Sharing Animation - Ring of Fire (Andreas Hykade, 2000)

For this week Sharing Animation I come to you with an short animation with a very particular graphism. In fact, the artist himself has a very particular style.

Andreas Hykade is a well recognised animator who created quite a few awarded animations. And the one I'm going to share today (surely there will be more in the future)  is Ring of Fire, released in 2000.

This short has a complex mood, with it's color or lack of it, the voiceover, the story. It all come together greatly as a unified whole.

It was animated by Andreas Hykade himself, along with Ged Haney and Anita Ortega. The short was made in Coprodution with Studio FILM BILDER.

In spite of the crude images, the short has a very well thought meaning and story, and the whole animation is a thrill to watch.

HERE you can find Andreas Hykade's official website, where you can find his biography and the info about some other productions he has been part of.

Enjoy this awesome animation, Ring of Fire by Andreas Hykade.

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See you next week for another animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - Day & Night (Teddy Newton - Pixar Animation Studios, 2010)

Last week I couldn't find the time to come here and post the sharing animation post. So I figured I could share a recent and very well known animation that is a hell of a good one!

So just quickly sharing the incredible 2010 Pixar short Day & Night, directed by Teddy Newton.

The mix of tradicional animation with CG for me is one of the best things about this short, because it really shows how animation is, in fact, what this is all about. It doesn't matter what technique we're dealing with, the important thing is that you know how to animate so you can make an incredible film!

I just think this should be in this sharing collection. A big congrats for the Pixar team!






Here's a video from Pixar talking a little bit about the short!
Enjoy!

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No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones - Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1953)

Hello Again!

For this week's animation sharing I'll be adding a very well known cartoon to the list! Until now I've been sharing animations that are mostly author's works, but today I come with a big studio cartoon that is very cool for the animation studies and research!

The animations is the 1953 Duck Amuck, directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, voiced by Mel Blanc and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.

This is so special because it's an animation that talks about animation itself. There's nothing like the creators wanting to show the rest of the world how a cartoon, and such a distinctive personality from a cartoon character, are made. It's very cool to distinguish the different types of artists and professionals that an animated film requires. And Chuck Jones did that wonderfully in this animation.

HERE you can find it's IMDB page. HERE the WB's offical web site and HERE the WB cartoon collection's web page.

It's a very entertaining and joyful piece, so enjoy!

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See you next week for another awesome animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - David (Paul Driessen, 1977)

This week I'm presenting yet a different artist than the ones before. And also a very different animation itself.

When you see the drawing made by Paul Driessen you may thing that they are rough and not solid at all. You can see that he may have difficulties in his drawing. But the great thing about this artist is that he takes that rough drawing as granted and explores it to make his own style!

Paul Driessen has indeed his very own style that many have also explored. His simplicity is compensated with his story telling, composition of the whole film and even his remarkable and unique animation.

The 1977 animation David was the first Driessen animation I've seen, and it amazed me by it's simplicity in animation that, as you'll see, there isn't much. But still it's a short film worth watching. It's a wonderful film for and about little people.

HERE you can see Driessen's official website.

So enjoy this very amusing piece, David by Paul Driessen:




"Isn't it horrible, my boy? How easily big creatures spoil the lives of the small?... Crunch!"

Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!

See you next week for another great animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.

Sharing Animation - Every Child (Eugene Fedorenko, 1980)

Once again a National Film Board of Canada short film. An awarded one aswell. This fantastic short won the academy award for best animated short.

This is Every Child by Eugene Fedorenko.

I think the greatest thing about this animation is the soundtrack. The animation itself is humorous and well thought and done, but the sound design is done in such a way that's just delightful to watch and hear the whole thing. Just because all the sounds are done with voice by Les Mimes Eléctriques, a pair of voice masters! They are the two men that appear in the beggining and end of the short. You can google them.

This is to celebrate the Unicef's Declaration of Children's Rights. And so it has a astonishing theme behind it.

The animation has influenced my work no only because of the trembling lines that goes along the whole animation, but also, of course, because of the sound design, which I want to use the same style in an animation of my own.

So here it is, without further ado, this very funny short animation I want to share this week, by Eugene Fedorenko:

Check out the other short movies from the Sharing Collection HERE!!

See you next week for another engaging animation!

No copyright and related rights infringements are intended with these sharings, all these animations are properties from their respective authors or studios always credited in the post.