Watching Animation

Here we will collect animations we like, as well as online animation collections, which are a great way to be introduced to new work.

If you know of a resource not on this list, let me know! jpmcdowell@smcm.edu.

Collections & Studios:

• Augenblick Studio

• National Film Board of Canada

• Cartoon Hangover

• Cartoon Brew

• Short of the Week

• Art of the Title

• Forget the Film, Watch the Titles

• School of Motion student work

• MICA Animation Student Work

• Studiopanda

Films:

• The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson

• The Cat Came Back, Cordell Barker

• Réka Bucsi, Symphonie no. 42

• Paul Chan, The 7 Lights

• Matthew Cherry, Hair Love

• Sylvain Chomet

• The Old Woman and the Pigeons

• Triplets of Belleville (clip)

• Fantasy, Vince Collins

• Sally Cruikshank's YouTube Channel

• Happiness (Rat Race), Steve Cutts

• Godfather of Harlem title sequence, Digital Kitchen (2020 Emmy winner)

• Yellow Submarine, Paul Dunning (dir.)

• Childhood of a Circle, Kadavre Exquis

• Composition in Blue (An Optical Poem), Oskar Fischinger (1935)

• Maestro - CGI animated short by Illogic

• Monty Python:

• Killer Cars

• Storytime, Terry Gilliam (1968)

• Michel Gondry:

  • The Science of Sleep (excerpt)

  • Human Behavior, music video for Bjork

  • Haircut Mouse

• Don Hertzfeld:

  • Rejected

  • The Animation Show (with Mike Judge)

  • The Meaning of Life

  • Billy's Balloon

• Continuum, Noncedo Khumalo

• Catuor, Judith Klein (1970)

• Kubo and the Two Strings, Travis Knight (dir.)

• Derek G. Larson, Très Mall

• Kirsten Lepore (stop motion):

• Bottle

• Sweet Dreams

• Walk for Walk, Amy Lockhart

• Windsor McCay:

• Gertie the Dinosaur

• Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend

• A Trip to the Moon, Georges Melies (1902)

• Florida Man + Florida Woman, Christina Molina

• Lumaajuuq, Nunavut Animation Lab

• David Oreilley:

  • Please Say Something

  • The External World

• Shockheaded Peter, Marianne Petit

• PES:

• Fresh Guacamole

• Fireworks

• The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia, Jonni Phillips

• Wong Ping

• Asparagus, Susan Pitt (Warning: Adult Content)

• The Brothers Quay: Anamorphosis

• Tango, Zbigniew Rybczyński (not animation per se, but all about timing)

• Lotte Reiniger:

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed

• Cinderella

• Simon's Cat: Double Trouble (YouTube Series)

• Pummel Nankeen, Ismael Sanz-Pena

• Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Jenny Slate

• Phantom Canyon, Stacey Steers (2006)

• Tale about the Cat and the Moon, Pedro Serrazina

• Dimensions of Dialog, Jan Svankmajer (1982)

• The Little Island, Richard Williams

• Lapsus Juan Pablo Zaramella

About Animation (documentaries and interviews):

• 12 Principles of Animation

• Allen Becker's series on the 12 Principles

• Ed Atkins interview

• Creative Spark: Brenda Chapman interview (Brave, Prince of Egypt)

• Chuck Jones: The Evolution of an Artist

• Lotte Reiniger documentary from 1970

• Street of Crocodiles (short documentary about the film by the Brothers Quay)

• Insight: Brad Bird on Animation

• Alan Becker, Animating a Walk Cycle

Student Recommendations:

• Tuca and Bertie, TV Show by Lisa Hanawalt

• Creature Comforts by Nick Park

• Western Spaghetti by PES

• Kitbull by Rosana Sullivan

• Caldera by Evan Viera

• Timber by Viziepop

• Klaus (trailer)

• Klaus tests #1

• Klaus tests #2

• Green Eggs and Ham (trailer)

  • Green Eggs and Ham (sneak peek - first 8 minutes)

  • Green Eggs and Ham (behind the scenes)

• The Proud Family

• Gravity Falls

• Hedgehog in the Fog

• If Anything Happens I Love You

• Autodale