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Another short from Three Legged Legs, this one made for GE (what it has to do with GE, who knows) about a small samurai which must complete an impossible medial task in order to stave off execution. Prepare for forehead smacking ending! You can check out Three Legged Legs at threeleggedlegs.com.
-Brian
"Humans" by indie studio "Three Legged Legs" is a quick little PSA about how much we, humans, suck. I can't disagree. More from Three Legged Legs coming soon.
-Brian
A few weeks ago we brought you Rockfish, Blur Studio's quirky futuristic fish tale. As promised, here's another great short by Blur called "A Gentlemen's Duel," and while it totally objectifies women and takes several cheap shots at the French, it's still hilarious. See more of blur at their website.
-Brian M
While it gets a little cheesy here and there, One Rat Short does feature lots of mice, so does that make it okay? Created by director Alex Weil and advertising studio Charlex, ORS features some really nice CGI and great sound design. Since it's release in 2006 it's garnered several awards including an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. I can attest to the fact that bags of Cheetos (or off brands thereof) do eventually end in heart break, as shown above.
-Brian
Today's short probably puts any fisherman's biggest fish tale to shame, in Blur's "Rockfish." Blur is all over the map, doing flashy graphics on FOX's sportscasts, to CGI work on games such as Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Sonic The Hedgehog and Halo Wars, to lots of other shorts such as the one above, which will surely be featured here once again sometime down the road. Check out their website at www.blur.com.
-Brian
Another short from France, IMAGO is another look at childhood, this time from an orphan who's pilot father dies in a plane crash. Words do a terrible job of describing these things, so you're better off just watching it. It clocks in at around 12 minutes of great 2D & 3D visuals, music and story.
This short film from French art students follows the warcry of mothers everywhere, "Don't play with your food!" and ends up being a really cool, surreal trip. Turn off that episode of LOST (nothing was going to happen anyway, and you know it) and spend the next 7 minutes with "Ah le Film."
-Brian
I've found this significant when encountering older works that I missed along the way. How many times might any of us have recommended something we remember vividly, only to have someone follow our advice and return rather disappointed and bewildered by our hype. Recently I've discovered there is also a vicious stage of the mid-twenties, in which you are forced to watch a new generation scoff at the antiquity of your cherished memories.
This is certainly a reason why the term "foundation anime" causes me to cringe. The surge of DVD releases cataloging shows from my childhood has been at times appealing and also disappointing. And when it comes to early import animations, there are several titles that stand better odds of remaining epic in my memories when I choose not to re-experience them. I don't intend that statement to rob them of significance, but rather to illustrate that those early efforts in animation were at once so astounding to me that they simply cannot be more vibrant on the screen now than they already are in my head. And even though that might make it difficult for me to experience one long after its original release, the 1985 OVA Area 88 breaks me from this fear and proves itself an essential addition to this concept of "foundation anime".Welcome to The Essentials, a weekly column at ANImosity spotlighting cutting edge animation that paved the way, started a movement, or is just plain too awesome to miss.
Face it. Ninjas are played out. We've been bombarded with ninja movies, tv shows, video games, ninja advice columns, ninja Facebook applications and countless ninja t-shirts so much that they're no longer a badass icon, but rather a washed out pop culture joke.
This brings us to hallmark number one of the Ninjai series: the violence. Yes, thecharacter of Ninjai may only be 8 or 9 years old, but nearly every episode has him decapitating at least one foe in full digital glory. The actionis fast and extremely stylized, to the point where you might wonder which big Hollywood director had a hand in the action scenes. Even the orchestral music is original and sounds like something off the big screen and has a distinctly oriental flavor. There's also a great mix of humor and quiet moments that really add some depth to each episode and remind you that, even though he just killed a horde of enemy ninjas, Ninjai is still just a child.
