NightFlight Animation

10/01/2014

In defense of the obvious. Walt remains a great man, with either lights and shadows like any other human being, but one of the greatest builders of the last century.

18/12/2013

Crazy and happy season's greetings

from a genius...


http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wardkimball/23-creative-christmas-cards-by-disney-legend-ward-kimball-92843.html

Legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball, one of the studio’s vaunted Nine Old Men and subject of a biography that the Walt Disney Company desperately doesn’t want the public to see, created annual Christmas cards for many decades. The cards proved hugely popular with both friends and family, and the…

02/12/2013

Please, watch this little (legendary) masterpiece.
How a pity it never became a movie!...

The animation is gorgeous, a little bit "westernlike" but still with the magic touch of Ghibli Studio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbPJmxIQqKc

"'Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland' which was ultimately released in into US theaters in 1992. However, at one point earlier in its development many pe...

28/11/2013

UPA 50s

Great, great! Design at its best!


http://animationresources.org/?p=2399

A couple of years ago, when Amid Amidi and I were working on Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, I lent Amid these model sheets to use in a proposal to Chronicle Books for a history of 50s cartoon design. Well, Amid dug deep into the wellspring of “modern cartooning” and came up with a book that belo...

28/11/2013

Ronald Searle, a tibute to his art


http://ronaldsearleinamerica.blogspot.it/

22/11/2013

Simply wonderful, a true piece of art, in my opinion.
It's a Ghibli Studio jewel...

"いまのすべては　過去のすべて" 高畑勲 監督作品 「かぐや姫の物語」 11/23 全国公開！　前売り発売中 1300円

17/11/2013

A short film rather old, but we confess that we have not yet seen: serious lack.
It is a terrible fable and a metaphor for the dehumanization desperate, very effective in its slow rhythms, obsessive, depressive.
Very beautiful and refined here the CGI treatment, this is one of the ways to use 3D CG we most love...

Un video che fa capire quanto l'uomo si stia degradando

14/11/2013

Great HONDA commercial, very simple and clear, appealing, captivating concept, perfectly worked out by these guys!
I love it. I wish having done it, hehe...

Thanks to Lisa Perrucci for rep!

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-making-of-honda-hands/

Six million views: how Nexus and Analog shape-shifted 25 Honda products into one hand-sized TVC. Plus a behind the scenes making of video.

06/11/2013

Walt meets Travers (Mary Poppins)...
Mr. Tom Hanks has his charm? Well, yes, I think yes, indeed...

(Thank you Fabrizio Mancinelli )

If you’ve seen Disney’s beloved 1964 classic Mary Poppins, you probably assume that the process of bringing the effervescent musical about the magical nanny to...

30/10/2013

The art of animation.
Hand-drawn animation.


Thank you Stephanie Olivieri

Disney's Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter talks about the art of hand-drawn animation, and why it's more relevant than ever!

26/10/2013

Ci manchi Bill Watterson!

A film explores the extraordinary influence of Bill Watterson's creation.

26/10/2013

Proud to have been part (though infinitesimal and marginal) of this story ...

Thank you Bruno Bozzetto - They maybe were the best years of our lives, never overcome!

The Walt Disney Family Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Bruno Bozzetto: Animation, Maestro! On view in the museum’s Theater Gallery from November 21, 2013 to April 7, 2014 this exhibition organized by animation historian and critic Federico Fiecconi, spotlights some 60 original pencil ani...