It gets harder and harder each year to find artwork that you may not have seen before by your favorite artists from the past. Over at his Disney and More blog, Alain Littaye has posted several pieces by Marc Davis. Alain explains that tthe reason these are so rare is that many of them show ideas for the attreaction that were never used. At any rate, they are a great find.
These kinds of videos must take forever to make. There are several videos online of famous figures singing. This is achieved by splicing together bits and pieces from various interviews, speeches, and sound bites until you have all the lyrics you need.
The strange thing is that these songs seem to start to take on a whole new meaning, depending upon who is “singing” them. What do you think about pieces like these? Are they just clever edits done by people with too much time on their hands, or are they something more?-Floyd Bishop
This commercial is a bit odd, but it works well enough. The set up is that babies used to get all of their mother’s attention, due to their soft smooth skin. Fathers have now discovered the Wilkinson Sword razor, allowing them the same smooth soft skin. What will babies due to get back the attention of their mommys? The battle continues at the Fight For Kisses website.
I don’t know how many razors this will sell, but it is an interesting way to promote a product.
Rob Richards, host of the Animation Backgrounds Blog (always worth a look), has another interesting blog called Cels and Setups. It’s a great guide to collecting, restoring and displaying animation cels. I love pouring over the before-and-afters.
Richards is also an accomplished organist. He regularly plays the Mighty Wurlitzer at the El Capitan Theater. (As seen in this YouTube clip, complete with yakking kids, woozy video work, and people walking in front of the camera.)
Good news (I hope). You no longer need to register to comment on The Fairly Odd-blog.
A few people have been sniping at me at the change in our comments system a few months ago. We added Disqus (pronounced ‘discuss’) after checking it out at the suggestion of our Tumblr friends, and realized it was a powerful way of not only for commenters to start a conversation directly with each other, but an easy way for them to discover other people in a wider community of blogs they might want to start reading.
That said, I probably made it a little harder to use than necessary by insisting that everyone register at Disqus before they could post. Aside from the folks that got confused, the extra step discouraged at lot of people from participating at all. That’s why the change.
Hope this makes it easier, and fun-ner, to be a part of our blog community. Please let me know.
–Fred
Good news (I hope). You no longer need to register to comment on Frederator Blogs.
A few people have been sniping at me at the change in our comments system a few months ago. We added Disqus (pronounced ‘discuss’) after checking it out at the suggestion of our Tumblr friends, and realized it was a powerful way of not only for commenters to start a conversation directly with each other, but an easy way for them to discover other people in a wider community of blogs they might want to start reading.
That said, I probably made it a little harder to use than necessary by insisting that everyone register at Disqus before they could post. Aside from the folks that got confused, the extra step discouraged at lot of people from participating at all. That’s why the change.
Hope this makes it easier, and fun-ner, to be a part of our blog community. Please let me know.
–Fred
Bill Melendez, perhaps best known for his work with Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts” characters has passed away. In his career, he animated on a wide range of projects, including Disney’s “Pinocchio”, UPA’s “Gerald McBoing Boing”, and Ralph Bakshi’s “Cool World”. His work as animator, director, producer, and even as a voice actor, will live on in animation history. Bill Melendez was 91.
-Floyd Bishop
If you are interested in a FLASH of enlightenment, check out these Alan Watts Theater cartoons. They were produced by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame. According to Cold Hard Flash, animators Chris Brion and Todd Benson are the folks who keyframed original recordings of Watts.
For more on Watts, see this website.
On the jump, another Matt and Trey project from the vault, a hysterical video about Universal Studios . [Read more…]
I hate to break it to you, but you missed out on seeing a very cool show at the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Oh well, so did I. It was called “Animatus” and it featured the work of Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee, who creates exquisite and intricate skeletons of cartoon characters.
Here’s more of his work from the Arario New York gallery site. Here is some brainy text that explains it.
Thanks to Michael Sporn for alerting me to this work by writing about it on Splog.
After the jump, a video tour of Lee’s work in the Venice Biennale 2007. [Read more…]
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