The Light House Keeper

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER from THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER team on Vimeo.

Paper Folding Animation - VIDEOGIOCO

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design on Vimeo.

One time at church I did a doodle where I folded the paper into fours and then ripped one side half way to the middle and on each panel drew a picture that changed the orginal panel in some way when you folded it. It was more of a one page comic for me. From what I can recall I did two or three of them, this might have been about four years ago, but I never thought about doing them in a video, wow, this is pretty dang cool. I might have to watch it again.

GUERRE NAIVE

Guerre Naïve from Guerre Naïve on Vimeo.

Deru - Peanut Butter and Patience

Deru - Peanut Butter & Patience from Mush Records on Vimeo.

I love this animation, quite a bit, but I hate the music.
Those things are hit or miss sometimes.

Something Wrong with this Picture

So I was on my daily internet browse today when this pop-up came along to entice.



I almost clicked to win, but then I noticed something. Who can tell me what it is?

Snow-bo by Vera Brosgol; Lambchop - Is a Woman

A cute little animation by Russian artist Vera Brosgol. I recognized her work from Flight Vol. 1, there was a little comic short she did in there. I really enjoy her site, its cute without being kitschy. Verabee.com And there is a nice interview with her on the animation show.

In the interview they reference a Lambchop video called "is a woman" and I've been listening to Lambchop, quite a bit lately, its good end of summer fall music. Well the album Ohio is, but really his music is seasonal, I should say. Whatever season you are in and listening to his music, the season becomes attached to the music in an interesting way. Anyhow, I decided to show the video they mentioned just in case you don't have time or desire to go to the interview, you can just watch it on my site. Its a really pretty video.



Know that I somewhat hesitate with this post since its so wintery and we are only at the apex of fall. I don't know what the weather is like where you are but Bloomington is about the prettiest place I've been to during the fall. The south was pretty but not as plentiful as Bloomington.

Destino

Disney and Dali - Destino from Jayme Johnson on Vimeo.

Here for the wiki entry on this 2003 Disney short after 58 years in the making.

Alberto Cerreteño

I guy who's blog I've been following for a while now, always seems to produce a very distinct illustration style, rich with autumn colors and culture, Alberto Cerreteño releases a new animation for children's song "That's How a Pumpkin Grows" by Brian Vogan.

That's How A Pumkin Grows from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

Tom Fun Orchestra - Bottom of the River

Tom Fun Orchestra-Bottom of the River from trunk animation on Vimeo.

So so pretty. Directed by Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney at Trunk Animation.

Cat Walk - Black Cat Crossing

Catwalk - Black Cat Crossing from no name party on Vimeo.

A really nice animation today by no name party. no name is out of germany. This is a 3d animation, so the site says but I'd be surprised if the figure animation wasn't after effects. But this is a really good one to come out by No Name Party.

Buddy Bradley

I'm really exited because today I went down to Boxcar books in hopes of finding my mother a birthday book and instead I got an autographed copy of Hey, Buddy! Volume I of the complete Buddy Bradley stories from Hate by Peter Bagge.

One of my favorite activities is to go down to the local comics shop and ask the owner for a suggestion. This guys knows that first off, I like something dense and as 90's as they come. And he suggested one day Buddy Does Jersey.



Buddy Does Jersey is brilliant. There are enough references to 90's Americana (grunge/post-grunge) that you can remember exactly how old you were when you experienced these things first hand. In this sequel to Buddy Does Seattle, Buddy has moved back to his hometown in Jersey to live in his mom's basement with his girlfriend Lisa from Seattle. All the old losers and junk heads are still there, all "recovering" from rehab and trying to move on with their otherwise scummy lives.

I could just imagine moving back to my own hometown and finding that one kid who's still there, that in the sixth grade ate a cigarette because no one had a lighter and he thought that you could get the same buzz off the nicotine. Then later in high school that same kid tried to get you to buy powder in the school bathrooms. You know the one.

Anyways, I'm a huge fan and word on the street is that fox has signed a deal to finally turn it into a cartoon. (Finally something to take care of every other awful fox cartoon (Yes, Family Guy)) To read it from the horse's mouth, visit and subscribe to FLOG!, the Fantagraphics Blog.

To my many many followers...

I'm sure you're all just dying to know why I changed my color scheme to all black. Well...I've gone morbid, that's all. Well that and I'm finally getting around to designing myself a personal portfolio site and I'm using this blog as part of the home page. So now you know. The page will be torlandomileshakes.com, so that's pretty exciting.

Until then, here is a video. Not animation, but there is animation in it. I like it cinematically, however, I think the sound design is unnecessarily creepy. I want to hear someone like Lambchop in the background. (No, not the doll)

twofur

I would have really liked this when I was about 8 which is probably why I really like it now. It was done as part of the Cartoonstitute Program at comedy central

This next one is a little different, its like a slide real for David M. Buisán's illustrations, so its not really animated, more like an X factor Ken Burn's Effect.

Buisan Book from David M. Buisán on Vimeo.

Iwa

Iwa from Kenneth Coker on Vimeo.

I don't have much of a commentary about this, but sometimes when I watch something it occupies my mind enough to be able to gather my thoughts on other things. Side note, I met Scott McCloud tonight and he told me he liked my art work. Anyways, I'm the kind of person that really likes to be brutal about things. I really like to take my small judgments and blow them way out of proportion and to be as least sympathetic as I possibly can. I don't know that I'm really as judgmental as I make myself out to be, it could be that I am actually much more so than I ever imagined. Either way, there are people who say that they care or say they are compassionate, but don't do anything about it and then there are folks like me, cranky and cynical because the world never done nothin' for them but in the end could never really bring themselves to turn away the homeless or help a kid with homework because his mom wont do it and the dad ain't around.

JumpTrumpRumpBump

JumpTrumpRumpBump from Molasses Murphy on Vimeo.

Temperley London Circus Zoetrope

Temperley London Circus Zoetrope from LEGS on Vimeo.

"A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words zoe, "life" and trope, "turn".
The earliest elementary zoetrope was created in China around 180 AD by the prolific inventor Ting Huan (丁緩). Driven by convection Ting Huan's device hung over a lamp. The rising air turned vanes at the top from which were hung translucent paper or mica panels. Pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right speed.[1][2][3][4]
The modern zoetrope was invented in 1833 by British mathematician William George Horner. He called it the 'Daedalum' popularly translated as 'the wheel of the devil' though there is no evidence of this etymology. More likely it is a reference the to Greek myth of Daedalus. It didn't become popular until the 1860s, when it was patented by makers in both England and America. The American developer, William F. Lincoln, named his toy the 'zoetrope', which means 'wheel of life'."
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