January 15, 2011

High Greed Internet

January 14, 2011

Ricky's First Visit To The Dentist

Here's an educational puppet show I did with the talented Mike Holmes, he performed Ricky The Rabbit, and I performed Dr. Molar. We had a fun time, it was my first time getting paid to do puppet work, hope to do more someday.

Yoni Goodman's Dailymation

"Some time ago I got sick of the technicality of cutouts & decided to return to the basics of frame by frame animation. To get my hand back in shape I started doing Dailymations - short, sketchy, rough & FUN animations, more about mass and movement and less about fine, clean animation."

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Making of the Comic 'Copper'

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Via: Kazu Kibuishis Bolt City
See the Making of Copper here.

Drawing Comics with Cintiq from D.J. Coffman

Vicenta

Here's an awesome spanish short film! There's sex, corpses, and violence - with brilliant design and animation!

Vicenta from Conflictivos Productions

We Can't Walk Straight

A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? from NPR Via Drawn

I'm a Monster - Headless Productions

Wow! Simply incredible...


Watch the studio reel here.

Designs from 'How To Train Your Dragon'

Awesome



(via yimmyayo)


The Making of "AT-AT Day Afternoon"



See the film here.

Harlan Ellison - Pay The Writer

What a great clip. Animation directors, freelance illustrators, designers, storyboard artists and animators of all kinds can learn from this.
Television executives often act in the exact same way, always wanting to get work for free.
Yes, he is bitter and angry, but wouldn't you be?

January 13, 2011

Reels from Old School Classic Animators - Part 1

Bobe Cannon



Clips taken from:
Hold the Lion Please (1942), Porky and Daffy (1938), The Magic Fluke (1949), Tom Turk and Daffy (1944), Rover’s Rival (1937), Out-Foxed (1949), Porky in Wackyland (1938), Hare Tonic (1945), The Dover Boys (1942), Senor Droopy (1949), The Daffy Doc (1938), Hare Conditioned (1945), Robin Hoodlum (1948), Super-Rabbit (1943), To Duck or Not to Duck (1943), Doggone Tired (1949), Odor-Able Kitty (1945), Wags to Riches (1949), Coming Home (1945)

Art Davis



Clips from (all Warner Bros. cartoons):
Baseball Bugs (1946), Acrobatty Bunny (1946), The Stupid Cupid (1944), Canary Row (1950), I Got Plenty of Mutton (1944), Golden Yeggs (1950), Robot Rabbit (1953), 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952), A Tale of Two Mice (1945), Daffy Doodles (1946), Home Tweet Home (1950), Plane Daffy (1944), Tokio Jokio (1943), Two Crows from Tacos (1956), Tweet and Sour (1956), The Unruly Hare (1945), Porky Pig’s Feat (1943), Snow Business (1953), Swooner Crooner (1944), Russian Rhapsody (1944), Catty Cornered (1953), Plane Daffy (again), Ballot Box Bunny (1951), Dog Pounded (1954), Ain’t She Tweet (1952), I Got Plenty of Mutton (again), Bugs and Thugs (1954), and A Mouse Divided (1953).

John Gentilella



Clips from (all Famous Studios cartoons):
The Anvil Chorus Girl (1944), Pop-Pie Ala Mode (1945), Moving Aweigh (1944), Klondike Casanova (1945), Philharmaniacs (1953), For Better or Nurse (1945), Pop-Pie Ala Mode (again), Rocket to Mars (1946), I’ll Be Skiing Ya (1947), Klondike Casanova (again), Sheep Shape (1946), Royal Four-Flusher (1947), Safari So Good (1947), For Better or Nurse (again), and A Lamb in a Jam (1945).

Ken Harris



Clips taken from: (all Warner cartoons)
Duck Amuck (1953), Hair-Raising Hare (1946), Bear Feat (1949), Long-Haired Hare (1949), Zipping Along (1953), A Pest in the House (1947), Rabbit Hood (1949), Scent-Imental Romeo (1951), The Ducksters (1950), Mississippi Hare (1949), Often an Orphan (1949), Whoa Be-Gone (1958), Frigid Hare (1949), A Bear for Punishment (1951), Wackiki Wabbit (1943), Daffy Dilly (1948), Hopalong Casualty (1960), and Hair-Raising Hare (again).

Emery Hawkins



Clips taken from:
Fair Weather Fiends (1946-Lantz), Wide Open Spaces (1947-Disney), What Makes Daffy Duck (1948-Warner Bros.), Jitterbug Follies (1939-MGM), Two Gophers from Texas (1948-Warner Bros.), Petunia Natural Park (1939-MGM), The Trial of Donald Duck (1948-Disney), Who’s Cookin’ Who? (1946-Lantz), Mousie Come Home (1946-Lantz), Two Gophers from Texas (again), Rabbit of Seville (1950-Warner Bros.), Woodman Spare That Tree (1942-Screen Gems), Barber of Seville (1944-Lantz), Poet and Peasant (1946-Lantz), Hillbilly Hare (1950-Warner Bros.), Hubley Maypo Spot (mid-1950s), What Makes Daffy Duck (again), Doggone Cats (1947-Warner Bros.), Woodman Spare That Tree (again), Bathing Buddies (1946-Lantz), Donald’s Dream Voice (1948-Disney), Wacky Wigwams (1942-Screen Gems), Honduras Hurricane (1938-MGM), The Reckless Driver (1946-Lantz), Eight Ball Bunny (1950-Warner Bros.), Doggone Cats (again), Bone Sweet Bone (1948-Warner Bros.), Barber of Seville (again), and, once more, Two Gophers from Texas.

Bill Melendez



Clips taken from: (all Warner cartoons)
Dough Ray-Meow (1948), Baby Bottleneck (1946), Mexican Joyride (1947), The Pest That Came to Dinner (1948), The Stupor Salesman (1948), Doggone Cats (1947), The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946), Bushy Hare (1950), Boobs in the Woods (1950), Odor of the Day (1948), Bowery Bugs (1949), Kitty Kornered (1946), and A Fractured Leghorn (1950)

Rod Scribner



Clips from (all Warner Bros. cartoons):
Buckaroo Bugs (1944), The Prize Pest (1951), A Tale of Two Kitties (1942), Upswept Hare (1953), Hollywood Steps Out (1941), Kitty Kornered (1946), The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946), Hillbilly Hare (1950), Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs (1943), Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942), Cats Aweigh (1953), Hare Ribbin’ (1944), Russian Rhapsody (1944), Corn Plastered (1951), Baby Bottleneck (1946), Hollywood Steps Out (again), Sock a Doodle Do (1952), Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943), Bell Hoppy (1954), Easy Peckins (1953), Heckling Hare (1941), Hep Cat (1942), A Gruesome Twosome (1945), Bacall to Arms (1946), Hare Ribbin’ (again), Hoppy Go Lucky (1952), Hollywood Steps Out (again), and The Old Grey Hare (1944).

Irv Spence



Clips from:
Daffy Duck and Egghead (1938), Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), The Sneezing Weasel (1938), Room Runners (1932), Little Red Walking Hood (1937), Kitty Foiled (1948), Dumb Hounded (1943), Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938), Mouse Trouble (1944), Soda Squirt (1933), Lonesome Mouse (1943), Blitz Wolf (1942), Dick Whittington’s Cat (1936), Kitty Foiled (1948), Penguin Parade (1938), The Early Bird Dood It! (1942), A Sunbonnet Blue (1937), Zoot Cat (1944), Little Runaway (1952)

Jim Tyer



Clips from (all from Terrytoon cartoons):
Steeple Jacks (1951), City Slicker (1951), Wide Open Spaces (1950), Miami Maniacs (1956), Hare-Breadth Finish (1957), Rival Romeos (1951), Dingbat Land (1949), When Mousehood Was in Flower (1953), Reformed Wolf (1954), Movie Maniacs (1952), No Sleep for Percy (1954), Baffling Bunnies (1955), Miami Maniacs (again), Police Dogged (1956), Beauty on the Beach (1950), Barnyard Actor (1955), Cat Happy (1950), Dream Walking (1950), Satisfied Customers (1954), First Flying Fish (1955), Lyin’ Lion (1949), Blind Date (1954), and Dingbat Land (1954).


I found these on Thad Komorowski's blog, it's a great compilation of different animators from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, a nice little piece of animation history.