#james kubo

[orangetubor]

I'm back again!

DOMES! so- what can u tell me about the space and education domes. I'm so interested. Why are they separated based off of activity? Are all the domes in a giant ish dome? ALSO WHAT DO MARTIANS FARM. POTATOES? what kind of recreational activities are in the recreational dome?

Also what are the fatal flaws of your ocs... I love finding out about this stuff if u cant tell. Any funny (or otherwise) story that any of them would tell about another to like describe one of them? (that sounds very confusing but basically when I introduce folks that are my idiot friends, I give a memorable story that makes people go "ah, that's such a (friend name) thing" (e.g. One of my ex friends from school ate her essay out of spite - she wrote it on rice paper and wanted to spook the teacher)

And yes I've seen the whole "I think I'm attracted to you because youre the hottest person I know" so AMAZING JOB- I love ur ocs!!!

Respectfully curious,

a nerd who likes knowing lore and science (and character!!)

(I'M SO SORRY FOR HOW LONG THIS IS I'M JUST REALLY INTERESTED)

I'm gonna do the flaws first bcs it won't take as long so:

Martha: gets sad cuz she doesn't have a specific 'thing' like the rest of her friends (jenny's the tech guy, Evelyn's the animal guy) and she gets sad cuz she thinks you need a thing to work in and aspire to in order to live your life to the fullest

Tammy: doesn't think. Like at all ever. No internal dialogue nothing in that brain half the time she's just playing rock music on loop. Lights are on but no one's home except the lights aren't even on

Jenny: builds little robots and then gets existential about creating a pseudo life to fulfil one singular purpose. Continues to build little robots anyway.

Thomas: internal dialogue goes 100 miles a second and so when he has to take a second to actually think he just. Blanks. He also has awful memory due to things getting pushed so far back by unrelated tangents

Genji/James: has a mullet

Aled: catastrophises a LOT and overthinks literally everything he's just handing Thomas a hair bobble and he's like 'wait is this elasticy enough. Oh no there's a hair on it oh no. What if my hands sweaty what then-' baby girl it is a hair bobble

Georgie: previous break ups have left her feeling like she isn't interesting enough, now she has to always give her two cents or else she thinks she's forgettable

Dane: ~\_(°u°)_/~

Sahrah: given her uniqueness as a weird fucked up entirely new species she feels like her life has to be perfect so that her mother species doesn't get a bad rap, especially since her mother is the first of her kind to live in mars. Also she's really supposed to be a litter animal but she was the only one who survived to birth so she's lonely a lot of the time

Fun story: Martha says 'the first time me and Tammy met was when she needed someone to show a dead bee to. She asked me if I wanted to pet it'

And ... DOMES!;;

educational dome has the schools and colleges in it, a few corner stores for hungry students, it's not that interesting other than the fact that there are geese for some reason

Space dome is basically just space science stuff, it's got telescopes, research for crops, rockets, exploration base, it's also the original dome! The very first one built by the robots they sent here so that the researchers had somewhere to stay.

What kind of crops do martians grow? Well, any they can get there hands on, there are several small climate controlled domes used to grow different things, deserty, tropical, whatever Ireland is, and some animal domes that rotate various animals and grain, it's also home to the farm house that hosts the majority of Halloween parties. There's also the eden dome, which isn't connected to the farm fines, but to the space domes! It was home to the very first crops grown on mars. (Which, of course, included potatoes) and then if course. The big dome. The super massive one that uses my new favourite thing: AQUAPONICS!! obviously you can't feed an entire small country with just plain kabd, you need stacks! You need later upon layer of fish, water, wires, dirt, plants, synthetic sunlight, and more fish! They also synthesize a lot of meat because it's sci-fi. I can do what I want. And it's better for the air cuz farm animals produce a lot of gas

The recreational domes have shops, cinemas, various sports centres, a nice park, and also hosts lots of festivals. There's also a small 'market dome' that's connected to the residential dome so you don't have to go all that way to pick up some eggs or something. (Martha and Tammy's favourite thing to do is go roller skating at 'saturns rings' also there's a diner where the waiters are all in roller skates)

As to why they're separated, it makes it easier for me to design them in a cool way. Also the air inside is very different to the air outside, so smaller domes make it easier to manage, and keep out the sticky martian sand while building.

Martian sand is ridiculous

#martians #martha blum #tammy kubo #james kubo #genji kubo #jenny khalil #thomas khalil #aled howell #georgie blum #sahrah gamal #dane newton #oc (the c stands for carrot)

[imanawkwardbean]

Just finished making a collage of INFPs from my favorite stop-motion movies tee hee

#ive been posting way too much lol #wendell & wild #kubo and the two strings #paranorman #james and the giant peach #chicken run #isle of dogs #corpse bride #fantasic mr fox #boxtrolls #frankenweenie #coraline

[goatei13]

Mask De Masculine and James drawn by Tite Kubo.

#bleach.posting #bleach #bleach anime #bleach manga #bleach tybw #tybw anime #tybw arc #tite kubo #mask de masculine #james

[twiptoe]

if i ever become a million/billionaire i will use my money to fund stopmotion animation. thank you and good night.

#laika films #laika #tim burton #coraline #the corpse bride #paranorman #9 #the boxtrolls #the nightmare before xmas #the nightmare before christmas #fantastic mr fox #james and the giant peach #frankenweenie #kubo and the two strings

[scarareg]

#Wallace & Gromit:The Curse of the Were-Rabbit #The Nightmare Before Christmas #Coraline #Corpse Bride #ParaNorman #Kubo and the Two Strings #Laika Studios #The Boxtrolls #Missing Link #Fantastic Mr. Fox #Wallace & Gromit #James and the Giant Peach #Frankenweenie #animation

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

The Marauders Favourite Animated Movies

James - Cars or Madagascar

Sirius - Brother Bear or Despicable Me

Lily - Up! or Moana

Regulus - The Hunchback of Nortre Dame or Big Hero 6

Remus - How to Train Your Dragon or Kung Foo Panda

Marlene - Mulan or Treasure Planet

Dorcas - Corpse Bride or Coraline

Mary - Tangled or Chicken Little

Pandora - WALL-E or Rio

Barty - The Road to El Dorado or The Lego Batman Movie

Evan - Monsters Inc. or Bolt

Peter - Toy Story or Aladdin

#honorary mentions : #james would also be fond of shrek #sirius would also like lilo & stitch #regulus would also like Your Name and Kubo and the Two Strings #pandora would also like trolls #barty would also like puss in boots and the lorax #(he dressed up as the once-ler for halloween one year) #the marauders #the marauders era #james potter #sirius black #lily evans #remus lupin #regulus black #marlene mckinnon #dorcas meadowes #pandora lovegood #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #peter pettigrew #harry potter #hp #gryffindor #wolfstar #hogwarts #jegulus #rosekiller #dorlene #marylily #pandalily

[mikyapixie]

Uggghhh!!! These guys😒😬😒😬😒😬😐🫥

#bleach #kubo tite #mask de masculine #& his number 1 fan James #☀️🌊

[caw4brandon]

The Power of Stop-Motion

Media in today's standard is quick and easy. Rarely is a show more than 2 hours long or 13-epiodes per-season. With that, animated movies are a lot slower than the typical films.

There is a discussion on if animation is suitable for film purposes and while it is often shunned by the Golden Globes or the Oscars or other awards. The very few outliers can prove these awards and the world very wrong.

But that is not what we will be talking about today. Because while animation is popular, there is a dark horse among its sphere. One with a rich history and strong filmography that should be shared. Let's talk about;

- Have I possibly gone daffy? -

Stop-motion is a film making style that compiles multiple still images of an object being physically manipulated in small movements into one whole scene.

Majority of Stop-motion films and videos use [Clay Animation] or [Paper Animation] with several more varieties of new innovations emerging under the umbrella of stop-motion. The most popular of them in the modern era towards kids is [Lego animation] which is the manipulation of Lego models in motion.

The earliest trace of Stop-motion in films is the 1898 short [The Humpty Dumpty Circus] by Albert E. Smith and James Stuart Blackton which is said to be a lost media. To compensate, please watch [A Tribute to Stop Motion]

In its early concept, Stop-motion was used as a method to create impossible things or do practical effects under budget constrains. Such as the iconic King Kong scene at the Empire State building. Since then, Stop-motion has evolved into a full production industry. From Indies; [Righteous Robot] to Juggernauts; [Laika Studios]

- Shimmer a Little at The Edges -

Unconventional media such as stop-motion is often not a style suited for every story. Its a rather expensive type of media that requires worthy innovations top break the niche barrier. Just looking at Laika Studios alone, we see that they've develop a lot of interesting ways to improve visual effects while staying to their stop-motion roots.

One perfect example is seen in < Kubo and the Two Strings > where the animators need to create water in a still image world that feels natural. [A Perfect Storm] one other part of the stop-motion puzzle is the iron-willed discipline it to conceptualize, animate and edit a production that can take about 3 to 5 years to complete. More so of a time frame than a normal film.

This difficult curve lead to budgeted methods such as using models that already exist to tell new stories. Such as; Legos or with crude multi-jointed figures of existing characters. [MOONSHINE]

While I may say its crude, the low budget production is the selling point. Assisted with sound bites taken from gaming sessions or from shows featuring a lot of inside jokes and memes. Also, its hilarious to see a Teletubby turned into a Eldritch monster.

These attempts to make stop-motion productions accessible has captured the attention of other like-minded channels to collaborate and elevate one another. [ERB: Harry Potter vs Luke Skywalker]

- For Better Tomorrows -

With all that is said, what is the power of stop-motion? As a media that is tediously overlapping across processes. What are the better tomorrows for our inanimate subjects?

I like to think, that as filmmaking grows. Stop-motion will continue to remain as a sacred tug against live action films and traditional animation. It can be used to tell complicated stories with concepts that may look strange if its adapted in a live action.

As I have mentioned in [The Beautiful World of Hilda] animation's greatest strength is simplification. Stop-motion takes the opposite side of that philosophy.

Its a higher level of world building of the materials with willingness to accept mistakes and ruggedness that gives them that little flavor of life. As an actual touchable thing, the various cartoonish styles can take on a whole new dimension to heighten the style and give it that detail that is less polished.

Stop-motion shows that filmmaking magic can still exist despite already knowing the tricks. Its a media where every frame shown has a significant purpose that invokes a specific flow. That's the power of stop-motion.

#stop motion #stop motion animation #coraline #coraline jones #lego animation #clay animation #paper animation #laika studios #paranorman #norman babcock #the lego movie #emirichu #daidus #moonshine animations #pinocchio #guillermo del toro #wendell and wild #Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

[bestanimatedmovie]

Tumblr's favorite animated movie, Round 1!

Classification round | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4

Round 1:

Results overview

A Monster in Paris vs Sailor Moon R: The Movie

A Silent Voice vs Shaun the Sheep Movie

A Troll in Central Park vs Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods vs Lu Over the Wall

Astro Boy vs Ferdinand

Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest vs Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion

Barbie & the Diamond Castle vs The Great Mouse Detective

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus vs My Little Pony: Equestria Girls

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper vs Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena

Barbie Princess Charm School vs Turning Red

Batman and Mr. Freeze: SubZero vs Robots

Batman Ninja vs Barbie Fairy Secret

Belle vs 101 Dalmatians

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children vs The Princess and the Goblin

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie vs All Dogs go to Heaven

Chicken Run vs Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cinderella III: A Twist in Time vs Green Snake

Despicable me vs Wreck-it-Ralph

Fantastic Mr Fox vs Wendell & Wild

Fantastic Planet vs Anomalisa

Gnomeo & Juliet vs Ernest & Celestine

Home on the Range vs A Goofy Movie

Hoodwinked! vs Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

Ice Age vs WALL-E

In This Corner of the World vs We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem vs The Tale of John and Marie

Isle of Dogs vs Weathering with You

James and the Giant Peach vs Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Klaus vs Summer Wars

Kubo and the Two Strings vs Bambi

Liz and the Blue Bird vs Tekkonkinkreet

Madagascar vs Encanto 

Mary and Max vs The Sea Beast

Monsters vs Aliens vs Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks vs Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

Night on the Galactic Railroad vs Metropolis

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island vs Star☆Twinkle Precure the Movie: Wish Upon a Song of Stars

Paprika vs The Secret of Kells

ParaNorman vs Suzume

Penguins of Madagascar vs The Sword in the Stone

Persepolis vs The Garden of Words

Phineas and Ferb: The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension vs Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus

Planet Hulk vs Zombillenium

Pocahontas vs The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Pokémon Heroes vs Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva

Porco Rosso vs Meet the Robinsons

Quest for Camelot vs Digimon Adventure: Our War Game

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas vs The Nightmare Before Christmas

Spookley the Square Pumpkin vs Kirikou and the Sorceress

Tales of the Night vs Stormy Night

Tehran Taboo vs Emesis Blue

The Adventures of Tintin vs Bee Movie

The Book of Life vs The Aristocats

The Boy and the Beast vs Waltz with Bashir

The Brave Little Toaster vs Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

The Breadwinner vs Millennium Actress

The Congress vs The Legend of Hei

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen vs Ringing Bell

The Jungle Book vs Wolf Children

The LEGO Batman Movie vs Kung Fu Panda 2

The Lego Ninjago Movie vs Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride vs Watership Down

The Little Prince vs Loving Vincent

The Pagemaster vs Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

The Phantom Tollbooth vs The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Secret World of Arrietty vs 9

The Thief and the Cobbler vs Felidae

The Wind Rises vs Brother Bear

Tokyo Godfathers vs 5 Centimeters per Second

Trolls World Tour vs Promare

Unicorn Wars vs Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Whisper of the Heart vs Batman: Under the Red Hood

#round 1 #long post #best animated movie #animated #animation #not a poll #tournament poll #tumblr's favorite

[sussysatann]

Guys, I am geniunely so sad about the Yuri on Ice movie. We were waiting for such a long time. People were having their doubts with the lack of news but I wanted to have hope anyway. Hope that their story would continue. Hope that we would finally get to see all the years of hard work, passion and dedication that went into making this film. Hope that even after years of mostly radio silence, maybe we could still actually get something. Especially after the pandemic years.

MAPPA cancelled the film due to "various reasons". I feel like after all this time since they started production back in 2017, we deserve a more concrete reasoning. Especially the animators and everyone who worked tirelessly on this project from the very beginning to end.

I remember going to a local anime/cosplay convention years back and met the English VA for Yuri, Jessie James Grelle. It was super cool to meet them. I remember asking if there was anything confirmed for season 2 and them saying there was actually an entire MOVIE in the works. I remember feeling so ecstatic about it, especially since this was just before the official announcement released.

I really loved Yuri on Ice, the characters and the story. I really wanted to see it continue and let the characters and world grow.

To the writer, Mitsurou Kubo, Thank you for this show. Thank you so so much. Thank you for these beloved characters. Thank you for this story. I want to hope that this isn't the end of Yuri on Ice, but I fear it most likely is. I remember feeling so excited, waiting for the episodes to drop every week. It became a routine and my teenage self found a lot of joy through this show. 8 years later and I'm now an adult who's almost Yuri's age. I was really hoping we'd get to see them one last time but, If this truly is the end of Yuri on Ice- Thank you for everything.

but also fuck you mappa.

#yuri on ice #ice adolescence #yoi #mappa #mappa studio

[orangetubor]

Hello thereee- can you give me everyone's views on gender?!? So hyped. :)

BEHOLD TYE GRAPH!!

The graph, conveniently in RGB, so you can make colours with it

Martha! (She/her) She dresses pretty fem, she identifies as a girl, but it's not like ~that big a deal~ to her, #481818 a nice reddish brown :)

Tammy! (She/xi) She cares a lot about her presentation, not in a 'must look fem' way, but in a 'must look cool' way, her clothes are pretty in the middle on the scale, she does id as a trans girl, but like, ehh? She cares about being a girl but in future she doesn't get any surgeries or voice training, just estrogen, so shes in the middle on that. #CB9537 a lovely gold

Jenny! (He/she) She dresses p fem, she's like, bigender but doesn't actually care cuz it's not a huge part of her identity, robotics is more important. #192C74 a lovely dark blue

Thomas! (He/ju) He presents very fem, in fact he's dated two people who turned out to be lesbians later, though he is a boy. As for careness?? He's like middlish, he doesn't mind being seen either way but being a boy who likes boys was like, a big thing for him. #7415F2 a vibrant purple

James/genji: (he/him) presents masc, is a boy, cares about it #EEF4F2 white (to further explain, he's a trans guy, and cares very deeply about being a guy, this is also probably a good place to explain why he's got two names, he named himself after his dad who turned out to be kind of a dick so he changed it again)

Aled! (Any, he/him pref) He's like, mostly a boy? He presents kind of on the masc side but he doesn't actually care that much soo.. °\_( :j )_/° #37A2C6 a nice blue

Georgie! (She/they) She's a girl, but she does use a lot of masc terms for herself, she dresses fem and she's more on the don't care side, she gets #4D2A5F a nice mauve

Dane! (He/zem) He truly is just some guy, his presentation is pretty middly, (is a sweater and jeans really gendered at all?) He does call himself Georgie's wife, but also likes masc terms, he's just kinda... Eh. #0E9DD8 similar to aled

Sahrah! (She/ha) she dresses pretty fem, she is mostly a girl, she's asked a lot about the gender on her mum's planet, and it's kind of different, but she's never gotten the chance to really explore it. She cares like, a decent amount, and so gets #C30F3D a very reddish pink

http://www.cknuckles.com/rgbsliders.html here's the link to the website! For GB 0= fem and 250= masc, for R 0=doesn't care and 250= does care. (So my gender colour would be #1032D4 electric blue)

Neopronouns: (ha/sa/seh) the gender neutral pronouns on her mum's planet. (xi/xin/xir) just some pronouns, pronounced like xhi xhin xhir. (Ju/juself) play on Jupiter, as there's a lot of Jupiter imagery in his story.

#martians #ask box #i missed you bro #neopronouns #gender #martha blum #tammy kubo #jenny khalil #thomas khalil #james kubo #genji kubo #aled howell #georgie blum #dane newton #sahrah gamal #oc (the c stands for carrot)

[gallusrostromegalus]

So IIRC Kubo picked out theme songs for a bunch of characters, though the only ones I remember are "News from the Front" by Bad Religion for Ichigo, "Superpredators" by Massive Attack for Kenpachi, and "Mars, Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst for Yamamoto. Do you have any music that you associate with your versions of the characters?

Hmmm... Granted, my audio processing issues mean I have genuinely weird taste in music and even weirder musical associations but sure, why not:

Ichigo: Tokyo by The Wombats

Orihime: Madamoiselle Juliette by Alizee

Chad: Light it Up (remix) by Major Lazer

Tatsuki: Karateka Teusday by Robbydude

Mizurio: Putty Boy Strut by Flying Lotus

Keigo: DOTA by Basshunter

Kon: Jazz Arrangement of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by Samuel Evans

Kenpachi: March of Cambreadth by Alexander James Adams

Unohana: Tusk by Fleetwood Mac

Komamura: Zenit by Onuka

Kaname: Invincible by OK GO

Matsumoto: Walk by Tami Neilson

Byakuya: Power To Rule The World by Moyun

#AEIWAM #an elephant is warm and mushy #bleach #bleach fanfic

[i-am-blue15]

My Top 10 Favorite Stop Motion Films

10: Corpse Bride

9: Isle of Dogs

8: Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

7: Chicken Run

6: Fantastic Mr. Fox

5: Paranorman

4: Kubo and the Two Strings

3: The Nightmare Before Christmas

2: Coraline

1: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

Honorable Mentions:

My Life as a Zucchini 

Mary & Max

The Boxtrolls

Frankenweenie

Missing Link

James and the Giant Peach

Wendell & Wild

#stop motion #corpse bride #isle of dogs #Wallace and Gromit #chicken run #fantastic mr fox #Paranorman #Kubo And The Two Strings #nightmare before christmas #Coraline #guillermo del toro's pinocchio #Tim Burton #Wes Anderson #aardman #laika studios #henry selick #Guillermo Del Toro

[thecaffeinebookwarrior]

My Personal Ranking For the Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films of 2023

I got to watch these shorts in a local theater yesterday, and it was quite a spectacular time.  

Note: I am not ranking these based on the quality of the film, but based on how much I personally liked the film.  There is definitely a difference.  I have come to terms with the fact that I sometimes don’t personally like media that is Objectively Good, and sometimes get unfortunately invested in things that are questionable quality.

With that out of the way, let’s delve in.

1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

I, too, am surprised that this was my favorite of the short films. Dare I say, I feel a bit basic.  Perhaps I’ll hang up a Live, Laugh, Love sign next.

I’m especially surprised, because I actually have more critiques regarding it than I do with other short films that I liked less. Specifically, the dialogue could sound like platitudes, which is a pet peeve of mine with any media.

But it’s absolutely beautiful.  It’s among the most beautiful animation I’ve ever seen, and seeing it on the big screen was nothing short of an emotional experience.  

The animation and designs made me love each character, and made the dialogue -- which, in a less beautiful film, might have been enough to put me off liking it -- feel heartfelt.  I can’t praise the creative team behind this film enough for the manner in which they brought these characters to life.  The voice performances are also commendable.

Perhaps most importantly, it put me in touch with my inner child.  Wizard of Oz, Jungle Book, James and the Giant Peach, Spirited Away, Kubo -- there is a timeless impulse among children, it would seem, to be befriended and loved by benevolent talking animals or fantastical creatures.

It is perhaps because of my inner child that I love this film so much. My childhood self might have been oblivious to the beautifully simplistic depth of Ice Merchants, the blink-and-you-miss-it beats that make The Flying Sailor so meaningful, bewildered by My Year of Dicks, and existentially terrified by An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake, but my desire for a big white talking horsey is timeless and powerful.

Where to watch it: Apple TV+

2. My Year of Dicks

This one is just. So unspeakably funny.  And, despite the fact that I’m a raging Sapphic who’s never been interested in the dicks available to me, I found it intensely relatable.

This may be a controversial statement, but I find that mainstream Hollywood’s attempts to nail down the Female Gaze are often more obnoxious than the Male Gaze itself.  Partially because it often revolves around what male executives think The Modern Woman(TM) finds appealing, rather than an actual understanding of the female experience.  The Male Gaze, at the very least, feels somewhat organic and based in the personal experience of the filmmakers. 

This -- this felt like the Female Gaze.  A truly organic trip through the psychology, impulses, and emotions of a fifteen-year-old girl.  It treated its female protagonist not as unknowable, but as relatable, with the five unpleasant male characters she was approaching as Other -- each in five wildly entertaining ways.  And it was glorious.

The way the main character dramatized her experiences -- making full use of the animated world in which she lived -- was something I could relate to viscerally.  I’m reluctant to mention anything else about the plot, as I truly encourage everyone to just experience it firsthand.  It’s heartfelt, exquisitely ‘90s, and a beautiful animated tribute to teenhood and questionable decisions.

Where to watch it: Vimeo, Hulu

3. Ice Merchants

Such a beautiful and emotional experience.  I would say that this film demonstrates that less is more, but really, it demonstrates that the illusion of less is more.  In reality, this film is teaming with detail, from the beautifully textured ice and misty landscape below, to the subtle indications of the characters’ recently experienced loss.

I was so entranced by the visual beauty and surrealist elements of this film, it took me a while to grasp its actual storyline: subtle clues, presented by a yellow mug, indicate the loss of the ice merchant’s wife and the mother of his son, and the cold world in which they live comes to represent their grief.

Without giving much away, the film ends with a view of a spring landscape, representing the eventual thaw of this grief as father and son begin to heal.  

Where to watch: YouTube

4.  The Flying Sailor

This beautiful and strange animation is based off of a true story, in which a sailor was flung 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) by the Halifax explosion in 1917, and lived to tell about it.

This film is essentially the sailor’s life flashing before his eyes as he soars, naked, over the exploding landscape. We get to know his character through the blink-and-you-miss-it moments that we witness of his life.

My favorite moment of the film was when he lights a cigarette at the same instant a ship in the harbor (unbeknownst to him, full of dynamite) catches fire. His -- and our -- quiet shock as we realize what we’re looking at is haunting.  He even steps on the match, as if in a subconscious effort to put out the blaze, just as the contents of the ship explodes and nearly ends his life.

Where to watch it: YouTube

5.  An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

Just because I rank this film last doesn’t mean it isn’t good.  It’s incredibly good, and an inventive way to portray a character’s existential crisis through a stop-motion medium.

Ultimately, this is a story about a man realizing how meaningless his life has become while working at an unfulfilling office job.  But that makes the film sound way more mundane than it actually is.  The way in which this existential crisis is portrayed is through the main character realizing that he and his fellow workers are all stop-motion puppets, after he is visited by the titular ostrich.

And I do like it a great deal, but the reason for it subjectively ranking below the other films is the simple fact that the other films left me with a more positive emotional feeling.  This one...is kind of terrifying.

I wonder if the director was inspired by the 1965 stop motion The Hand, in which a gloved human hand is used as a source of horror in the world of a stop motion puppet.  In a similar manner, human hands look uncanny in this film when contrasted with the main character and his puppet world.

Anyway, go watch it and have an existential crisis of your own.  I recommend it.

Where to watch it: Vimeo

Have you seen the animated shorts? Let me know your personal ranking!

#oscar nominated short films #the boy the mole the fox and the horse #ice merchants #the flying sailor #an ostrich told me the world is fake and i think i believe it #long post for ts #film

[nachosconcarne]

Phoebe as LYDIA DEETZ Spencer as MAX, THE KING OF ALL WILD THINGS Mike as the RICHARD D. JAMES ALBUM Ludwig as CAT Celeste as TIGER Terry as KUBO Katrina as MERYL STRYFE Renée as MILLY THOMPSON Brian as POMNI Bonnie as ORACLE

#webcomics #comics #indie comics #Halloween #halloween costumes

[demifiendrsa]

New Mask De Masculine and James illustration by Tite Kubo

#Bleach Thousand Year Blood War #Bleach TYBW #Bleach #Bleach anime #Tite Kubo #anime #TV anime #manga