Hello.
We haven't done this for years and times change (for some of us)...so name your 10 favorite animated shorts from any era.
Thanks.
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A list of 10 would require some research because my memory for titles is very bad. I do wont to look one two animations, number one is the one about a French man living in the mountains planting trees and the other is a snow mad that comes to life. I know the snow man has David Bowie doing the narration.
I really do need to make a list and find those titles.
Not necessarily in order ...
W&G Wrong Trousers
Harvey Krumpet
Gorrilla my Dreams
Short History of America (crumb)
Das Rad (great German stop motion)
The Exorcist in 30 seconds and reenacted by Bunnies
Pixar's Knick Knack
Skeleton Dance (1929)
Street of Crocodiles (the Brothers Quay)
The Man with the Tree growing out of his head (not sure if that's the exact title)
OK, I'm going with:
- WB's Duck Amuck
- WB's Rabbit Seasoning
- Pixar's For The Birds
- Raoul Servais' Harpya
- Aardman's The Wrong Trousers
- Aardman's Next!
- Disney's The Band Concert
- Brothers Lauenstein's Balance
- MGM's Dumb-Hounded
- MGM's Out-Foxed
Mt. Head.
Here's mine:
1 Au Bout de Monde (At the End of the Earth) - One of the best uses of the animation medium ever, an example of using constraints to create a world with its own specific rules and so funny too!
2 Das Rad - Can't understand German but it didn't matter, a great story
3 Bully For Bugs - Makes me laugh every time
4 The Sandman by Paul Berry - so creepy and atmospheric
5 Brother by Adam Elliott - So moving and touching
6 Father and Daughter - beautifully drawn and again very moving
7 Street of Crocodiles - absolutely bonkers but what an aesthetic!
8 Taken by Adam Phillips - I love his Bitey Castle stuff but I like this one as it genuinely gave me a fright, something I didn't expect from a Flash web cartoon
9 The Wrong Trousers - Brilliant story and charecterisation
10 Badgers Badgers Badgers! - just funny and infectious
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The other film you're talking about Wontobe is 'The Snowman' based on the children's book by Raymond Briggs. It would be my number 11, it has that beautiful Frederick Back style of pencils on frosted animation paper and it makes me cry every time : )
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I met Michael Dudok de Wit at animation school in 2001, not long after he had won the Academy Award for 'Father and Daughter'. Our entire class thought 'The Monk and the Fish' was what should have gotten him an Academy Award earlier. Not that 'Father and Daughter' was a lot worse in any way but 'The Monk and the Fish' seemed to be much more appealing than the latter to most people there.
Heres my attempt at trying to find just 10.
1 Passage. Raimund Krumme
2. Tale of Tales. Yuri Norstein
3. Wind along the coast. Ivan Maximov
4. The man who planted trees. Frederic Back
5. La Coda. Gianluigi Toccafondo
6. Who I am and what I want. Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley
7. The Monk and the Fish. Michael Dudok de Wit
8. UBU. Geoff Dunbar
9. Revolver. Studio Filmtecknarna
10. Rotting Artist. Ann Course
I'm ashamed to say that I haven't seen 'The Monk and the Fish' :o. I'm off to Youtube.
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Best thing about these lists is catching up on the ones you've missed!
YES! Mt. Head it is. Thanks.