Audio/Video Samples

Watched this last night on Film4; what an amazing story, and the quality of the animation is fantastic, only once did i notice a repeated scene (played through then rewound). Fantastic, here's the trailer and if you haven't seen it, make every effort to watch it!



Growing list - Might help anyone else on the course reading this too; some, variable in quality, Public Domain/Royalty Free Sound Effects and Songs;



Enjoy!


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Here is where I will simply list and document any relevant audio or video clips I find online, or elsewhere.


Sadly the only version I can find of this interview, quality is poor but still watchable for the most part. Being one of my initial inspirations to my work, Michael Du Dok De Wit produces very high quality hand drawn animations that feature very serious topics such as in Father and Daughter.


I especially like the backgrounds in this cartoon, and it's something I wish to replicate to a degree in my own project. I also am inspired by his directorship and use of shadows/lighting, reminiscent of Film Noir - Which is a personal favourite pastime of mine.


The Monk and the Fish, the last video of De Wit's that I will be posting. The second meaning to the characters, situation and plot of this film is where I've taken major inspirations for my work. The representational qualities in the fish being religion and the the Monks' struggle to catch it, find it etc works on two levels, at the front it's really very humerous and fun to watch, but at the same time it carries a depth and philosophical meaning that really appeals and is perhaps true of not just the individual but of life for all mankind.



Probably the most famous cartoon of all time, and one of the first animated feature films.



In accordance, supposedly the first motion picture ever made, is also a nice and slow animation series of a horse running.



A Royalty free (via the above website) song from Moby that i am considering using for the animation.





This seriously anti-Semitic clip from 1968 is nevertheless a mind-bending and hypnotic work of art, and reflects on the still valid issue of the worship of the money contra purity of art.

Glass Harmonica was shelved by Soviet censors who found it ideologically disturbing. It was finally released after perestroika. It was the first animated film scored by the late legendary Russian composer Alfred Schnittke. The animators Yulo-Ilmar Sooster and Yuri Nolyev-Sobolev, were among the most important artists of the Soviet underground. Before finding refuge at Soyuzmultfilm, they participated at the famous and controversial Manege (opposite the Kremlin) exhibit of underground art which was closed down by Khruschev and condemned by Soviet press.

This 20 min. film is from the Masters Of Russian Animation DVD set - an extraordinary collection of Russia's most important animated short films by Russia's world renowned directors.




Trailer from the 2006 release, Renaissance. CG animated feature film, cell rendered to look like a noir comic, the visual style is something i very much wish to replicate in my own work through various techniques and mediums.