Animation Exposition

[TheQueen]

Moongirl by Henry Selick. Creator of "Coraline"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6NJ3WQVNOI

[TheQueen]

While witnessing the effects of the plague on the inhabitants of his village a local wig maker remains locked in his shop and records the events in his diary.

Part 1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9tdW--cMuQ&feature=related

Part 2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMo0n7CygrQ&feature=related

[Christy]

:blink

Not exactly Tom and Jerry, huh? :lol:

[figmentmom]

Hoo boy...dark doesn't begin to cover it, but it sure is beautifully done.

[Garyhoov]

Here's Linda's offering:


http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5266931

[TheQueen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPhHTtKZ8Q&feature=fvst

"The Secret of Kells": Oscar's dazzling Irish surprise
Andrew O'Hehir
Animator Tomm Moore talks about turning Celtic art and fantasy into Oscar season's unexpected delight

Since the Academy Award for animated features was created in 2001, the category has been dominated by big-budget, computer-animated films from a handful of studios and distributors, mainly meaning Pixar (six nominations and four wins, in eight years), Walt Disney and DreamWorks. There were exceptions -- Hayao Miyazaki's hand-drawn "Spirited Away" won in 2002, and Nick Park's stop-motion "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" in 2005 -- but those almost seemed to underscore the wider world of innovative animation Oscar was ignoring. Over the last several Oscar seasons, the roster of nominated films has seemed so predictable and unadventurous that some commentators have suggested abolishing the category.

Nobody's saying that this year. While Pixar's "Up" (also nominated for best picture) is considered the likely winner, it's definitely nothing like a formulaic kid-flick -- and it's also the only computer-animated film among the five nominees. After more than a decade of CGI dominance, handmade is suddenly all the rage: Even Disney's nominated "The Princess and the Frog" was hand-drawn, as if in a deliberate effort to suggest that company's great tradition. Nominees also include two stop-motion literary adaptations aimed at a kidult crossover audience, Henry Selick's "Coraline" and Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox."

But those movies had all been widely seen, favorably reviewed and discussed as possible Oscar fodder. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, was prepared for the nomination of "The Secret of Kells," a dazzling, not to mention utterly charming, hand-drawn fable about a 12-year-old boy's adventures in early medieval Ireland. "We thought we might be in line for some Irish and European awards, and that would be that," says director Tomm Moore. "The Oscars? No way. That never entered my mind."

Continue Reading:http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/the_secret_of_kells/index.html?story=/ent/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/03/04/secret_of_kells

[figmentmom]

Wow, I've never even heard of this movie! Looks great, though.