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“Usavich”
Please meet one of the most refreshingly original and funny animated series I’ve run across in a while: Usavich produced by Kanaban …
Shorts
David O’Reilly’s History of Animation
Twenty-two-year-old animation wunderkind David O’Reilly, who we’ve mentioned frequently on Cartoon Brew (here, here and here), was asked …
Viking Eggeling
I’m currently reading Matthew Gale’s Dada & Surrealism, an entertaining and authoritative primer on two of the most important, yet …
The History of America by MK12
Kansas City-based motion graphics/design collective MK12 recently completed their long-awaited epic short The History of America. I, …
Holiday Gift Ideas: The Fireplace by PES
New Yorkers have enjoyed their live-action Yule log TV program for decades, but now every home in America can have a roaring animated …
Peak Oil
Animator Bruce Woodside (Cool World, Space Jam, Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse, etc.) made this film on his own, and posted it on You Tube last …
Christmas Nerds
Three nerds turn a nativity scene into a roleplaying battleground. Matt Burnett and Ben Levin spent a year animating this …
Virgin America’s Flight Safety Film
Virgin America’s cool in-flight Safety Film has popped up on You Tube. This piece alone would sway me toward using the upscale, low-cost …
Films by Fred Mogubgub
It’s debatable whether the films below qualify as “animation” but the filmmaker behind them, Fred Mogubgub, was an important part of New …
One D
In honor of today’s release of the next big leap in three dimensional, digitally enhanced CG — I give you Mike Grimshaw’s One D:
How We Met
Who needs paper? Your flesh will do just as well… Apparently this clever little short was commissioned for use as a viral video by …
“How A Sausage Dog Works” (1971) by Julian Antonisz
I recently stumbled upon the work of Polish director Julian Antonisz (1941-1987), a previously unknown (to me) master of the camera-less …
Acme’s Show of Shows on DVD
If you have any desire to watch and own some of the best animated shorts of the last twenty years, Acme Filmworks has just released 18 …
Tower Bawher
NFB director Théodore Ushev writes to let me know that his gorgeous Constructivist-flavored short Tower Bawher is now viewable for …
Cold Rush
Cold Rush is a new French student film created by Mikael Lynen, Simon Corbaux, Tristan Urbin and Rémi Certhoux at the Supinfocom …
Automania 2000 and Pan-Tele-Tron
YouTuber Phil Gray, who uploaded this rare Tex Avery documentary a while back, has posted more difficult-to-find pieces of animation …
Elk Cloner
It’s an encouraging sign for the development of CG animation that we are increasingly seeing young artists creating computer work that is …
Suggestive Doodles
(Thanks Steve Moore)
Lost and Found
Independent animator Jeff Scher (who won the New Media prize in Ottawa on Sunday for his TimesSelect piece L’eau Life) made another …
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