Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Don Hertzfeld and other great animations

Its been awhile since i had seen anything by Don Hertzfeld, but they still made me laugh just the same.  I cant decide whether the fact that these are excellently animated or well planned.  Either way, the randomness combined with shock humor makes for a great laugh.  My favorite is probably "Rejected Cartoons" where Don combines both 2D animation with some stop motion photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI

As far as Simon's Cat goes, all his work is pretty genius.  Each of his animations start with everyday events and just escalate into huge ordeals, all the while animating the cat as as real as possible. This is probably the better approach for short animations which may come in handy.   

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