All Things Animated - Page 3

As part of my recent move through all the Beatles movies, I just watched Yellow Submarine for the first time in many, many years. Sadly, it's not as good as I remembered. There's barely any story at all, and most of its elements are there as flimsy excuses to introduce Beatles songs. The art and animation show incredible creativity and imagination. I just wish the script matched the artistry.

It would also be nice if the Beatles were actually in it. But that's another bitch.

Oh it's an extended video clip before there were video clips no doubt Greg, but you have to admit, it has a certain trippily colourful charm about it, even with the thinnest of plots.

Also if you were watching it straight and sober, I'd argue that would explain you're issue with it lacking coherence.

Well, as I said, the creativity of the designs is above reproach. In fact, it would make a nice little double feature with Fantastic Planet's bizarre creatures.

I actually think the dialogue is extremely clever, it's just so bloody hard to understand. And not having seen it in a while, I can't think of any examples to quote just this moment...

That movie got me hooked on the Beatles when I was nine years old, so props for that.

I am so...Jealous of anime fans in Japan. They get to see the newest...Space Battleship Yamato film this Christmas, and we have to wait til someone acquires US rights. The trailer is quite good.

8===> Pixar Intro Parody

Am I deluded or has 2009 been an exceptional year for animated features? Coraline, Up, Ponyo, The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Plus art-house runs for $9.99 and Sita Sings the Blues. I even liked Monsters Vs. Aliens a bit.

While I've only seen the first three *grumble grumble*, it has indeed been a pretty good year. Even less-acclaimed movies like 9, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs or Astro Boy apparently aren't complete failures. And we've still got The Princess and the Frog coming up. So yeah, apart from some uninspired-looking slop like Planet 51 or Ice Age 3 (the first two were quite enough thank you), it's been a damn good year.

Not to mention Mary and Max, which in my opinion just pips Fantastic Mr Fox for my favourite animated movie of the year. It's heartbreaking yet life affirming and populated with wonderfully flawed characters. I didn't recognise Hoffman's voice at all, he's really playing a character instead of just lending his voice to one. Love the piano piece that accompanies the film throughout too.

I was suprised by how dark Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs went, in some ways it was similar to Monster House in that it evoked the childrens films that i watched growing up in the 80's.

Yeah, decent year.

Seen two reviews for Princess and the Frog and both were enthusiastically positive.

I feel very conflicted about Princess and the Frog. On one hand, I'm totally excited to see a 2D animated Disney musical again. I'm sure I'll love it.

At the same time, I'm kinda bugged by the fact that it just looks EXACTLY like the same thing we got tired of in the 90s. EXACTLY.

There's fart and butt jokes in the trailer. I thought we'd put an end to that.

Yea. So far, no trailer I've seen has excited me. I'm really only excited by the fact that we're seeing something we haven't seen in a while. And keeping in mind that I'm really only going by the trailers and clips we've seen, couldn't we have gotten that old-school feeling without it feeling like a step back (or a step in-place, I guess)?

Why was I not informed of this?

http://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Mouse-N...2638802&sr=8-2

Just for everyone's information, Aardman's SHAUN THE SHEEP series is just as charming as you'd expect from the claymation champs. Cute bite-sized shorts. The lack of dialogue makes it utterly universal. Picked up the bountiful first season for $15.

 

 

Tippett Studios restored Prehistoric Beast earlier this year. Still holds up!

Oh good Lord, yes.  "Prehistoric Beast" is fantastic.  I first saw it integrated into a made-for TV documentary with tons of wonderful Phil Tippet Go-Motion.

 

So, how about those upcoming animated trailers?

Awesome. Brings back memories (I loved that old doc with Chris Reeve). I love PT and dinos. His stop-motion monsters move the way I always imagined William Stout illustrated dinos moving.

 

 

 

Oh man, from the look of the trailer that Siegfried movie would've been something. But hey, Puss In Boots...I guess.

 

Seriously. I totally want an animated Ring of the Nibelung now. Looked great. Was that Holtz' "Planets" music?

 

It's Wagner.

 

EDIT: WHY WASN"T THAT MADE?!?! I'd have seen the shit out of it.

Well that makes total sense considering the source material and Wagner's operas (not that I've heard the operas enough to spot them immediately EDIT: Here it is). But I was thrown off by the ending of the trailer. With the bum bum bumbum. Sounded like Holst's Mars. Listen to the end of this...

 

 

 

My work speakers kind of suck, so I may have missed it, but there is a credit for Mars after the trailer.

 

EDIT: Talk about blink and you'll miss it. It is there right at the end before the title.

Ah, ok, so I'm not altogether crazy.
 

 

Just found out about this, but Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells) has a new one coming soon: Song of the Sea

 

 

Song Of The Sea - Conceptual Trailer from Cartoon Saloon on Vimeo.

 

Weird. Vimeo embed doesn't seem to work on a published post, but shows up fine while editing.

Wow that's gorgeous. However, that video is 3 years old, do we know that this is actually on track for release next year? Having trouble finding info on it.

The concept art and character bios on their website are fairly new, and Tomm Moore was apparently at ArcadeCon in July to talk about 'Kells' and showed some stuff from 'Song' as well.

I recently watched Don Hertzfeldt's Bill Trilogy consisting of 3 20-minute short films - Everything Will Be OK, I Am So Proud of You and It's Such a Beautiful Day. It is astonishing and moving and funny and poignant and mindblowing and assorted other adjectives. Here's the first part, the other two parts don't appear to be online in full: