Top 10 Your favorite Animated Anything.

[G-DDT]

Simple. A cartoon, a movie [[could be Disney, could be Anime), an Adult Swim/Liquid Television/National Film Board of Canada/Sick & Twisted Type thing. Think hard, and give us your ten.

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I'll start with 1.) Allegro Non Troppo [[the "Italian Fantasia") had many great sequences set to music. Yet, this remains my favorite since I first saw it as an in-between short on Showtime [[back when they would show cool things like this on stations like Showtime or IFC).
http://www.videobash.com/video_show/...-copy-ro-33241
As a Christian who believes in evolution [[Genesis 2:4), I'm perfectly cool with this.

[rb336]

Creature Comforts, from the folks that gave us Wallace & Gromit

https://youtu.be/xe8_aka_qlw

[Jimaz]

Here's a creepy classic from 1973. It's a weird, plodding film that runs 72 minutes.

Fantastic Planet

[Bigb23]

Mary and Max. Top notch full length claymation recently on PBS and Netflix.Check out Wikipedia and IMDB.
With Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette.

Does anybody remember a short animated film about a starving cat in a bombed out WWII village?
The cat remembers happier times with children playing and bread baking in the kitchen. Get your hankies out !
Having seen it once twenty years ago, and not knowing the title, I tried a google search and came up empty handed.
Maybe someone else can find it, I'd like to see it again and have a good cry.

Ten is hard, most of them have been international short films of the last 30 years, and I have seen many.
The Canadian film board is a rich source of that genre.

For a good laugh, I've always enjoyed -

"Rollin' Wild" and "Rollin' Safari" on You Tube.

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Allegro Non Troppo had a "make ya' wanna cry" cat segment. Which brings me on over to number 2.) Grave of the Fireflies. Yeah-this WW2 anime piece about two war orphans made me cry. Even the live action film "Nobody Knows" didn't make me cry like this one. I should've posted this one a lot more prior to Memorial Day.

[Pam]

Creature Comforts, from the folks that gave us Wallace & Gromit

https://youtu.be/xe8_aka_qlw

Here's another one from the Wallace and Grommit people:

https://youtu.be/HQNhZicHPq4

[Pam]

Here's the cat scene mentioned by G-DDT. Looks like it fits your description Bigb.

https://youtu.be/NtPpU8UBICM

[Bigb23]

Thanks G, that might be it, I'll check it out. Also, thanks Pam !

[Bigb23]

That's the one Pam, but the link won't work on my tablet. On my TV YouTube there's a one minute clip, and the whole movie is copy write protected with a link I can't access with my remote.
Also not on Netflix. At least I know where it is under lock and key.

[Bigb23]

I love the Carmina Burana, but with sand art telling the story along with the whole concert is fascinating.
This guy is fantastic !!!!!

Carmina Burana/Mundrucz Tamas 1:06:00 on YouTube.

I'd link, but I'm on an Android OS.

Www.sandanimation.com

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Creature Comforts, from the folks that gave us Wallace & Gromit

https://youtu.be/xe8_aka_qlw

Yeah, I like those guys, too. I felt bad for them when one of their facilities caught fire, in 2005. I would like to see what they could do with Miyzaki. Which brings me to number 3.) most of Miyazaki's stuff is wildly imaginative [[you got Yokai and Spirited Away captures that whole Oz/Wonderland thing, but most especially, Princess Mononoke).

I promise to add less foreign stuff, that is, after I mention Triplets of Belleville, which, oop-, guess makes 4.).

And it seems some folks take a liking to these, as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R94Q6NhuS3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1asueMme_k

[G-DDT]

5.) When Liquid Television first debuted on MTV [[that was when MTV actually was mostly videos and had decent programming on occasion, but that all changed for the worst once horrible shows like "Real World" appeared and spread a hideous infection in culture causing a downgrade we still can't shake to this day.), it was a real groundbreaking eye-opener. It featured many shorts [[like "Snookles and Little Bird Duet" and "Grinning Evil Death"), the first Aeon Flux shorts [[awesome.), Stick Figure Theater, Bill Plymptoons, early Beavis & Butthead [[which were blamed for the real downfall of society), a great soundtrack by Mark Mothersbaugh. Not everything was good [["Art School Girls of Doom" and "Wintersteel", for example), but it was showcasing shorts like this haunting Catch-22 one that made it worthwhile.


Take the U.F.O. and the various planets as a loose metaphor substituting for "other entities" of our existence.

[black gold man]

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Another thing that was revolutionary in the early '80s was 6.) Ren & Stimpy. This had my friends and myself on the edge of our seats bombed out with their extreme kitsch, obtuse absurdity, and drawing out the situations to ridiculously strained proportions. It was very surprising that they were on Nickelodeon, seeing as a lot of the humor was very adult, with not so subtle double-innuendos, very subversive, and at the least, scatological. They obviously made an impact on the cartoon revolution of the '90s, because so many folks [[especially Nickelodeon) imitated them with show like Cow & Chicken, Catdog, and that one about the brick of something that lives in a pineapple under the sea.

These guys were clearly influenced by Tex Avery [[and some of the real Mad men). Yet, what I really liked as how they believed in a strict ethic of evolving the style, so the characters were not drawn and animated in the same static template. they believed in keeping a heavily emotive impressionism in the characters. Read this quick essay Bob camp wrote for breaking the "On Model" rut http://bobcampcartoonist.blogspot.co...Style%20theory I liked how he compared it to Jazz.

The show had it's drawbacks [[like keeping fans hanging on forever for new episodes), and the more adult stuff clearly wasn't for everyone [[including some of the staff there, I heard. Shame on you for trying to get all Bakshi on us!-Tsk Tsk!). Yet, later on, my brother got into them, and we got kicks out of characters like Wilbur Cobb, Frank Gorshin as the Rev. Jack Cheese [[the meat preacher, who has his men go out and steal "bases" from the Catholic playing field where "Johnny Paulski" is up to bat with the "Cardinals vs. the Bishops"), and the occasional episodes that Randy Quaid, Frank Zappa, or the Late Phil Hartman would do voices for....Silly as it was, where else were you going to get to hear this http://nicktoons.nick.com/videos/cli...og-song-1.html,
not to mention this great clip from one of the best episodes demonstrating the evils of Behavioral Modification. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0V4TZAyd8I

[rb336]

The Tick. With the original Arthur

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The Tick. With the original Arthur

That was clever stuff that went over a lot of folks heads. Very pre-Mystery Men and Venture Bros. I liked when cartoons started to breech the seamy lines youth and mature audiences. Even Animaniacs had it's moments [[I do recall me and my friends at school thinking the "finger Prince" gag was really pushing the envelope for kid's cartoons.).

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7.) When I was much younger I thrilled at computer animation. I loved seeing it in the beginning opening sequences to Amazing Stories and flicks like Young Sherlock Holmes [[sort of a pre-Potter flick for us '80s kids) or Tron. Even Terminator 2 had me riveted. However, by the time I'm seeing a double feature at the Ford-Tel of Jurassic Park and Raimi's Army of Darkness, C.G.I. wore thin on me for the empty phantasmic styling of "hues" [[versus the "tints" used in make-up, special effects, stop-animation, and matte paintings-that my unconscious mind registers as possessing "mass" or substance to it), and it was clear which movie I liked better [[n-yuk n-yuk n-yuk).

I find it harder and harder to get into anyone's use of computer graphics, that's why it is all the more strange that I choose Homestar Runner as my favorite computer animated series. I know it's a lot of goofy flash animation, but I just like where these guys are coming from. If one hasn't seen the site, please give yourself a break, and check out some toons or some of "Strong Bad's Emails" http://www.homestarrunner.com/.

Unfortunately, it does get a little involved as they riff and spin-off in so many directions with various characters and styles [[like Japanime or Olde Timey stuff). Besides you may learn a little something about cartooning, yourself http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail58.html I think folks were even demanding more Izods with the Trogdor image on them.

Strong bad even felt encouraged to do his own series:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs1.html
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs3.html
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs6.html

Okay, maybe not for everyone, but that didn't stop them from making puppets to entertain the kids. http://www.homestarrunner.com/toons.html

[G-DDT]

8.) King of the Hill, I'll tell you what. I actually like that gosh-darn show [[even if most of it is Hank repeating "Propane" like it were some TM Mantra). When Beavis & Butthead first came out, folks were certain it was a sure sign of the end of humanity [[so, they tuned into Rush Limbaugh, packed chauvinistic Promise Keeper events, and bought every apocalyptic book in a series written by a Bob Jones University graduate who received lots of money from the Rev. Sun Myung "I'm the New Messiah" Moon-oh, those were the days, right, folks?). By the time "Office Space" came out, folks figured Mike Judge knew what was up.

I still recall when King of the Hill first came out, and how it was supposed to be this dry, stiff American Gothic thing. Yet, as the show went on, Hank either learned something or became the rare voice of reason in a dilemma. Then, it got more and more steeped in characters and sub-plots.

Witnessed one debate with some F-N-B folks over whether "Idiocracy" was rife with Eugenic overtones. I guess Mike Judge is a libertarian, now [[as is Peter Bagge). Still, there is rarely a show of King of the Hill I don't like. I like the one where Hank puts in perspective to his kid, Bobby, how the contemporized trendiness of his youth group will turn his faith into some passing fancy that goes in a dusty box with all the other things that came and went in his life. I also like the one with Michael Keaton playing a demented Pork Empire Heir.

[G-DDT]

Dang. Look who popped up on the Simpsons to promote their upcoming shows for late July https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ecYoSvGO60 [[hate to think they've run out of steam, yet, without having to resort to gags about pedophilia or Garfield performing necrophilia with Terry Shiavo. If so, I got quite a number of ideas to pitch...).

Kind of wish this was the way the show would finally end-poetically done in by a hostile intrusion by the caustic new era of cartoons from the Adult Swim camp.