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Short Peace is an animation project that brings together a long list of top anime creators. Brought to you by Katsuhiro Otomo (the mastermind of Akira), it is a collection of four short stories: Combustible, Tsukumo, Gambo and Buki yo Saraba.
Anime News Network has more information about the people being involved with Short Peace, but I’m telling you, all you need to know now is that you will need to watch this film. Read more about it.
A bunch of kids in an orphanage are preparing to celebrate mother’s day.
A student film, nothing more, or less. It is such a freakishly cool freaky animated short by Marion Petegnief, Matthieu Bernadat, Nils Boussuge, Clément Deltour and Florence Ciuccoli.
The new series in the Ghost in the Shell franchise finally has a teaser trailer. Ghost in the Shell: Arise will consist of four parts of 50 minutes each. The first part, “Ghose Pain” will run in Japanese theaters on June 22. More at Twitch.
I really like this sort of data visualization animations. This is a great video created by Michael Rigley. It looks cool, but its content are a bit scary. Learn a bit more about what they all know about you…
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
Bonus: Scales.
I was never a big fan of RPGs, because they usually require a lot of time and work. It’s like you have to work on them, instead of just playing and enjoying. This one, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of The White Witch, might be an exception. The premise and story don’t look that interesting, but the fact that the animation is done by the amazing Studio Ghibli is more than enough to get me interested in it. I think I’ll definitely buy this game for the PS3 when it comes out, but it looks like I still have to wait for a year for that to happen.
All The Cats Join In is a Disney short from 1946. It’s classic Disney at its best. It features the work of one of my favorite animators, Milt Kahl, and Fred Moore, whose style greatly influenced the Disney look until this day. Freddy Moore was specially known for his drawings of girls.
Check out a pencil test video of Fred Moore’s animation. Also, if you want to know more about this short animation, check out this post at Mayerson on animation, where he identifies the animators in charge of each scene. There’s even more info at The blackwing diaries (and don’t forget to read the comments in those posts, there’s a lot of interesting info there, too).
How would you react if you find out you are the father of 15 puppies? Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know; but, here we have the way Pongo (the cool dog in 101 Dalmatians) reacted to that moment. Kind of drunk and kind of happy, that’s how Milt Kahl decided to animate him. He was a true master of animation.
Via: Inspector Celuzo
The Trenches is an animated short inspired by Zack Snyder’s upcoming movie Sucker Punch. It briefly shows the human side of the zombie soldiers that the girls in the movie will be fighting against.
It’s a nice little teaser, but I really can’t wait for the actual movie, which is in theaters on March 25.
Are you looking forward to seeing Emily Browning and Vanessa Hudgens, among others, kicking ass?
Bonus: Emily Browning – some scenes from The Uninvited
I wanted to share this animated commercial from the 80’s. Why? just because I thought it was cool. I hate the music, but I liked the animation and style of the ad.
It’s animated by Eric Goldberg for Richard Williams Animation Studio.
Bonus: Spiderman
I want to share a very cool, trippy and weird hand drawn animation short created back in the 70’s. I wasn’t there, but, in my opinion, the animator must have been doing some weird drugs at the time. Check it out in the video below.
About Face is an animation short written and drawn by Chris James. The film was runner-up in the Grierson Award for Best Short Film of 1978. It features caricatures of Henry the VIII, Mick Jagger, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Queen Elizabeth, Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, The Marx Brothers, David Bowie and a worm.
Via Cartoon Brew.
