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The Village by Mark Baker (1993)

Mark Baker’s work typically features a deceptively simple, almost childlike hand-drawn visual style, but this conceals a far more sophisticated, adult-oriented view of the world. In a closed community fuelled by gossip and suspicion, one man dares to be different. … Continue reading

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The Monk and the Fish by Michaël Dudok de Wit (1994)

A monk sees a fish and goes to get his net to catch it. The fish eludes him and the monk gets rather agitated as he tries increasingly extreme ways of catching the fish. It was nominated for the Academy … Continue reading

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Café Bar – Alison De Vere (1974)

I find it hard to tell you why I like this film, it just works, it’s funny, moving and very colourful. So readers, Brilliant! I hope, will sum it up, writes Paul Thomas in Animator mag.

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Simon’s Cat in ‘The Box’ (2009)

A curious cat investigates an empty cardboard box. Made by English animator Simon Tofield using Adobe Flash software, drawing on an A4-size Wacom Intuos tablet. The Simon’s Cat website.

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Ollie Johnston Remembers Freddie Moore

This video has been removed from YouTube Ollie Johnston recounts his memory of Freddie Moore’s magic from the documentary “Frank and Ollie”. Ollie was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning … Continue reading

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The man who planted trees by Frédéric Back (1987)

The animation technique uses coloured pencils on frosted cels, with pastel backgrounds. French writer Jean Giono was an environmentalist who was ahead of his time. Animator Frédéric Back came across Giono’s story in the magazine Le sauvage in 1974. It … Continue reading

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