Animation Show 4

[6souls]

I went to see this tonight. It's a collection of animated shorts selected by Mike Judge & Don Hertzfeldt. Unfortunately, Minneap MN is the final stop on the tour, so i thought i'd go ahead and post links to the shorts that were presented tonight so you can enjoy them any time.

The films presented were;

Show Opener by Joel Trussel (2008

Psychotown (3 episodes) by Dave Carter (2007)
http://www.thedavecartershow.com/video/psych02.html


Burning Safari by Gobelins (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UmVrKC9hA

Operator by Matthew Walker (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKklKL8D9HA

Yompi the Cock Biting Sloup (3 episodes) by Corky Quakenbush (2006)
http://www.superdeluxe.com/sd/conten...206ECDC48ECCB6 (old Lady ep)

Mr Schwartz, Mr Hazen, and Mr Horlocker by Stefan Mueller (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emynI9QGSJo

Love Sport: Paintballing by Grant Orchid (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEOFVCqZZY

Angry Unpaid Hooker by Steve Dildarjan (2005)
http://homepage.mac.com/steved5/3fil...Theater73.html

Blind Spot by Gobelins (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg3QHDlVfAg

Usavich (3 episodes) by Satoshi Tomioka (2006)
vol.1-vol.5
vol.6-vol.10
vol.11-vol.15
vol.16-vol.20
vol.21-vol.26

Prof Nieto Show ep1 by Nieto (2007)

Voodoo by Gobelins (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPyQao7d7Co

John and Karen by Matthew Walker (2007)
http://en.con-can.com/watch/preview....e=low&start=10

Cocotte Minute by Gobelins (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1zhIX3qiko

Jeu by Georges Schwizgebel (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w786PEu-4t8 (Trailer)

Key Lime Pie by Trevor Jiminez (2007)

Raymond by BIF (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ARXzELQ_LM

Forgetfulness by Julian Grey (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrEPJh14mcU

Hot Dog by Bill Plympton (2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWw-9L87fSk (Trailer)

Spaghetti Western by PES (2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjLW5_dGAM

This Way Up by Smith & Foulkes (2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGvv-5_G1Y (Trailer)

[Tyr]

Wow - I just randomly clicked Spaghetti Western and that was awesome =D Time to spend valuable study minutes on these clips.


EDIT:
What do Mike Judge and Hertzfeldt have to do with this? I know nothing of this stuff, but Mike Judge doesn't strike me as an "artist" in the sense that these cartoons are not just animation, but great art. Where'd Hertzfeldt go after his inital cartoon, then "Rejection," and I think those poptarts ads?

Hot Dog looks amazing
Forgetfulness was a really nice poem / great animation to go with it
Raymond is -hilarious- def a favorite
Cocotte Minute was meh.
John and Karen - OMG my new favorite. Holy shit I was laughing from start to finish -- esp when Karen opened the door. For a second, I thought John ate the guy in Karen's photo above his head...
Voodoo - didn't like it, wasn't anything particularly great
Blind Spot - now this was pretty awesome. VERY dark.
Angry Unpaid Hooker - dialogue was hilarious, ending could have been much better.
LoveSport - omg. That was beautiful and hilarious. I love how it was always one last guy running away before things escalated...
Mr. Shwartz, Mr. Hazen, Mr Horlocker - some nice art, the fake talking was annoying, took too long for me to get into it. Some conceptually interesting shots, but otherwise mediocre in comparison
Operator - short & sweet. I tried licking my elbow
Burning Safari - very nice animation, the robots were cute

Top 5 (I haven't seen the episodic ones)
1) John and Karen
2) Raymond
3) Love Sport
4) Western Spaghetti
5) Angry Unpaid Hooker

[6souls]

EDIT:
What do Mike Judge and Hertzfeldt have to do with this? I know nothing of this stuff, but Mike Judge doesn't strike me as an "artist" in the sense that these cartoons are not just animation, but great art. Where'd Hertzfeldt go after his inital cartoon, then "Rejection," and I think those poptarts ads?

About The Animation Show

Mike Judge presents The Animation Show!

The Animation Show is a showcase for the world's greatest independent animated short films. We currently license animated short films for a variety of programs including our theatrical and DVD collections, iTunes and web channels and for television (via MTV).

The Animation Show was started as an annual feature-length theatrical compilation of short films from around the world, exclusively curated by Mike Judge (Office Space, "Beavis and Butt-Head," "King of the Hill") and Academy Award nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt (Billy's Balloon, Rejected, The Meaning of Life).

As animation continues to be plagued as the single most misunderstood film medium, the animated short film is sadly undervalued and underexposed in American cinema, despite widespread appreciation throughout the rest of the world. With luck, popular animated shorts may see limited theatrical play, but most are relegated to the dungeons of the internet, or with luck, DVD.

The theatrical animation festival was born in 1976 with the launch of the Fantastic Animation Festival. This was the first show to create the now-universal "program on a flyer" and the first to receive a first-run 35mm theatrical release. The Fantastic Festival's popularity helped pave the way shortly thereafter for similar commercial programs throughout the 80s and 90s, including Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, the Tournee of Animation, and several others that came and went with varying success.

The Animation Show launched in 2003, making it the first festival of animation created and produced with actual animators at the helm. A sister series of high quality Animation Show DVDs now supplement the theatrical tour with additional insights and brand new lineups of films - while the main Show remains a unique and unforgettable annual program that is usually gone forever once it is out of theaters.

Every year the Show works diligently to put animated shorts into more theaters than any festival in American history: giving these filmmakers the wide exposure their work deserves and sharing their short masterpieces on the big screen, where they belong.

http://www.animationshow.com/
http://www.animationshow.com/About

[Tyr]

Man that was some gooooood stuff - thanks for that. I'll look into it a bit later, I can't get over John & Karen - great animation, hilarious, and wonderful voice acting.

Plus, penguin.

[6souls]

oops, looks like i was wrong about that being the final show. others have been added;

# Charlottetown, PEI – Playing August 22 – 24th, 2008
City Cinema – 64 King St. – 902.368.3669

# Lincoln, NE – Opening August 29th, 2008
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center – 313 N. 13th St. – 402.472.5353

# Milwaukee, WI – Opening September 26th, 2008
The Times Cinema – 5906 W. Vliet St. – 414.453.3128

# Rochester, NY – Playing September 27 - 28th, 2008
George Eastman House – Dryden Theatre – 900 East Ave. – 585-271-4090

# Cleveland, OH – Playing September 27th - 28th, 2008
Cleveland Cinematheque– 311141 East Boulevard – 800.223.4700

# Doylestown, PA – Opening October 13th, 2008
The County Theater – 20 E. State St. – 215.345.6789

# Ambler, PA – Opening October 16th, 2008
Ambler Theater – 108 E. Butler Ave. – 215.345.7855

[Correction]

They have a lot of their older toons on myspace (yeah, myspace )

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...nelID=29833456