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A Wolf Loves Pork by Takeuchi Taijin
by amid
April 14, 2009 6:56 pm


Classic cartoon chase meets David Hockney in A Wolf Loves Pork by Japanese artist Takeuchi Taijin. Technique and technical showmanship are front and center as the actions within the photo frame interact with the real-world space in clever and unexpected ways. I’ve got just one word for this short: Brilliant!

04/14/09  8:21pm
cliffclaven 2.0 says:

Great fun. Can’t help feeling this is at least a spiritual descendant of “Out of the Inkwell”

04/14/09  8:51pm
C. Stulz says:

Absolutely incredible. Very well done, and to borrow your word Amid, “Brilliantly” executed!

04/14/09  10:14pm
Jay Sabicer says:

Agreed. Extremely well done and thought out. One thing missing, a large drop of flopsweat on the pig when he’s cornered at the lake. An anime convention, yes, but I don’t think anyone would’ve minded.

04/14/09  11:07pm
Campbell says:

Gives me a headache just thinking how you did it. Lovely.

04/14/09  11:30pm
Spike says:

Oh, another one of those shorts where you spend the whole thing wondering how the hell they did it.

04/14/09  11:44pm
Saturnome says:

Wow. A bit slow maybe, but that’s amazing pixilation here. The concept reminds me of Muto, the short with walking graffitis.

04/15/09  5:20am
richard fox says:

i viewed this before I started my workday –
now I have something to chuckle about all day!

04/15/09  5:24am

somebody reads rh comics blog

http://giant-girls.tumblr.com/post/95831460

check it out two days ago

04/15/09  6:12am

I wonder how long it will be til I see this technique cropping up in commercial work. I’d love to see someone try this with a more integrated soundtrack and a higher framerate. Imagine if ALL the pictures were moving instead of just one or two at a time! I wonder what this filmmaker will come up with for their next work. Hopefully they’ll continue to explore this technique.

04/15/09  6:25am

Awesomely clever. I especially enjoyed how the sink served as the pool for the wolf to swim across.

04/15/09  7:17am

Amazing! That is full of clever surprises. It’s a descendant of George Dunning’s ground breaking Damon the Mower (a film I wish was more available).

04/15/09  8:44am
Mitch Kennedy says:

Beautiful!!

04/15/09  9:43am
Adam Van Meter says:

Astonishing!

The clever use of the picture plane was my favorite part of this - the way it rotated around the photo to change from a rear view to a forward view, for instance.

Gotta love that humble ‘thank you’ at the end, too.

04/15/09  10:24am
amid says:

Jim: Are you kidding me? This video is blowing up viral all over the Interet. I certainly didn’t see it on that site you linked to because I’ve never even heard of it.

04/15/09  11:41am
Sues says:

For me, this stands alongside Muto as another piece of experimental animation that’s so mind-bendingly creative that I can’t help but just sit, emasculated, left to wonder what I have to offer to the medium.

04/15/09  2:59pm
Mike Milo says:

Genius!

04/16/09  12:21am
rhinotonight says:

AWESOME, wolf hat.

04/16/09  5:54am
Paul Bates says:

As amazing as the short is… did anyone else just want to keep that pig? The pig model is delicious!… its so… piggish?

04/16/09  6:13pm

I loved it! Although probably not as much as the guys at the photo lab where the artist went to reveal his film rolls ;-)

04/16/09  11:49pm
Jim says:

“left to wonder what I have to offer to the medium.”

Sues, give yourself more credit than that. I’m sure you and others have plenty to offer animation aside from the technical arena. This piece was a strong technical showcase with some very clever ideas, but the narrative was basically nonexistent and there’s no reason that the ’story’ couldn’t have been made with a number of other techniques. I dig the style a lot, don’t get me wrong… but I find myself wishing the style was linked more closely to the content and that the piece had more substance. Otherwise it just comes off as a fun gimmick. Hopefully the artist or someone else mimicking his style can do more with it in the future…

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