Well it’s certainly been a long hiatus from when I last posted but I see no reason I shouldn’t start up again… after all most the videos on here still work, most the links do and I’ve got some genuinely decent material! Well done me. OK, so this time we’ll focus on animations that are perhaps a little more obscure and we’ll translate the term anime to what it actually means – all animation from all over the world. A little variation never hurt anyone. One film I saw recently that I really enjoyed was the 1999 film ‘The Iron Giant.’ Directed by Brad Bird (known for ‘The Incredibles’ and ‘Ratatouille’) it features a scene where the robot goes absolutely mental… Here it is in a nice 10-minuter… I would point out though that the majority of the film is generic Hollywood trash and that once you’ve seen this scene, seeking out this title would be a futile and ultimately unsatisfying exercise.
I suppose that one wasn’t particularly unusual…Look at this examination of what a leucocyte is, its from BioVision, doing their thing at Harvard…inner life of a cell …what goes on behind closed doors… or even under them… I wonder how large a magnifying glass would have to be before it could see that… So if a cell is like that and a nanobot is like this…
Probably going to be a fun little technological period… that’s only CG btw, don’t go getting too excited… anyway I haven’t finished yet, I think we’ll go for that magic number ten, go through time as well. Hmm.
Here we have a Max Fleischer cartoon from 1929… musical notes are an excellent visual theme… Surprised I never see any shiny modern flash notes used in online music software.
Moving on a few decades we have a collection of Soviet propaganda shorts showing the resilience and unity between Russia and Britain against Fascist rule… very stirring stuff… For the Disney interpretation click here.
Everyone likes Street Fighter II and the best bit of the film is when Ken and Ryu give Bison a good pummeling.
To France and Sylvain Chomet, director of ‘Belleville Rendez-vous.’ This is the animation that got him into the scene and respected as more than just someone irrelevant who made the occasional short for a festival. It’s called ‘La vielle dame et les pigeons’.
If you like that and want to get a complete understanding of the director, (assuming you’ve seen Les Tripplettes), then watch this one… its live action and focuses on mimes in prison – there’s a conundrum for Sarkozy!
We’ll end back in Japan just to give this post some kind of validity with ‘Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space’… The whole film is up on Youtube, unfortunately embedding is not allowed so you’ll have to make that jump yourself… essentially its a feline dystopia with pop elements and slightly twisted. Next time I’ll post some of the weirder Japanese animes I’ve seen… ones that perhaps stand precariously on the edge of good taste. See you then.
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