RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

I can't speak to the content, but I found the animation to be very compelling.

The content was taken from a speech given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson.

BBC Inuit animation

STUDIO AKA have produced a stylized animation for the BBC to promote the Olympics. From their site:

BAFTA winning Director MARC CRASTE worked with desiger JON KLASSEN in creating the look of the spot, setting the film around a legendary quest, 'whereby an Inuit hero has to retrieve a spiritual stone that has been taken by a giant Bear from a mystical totem. In the process of his mission our hero draws on his skills in a series of challenging & physically brutal Olympic style sports to recover the precious ice locked stone, thus restoring light and peace to his dark and troubled world'.

Breathtaking!
[h/t: Drawn.ca]

Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance

If you haven't seen the stop-motion music video "Her Morning Elegance" by Oren Lavie, do yourself a favour and take a 3 and half minute break to watch it now.



[h/t: Mate & blogs]

Promoting the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

Stephen Worth recently asked folks to promote the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. My words don't do the project justice. So here are John Kricfalusi's words from an archived post:

"At the Archive, not only can you view the cartoons, you can also see a great collection of cartoon related art- art that inspired many of the animators of the past. Children's book illustrations, comic books, comic strips... it's all there. ASIFA-Hollywood is also collecting interviews and articles about cartoonists, animators and illustrators to tell the history of animation through the stories of the artists who created it."

Swing by, you'll be amazed at what you find!

The 50 Greatest Cartoons

The 50 Greatest Cartoons as voted on by the animation industry in 1994. (As seen at CityRag.) It's going to take me quite some time to catch-up on all the ones I haven't seen before!

1. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)
3. The Band Concert (1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
10. King Size Canary (1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (1928)
14. The Old Mill (1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (1929)
19. Snow White (1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
25. The Big Snit (1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (1988)
33. Superman (1941)
34. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (1952)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1941)
40. Peace on Earth (1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
45. Book Revue (1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
47. Corny Concerto (1943)
48. The Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
49. The Dover Boys (1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (1923)

For more info, see the Wikipedia entry.