great joy for adventure.  I like it.  It looks really good and the characters are the best I’ve seen in years.

Thanks to Boing Boing for posting this.

Ferdinand the Bull: 1938 Disney Cartoon Based on Book

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Here’s an Oscar-winning short from Disney that is based on a popular children’s book, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson.  Ferdinand the bull would much rather sit under his favorite tree smelling the flowers than do anything serious.  But he gets caught up in the bull-fighting business and hilarity ensues when he tries to enjoy his favorite pastime in the ring.

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Animation: Chris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse

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Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo.

Here’s a brilliant animation designed by comic artist Chris Ware. The music is by Andrew Bird and the animation is by John Kuramoto. The little tale of a terribly abusive relationship between a mouse and a head is disturbingly hilarious. I love the way everything moves with such clean precision to the the music. Truly creepy and charming at the same time. How’d they do that?

Manifestations: Gorgeous Student Animation

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Wow!  Look at this.  Manifestations is a film by Giles Timms at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.  He made this with Flash, TVPaint, and After Effects.  The imagery is beautiful and layered.  I always like colorful fuzzy things with lots of darkness and transparency.  The film seems to be about a little non-human character who is in love with a human and goes across a world and through many battles both modern and ancient to find his love.