Meanwhile in Japan...
Showing posts with label ANIMATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ANIMATION. Show all posts
Watch Me Move
FYI, the animation exhibition at the Barbican is superb. Go see it. Tracing the history of animation over the past 150 years, the show brings together contemporary artists, popular favourites, and animators from the earliest days of moving pictures.
Here are two highlights...
Frank Film, 1972, by Frank and Caroline Mouris. The first ever mash-up.
The Skeleton Dance, 1929, by Disney.
WHEN YOU ARE ENGULFED IN FLAMES
I've been in Japan for the past few weeks and have fallen in love with the Japanese way of doing things: their clean design, their muted colour palette, their delicious octopus balls, their dignified way of behaving with each other... even the In-flight Safety Video on Japan Airlines is the most entertaining one I've ever seen - particularly when the passengers gleefully flee the plane at around the 4 minute mark.
JUMPING
In this award-winning 1984 animation by Tezuka Osamu, a boy skips down a street, his stride becomes bigger and bigger until he's jumping over towns, forests and seas. Going higher and further, the boy's jump turns to a god's jump, reaching a point where he is watching over human destiny.
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