Mio Mao

I saw this at the Annecy animation festival and loved it. Mio Mao. It didn’t have any voiceover on the festival version and to be honest I prefered it. The voiceover is rather surplus to requirements.

Zoologic

A funny animation about a zoo from Nicole Mitchell.

Bio Bunny

Hooray! A new animation from Tony Dusko at notebookbabies

Harry and Toto: Dark and Light

Here’s a whole episode of Harry and Toto… featuring the inhabitants of Opposite Town. This episode (first broadcast on Cbeebies) is written by series creator Paul Shuttleworth from Handle and Spout.

More info on cast and crew at imdb

Films by kids

Here’s some animations by kids.

I’ll See You Under the Sea

Yellow No Monkey (by my nephew)

and finally ‘The Bullet Car’ which distills every male oriented adventure story into its essential elements.

Barton Hill Animation Festival Films 2009

The Barton Hill Animation Festival has come and gone once more. Unfortunately we weren’t able to attend this year, but I’m pleased to see that the kids attending the festival have had the chance to create some more great short animations.

Trip to Planet Dangerous

Prince Harry the Brilliant and Mr Jealous Wealous

Pixilation Workshop

Anna et Froga

Here’s something I found completely randomly on YouTube. I don’t really know what they’re saying as my French requires people to speak at about 10 words a minute, but it’s something about the lottery I think! Anyway. I like it.

Synaesthesia

Midlands animation director Samantha Moore has made some beautiful films. Here is one that feels very experimental, but which shows the visual responses of some synaesthetics (people who experience one sense when another is stimulated e.g. colour when hearing sound). Not strictly a children’s animation… but it seems like something that all of us might find interesting on a purely sensory level!

Sam is currently making an animated documentary about synaesthesia called An Eyeful of Sound. There are more details on her website and film blog.

The Flumps

I used to love The Flumps. Ecky thump, they’re from Yorkshire just like me Grandma. Grandfather Flump still reminds me of me own Granpa too. This has that same folksy feel that all the best stuff from the seventies has. My favourite character was always white hatted Pootle though, just because he (or was it she?) was the naughtiest.

Art Sparks from the Tate

The first of five short films about different art works from the Tate collection.

Watch more here at the Tate Website