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Bowerbirds - In Our Talons

Bowerbirds "In Our Talons" from Alan Poon on Vimeo.

Animation directed by Alan Poon. Mmmmm...nature

Vegeterrible

Vegeterrible from Henrik Sønniksen on Vimeo.

Yar-e Dabestani-e Man

This is an animation made by an artist named Simon Ampel who is one of the cofounders of Aquifer Films, based in Brooklyn. Their website is one of the coolest, cleanest flash sites I've ever seen. Its pretty awesome. Check out the show reel.

The above animation is pretty cool too. Its based on the growing student movement in Iran against authoritarian regime. I thought it was real pretty and somewhat hopeful considering Iran's new "nuclear statehood".

From what I understand the animation was done in a program called TVpaint which may be a paperless studio and then it was colored in Animo. I've heard of Animo being pretty cool but this is the first I've heard of Tvpaint. Ok strike that, TVpaint is sort of a sister program to Mirage which is a french made program that I hear is really good about imitating a paper system. For example they have a series of papers that you can choose from and when you use a wacom tablet the pen strokes will react to the grain of the paper template you've chosen. So, pretty cool.

Happy Valentimes!

Te Wei (1915-2010)

So this is a repost from Cartoon Brew:

"The master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (Sheng Tewei), has passed away at age 95.

Te Wei, a pioneering animator and cartoonist, was one of the founding fathers of the Shanghai Animation Studio. His most significant film of the 1950s was The Conceited General, which I’ve embed below:

In the 1960s his animation style was influenced by the painter Qi Baishi. His 1963 mastepiece, The Cowboy’s Flute (Part 1 below), is one of the most beautiful films from China - or anywhere."

Get Out

Get Out
by Esma-Movie

This is a cute little number from Charlotte Boisson, Julien Fourvel, Pascal Han-Kwan, Tristan Reinarz and Fanny Roche, with a score by Guilhem Rosa, students at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques in Montpellier and Toulouse. What a beautiful world they've created that we all get to enter through the door and explore.