'War of the Worlds' - Ray Harryhausen martian test footage
Friday, September 29, 2006
Friday, September 08, 2006
Richard Sala - The Invisible Hands
Invisible Hands Pt. 1
Invisible Hands Pt. 2
Here are the first two episodes of "The Invisible Hands" featured back in the early nineties on MTV's "Liquid Television". The story and art are based on the amazing comic artist "Richard Sala". I'll post links to more episodes if they pop up.
Invisible Hands Pt. 2
Here are the first two episodes of "The Invisible Hands" featured back in the early nineties on MTV's "Liquid Television". The story and art are based on the amazing comic artist "Richard Sala". I'll post links to more episodes if they pop up.
René Laloux - Fantastic Planet
One of my favorite animated films of all time! Here is a 1: 51 second clip from youtube.
Click here to watch the animated film in its entirety although with a different score which includes an array of electronic musicians such as Richard D James.
Click here to watch the animated film in its entirety although with a different score which includes an array of electronic musicians such as Richard D James.
Christy Karacas - Space War
Released in 1997 and played on MTV's short lived "Cartoon Sushi" animation program, "Space War" features a surreal landscape of crab monsters, robots, giant tentacled beasts, neptune, and other weird things battling it out on a weird alien planet with insane sound effects going off in the background.
A short bio on the animator can be found here.
Webster Colcord - Mad Doctors Of Borneo
Here's some great claymation of skeletons, gore and monsters, always a nice combination. You can find more information on the animator, "Webster Colcord" and see additional clips from his strange animations at his website.
Bendito Machine
Here is an interesting flash animation of machines sprouting eyeball creatures.
There's a few other animations on the main menu.
There's a few other animations on the main menu.
Raoul Servais - Operation X - 70
A very unusual animated short film from 1971. Here is the plot summary from imdb...
"A man in a gas mask briefs his country's top generals on a new weapon, a gas named X-70 that quickly turns "rats and Asiatics" into lethargic, comatose, contemplative lumps. The victims do not die, explains the scientist, so the weapon is within the country's Christian tradition. Bombers are immediately sent toward the enemy (unnamed, but it is the Vietnam era). A sex-crazed in-flight computer gives the pilot bad coordinates, and he lets loose bombs of X-70 on what turns out to be a friendly Western nation, Nebelux. A mask-wearing squadron goes to Nebelux and finds unexpected damage. How will the soldiers, the generals and the scientist react?"
"A man in a gas mask briefs his country's top generals on a new weapon, a gas named X-70 that quickly turns "rats and Asiatics" into lethargic, comatose, contemplative lumps. The victims do not die, explains the scientist, so the weapon is within the country's Christian tradition. Bombers are immediately sent toward the enemy (unnamed, but it is the Vietnam era). A sex-crazed in-flight computer gives the pilot bad coordinates, and he lets loose bombs of X-70 on what turns out to be a friendly Western nation, Nebelux. A mask-wearing squadron goes to Nebelux and finds unexpected damage. How will the soldiers, the generals and the scientist react?"
Max Fleischer - Swing You Sinners
Here's another strange cartoon by Max Fleischer. There's more spooks and monsters in this one then you can shake a stick at.
The above is a short clip, below is the full cartoon.
The above is a short clip, below is the full cartoon.
Hieronymus Bosch - Bucket Head Music Video For "Spokes For The Wheel Of Torment"
Hieronymus Bosch's artwork animated in a music video!
Gerald Scarfe - "Welcome To The Machine" Pink Floyd Music Video
Apart from his political cartoons, Scarfe is probably best known for the animation work he did for the movie verion of Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" as well as imagery he made for their tour, posters, shirts, etc from that time period. Previous to that he made a very surreal animated video for Pink Floyd's song "Welcome To The Machine".
Jan Svankmajer - Meat Love and Flora
Meat Love
Flora
Svankmajer is an artist of many mediums as can be seen at his website. His style always indulges in the surreal and unusual. He's made dozens of films, most if not all incorporate live action alongside stop motion to create a peculiar sense of reality. He's been credited as being an influence on Tim Burton, The Quay Brothers, Terry Gilliam and many other creative individuals, myself included. If you aren't familiar with his films I would recommend Alice, Little Otik and Conspirators of Pleasure. And be sure to check out the Svankmajer section at the "Animation Of Heaven And Hell" website. You can view clips from several of his films there.
Flora
Svankmajer is an artist of many mediums as can be seen at his website. His style always indulges in the surreal and unusual. He's made dozens of films, most if not all incorporate live action alongside stop motion to create a peculiar sense of reality. He's been credited as being an influence on Tim Burton, The Quay Brothers, Terry Gilliam and many other creative individuals, myself included. If you aren't familiar with his films I would recommend Alice, Little Otik and Conspirators of Pleasure. And be sure to check out the Svankmajer section at the "Animation Of Heaven And Hell" website. You can view clips from several of his films there.
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy - The Glass Harmonica (segment)
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy is a Russian animator who's made a small handful of animated films over the last 40 years. This paricular animation of his is shown in a cut down music video version that apparently shows the highlights from the original 19 minute long version. If you'd like to see the original uncut it is included in the "Masters Of Russian Animation Volume One" dvd series. If you're a fan of "Fantastic Planet" or any other animated film by René Laloux, I'm sure you'll enjoy this.
Tim Burton – Vincent
Before The Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton made "Vincent", his first film from 1982 that runs around 6 minutes long. The film is shot in black and white stop motion and is narrated by Vincent Price. The film is based on a poem written by Burton about a boy who wants to be like Vincent Price.
Max Fleischer - Betty Boop
Max Fleischer was a pioneer in the animation business, responsible for creating the animation technique of rotoscoping. This involved drawing animation on top of frames from a live action film. This animation technique went on to become an important part of Ralph Bakshi's animation style.
Fleischer was also responsible for introducing the first cartoons with sound in 1924. He used rotoscoping and sound to include popular contemporary jazz musicians of the time such as Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong in his cartoons. In the Betty Boop cartoon "Minnie The Moocher" Cab Calloway is shown animated as a bizarre walrus like character performing all the insane body movements Cab is known for. He's also shown animated as a giant mutated horny freak with a white beard in "Old Man Of The Mountain".
To find a wide selection of Betty Boop cartoons that you can download, be sure to check out those available at archive.org.
Betty Boop - Minne The Moocher (With Cab Calloway)
Betty Boop - Old Man Of The Mountain (With Cab Calloway)
Fleischer was also responsible for introducing the first cartoons with sound in 1924. He used rotoscoping and sound to include popular contemporary jazz musicians of the time such as Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong in his cartoons. In the Betty Boop cartoon "Minnie The Moocher" Cab Calloway is shown animated as a bizarre walrus like character performing all the insane body movements Cab is known for. He's also shown animated as a giant mutated horny freak with a white beard in "Old Man Of The Mountain".
To find a wide selection of Betty Boop cartoons that you can download, be sure to check out those available at archive.org.
Betty Boop - Minne The Moocher (With Cab Calloway)
Betty Boop - Old Man Of The Mountain (With Cab Calloway)
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