WHERE IS MAMA? Te Wei

Where is Mama(小蝌蚪找妈妈), is a short Chinese animated film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1960 under the artistic guidance of Te Wei. The narrated film describes the adventures and misadventures of a group of tadpoles in search of their mother. It is one of Te Wei's first attempts to break away from Western style animation and aim for a painterly style influenced by Qi Baishi and more in keeping with native Chinese aesthetic sensibilities. Because of its simple story line and repetitive script it is ideal for children who are beginning their study of the Chinese language.

Praxinoscope by Reynaud

Pauvre Pierrot (aka Poor Pete) is an 1892 French short animated film directed by Émile Reynaud. It consists of 500 individually painted images and lasts about 15 minutes. [1]

It is one of the first animated films ever made, and alongside Le Clown et ses chiens and Un bon bock was broadcast in October 1892 when Emile Reynaud opened his Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin. It was the first film to demonstrate the Theatre Optique system developed by Reynaud in 1888, and is also believed to be the first usage of film perforations. The combined performance of all three films was known as Pantomimes Lumineuses.

These were the first animated pictures publicly broadcast by means of picture bands. Reynaud gave the whole presentation himself manipulating the images.

ORIGINS- The thaumatrope

In 1825, a famous English physician, John A. Paris, created the prototype of optical toys. the thaumatrope: a disc with a complementary image on each side, and strings attached at each end of its horizontal axes. When the disk is spun on the strings, the two complementary images appear to merge.

The Origins of Popeye

Popeye first appeared in the comic Thimble Theatre in 1929 and was created by Elizie Crisler Segar; the popularity of the character meant that he'd eventually get his own series of theatrical cartoon shorts, which in turn led to a live action film starring Robin Williams in the 1980.

Throughout the years, Popeye has been accompanied by his eternal sweetheart Olive Oyl, his father Poopdeck Pappy and his adopted "boy-kid" Swee'Pea. Learn all about he classic cartoon character by watching the video below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/the-origins-and-evolution_n_941257.html

TOO MUCH OF A STORY- Taelin Oh

Taelin Oh, about her work (THANK YOU, for your response!):


This animation is about Original Fairy Tales.
Further more, it's talking about people's dark side.

I believe the theory that human nature is fundamentally evil.
Children always act based on their instinct for everythings.

So children can catch dark and chaotic side from the fairy tales easily even though it's already revised.

Also, fairy tales're created by Adults who grown up from children.
although adults want to write down something beautiful and pretty for children, they might can add some weired or disorded parts unconsciously.

BOTTLE- Kirsten Lepore

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

THE WORLD'S SMALLEST STOP MOTION FILM

Creators of the Wallace & Gromit series used a 50x cell phone microscope to film this short—which also happens to be the world's smallest. It revolves around Dot, a girl who happens to be only .35 inches tall!

Animators at the UK studio Aardman used a 3D printer to make 50 different versions of Dot, because she is too small to manipulate or bend like they would other stop-motion animation characters. The figurine's tiny features stretched the limit of the printer - any smaller and it would be hard to make distinct limbs. Each one was hand-painted by artists looking through a microscope.
Directors Ed Patterson and Will Studd attached a CellScope to a Nokia N8 12-megapixel camera to film Dot's struggle in her microscopic world. They said Nokia commissioned them to make the film in celebration of CellScope's potential to improve medicine in the developing world.