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The Austrian-American animator Max Fleischer and his brother Dave Fleischer made an amazing contribution to the history of animation. Max created the Rotoscoping process of animation, founded the Fleischer Studios with his brother and left us a wonderful group of … Continue reading

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Friday Cat Blogging: Videos II

Cat to Exit: a crazy 3D animation feature by an orange cat the stole the fish of table of two old Japanese. Chimpanzee Washing Cat: a vintage video of a Chimpanzee using a towel to clean a Siamese cat. If … Continue reading

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Buttered cat paradox

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Minuscule

Minuscule is a wonderful animation series for (not only) children starred by tiny creatures: a group of insects and a snail. Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud created those cute 3D creatures and put them into live footage, keeping the cartoon … Continue reading

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One Man Band

One Man Band is a delightful Pixar short animation, written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews and produced by Osnat Shurer. The short was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film of last year and just … Continue reading

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Samurai

The pretty nice short animation Samurai is fable created by Three Legged Legs, for GE’s “Imagination at Work” theater campaign. It is a tale of a pint-sized samurai faced with a seemingly impossible challenge as proposed by a behemoth Emperor … Continue reading

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Ralatak

Ralatak is a funny French short nimation realised by Camile Campion, Dorian Février, Frédéric Fourier, Frédéric Lafay and Olivier Sicot, students of ESRA of Bretagne, in 2006. The sun rises in a peaceful clearing in the harvest where many several … Continue reading

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Vintage Chevrolet Cartoons

The Prelinger Archives, at Internet Archive, contains nearly 2,000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. Ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the … Continue reading

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Arthur de Pins

Cheerful, sexy, lovely, funny and beautiful, those are good definitions to the portfolio of Arthur de Pins. His excellent portfolio contains now 173 illustrations of cartoons, sexy comics, advertising, posters, cute pin-ups, caricatures, and tons of other illustrations to see. … Continue reading

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NFB animated shorts

The National Film Board of Canada is a prestigious animation school founded in 1942 by John Grierson, Norman McLaren and René Jodoin. They put together a groups of young animators who could craft films using conventional methods, got help of … Continue reading

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