Animation!

THE ORIGINAL MOVIE used the perennially popular "caveman versions of modern technology" gags. Here, a prehistoric film editor efficiently disposes of unneeded footage via Editing Goat.

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What to draw and how to draw it by Edwin George Lutz Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Edwin George Lutz wrote the first book on animation but I've heard nothing about him making any himself- though he must have! The book is outdated only insofar as camera equipment is concerned.
Lutz is also the author of the adorable What to Draw and How to Draw It :
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74518

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Animated cartoons : How they are made, their origin and development by Lutz Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Yes, yes...bit empty around here. Swamped with work. But in that liminal final week of December I'm going to bury my nose in some books and find some lovely #animation to post about. In the meantime, why don't you go check out the first published book on the subject? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73455

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Putting this one on my 'to watch asap' list.

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Oh look, my first anime :D

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🔥 On SALE! Mega Bundle + New Lifetime Option! Over 750 Hours of Lessons! Learn from a pro. Animation, Digital Painting, Character Design, Storyboards & More.

Hey, there are some sweet deals on animation courses on Aaron Blaise's site right now! Some of them literally cost 1 dollar.
creatureartteacher.com/product-cate...

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Books on a desk. Left: The Animation Bible by Maureen Furniss. Right: The Do-it-yourself Film Animation Book by Bob Godfrey and Anna Jackson.

New old books!

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Please tell the Stunt Double his work is very much appreciated :) (and show more behind the scenes if you can!)

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A peek at how we quickly set up for a fresh episode of Magical Cat!
#claymation #stopmotion #magicalcat #animation

04.12.2024 17:45 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Animation: The Global History The first-ever comprehensive history of animation surveys the evolution of this dynamic industry around the world – from Hollywood to Tokyo, from Moscow to Sydney.

No interesting post today, I've got to prep a lecture for some animation students.
Have a book rec instead:
thamesandhudson.com/the-history-...

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Beginner's Guide to Stop-Motion Animation by @kevinbparry Want to learn stop-motion animation but don't know where to start? Free lessons, product & book recommendations, and gift guide for stop-motion animation.

Curious if anyone's checked out my stop-motion and thought it was missing something? Let me know! Want to be as helpful as possible.

03.12.2024 19:46 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Stop motion made with traditional baked gingerbread from Hungary

From: Honeymation (1975), dir. Ferenc Varsányi, Pannonia Film Studio

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Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The screen is filled with photographs of noses, with a television set in the centre.

Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. Photos of hands in different positions are arranged around the frame. On the left is a blob filled with small, whitish-grey pellets.

Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The frame is filled with angel's heads. In the centre, a hand holds up an image of Mary and Jesus.

Still from the film. Technique is cutout photographs and prints. The screen is filled with images of various cameras.

Frank Mouris and his wife Caroline spent 6 years collecting the images for this autobiographical work.Try flipping through magazines and cutting out enough photographs of any item to fill an entire page two dozen times over. You’ll have approximated one second of Frank Film.
youtu.be/2K_YxteM5Yg

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Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. A monk stands at the edge of a pond, in which his reflection can be seen. A fish jumps over his head.

Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. Against a dark night sky, the moon shines bright and round. The silhouette of a bridge or acqueduct fills the frame from left to right. The tiny silhouette of the monk can be seen running across.

Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. The monk and the fish float or fly against a blue background.

Still from the film. Watercolour background and black ink drawings. It's nighttime.The monk stands at the edge of the pool, holding ready a net to catch the fish in. There are candles lining the edge of the pool on both his left and right side. The water reflects him and the candles.

Why a monk? Because the shape felt like it would be nice to animate, according to the author. A monk is a blob, just a robed round blob with not much backstory. "He's not trendy, he's not sexy" says Michael Dudok de Wit.
"The Monk and the Fish", 1994 (plus interview)
youtu.be/s9dHJro69f4

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Title screen: a yellow background with a graphic of a city skyline at the left edge of the frame. The title AUTOMANIA 2000 fills most of the screen.

Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. A conveyor belt carries plates of fruit and vegetables towards a machine which turns them into small white pills.

Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. The frame is filled with layers of cars, packed so tightly together that it is difficult to see where one car begins and another ends. There are several people in each car. The colours of the scene are brown, grey, dirty and drab.

Still from the film, an image made of cut-out paper and drawings. On the left edge of the frame we see part of a cathedral. The rest of the frame is taken up by an elaborately decorated car. It has stained glass windows and a golden dome on the roof, with cherubs, a bell and a cross on the top. Its front grate resembles church organs and golden wings are attached to the back.

It's 1963, and the future looks bright... but John Halas and Joy Batchelor's "Automania" warns us of the perils of reckless supply and manipulated demand. A dystopian film, but every frame is a little masterpiece of graphic design.
youtu.be/b-ymlIN2slQ

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A small, unfurnished room with patterned wallpaper, one window, and a door on either side. Two large plasticine hands stand in the middle. One has eyeballs stuck on its fingers.

A grey plasticine head fills the screen. It looks down at its nose, cross-eyed. A tongue protrudes from its mouth and licks the nose. The tongue is real animal flesh.

A white door opens into a room with a patterned wallpaper and wooden floors. From the darkness outside, a brain crawls in. The brain is real animal flesh.

In Darkness, Light, Darkness (1989) Jan Švankmajer uses the exceptional sculpting skills of his lead animator and frequent collaborator Bedřich Glaser to show us a quite literal 'self-made man'.
Warning: the film contains plasticine nudity and real meat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THM...

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I will keep an eye out but you guys have a LOT covered. Reccing you wherever I can.

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I share one, you share thousands, so thank YOU!

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According to Segundo de Chomón's 1908 film "El Hotel Electrico" any task which required manpower could be automated with electricity. In this film, we could easily substitute the word for 'magic'. Suitcases unpack themselves and hairbrushes style your hair!
youtu.be/V9reDgU4VpI?...

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Katsudo Shashin or The Matsumoto fragment is the first anime ever. Jokes aside, this is the oldest known animation originating from Japan. It was found in a collection of films and projectors in Kyoto in 2005. Dating from between 1907 and 1912, the images are stencilled directly on the film.

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This account talks about animation, mostly older stuff, mostly analog stuff. History of animation and the moving image is my jam.

I will do my best to apply trigger warnings when applicable.

Account maintained by @snailboy83.bsky.social .

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The full film is available on Youtube.
youtu.be/FciaYYeBiRY?...

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Black and white movie title card. Text: Talkartoons. Max Fleischer Presents Bimbo's Initiation. Copyright MCMXXXI by UM&M Tv Corp. All Rights Reserved

Bimbo tries to escape from a knife blade sticking out of the wall. The blade is licking its lips.

Bimbo stands on a raised platform in front of four closed doors. He looks directly into the camera, scared. The doors are labeled from left to right with a skull and bones, the number 13, a question mark and a gloved hand.

Bimbo sits on the ground in shock as Betty Boop (poodle version) dances alluringly in front of him

Hi! My icon is Bimbo the Dog, from the 1931 film Bimbo's Initiation. Bimbo is captured by a cult which tries to indoctrinate him...can he escape their horror house and its mind-bending traps?
Featuring a cheeky dig at Mickey Mouse, and Betty Boop in her early humanoid poodle form. Oh yes.

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