Animation Nation
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Animation Nation is an annual festival held in Singapore
featuring animation
feature
films, animation
short
, seminars, and workshops. It was founded in 2004 and is organised by the Singapore Film Society, a non-profit organisation based in Singapore. The main aim of the festival is to showcase recent works from around the world, and there is also a local segment called the Singapore Showcase which portrays animation works by Singaporeans. This is to promote local talent and bring awareness to the public. Currently, Animation Nation is the largest known animation festival in the country.
's Gallery Theatre. Other venues would be the upcoming Fusionopolis
and the library@esplanade
.
Feature films
Selected Short films
Selected Short films
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
featuring animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
feature
Feature
A feature is a distinct property or piece, which may refer to:- Science and technology :* Feature is an intentional distinguishing characteristic of a software item ....
films, animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
short
Short
Short may refer to:* Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit* Short , stock-trading position* Short film, a cinema format* Short subject, a cinema format used almost interchangeably with short film...
, seminars, and workshops. It was founded in 2004 and is organised by the Singapore Film Society, a non-profit organisation based in Singapore. The main aim of the festival is to showcase recent works from around the world, and there is also a local segment called the Singapore Showcase which portrays animation works by Singaporeans. This is to promote local talent and bring awareness to the public. Currently, Animation Nation is the largest known animation festival in the country.
Seminars & Workshops
- Animation Development Workshop - Ervin Ann
- Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Realities of Production Animation for Games and Movies - Jazno Francoeur and Michael Cottam
- Working on Square Enix
- Skan Srisuwan
Selected Film Programme
- Secret of Kells (2009) by Tomm MooreTomm MooreTomm Moore is an Irish illustrator, comics artist and filmmaker. He is co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company, based in Kilkenny, Ireland...
and Nora TwomeyNora TwomeyNora Twomey is an Irish animator and filmmaker. She is a partner in Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company, based in Kilkenny City, Ireland.-Early life:... - Mary and MaxMary and MaxMary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the...
(2009) by Adam ElliotAdam ElliotAdam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary... - Waltz with BashirWaltz with BashirWaltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
(2008) by Ari FolmanAri FolmanAri Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director... - Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (2009) by Nishikubo Mizuho / 西久保 瑞穂
- Barefoot Gen / はだしのゲン (1983) by Masaki Mori / 真崎 守
- Barefoot Gen 2Barefoot Gen 2 (anime)is an action drama anime following Barefoot Gen .-Plot:* See the Plot of the main article of Barefoot GenBarefoot Gen 2 takes place 3 years after the end of the original movie, with Gen trying to cope during the early post-war reconstruction of Japan...
/ はだしのゲン2 (1986) by Hirata Toshio / 平田 敏夫 - From Inside (2008) by John BerginJohn BerginJohn Bergin is a writer, graphic novel artist, and musician best known for his book From Inside and his music to The Crow. For his graphic novel work, Bergin was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best New Talent in 1991.Bergin Attended from 1984-1988....
- A Town Called Panic (Panique au village)A Town Called Panic (film)A Town Called Panic is a 2009 stop-motion animated film, co-produced by Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar and is based on the TV series of the same name...
(2009) by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar - Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure / 喜洋洋与灰太狼之牛气冲天 (2009)
- Genius Party Beyond (2008)
- UsavichUsavichis a series of animated short films originally created for MTV's Japanese mobile service "Flux" and still being created for MTV Japan by Satoshi Tomioka and his studio Kanaban Graphics since 2006. It is about an odd pair of rabbits imprisoned in a Soviet prison...
(2006-9) by Tomioka Satoshi / 富岡 聡
2008 (24 October to 2 November)
The 5th Animation Nation festival was held from 24 October to 2 November 2008 at Alliance Française de Singapour and the National Museum of SingaporeNational Museum of Singapore
The National Museum of Singapore is a national museum in Singapore and the oldest museum in Singapore. Its history dates back to 1849 when it was started as a section of a library at Singapore Institution...
's Gallery Theatre. Other venues would be the upcoming Fusionopolis
Fusionopolis
Fusionopolis is a research and development complex located at the One-North business park in Singapore. It houses various research organizations, high-tech companies, government agencies, retail outlets, and serviced apartments in one location....
and the library@esplanade
Library@esplanade
library@esplanade is a public library managed by Singapore's National Library Board. It is located on the third floor of Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay at Marina Centre, sited within Singapore's Downtown Core....
.
Seminars & Workshops
- Freedom ProjectFreedom ProjectFreedom Project is a Japanese promotional project by Nissin Cup Noodles for their 35th anniversary in 2006. As part of the project, the 7-part OVA series, titled Freedom, was commissioned with and designed by Katsuhiro Otomo serving as the character and mecha designer...
Seminar - Director Shuhei Morita and Producer Hideo Matsushita - Koji Yamamura Seminar: Adapting Kafka - Yamamura KojiKoji Yamamurais a Japanese independent animator who, since leaving a career as a background artist at an animation studio, currently directs, writes, edits, animates, creates the model sheets and background art for and sometimes produces his own short films and has worked on many commissions such as music...
/ 山村 浩二 - Scriptwriting Workshop: READY? SET...ACTION!! - Leonard Mah
Selected Film Programme
- The Piano ForestPiano no Moriis an ongoing manga by Makoto Isshiki, about Shuhei Amamiya, who transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition about his new life...
(2007) by Kojima MasayukiMasayuki Kojimais a Japanese animator, director, and member of the renowned animation studio Madhouse. He was born on March 11, 1961 in Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, and is a twenty year plus veteran of the anime industry.-Personal history:...
/ 小島 正幸 - Sita Sings The BluesSita Sings the BluesSita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,...
(2008) by Nina PaleyNina PaleyNina Paley is an Americancartoonist, animator and free culture activist.She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation... - Idiots and Angels (2008) with Hot Dog (2008) by Bill PlymptonBill PlymptonWilliam "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...
- Genius PartyGenius PartyGenius Party is an anthology of short animated films from Studio 4°C released on July 7, 2007. The short films are Japanese anime.A sequel called Genius Party Beyond was released on February 15, 2008, and includes most of the films which were finished but not included in the original Genius...
(2008) - Fears of the Dark (2007) by Blutch, Charles BurnsCharles Burns (cartoonist)Charles Burns is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.-Life:Burns is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two daughters Ava and Rae-Rae.His father was an oceanographer for...
, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo MattottiLorenzo MattottiLorenzo Mattotti is an Italian comics and graphical artist as well as an illustrator. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, The New Yorker, Le Monde and Vanity Fair...
, Richard McGuire - Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters (2006) by Oshii MamoruMamoru OshiiMamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...
/ 押井守 - NocturnaNocturna (film)Nocturna is a 2007 Spanish-French animated fantasy film directed by Adrià García and Víctor Maldonado. The film was produced by Filmax Animation.-Plot:...
(2007) by Víctor Maldonado and Adrià García - One night in one cityOne Night in One CityOne Night in One City, also known as One Night in a City and One Night in the City is a stop-motion-animated feature-length black comedy horror film from the Czech Republic...
(2007) by Jan Balej - Freedom Project 1 - 7Freedom ProjectFreedom Project is a Japanese promotional project by Nissin Cup Noodles for their 35th anniversary in 2006. As part of the project, the 7-part OVA series, titled Freedom, was commissioned with and designed by Katsuhiro Otomo serving as the character and mecha designer...
(2007) - Dead Space: DownfallDead Space: DownfallDead Space: Downfall is an animated film, a prequel to the game Dead Space and takes place during the events of Dead Space: Extraction, while the Necromorphs invade the USG Ishimura after it receives the Red Marker...
(2008) by Chuck Patton
Seminars & Workshops
- Lecture on Character/ Design - Nancy BeimanNancy BeimanNancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She is recognized as the second woman to be credited on a Disney film . She has taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation until 2008...
- Challenges of the Elephant: The Making of Khan Kluay - Kompin Kemgumnird
- First Flight: Insights into the filmmaking process - Cameron Hood and Kyle Jefferson
- Jedi Master Program - Lucasfilms
- Character and Storyboard Design - Nancy BeimanNancy BeimanNancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. She is recognized as the second woman to be credited on a Disney film . She has taught animation at Savannah College of Art and Design, and taught at Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Film & Animation until 2008...
- COMICS: From Page to Panels - Sonny LiewSonny LiewSonny Liew is a Malaysian-born comic artist/illustrator based in Singapore. He is best known for his work on Vertigo Comics' My Faith in Frankie together with Mike Carey and Marc Hempel, and Marvel Comics' "Sense and Sensibility" adaptation....
Selected Film Programme
- Tekkon KinkreetTekkon Kinkreetis a three-volume seinen manga series by Taiyō Matsumoto, which was originally serialized from 1993 to 1994 in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits and first published in English as Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White. It was adapted into a 2006 feature-length Japanese anime film of the same name, directed by...
/ 鉄コン筋クリート (2006) by Michael AriasMichael AriasMichael Arias is an American-born filmmaker active primarily in Japan.Though Arias has worked variously as visual effects artist, animation software developer, and producer, he is best known for his directorial debut, the anime feature Tekkonkinkreet, which established him as the first... - Khan KluayKhan KluayKhan Kluay is a 2006 Thai computer-animated feature film set during Ayutthaya-era Siam about an elephant who wanders away from his mother and eventually becomes the war elephant for King Naresuan...
(2006) by Kompin Kemgumnird - Blood Tea and Red StringBlood Tea and Red StringBlood Tea and Red String is a stop-motion-animated feature film, called by director Christiane Cegavske a "fairy tale for adults". It was released on February 2, 2006 after a production time of 13 years, having been filmed in various places in the West Coast and in two studios...
(2006) by Christiane CegavskeChristiane CegavskeChristiane Cegavske is an American artist and stop motion animator.She is primarily known for her animated film Blood Tea and Red String and for having done the animated segments to the movie The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things... - Tokyo Loop (2007)
- 5cm per second by Shinkai MakotoMakoto Shinkai, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...
/ 新海 誠 - Komaneko - The Curious Cat (2006) by Gōda TsuneoTsuneo Godais an animator.He directs Domo shorts by using stop motion animation; Domo is the mascot of NHK.He has also directed the stop motion animation film Komaneko - The Curious Cat and the three-minute stop motion music video short "I am a Bear," which is based on the Hikaru Utada song "Boku wa...
/ 合田 経郎 - I am a Bear (2006) by Gōda TsuneoTsuneo Godais an animator.He directs Domo shorts by using stop motion animation; Domo is the mascot of NHK.He has also directed the stop motion animation film Komaneko - The Curious Cat and the three-minute stop motion music video short "I am a Bear," which is based on the Hikaru Utada song "Boku wa...
/ 合田 経郎 - GisakuGisakuGisaku is a Spanish animated feature film directed by Baltasar Pedrosa Clavero. It was first released in Japan on March 4, 2005, and in Spain on March 17, 2005. The film has three official soundtracks: Japanese, Spanish and English...
(2006) by Baltasar Pedrosa - Freedom ProjectFreedom ProjectFreedom Project is a Japanese promotional project by Nissin Cup Noodles for their 35th anniversary in 2006. As part of the project, the 7-part OVA series, titled Freedom, was commissioned with and designed by Katsuhiro Otomo serving as the character and mecha designer...
(2006) - Moebius Redux (2007) by Hasko Baumann
- The Pixar StoryThe Pixar StoryThe Pixar Story, directed by Leslie Iwerks, is a documentary of the history of Pixar Animation Studios. An early version of the film premiered at the Sonoma Film Festival in 2007, and it had a limited theatrical run later that year before it was picked up by the Starz cable network in the US.The...
(2007) by Leslie IwerksLeslie IwerksLeslie Iwerks is an American director, producer, and writer. She is also daughter to Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter to the animator and designer of Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks.-Biography:...
Festival Highlights (Bill Plympton Retrospective)
Director in attendance: Bill PlymptonBill Plympton
William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...
Film Programme
Bill Plympton Retrospective- Feature film The TuneThe TuneThe Tune is an animated film by American filmmaker Bill Plympton.-Plot summary:Del, a hard-working songwriter, is trying to write the perfect song for his slimeball boss, Mr. Mega, so he can keep his job and his girlfriend Didi...
(1992) - Short films including Your FaceYour Face (film)Your Face is a 1987 animated short film by Bill Plympton. It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various ways...
(1987) / Guard Dog (2004) - Bill Plympton's Animation Master class
Feature films
- RenaissanceRenaissance (film)Renaissance is a 2006 French black-and-white animated science fiction film by French director Christian Volckman. It was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg and released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films...
(2006) by Christian VolckmanChristian VolckmanChristian Volckman , a graduate of Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques in Paris, is a French painter, graphic designer, photographer, author and producer.... - Paprika / パプリカ (2006) by Kon Satoshi / 今 敏
- Nagasaki 1945 - The Angelus Bells / 長崎 1945 アンゼラスの鐘 (2005) by Arihara Seiji / 有原 誠治
Selected Short films
- Animation Runner KuromiAnimation Runner Kuromiis an OVA Anime film produced by Yumeta Co; part 1 in 2001 and part 2 in 2004. It is a parody of the anime production business itself. It was released on DVD in North America by Central Park Media.-Animation Runner Kuromi 1:...
/ アニメ制作進行くろみちゃん (2001) by Daichi Akitarō / 大地 丙太郎 - Animation Runner Kuromi 2Animation Runner Kuromiis an OVA Anime film produced by Yumeta Co; part 1 in 2001 and part 2 in 2004. It is a parody of the anime production business itself. It was released on DVD in North America by Central Park Media.-Animation Runner Kuromi 1:...
(2004) by Daichi Akitarō / 大地 丙太郎 - Moongirl (2005) by Henry SelickHenry SelickHenry Selick is an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline...
- The Moon and the Son: An Imagined ConversationThe Moon and the Son: An Imagined ConversationThe Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation is a 2005 animated short film.On March 5, 2006 it won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
(2005) by John CanemakerJohn CanemakerJohn Cannizzaro Jr. , better known as John Canemaker, is an independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department... - Yonna in the Solitary Fortress (2006) by Takeuchi Kengo / 竹内 謙吾
- Negadon: The Monster from MarsNegadon: The Monster from Marsis a 25 minute computer animated Japanese short film completed in 2005 . Directed by Jun Awazu with his independent company Studio Magara, the film attempts to capture the look and feel of Showa era Japanese special effects films, mainly from the 1950s and early '60s...
/ 惑星大怪獣ネガドン (2005) by Awazu Jun / 粟津 順 - Best of Ottawa 2006Ottawa International Animation Festival-History:In 1976, the Canadian Film Institute founded the biennial Ottawa International Animation Festival . First held August 10 to 15, 1976, the OIAF created a gathering place for North American animation professionals and enthusiasts to ponder the craft and business of animation...
- studio aka showcase
Seminars
- KakurenboKakurenbois a Japanese cel-shaded anime short film written and directed by Shuuhei Morita.The film is based around "Otokoyo", a game of hide and seek played by children, wearing fox masks, near the ruins of an abandoned old city. The children who play this disappear, believed to be spirited away by demons...
: Behind the Mask seminar - Jonathan Nix seminar
- Mind GameMind Game (film)is a 2004 Japanese animated feature film based on Robin Nishi's Japanese comic of the same name. It was planned, produced and primarily animated by Studio 4°C and adapted and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, with chief animation direction and model sheets by Yūichirō Sueyoshi, art direction by Tōru...
: Yuasa MasaakiMasaaki Yuasais an anime television and film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist and animator known for his wild free form style. He was born on March 16, 1965 in Fukuoka, Japan...
seminar
Selected Film Programme
- Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) by Nick ParkNick ParkNicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep....
and Steve BoxSteve BoxSteve Box is an English animator and director who works for Aardman Animations.His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation.Box joined Aardman Animations in 1990. He directed the video for the... - Wallace and Gromit short films: A Grand Day OutA Grand Day OutA Grand Day Out is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit...
(1989), The Wrong TrousersThe Wrong TrousersThe Wrong Trousers is a 1993 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit...
(1993), A Close ShaveA Close ShaveA Close Shave is a 1995 British animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989's A Grand Day Out,...
(1995) - Mind GameMind Game (film)is a 2004 Japanese animated feature film based on Robin Nishi's Japanese comic of the same name. It was planned, produced and primarily animated by Studio 4°C and adapted and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, with chief animation direction and model sheets by Yūichirō Sueyoshi, art direction by Tōru...
(2004) by Yuasa MasaakiMasaaki Yuasais an anime television and film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist and animator known for his wild free form style. He was born on March 16, 1965 in Fukuoka, Japan...
/ 湯浅 政明 - McDull, Prince de la BunMcDull, Prince de la BunMcDull, Prince de la Bun is a 2004 animated Hong Kong film directed by Yuen Toe. Telling the life a the fictional pig McDull, it is a sequel to My Life as McDull and it was followed by McDull, the Alumni .There was significant word play in this movie, some of it is based on the "pineapple bun"...
/ 麥兜菠蘿油王子 (2004) by Toe Yuen - The Place Promised in Our Early DaysThe Place Promised in Our Early Daysis a 90-minute Japanese anime film created and directed by Makoto Shinkai, following his previous work Voices of a Distant Star. As in the previous film, the soundtrack was composed by Tenmon...
/ 雲のむこう、約束の場所 (2004) by Shinkai MakotoMakoto Shinkai, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...
/ 新海 誠 - Jonathan Nix Animation Showcase
- Ninja Tunes Retrospective
- In the Realms of the UnrealIn the Realms of the UnrealIn the Realms of the Unreal is a 2004 documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Darger is known for his 15,143-page fantasy manuscript entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave...
(2004 documentary) by Jessica YuJessica YuJessica Lingman Yu is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has worked on documentaries, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien .-Early life:Yu graduated from Gunn... - The DistrictThe District!The District! is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place...
(2004) by Áron Gauder - KakurenboKakurenbois a Japanese cel-shaded anime short film written and directed by Shuuhei Morita.The film is based around "Otokoyo", a game of hide and seek played by children, wearing fox masks, near the ruins of an abandoned old city. The children who play this disappear, believed to be spirited away by demons...
/ カクレンボ (2004) by Morita Shuuhei / 森田 修平 - Aeon FluxÆon FluxÆon Flux was originally an avant-garde science fiction animated television series that aired on MTV in various forms throughout the 1990s, with film, comic book, and video game adaptations following thereafter. It premiered in 1991 on MTV's Liquid Television experimental animation show as a...
shorts
Film Programme
Feature films- Hair HighHair HighHair High is a 2004 animated comedy-horror-romance by American filmmaker Bill Plympton.-Plot:A gothic high-school comedy with a Carrie-like story. Cherri and Rod are the high-school king and queen and they justifiably rule their domain...
(2004) by Bill PlymptonBill PlymptonWilliam "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in... - A Winter's TaleWinter Daysis a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō....
/ 冬の日 (2003) by Kawamoto KihachirōKihachiro Kawamotowas a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death...
/ 川本 喜八郎 et al - My Life as McDullMy Life as McDullMy Life as McDull is a Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong released in 2001. The film surrounds the life of McDull, a hugely popular cartoon pig character created by Alice Mak and Brian Tse which has appeared on comics ever since the 1990s...
/ 麥兜故事 (2001) by Toe Yuen - Belleville Rendez-vousLes Triplettes de BellevilleThe Triplets of Belleville is a 2003 animated comedy film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as Belleville Rendez-vous in the United Kingdom...
(2003) by Sylvain ChometSylvain ChometSylvain Chomet is a French comic writer, animator and film director.- Early career :Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, near Paris, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio... - Matsumoto LeijiLeiji Matsumotois a well-known creator of several anime and manga series. His wife is also known as a manga artist.-Space opera:Matsumoto is famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato...
/ 松本 零士 and Daft PunkDaft PunkDaft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...
's Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystemInterstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystemis a feature-length Japanese animated musical film originally released on December 1, 2003. The film is the visual realization of Discovery, an album by Daft Punk. Each track from the album has been animated as an episode in the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar pop band...
(2003) - Invasion: Anime (2002 documentary) by Angela Alexander
Selected Short films
- She and Her Cat: Their Standing PointsShe and Her Cat, subtitled Their standing points, is an independent five minute anime OVA about the relationship between a male cat and his female owner told from the cat's perspective. It was created mostly by Makoto Shinkai, except the soundtrack, which was done by his friend Tenmon. She and Her Cat is also the...
/ 彼女と彼女の猫 (1999) by Shinkai MakotoMakoto Shinkai, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...
/ 新海 誠 - Voices of a Distant StarVoices of a Distant Staris a Japanese anime OVA by Makoto Shinkai. It chronicles a long-distance relationship between two close friends who communicate by sending emails via their mobile phones across interstellar space...
/ ほしのこえ (2002) by Shinkai MakotoMakoto Shinkai, better known by the stage name , is a Japanese anime director, animator, and voice actor. A native of the Koumi Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he studied Japanese literature at Chuo University. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime, and novels he was exposed to while in middle...
/ 新海 誠 - Doggy PooDoggy PooDoggy Poo is a 30-minute stop motion-animated film from South Korea, directed by Kwon Oh-sung, based on Kwon Jung-saeng's 1968 children's book Doggy Poo, illustrated by Annie Rose Godsman. There are both English and Korean-language versions of the film.-Plot:After being "created" by a dog, Doggy...
/ 강아지 똥 (2003) by Kwon Oh-sung - Harvie KrumpetHarvie KrumpetHarvie Krumpet is an Australian clay animation made in Melbourne written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. This short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003, in addition to numerous festival awards and the 2004 Australian Film Institute Best...
(2003) by Adam ElliotAdam ElliotAdam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary... - Father and DaughterFather and Daughter (film)Father and Daughter is a 2000 Dutch animated short film, made by Michaël Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
(2000) by Michaël Dudok de WitMichaël Dudok De WitMichael Dudok de Wit is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema... - The Monk and the FishThe Monk and the FishThe Monk and the Fish is a 1994 animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit at the studio Folimage. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards and Best Short Animated Film at the 48th British Academy Film Awards...
(1994) by Michaël Dudok de WitMichaël Dudok De WitMichael Dudok de Wit is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema... - Tom SweepTom Sweep-About the film:The author, Michaël Dudok de Wit, said that "Tom Sweep" was intended to be one of a series of films. Unlike the two following films "The Monk and the Fish" and "Father and Daughter" , it is structured around a single camera angle....
(1992) by Michaël Dudok de WitMichaël Dudok De WitMichael Dudok de Wit is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema...