Bio Bunny

Hooray! A new animation from Tony Dusko at notebookbabies

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.

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

Climate Change shorts

A few short animations about Global Warming

From MTV

From the Kalamazoo animation festival

From Greenpeace…

Owls

Long time no posty! So I’ve had a small hiatus from publishing anything here. Time to post some more interesting animations for kids. Notebookbabies’ Tony Dusko has created another short animation for his fifth grade science class. It’s all about owls and it’s great…

Paul Bunyan

Here’s a great 1958 Disney production about the North American folk hero Paul Bunyan. We recorded this on VHS when I was a kid in the late 70s / early 80s and watched it on what must have been a daily basis.

Westi

I saw this on Channel 4’s three minute wonder about a year ago and again at the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol in November 2007. It’s a great little piece about bullying and confidence. Written by 13 year old Ben Westerman from Doncaster, this is a film about himself and his feelings about his self-image.

Made for RAW CUTS, a joint initiative between Channel 4’s 4Talent and the NSPCC.

Directed by Madevi Dailly

Homer’s Odyssey

This is my first indulgence so far on this blog… I’m putting up a film done by myself and brother Greg. It’s a short version of the Odyssey. We condensed Odysseus’ twenty year voyage and imprisonment from leaving Troy to returning to Ithaca into 15 seconds. This was shortlisted in the nokiashorts film competition a couple of years ago but lost out to some mawkish life-affirming nonsense.

Ta da!

Bayeux Tapestry

Here’s an animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry by animator David Newton. He graduated from Goldsmiths in 2004 as a Media and Communications student. This was a project he did as part of his second year degree course with tutor Graham Young.

Barton Hill Animation Festival

Based in Bristol (UK) are the Arts and Media Team at Community at Heart. Every year they put on the Barton Hill Animation Festival as part of a regeneration project. The team works with the local community to provide a wide range of creative activities such as art classes, festivals and events.

In 2007 they created some animations with the children who attended the festival.

The Tortoise and the Hare

And an interesting re-telling of the Ugly Duckling story with a twist in its tail.

Marvelous!