10 replies to this topic

[ironmask]

I'm starting another thread for cool, and perhaps missed animation videos/links. 

Here's a couple to get things started.

 

 

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Good idea! Love me some animation, and never seen those two before...
 
Here's some of my lesser-known favourites:
 

Edited by TwoHeadedBoy, 20 August 2015 - 06:33 PM.

[ironmask]

You should be able to just post the regular URL. The forum will automatically do the rest.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Yep, that worked, cheers

[ironmask]

Gertie the Dinosaur, by Winsor McCay (also creator behind Little Nemo in Slumberland)

Interesting fact, McCay hand animated the entire thing, including the backgrounds frame-by-frame. The technique where they would paint backgrounds and use transparency for figures and motion hadn't been discovered yet.

 

[bachamn]

Hadn't seen that Gertie animation before, that's pretty nuts. I'm not much of a Disney fan, but this one from the 30's has always been pretty impressive to me. The hallway animation @1:34 always felt way ahead of it's time (looks almost CG), and there's some pretty dark themes in this one for a Mickey cartoon. 

 

Edited by bachamn, 21 August 2015 - 07:16 AM.

[ironmask]

That is awesome. The Fleischer brothers used to always mess with motion/changing perspectives in shot. 

On a side note, even more impressive is how they did such WHILE making sure the footsteps of the principle characters match the beat of the soundtrack.

[redspook]

My favorite:

 

Fire And Ice - though its rotoscoped anything Frank Frazetta touched turned to gold imho:

 

I also really really dug the illustrators who also did the Rankin/Bass Hobbit/LOTR animated films

[ironmask]

 

 

Edited by ironmask, 27 August 2015 - 08:43 AM.

[ironmask]

[plasticfiend]

 

 

 

 

 

PF