#Animated shorts

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

INDIE Animation and other animated works I'm excited to hopefully see in 2023.

[lackadaisycats]

Shop Talk - featuring Chikn Nuggit!

Wanna know how a Chikn Nuggit is made? We'll be chatting about it with creator/animator Kyra Kupetsky and writer/animator Allie Mehner tomorrow! Join us and bring your questions too!

Friday November 17th

3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET

Live on the Lackadaisy YouTube Channel

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990)

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Animated Short: Rondo Across Countless Kalpas

Voiceover: EN | JP | CN | KR

[masterhallmark]

I'm just gonna say it: these two shorts did a better job selling me on the "Lysandre was a good person who unfortunately lost his mind as he sank into despair" thing than the games did at the time they came out.

[roseofhybrids]

Tried reblogging something a minute ago, but Tumblr gave me an error and now that post's gone into the void

but anyway, the point was that animated movies are still cinema and as such will have darker themes. And that those darker animated movies deserved to have their art direction, cinematography, and story telling appreciated beyond "wow isn't it kinda weird that this cartoon is so violent and bloody"

Not every animated movie/show is made for kids, and even when they ARE specifically made for children, toddlers even. They're still made by adult people, and sometimes those people have something to say with their art

anyway some recommendations:

There's a man in the woods

The Backwater Gospel

Sundown Any of the SIAMES, Rare Americans, or MILGRAM music videos, but I'll link to Summer Nights - Alone In The Darkness - Hullabaloo[flashing light warning] - Cats, Dogs, & Rats - The Purge March - and Cat anything by Cartoon Saloon

if you prefer anime: Bochi the Rock Odd Taxi Mob Psycho 100 [hi Mel] Perfect Blue

[moodytanuki]

Reminder I made a short film called Waterproof!!! You should watch it, it’s pretty cute :) 🐶 🐱

[demifiendrsa]

Tales of the Empire | Official Trailer

All 6 shorts of the follow-up to Tales of the Jedi, Tales Of The Empire, will stream on Disney+ on May 4, 2024.

Poster

[can-of-pringles]

I found some of the obscure nostalgic kids movies I got from the library as a kid

I thought this one was all separate movies, but it's a collection of shorts based on books!

Harry the Dirty Dog, the main one and probably the most recognizable?

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Angus and the Ducks (this one was live-action)

The Beast of Monsieur Racine

Fourteen Rats & a Rat-Catcher

John Brown, Rose, and the Midnight Cat (I don't remember this one as much...)

Bonus, a separate movie that I also got from the library (embarrassed to admit how much this movie plagued my thoughts trying to find it)

A Cat's Tale (2008)

[arconinternet]

Ecotoons (Video, 1993)

You can watch this VHS tape of thirty ecology-themed short animated films here.

[lightwise]

OH SNAP

[thefugitivesaint]

‘Curious Alice’ was an anti-drug production created by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) targeting 8 to 10 year olds on the dangers of using drugs. The messaging is muddled, overshadowed by the wonderfully alluring cut-and-paste montage animation (described in many reviews of the film as “Monty Pythonesque”).  “...the film shows young Alice reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland in a sunny dappled meadow before nodding off. She soon finds herself plunging down the rabbit hole and in a wonderland … of drugs. The King of Hearts is hawking heroin. The Mad Hatter is tripping balls on LSD. The hookah-smoking Caterpillar is stoned out of his gourd. The Dormouse is in a barbiturate-induced stupor and the March Hare, who looks like the Trix Bunny’s ne’er-do-well brother, is a fidgeting tweaker. “You oughta have some pep pills! Uppers!” he exclaims. “Amphetamines! Speed! You feel super good.” You can essentially ignore the confused anti-drug narrative of the film while appreciating the animation. And, it’s the animation that I wanted to focus on here, namely, how the “scratched, torn, and spliced print” whose “color had faded so that all of those vibrant hues were reduced to pasty pink” held by the National Archives was resuscitated by the film preservation specialist Charles Joholske (who died of cancer in 2009). After a copy of ‘Curious Alice’ was found in a defunct lab in Pennsylvania, it was taken to the Motion Picture Preservation lab of the National archive where:  “Charles Joholske took on the task of making new prints of Curious Alice, despite the fact that he could not use the color analyzer to time the negative. That meant he had to look at the image and make his best guess at what light values to use for the printer. Only it wasn’t a wild shot in the dark: Charlie had decades of experience and the ability to look at the negative and assign light values by eye. With a couple of short tests to confirm his educated guess, Charlie created the three polyester film prints that the National Archives holds today.” Another aspect of this story, as noted in the above article, is the fact that this kind of accumulated skill and talent is slowly being lost as specialists like Joholske die (or move on to other careers) and the labs dedicated to film preservation gradually evaporate for various reasons.  Give it a viewing. 

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Goofy in Aquamania (1961)

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Honkai: Star Rail | Animated Short: The Embers of Glamoth

Voiceover: EN / JP / CN / KR

[sadfragilegirl]

FIREFLY ANIMATED SHORT IS FINALLY RELEASED AND I AM IN TEARS RIGHT NOW!!!

PROTECT HER AT ALL COSTS!!

[lakefoundtheirexit]

Why am I not seeing anyone talk about this series??

Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God is a series of cute slice of life anime shorts on Crunchyroll about the lives of Egyptian gods, I binged through the whole series in a night I just wish more people were talking about it