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14 years ago
Saturday morning cartoons!
Fun With Father
A student film by Chris Sanders of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon fame - a crazy wolf/fox critter involves his adorable kitten son in a vendetta against sugary treats. Very odd and beautifully animated.
Under Bergets Rot (Under the Root of the Mountain)
This is what Oingo Boingo would have sounded like as a metal band, how could I not love it? Even if you don't like the style of music the cartoon is a great example of what design can do to shore up limited animation.
CBS Storybreak's Ratha's Creature
Uploaded by our own Rathacat (author Clare Bell), this is the animated version of her novel. Obviously the complexities of the novel couldn't be crammed into 22 minutes, and the animation is so primitive it's practically a slideshow, but it's still rather cute.
The Talking Parcel
And speaking of childhood memories . . . I had never seen this until recently, but I LOVED the book as a little kid - the idea of a nature reserve for mythological critters remains one of my favorite fictional tropes - and I only recently discovered this was written by Gerald Durrell, a biologist and conservationist who I greatly admire and who I had only known through his nonfiction works. The animation was done by the folks who produced Count Duckula, also something I enjoyed greatly as a little fiend.
Everything is connected! Or I just have a really narrow range of interests.
Shop Vac
A fan made "kinetic typography animation" music video, extremely clever and even if you're not a font nerd you'll get a laugh out of it. Song's pretty catchy, too.
Fun With Father
A student film by Chris Sanders of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon fame - a crazy wolf/fox critter involves his adorable kitten son in a vendetta against sugary treats. Very odd and beautifully animated.
Under Bergets Rot (Under the Root of the Mountain)
This is what Oingo Boingo would have sounded like as a metal band, how could I not love it? Even if you don't like the style of music the cartoon is a great example of what design can do to shore up limited animation.
CBS Storybreak's Ratha's Creature
Uploaded by our own Rathacat (author Clare Bell), this is the animated version of her novel. Obviously the complexities of the novel couldn't be crammed into 22 minutes, and the animation is so primitive it's practically a slideshow, but it's still rather cute.
The Talking Parcel
And speaking of childhood memories . . . I had never seen this until recently, but I LOVED the book as a little kid - the idea of a nature reserve for mythological critters remains one of my favorite fictional tropes - and I only recently discovered this was written by Gerald Durrell, a biologist and conservationist who I greatly admire and who I had only known through his nonfiction works. The animation was done by the folks who produced Count Duckula, also something I enjoyed greatly as a little fiend.
Everything is connected! Or I just have a really narrow range of interests.
Shop Vac
A fan made "kinetic typography animation" music video, extremely clever and even if you're not a font nerd you'll get a laugh out of it. Song's pretty catchy, too.
The more I play it back the more I like it.
I'm kind of a font nerd so I was enjoying that aspect.
(But what sort of a Mythologia is it if they ain't got no 'taurs?) 7X=Q
Clearly the only solution is to write my own children's book and feature them heavily!