Animated Inspiration: Sita Sings the Blues

To whet everyone's appetite for this Wednesday's International Animation Day screening of Sita Sings the Blues, here's the trailer on YouTube.

Animated Inspiration: Le Phare

This week's animation comes from France's premiere animation school: Gobelins, l'ecole de l'image. It's a school where students work (and study) in teams to finish a completed film during the semester. They've just released their latest student film "Le Phare", a story about the unusual relationship between a lighthouse keeper and a moth. Supurb work, as usual.

Animated Inspiration: House of Cats

I saw this short animation "the House of Cats" on Jerry Beck's 'Cartoon Brew' blog months ago. So, as I just spent a second weekend at the Royal Ontario Museum photographing crystals and gems to gather source material for a still art idea, thought I'd share this little piece of inspiration.

House of Cats from Courtland Lomax on Vimeo.

Animated Inspiration: the Red and the Blue - the Water Tap

To commemorate my stop-motion animation weekend in Toronto, here's the Red and the Blue episode from Misseri Studios that I mentioned last week. It's stop-motion animation done with clay. Lots of funny morphs and transformations!