The Animation Show 2005

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04/19/2013 I may just be biased as a fan of short animation, but this is a wonderful collection of awesome films! Sure I've seen some better ones, but these are still great! See more 10/15/2012 One of the strangest and most random things to ever come out from animation... But it's absurdity and abstract sense of humor really makes the movie funny. It's made to look like a kid doodled on a bunch paper and drew whatever came to his mind. It's like a parody of the senseless children programs. LEAVE ALL LOGIC BEHIND AND JUST ENJOY THE CRAZINESS. See more 04/02/2012 A great collection of brilliant shorts See more 06/06/2011 Don Hertfeldt is great. Most of the others aren't so great. But Don Hertfeldt is great See more 08/15/2010 Bookended by three brilliantly hilarious Hertzfeldt scenes, the original theatrical release of this was an unparalleled event for animation of all varieties; giants Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt team up to show audiences the best that animation has to offer in sequences both classic and perhaps never before broadcast. Shamefully, the DVD version of this leaves out the two best sequences in the film proper. See more 03/12/2006 Judge and Hertzfeltd return once again to produce a theatrical collection of some of the best short animations our world has to offer. The second annual [i]Animation Show[/i] prooves that these two are quickly becoming the next Spike and Mike. Featuring a variety of animation from around the world and around the corner, this collection is a real treat. [i]Bunnies[/i] (2002): This 30 second, 2D animation from Germany is very cute and bizzare examining the everyday futuristic urban life. This was used as the introduction to the [i]Animation Show[/i]. [i]Guard Dog[/i] (2003): The brilliantly independant Bill Plympton has done it again. [i]Guard Dog[/i] is a quirky short about a dog who considers all the consequences in order to protect his master. The short is filled with Plympton's usual slapstick jokes that never get old. [i]F.E.D.S.[/i] (2002): [i]F.E.D.S.[/i] stands for Food Education Demo Specialists and is a documentary about of a group of grocery store clerks who try to keep up their perky attitudes. This short is by Jen Drummond who worked as an animator on [i]Waking Life[/i] and she uses the same style here as well. This is easily a prime example of how rotoscoping is not dead. [i]Pan with Us[/i] (2003): One of the most experimental of the bunch, [i]Pan with Us[/i] tells the story of the Greek god Pan through 2D animation done in stop motion. Director David Russo produces some unique animation by using some creative stop-motion techniques such as shooting an endless amount of frames rolled out on a road or shooting individual shot of an eagle flying through different backgrounds being held up. [i]Ward 13[/i] (2003): Stop-motion is definitily not dead and [i]Ward 13[/i] is evidence. When a man named Ben gets in a car accident he awakes in a hospital filled with bizzare patients and twice as bizzare doctors. Ben soon fines himself fighting for his life trying to escape from the ward. What develops is an entertaining action-comedy including a brilliant chase scene with wheelchairs. [i]Hello[/i] (2003): A tape player falls in love with a CD player, but always fiddle with his tapes to find the right words to say. He seeks helps from a record player. A great piece of 2D animation with some beautiful lighting and shadows. [i]Rock Fish[/i] (2002): Debuting at last year's SIGGRAPH, [i]Rock Fish[/i] is a feature-quality 3D animation about a man and his...alien pet fishing under the rocky terrain of a planet. Everything about this animation just works. The 3D animation is perfectly modelled and animated, the acting is believable, the story simple enough to work and the music fits. [i]The Man With No Shadow [/i](2004): Georges Schwizgebel returns with another piece of beautiful animation done with acrylics painted on cels. Just like last year's [i]LA COURSE À L'ABÎME, [/i]his newest animation has the same flow making smooth transitions between scenes. The story is basically about a man who looses his shadow. [i]Fallen Art[/i] (2004): Many will think I am sick for writing this, but Fallen Art was the most hilarious short of the show. This 3D animation starts out with a superior officer pushing a soldier off a very tall tower. Once he splats on the concrete, some skinny dude takes a picture and hands it off to another soldier. That soldier gives it a fat man in a large room where he puts the picture in a machine. He than plays back all the photos of splattered soldiers to dance music and the pictures put together look as if the soldiers are dancing across the concrete. Twisted, but brilliantly stylized and creatively thought out. [i]When the Day Breaks[/i] (1999): Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby may be the next Ralph Bakshi of animation with their direction and animation for [i]When the Day Breaks[/i]. They chose a very interesting way to rotoscope by shooting the actions of human actors on Hi-8, transferring that to VHS, printing certain frames and altering them. The story is about a pig who goes to the market and witnesses a chicken killed in a car crash. [i]Fireworks[/i] (2004): Quick stop-motion of candy depicting fireworks. Nothing much to say. [i]The Meaning of Life[/i] (2005): Everyone probably loves Don Hertzfeldt for his hilarious cult classic shorts [i]Billy's Balloon[/i] and [i]Rejected[/i]. If those prooved how well Hertfeldt does comedy, [i]Meaning of Life[/i] prooves that he is a master of 2D animation. Although this isn't as funny as Hertzfeldt's previous animations, [i]Meaning of Life[/i] is a visual masterpiece. It starts with about 60 different human beings just walking and repeating common phrases. The animation then whips away to some glorious shots of space and other alien creatures. It is important to keep in mind that NONE of this was done with computers. Every bit of animation I saw on screen was hand-drawn and it is pretty unbelievable. Overall, this year's [i]Animation Show[/i] was terrific and I enjoyed just about every short. While last year's [i]Animation Show[/i] kept the audiance laughing (I found myself laughing pretty hard), this year's show kept the audiance in awe. If there is one thing that [i]The Animation Show 2005[/i] can say, it is that the future looks bright for animation of all forms. See more Read all reviews

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