Rabbit Redux: Animate
This may be one of those sites/organizations that everyone but me knows about -- an absolutely fantastic resource for and about alternative animation.
http://www.animateonline.org/
I found this when I started researching Run Wrake, creator of "Rabbit," the animated video I posted the other day. Crystal-clear versions of "Rabbit" are available on Run Wrake's site and the Animate site, MUCH better than the Youtube version, which suffers from generation loss and looks pretty murky. The Animate site also includes story boards and background info on how the film was created.
"Rabbit's" origin is in a set of vintage educational stickers Run Wrake found at a thrift shop in the 1980s, featuring illustrations by Geoffrey Higham. Americans of a certain age will recognize these as the UK analogs of our childhood "Fun with Dick and Jane" Learn to Read primers. The film itself resembles what I imagine a Henry Darger tale would look like if it were animated -- beautiful and disturbing and jewel-toned. The Animate site contains other material, as well as schedules of London events (A.S. Byatt lecturing on portraiture in animation!) for those of you fortunate enough to live in that provincial town.
http://www.animateonline.org/
I found this when I started researching Run Wrake, creator of "Rabbit," the animated video I posted the other day. Crystal-clear versions of "Rabbit" are available on Run Wrake's site and the Animate site, MUCH better than the Youtube version, which suffers from generation loss and looks pretty murky. The Animate site also includes story boards and background info on how the film was created.
"Rabbit's" origin is in a set of vintage educational stickers Run Wrake found at a thrift shop in the 1980s, featuring illustrations by Geoffrey Higham. Americans of a certain age will recognize these as the UK analogs of our childhood "Fun with Dick and Jane" Learn to Read primers. The film itself resembles what I imagine a Henry Darger tale would look like if it were animated -- beautiful and disturbing and jewel-toned. The Animate site contains other material, as well as schedules of London events (A.S. Byatt lecturing on portraiture in animation!) for those of you fortunate enough to live in that provincial town.