Very cool…scary cool animation

Wow. Great real-place animation.
Click Here to Watch the embedded Vimeo video on their site.

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Animation Monday, Naked Rabbit

Some great animated shorts here as well as several well done short live action films. I really love Violent Combat Robots. It’s no different then 99.9% of kids action cartoons. I’m not sure what the remaining .1% is actually…
The site belongs to Tim Maloney of Naked Rabbit Films. Hours of fun. Or at least minutes [...]

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The Thing with No Head

Here’s the trailer for The Thing with No Head via YouTube. It will also be playing at the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival annual “What’s Up Docs?” children’s film festival. Which also features short narrative films, thus The Thing with No Head will not be considered a documentary!

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Animation Monday, Canada

An inspired short from Canada. You Tube gives us a chance to see so much. When you consider that even with cable TV, you get material that is for the most part, complient with a bigger agenda (improve ratings against such-and-such network) or it has to be family oriented, or it’s material an agent can [...]

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Animation Development

Misc. air force pilots for an animated pilot.

Kids and dog. Can’t ya tell.
Here are two sketches from some development drawings I did for an animated show. It was headed towards pilot, I don’t know if it made it or not.
The characters involved changed a lot. probably 6 major revisions, and I mean major. Size [...]

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Animation Monday, Mary and her Little Lamb

I finally finished this animated short-short. It took me forever.I think I had the sound track done a year ago. Just been too busy to get all the pieces together. As with every project, I think it could be better, but at some point I need to execute it and move on. I’d like to [...]

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Animation Monday

 
Keyframe is a good resource for all things animation. It features a list of online shorts, TV series, even direct to video animated releases. The Coming Soon section is helpful to see what animated features are floating around out there. The usual mix of ‘can’t wait to see’ and titles that no one is sure [...]

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The Thing with No Head

Yeah, I’m writing about that animated short again. Looks like it will be playing a few new festivals this year, so I dug out the old website and reposted it.
For those of you who need to know, the Thing with No Head is an animated short I made when enrolled at UCLA. I have [...]

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Animation Monday, Monday, Monday. Triplets.

Animation Monday can’t get much better than this.
A clip on Youtube from the amazing Triplets of Belleville. One of my favorite sequences. The ship crossing the ocean as the grandmother follows behind.
I watched this film twice the past month while working. Draw a little, watch a little, draw a little, watch a little… My [...]

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Animation Monday, with Walt Disney

Animation Monday with no actual animation! But, some inspiring quotes from an older posting on the Re-Imagineering Blog. Walt’s words are inspiring across many fields, art and business alike.
I am not always a fan of Walt, but what he accomplished is amazing. And he did deliver on producing meaningful material suitable for the whole [...]

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