Let Me Entertain You!

12 Animations produced around the world ranging from historical to modern.

• (2016) Forms in Nature- Chromosphere (International)
  
  Chromosphere is a international (spanning  design and animation studio. I selected this piece for its effective visual storytelling by blending organic and man made structures through stitching scenes together by a strong geometric shape.
• (1998) Kirkou and the Sorceress - Michel Ocelot (France)

The french and Belgium production 'Kirkou and the Sorceress' was the source of unpredictable and frivolous controversy about the use of unsexualised nudity in this African folk tale inspired film.The pictorial style of animation is heavily influenced by African and Egyptian art. 


• (1955) Gumbasia- Art Clokey (USA)
  
  Claymation is first used in 1921. As an early experimental use of claymation in abstract storytelling, Clokey followed kinesthetic film principles where he relied on the feeling the reality-suspending visuals induce for understanding.
• (2018/19) Significant Otherness - Onesal (Japan)

A complex CGI piece created for Pause Fest 2019. I like the intense choreography of the motions. The focus on texture and lighting allows for that visual mesh of technology and human organs to come across fluently to the viewer.


• (2018) A Gong (Grandpa) - Zozo Jhen, Yen-Chen Liu, Ellis Kayin Chan, Tena van der Galovic (France)
  
  Oil pastels and 2D animating are fully celebrated through the warm textures of the backgrounds and slow, human staging of each scene.
• (1949) Song of the Prairie Arie - Jiri Trnka (Czech)
  
  I like the use of sound and the character designs of the puppets. The constant stream of music sets the pace of the story and helps to clue in the audience to upcoming downfalls and immersive them into the mood of the film.
• (1949) Marriage Wows - Famous Studios (USA)
  
  A funny 2D animation full of light-hearted visual gags and good examples of exaggeration and subversion. 
• (1908) Fantasmagorie - Emile Cohl (france)
  
  Often credited as the first animation ever, Fantasmagorie seems imperative to reference to (even only internally) as a critical source in understanding the development and history of animation.
• (2014) The Bigger Picture - Daisy Jacobs (UK)
  The Bigger Picture from daisy jacobs on Vimeo.
  
  Immediately, the use of squash and stretch to spring out the main character and the clash of 2d and 3d form are very jarring to the eye. It unsettles the scene giving way for tension and an uncomfortable dynamic within the family.These effective storytelling techniques reminding me of The Ring as they are subtle like the trick of recording scenes backwards to only play them forward to achieve a sense of wrongness.
• (2017) In/Ex Troversion - Julia Gomes Rodrigues (Brazil)
  
  While the roughness of the animation leaves this source far from the polished quality of those above, the narrative is clearly conveyed. The style is a good example of what is trendy for the time as well as the overall narrative clearly linking to a popular subject for the tumblr era: the struggles and charm of the introvert.