Bacanno is set in the 1930's in America, very different to the usual Japanese settings. Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.
Today we did a little trivia with the 2nd years about Ray Harryhausen the creator of special effects or commonly known as stop motion. So the man with the gorilla, could only be the one and only RAY HARRYHAUSEN!
Harryhausen is most famous for his works in stop motion films, 'Mighty Joe Young' released in 1952 and 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' 1949. The amazing special effects that Harryhausen did included the scene in 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad' was a stop motioned skeleton fighting and a live action Sinbad.
So, I relised when we were mucking around with Flash today that I've seen an animated video about it. If you've been on DeviantArt you have probably already seen it.
There's two versions of the animation, I like the second one better so I'm featuring it, if you want to watch the first one here's the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo1d6ttbAq8.
When watching 'The Incredibles' did you sense a feeling of deja vu when you see the two old men commenting on the final fight. Well it's possibly because they were fetured in another animated movie 'The Iron Giant' directed by Brad bird. Brad Bird wanted to honour both Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnson who were both cameoes in the two animated movies. They were his idols and mentors when he joined Disney.
In 'The Incredibles' they are seen talking to each other...
Frank: Hey you see that
Ollie: Yer
Frank: Thats the way to do it, that's old school
Ollie: Yeah, old school like the old school
Being one of the elite 'Nine Old Men' from Disney, Frank worked along with many animated flilms, such as the animated sequence in 'Lady in the Tramp'. The link below will lead you to the scene that Frank drew for Lady and the Tramp': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxDdz-Anls
Here's Frank and Ollie talking about animation process in 'The illusion of Life'
One of Disney’s classic animated well-known films, ‘Lady and the Tramp’ is the story centred on a young female cocker spaniel dog who meets the street smart Tramp. Disney’s ideas from scenes in the film were centred on events he went through and influenced by the people he surrounded himself with. There were two main people who influenced the ‘ideas’ incorporated into ‘Lady and the tramp’, Joe Grant and Ward Greene. In fact it was Joe Grant who owned the dog Lady and at a dinner get-together Grant showed Walt a few sketches of Lady and her regular playful mischiefs. Walt liked the idea of doing a film about Lady and Grant went on to create storyboards for a film. Unfortunately the film was put on hold for a couple of years. Walt relooked at the idea of Lady after he read a story written by Ward Greene called ‘Happy Dan the Cynical Dog’ this was a few years after the idea was first created. Thus it wasn’t until Walt merged Grant’s storyboards and Greene’s story that ‘Lady and the Tramp’ could be perfected into the film you see today. Some ideas for ‘Lady and the Tramp’ originated from events and things he did, like how in the movie, Lady was given to the wife in a hat box, it has been implied that Walt had done the same thing and decided to use that in the film. The film was released in 1955 and has now become a timeless family loved film.
Hey I'm Amy and this is the starting line for my first blog post. A few artist that i draw inspiration from are Endling and yuumei, you can checkout there art at:
I don't know many animations or animators only some things I've seen on DeviantArt and Youtube.
There's an animation company called Studio 4°C, they have been involved in some amazing works like Tekkonkinkreet Movie, Berserk Movie, The Animatrix and more. One of my personal favourites is Kung Fu Love (Amazing Nuts) and Fluximation. Kung Fu Love is a 10min Ova with a pretty random plot, but the art style is really interesting and the COLOURS are so vibrant, it's really amazing.
Kung Fu Love as known as Amazing Nuts
Tekkonkinkreet is based on a comic by Taiyo Matusmoto and animated by Mustuko Kajiya
Fluximation is 14 short music videos for Utada Hikaru's album "Exodus".
Directed by Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Hideki Himura, Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Jiro Kanai, Yoshiharu Ashino, Yasuhiro Aoki, Atsuko Fukushima, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Daisuke Nakayama.
This is the Studio 4°C Music Video Collection 01 Opening
This is the first animation i saw on DA and I haven't forgotten about since.
Here's another example that i found and liked on DA.
Some videos of cartoons that i love and enjoy
Potatoes and Dragons
Fly Tales
What got my into animation was mostly anime and Studio Ghibli. My obsession spreads through anime and manga, a few examples would be Oh great! but thats more manga then anime (the anime wasn't that great, funny but not well drawn), Soul Eater, Burst Angel, Sword of the stranger, Studio Ghilbli mostly like Nausica Valley of the Wind (TOXIC JUNGLE..sooo well drawn like all his works). I also love durarara! and Baccano mostly for there story though :D.
In our group discussion of our animated influences i mentioned 'MUTO' which was painted/animated by BLU. His works are very 'out there' and abstract (well thats my impression). Its a style you don't see very often.
If you liked MUTO and want to see more of his works here's his website http://www.blublu.org/
