Striking Animation

Tack och bock, adjö.

2007-08-10T11:35:00.000+02:00

Some of you might already have figured it out but here it is;
This blog is officially over.
I found out that this kind of thing takes more time than I have to spend.

If anyone feels that this blog should live on I'd be happy to give it to you. Just write me a line why you should have it, "rylleman at gmail dot com".

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Humans

2006-05-21T18:14:00.000+02:00

A very nice looking satirical piece.

creators; Three Legged Legs.
Quicktime, 1min. 7sec. 11,1Mb.

Tim Tom

2006-05-08T10:19:00.000+02:00

A meta-film with a very sadistic human creator.
I'm not sure if the likeness to Jiri Trnkas "the Hand" is intentional or not but while Trnkas hand represented the totalitarian regime this hand is just plain mean.

creators; Romain Segaud and Christel Pougeoise, Supinfocom CCI Valenciennes 2002.
QT, 4min. 22sec, 23Mb.
(Film site)

(Thanks to Jan Johansson for reminding me of this film.)

the Big Win

2006-05-05T12:46:00.000+02:00

And now it's time for a very stylish commercial for the National Lottery (UK that is).
CGI made to look like 50's puppet animation.
If you're wondering the tune is sung by Patience and Prudence, it's slightly disturbing how jolly they are.

creator; Marc Craste, Studio aka, 2006
QT, 1min. 12.1Mb.

Take the afternoon off to browse Studio aka's film gallery, there's a lot to like there.

The Monk and the Fish

2006-05-03T10:11:00.000+02:00

This is one of my alltime favourite animated shorts, it's beautiful and funny and the obsession of the monk to catch that fish is just adorable.

creator; Michael Dudok De Wit, 1994
Flv, 6min. 4 sec. 14.3Mb.

Jukebox

2006-04-25T20:01:00.000+02:00

"Play it again, Sam" wasn't said in Casablanca, neither in this music video for the band Bent Fabric.
I doubt the guy is called Sam or even that the piano knows a man by that name so why bring it up? Forget that line and enjoy the film instead.

creator; Anders Morgenthaler, 2003.
Quicktime. 3min. 15sec. 10Mb.

Hernando

2006-04-20T22:54:00.000+02:00

These bizarre pirates and Elvises on colourful pills dances around in beautiful springy motion on typical pirate locations; ships, the bottom of the ocean and in outer space.

Watch out for these two creators in the future, they are going to produce more great things I'm sure.

creators; Oury and Thomas, Supinfocom School of graphic design and 3D in Paris / Partizan Lab, 2004.
Quicktime, 4 min. 23Mb.

You can spend hours at the Partizan Lab page, they got loads of beautiful films.

Dragon

2006-04-18T11:30:00.000+02:00

This is one very nice looking commercial for United Airlines done in a very interesting technique where cut-out and puppet animation are mixed.
Be sure to watch the "making of"-documentary at the United Airlines Commercials Page.

creator; Jamie Caliri.
Quicktime7, 1min., 6.1Mb (There are also wmv and mp4 versions at the U.A. page above or a high quality QT at Jamies page)

Today

2006-04-11T23:34:00.000+02:00

The graphical style of Sylvain Chomet was stunning in "the Old Lady and the Pigeons" and "the Triplettes of Belleville" and it continues in this commercial for Winterthur.

And I've read that Chomet is now working on an animated feature film of an unpublished Jacques Tati script! Can you buy tickets for the premiere yet?

creator; Sylvain Chomet.
Quicktime, 1min. 28sec. 2.8Mb

Juranessic

2006-04-09T20:44:00.000+02:00

Let's continue with the stone age.
This time in 2D with one of the bumpers for the Annecy animation festival 2002.
The concept in this movie is very clever and might appeal to those who want to trace the origin of animation further back than 1906 and "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces".

creators; Y. Avenati, S. Andriveau, Louis Clichy, H.Barberau, I-A. Rödiger. (-the Goebelins animation School, Paris. 2002)
(Juranessic web page)
Quicktime, 30 sec. 4Mb.

In The Rough

2006-04-06T01:04:00.000+02:00

How about a bit of domestic disturbance in the stone age?
Great CGI animation.

creator; Paul Taylor (Blur Studios)
Quicktime 4min. 50sec. 36Mb

Make Mine Shoebox

2006-04-05T19:37:00.000+02:00

1950's educational movies, yummy!
Ok, it's not an actual 1950's educational movie but a very fun pastiche. And it is educational if you're thinking of going into the greeting card business.

creator; Chris Harding, 2003
Quicktime, 5min. 18sec. 11Mb

Snow-Bo

2006-04-04T23:08:00.000+02:00

Q. Where do all thinks fabulous come from?
A. Sheridan College.
Seriously, I've seen lots of great stuff from Sheridan students, this is the second film in this blog by them and there's more to come.

Snow-Bo is a traditionally animated film about a boy, a man and their friendship.

Creators; Vera Brosgol & Jenn Kluska (Sheridan College 2005)

Le Building

2006-04-04T20:02:00.000+02:00

I laught so hard my stomach ached the first couple of dozen times I watched this film.
The tempo keeps escalating through the film and it can only end in disaster, and people getting hurt is funny, right?

creators; P. Perifel, M. Nguyen, O. Staphylas, R. Zaarour, X. Ramonéde (-the Goebelins animation School, Paris. 2005)
Quicktime, 1min. 34sec. 13Mb

There's an interesting "making of" film at the website that shows how the team combined cgi-, traditional- and flash-animation in the making of this film.

Waterboy

2006-04-02T16:01:00.000+02:00

This award winning commercial for Evian water is cute, catchy and cool.
Seeing this film reminds you that flash actually can be used to produce fantastic things.

creators; Sophie Deiss and Jean-Christophe Saurel.
Streaming flv, 2min 40sec.

Fuggy Fuggy

2006-04-02T15:18:00.000+02:00

Won't your careers guidance officer tell you what you need to know to become an foul assasin?
Then watch this tiny ninja demonstrate it.

creators; the brothers McLeod
Quicktime, 4min. 56sek. 23Mb.

Les Tomates

2006-04-02T14:38:00.000+02:00

Pascal Campion is the champion of flash animation.
Les Tomates is my favourite but all of the flicks featured on his website are awesome.

An Eye For Annai

2006-04-02T11:56:00.000+02:00

This clever and beautiful little film tells the story of Annai on the search for another eye to match up with his only one.

I'm very weak for 1950ish esthetics and this film has plenty. A joy to the eye.

creators; Jonathan Klassen and Daniel Rodrigues, (Sheridan College, 2005 (?))
Quicktime, 5 min. 26sec. 24Mb.
(While visiting Jonathans webpage you may also want to watch "The Miser" by the gentlemen above and Kyle McQueen. It has more of a student film feeling than Annai but still it is quite good.)

Welcome!

2006-04-01T22:36:00.000+02:00

Welcome to this new blog.
The web is full of remarkable animation but it's often hard to find, a link here, a mentioning in some forum there. And you have to watch tons of crap to find the gems.
In this blog I will post links to striking animation that I think deserves to be watched and appriciated.
I hope it will be to your liking.

Oh!, and I'd be very happy for tips of great animation, mail me, blog#rylanderanimation.se (replace # with @) or leave a comment in this post.