You gotta see this.
A revival of the thread from the old boards where we post kickass cartoon shorts on the Internets.
Theatrical trailer for Pixar’s Up. (Note: If Firefox doesn’t work, open it with IE Tab.)
Music video for Ankle Injury by Fujiya & Miyagi, a British pop band despite the name. It’s a stop-motion vid animated with colored dice used as pixels - or at least it seems to be. It might be faked by CG. It’s an interesting look nonetheless.
Astro Boy teaser. Genndy T was directing this at one point… Does anyone know what happened?
Albright:
Astro Boy teaser. Genndy T was directing this at one point… Does anyone know what happened?
Licensing was what happened. The original plan was for Sony to make it (and they had Genndy in mind), but the rights shifted over to Imagi, who got their own director (David Bowers).
A neat little short film from Sega featuring their blue hedgehog.
This is a music video from an old video about dinosaurs from the ’80s. I had that video, but haven’t thought about in years… Until I read something in a book about dictators today, in a part about Saddam Hussein, which used the word “Mesopotamia.” A short Google query later, and I found that site, and was able to rock out to that song once more. Funny how these things come back to you, eh? You can keep your Cenozoic…
Thank you, internet.
Be sure to watch the other three parts. I don’t know if this is the whole thing or just part of it. There are no subtitles but the story is easy enough to follow without them.
Ten Thousand Pictures of You is a British stop-motion short with humans about a photographer getting revenge after being two-timed.
Debra’s Underwear is an awkward set of three one-minute shorts created with a text-to-speech tool. You have to see it to get it…
Aside from a CG remake of Astro Boy, Imagi is also pushing out a Gigantor film.
I like how they’re using his original Japanese name and not his localized name.
The Juiced Carrots is brutal.
This is a clip from a stop-motion short film that was banned from British airwaves. Watch the whole clip and you’ll see why.
Shintaro Kago is a manga artist who has posted a bunch of twisted shorts to his YouTube channel. My favorite is Terror of the Olympic Game.
Daikun:
The Real Tuesday Weld
Waeome.
Disney Double-take; the mouse caught in the act of apparently recycling its own storyboards. The Jungle Book and Robin Hood seem to be the main culprits. Warning: Somewhat NSFW background image on this site for some reason.
I’ve seen that video before, several months ago at least.
But even as a child, I noticed how derivative Robin Hood was. Little John was Ballou, with no attempt to disguise him. On the other hand, Ballou appears again in TailSpin, doesn’t he? I guess they really liked that bear over at Disney.
Also, this seems like a good place for this picture:
A wolf loves pork. A wolf chases a pig around town inside an apartment. It’s hard to describe, but watch it - it’s waeome.
Can’t get enough clever stop-motion? Then check out Sorry I’m Late.
Little Wheel is technically a point-and-click adventure game, but the gameplay is so easy and the animation so awesome that it feels more like a well-crafted web animation.
In the style of Stop Motion with Wolf and Pig comes The PEN Story, an animated advertisement for Olympus cameras.
If you’re looking for more traditional stop-motion fare, check out Looking Thru the B-Sides, a psychedelic tale of a boy and his skateboard.
I recently saw Monsters vs. Aliens and I believe that every character in it made that face.
I caught this made-for-tv movie a few times back in the Seventies. I never forgot it. It also impressed a group of young musicians enough to name their band after it. It stars George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward.
They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point. Dr. Watson follows Holmes across Manhattan and is, against her better judgment, drawn into the master detective’s world of intrigue and danger. This is a sweet, goofy and fairly romantic film that asks the questions “Whose reality is right…and does it really matter?”
It’s loaded with good quotes:
“I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death. Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong. We never left the Garden. Look about you. This is paradise. It’s hard to find, I, I’ll grant you, but it is here. Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. The earth is shining under the soot. We are all fools. Ha ha.”
and
Dr. Mildred Watson: “You’re just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else.” Justin Playfair (Holmes): “Well, he had a point. ‘Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That’s insane. But, thinking that they might be, well… All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn’t? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we’d all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.”
and
“There are no masses in Dodge City, only individuals taking responsibility for their own actions.”
I’ve been searching for a copy of this movie off and on for quite a while now. I know there was a VHS copy produced once but I never found one. Now apparently there is a dvd out because yesterday I found this torrent. I just finished watching it, expecting it to be not as good as I remember, but it was even better.
