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

Samosa in Love Triangle

A great little animation from the Mesh scheme that I saw at the Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival. Lovely and funny. Written, Animated and Directed by Yasmin Ismail.

http://www.4mations.tv/clip.aspx?key=F2804D20D9B49432

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Pushkin

Fantastic story about an old lady and a cat from Trevor Hardy, an animator from West Sussex, UK.

The Zimmer Twins

Create your own animation at The Zimmer Twins website. It’s a great way to put different elements together and then put them into a timeline to create a little short film. Here’s one I made earlier…

I Met the Walrus

Here’s an interview conducted by a 14 year old kid (or is that a young man at that age – discuss!) back in that famous year of 1969 with John Lennon. This short was nominated for an Oscar in 2008.

There’s also a high quality version of the film at the YouTube screening room

Feed the Kitty

Yesterday I went on a Masterclass with Frank Gladstone at Aardman. He’s worked for Disney and Dreamworks and the like and one of the things he showed us was this cartoon, which is beautifully drawn, structured and has the most excellent timing. The dog’s name is also fantastic… Mark Anthony. Who calls their dog Mark Anthony? Brilliant!

You’ve probably already seen it…

…but here is Simon Tofield’s ‘Let Me In’ short, a follow up to ‘Cat Man Do’ in the Simon’s Cat series. Anyway you probably would like to see it again. Here it is…

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.

Fuggy Fuggy

Some more ego-posting here… here’s ninja Fuggy Fuggy, an animation from The Brothers McLeod as seen on MTV.

Snail in a strange land

Here’s a strange piece of work about a snail in a computerised world. The snail makes its way through an ever changing, constantly redesigning electronic landscape.

This played at the London Internatial Animation Festival in 2008.