Featured Video: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

October 31st, 2009 |

One of the most intense and memorable cartoons of all time, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”. UPA studios produced this gem in 1953, utilizing an extremely abstract and completely unique style. There’s very little actual movement in the film, which centers on a man who kills his landlord mostly for [...]

Featured Video: The Old Man and the Goblins (1998)

October 30th, 2009 |

From the very old yesterday to the pretty new today – but stop-motion film The Old Man and the Goblins has a very vintage look to it while remaining fresh and innovative. The title is basically the story: A weird old man is kidnapped by goblins and taken down into their lair. The cool thing [...]

Featured Video: The Skeleton Dance (1929)

October 28th, 2009 |

Let’s go back to the early days of Disney for our next Halloween cartoon – the Ub Iwerks-directed The Skeleton Dance is actually the first ever entry in Disney’s “Silly Symphonies” series. It’s a basically plotless music/dance cartoon (as most of the early Silly Symphonies were), but with enough interesting visuals to keep it worthwhile. [...]

Featured Video: Jeepers Creepers (1939)

October 28th, 2009 |

I’ve been devoting October to horror again this year, but my favorite experience of the month so far has been the Cartoon Spooktacular that Jerry Beck programmed for the Cinefamily. Obviously, most cartoons are not really scary, but these ghost-and-monster themed shorts were a delight to see on the big screen. I can’t reproduce that [...]

TV: Animation Domination #1

September 28th, 2009 |

Family Guy 8×01: Road to the Multiverse
How did Family Guy know alternate universes were my favorite thing ever? Aside from the one where everything is 1000 years more advanced because Christianity never existed (seriously, I love the show, but does it have to take potshots at Christianity in almost every episode?), almost all the others [...]

Featured Video: Sand Animation by Ukranian Kseniya Simonova

August 25th, 2009 |

Thanks to Marina and Andrew over at Row Three for finding this video, from the TV competition Ukraine’s Got Talent. Once in a while something truly brilliant comes to light from these shows, and Kseniya Simonova’s incredible sand-painting certainly qualifies. Simonova uses sand, light, and music to convey stories from Ukraine’s history – constantly shifting [...]

Featured Video – Untooning Jessica Rabbit

April 22nd, 2008 |

Pretty cool video showing the process of transforming the animated Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? into a photo-realistic version, with the help of PhotoShop and several real-life actresses. It’s not hard to guess who the model is for Jessica’s face, but I was off on my prediction that it was Amy Adams’ hair. [...]

July 2007 Reading/Watching Recap

September 14th, 2007 |

In an effort to get caught up on these recap posts, I did shorter write-ups on some of the films I didn’t care about as much (and I’m going to do the same thing for August, hoping to get it out by, you know, the end of September so I can, you know, do September’s). [...]

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