ADVENTURE TIME Free Book!

Frederator is giving for free a 266 page book of best quotes and Storyboard frames of Adventure Time.
"Wit and Wisdom in the Land of Ooo: Great Quotations from Adventure Time" Enjoy it and download it if you want.

CHUCK AMUCK

It's 2012. The world didn't end, neither did the blog. After finals and well deserved rest...let's inaugurate the year 2012 with a documentary about Chuck Jones.

CHUCK AMUCK, The Movie (1991)
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"Bugs is an aspiration, Daffy is a realization"
   Chuck Jones.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter,producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts (Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?) were later inducted into the National Film Registry. Chief among Jones' other works was the famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1951–1953).

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

 

Chuck Jones' website

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION: The Muybridge Works at University of Pensilvania..

Here's a nice book for those interested in animal locomotion. It's a study on Muybridge's method and result of his work with animals at the University of pensilvania. It has a deeper explanation of how animals move around with very clear diagrams.

Like these fellas here:

And the best of it... It's public domain.
Download it here as a PDF
(Right click...save link as...for downloading it)

FRIDAY BONUS: Blair, Dinos and truckers

Mary Blair's 100th birthday

8 bit: The amazing work of french animator Jeremy Perin sent by Joe.

and Dinosaurs from 16 bit

Have a nice weekend.

ROBIN HOOD: Roto + Paint + Comp.

For those who didn't watch the movie, here's the intro for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood.
It was produced by ACME FILMWORKS and directed by  Gianluigi Toccafondo.
Best part of the movie. Enjoy.



Gianluigi Toccafondo of LA PISTA fame. //Beyond Rotoscope//.

EVERY CHILD: A fun exercise with sound.

 Eugene Fedorenko, a russian animator nested in the NFB, produced a short film called EVERY CHILD for Unesco in 1979 (The international year of children). The whole piece is animated over the sound improvisations of LES MIMES ELECTRIQUES 



Fedorenko is also the author of THE VILLAGE OF IDIOTS. Based of a jewish folk tale of a village full of idiots. What more do you want!

Bonus:
Speaking of machines for making weird sounds. Les Luthiers is a crazy argentinian comedy group that invented crazy instruments for performing live. Their comedy is mostly based on puns in spanish, but the instruments by themselves are great.



If you're interested look for more of this

THE OLD MAN & THE PAINT

Alexander Petrov's most well known film using the technique of paint on glass.

Whether you like the film or not, the craft behind its construction is amazing.

THE OLD MAN & THE SEA (JAPAN,1999)

Inspired by an American author, a russian animator and a japanese production company bring to the screen a tale of a caribbean fisherman down on his luck. Global film making.

Using his fingers and brushes, Petrov painted and photographed over 29,000 still frames for this film.
You can see some of his process in the following russian documentary. There's no subtitles, but scrub through and catch him working on the images.

Part 1

Part 2

BONUS

THE STREET by CAROLINE LEAF (1976)
In great quality.