Saturday, December 5, 2009

Animation worth seeing

This animation produced by Ernest Pintoff is damn funny:



I found 2 more animated clips produced by Ernest Pintoff.

This one is a great visual translation of personality: ’Square meets hip’ in this animation called ’The Interview’:



The voice track is of Henry Jacobs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jacobs

Animation by Vinnie Bell, Al Chiarito
Also very interesting to read the origins of ’hipster’ on wiki.

The other animation from 1965, also with animation by Vinnie Bell, is called’Safety Shoes’:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewfilms/len-glassers-safety-shoes
Article included, along with more on the ’Interview’ animation.

I found more on Vinnie Bell - aka Vincent Bell by googling.
Credits on indb go back as far as 1959 when he was animating on "The Deputy Dawg Show", and as recent as 2007 on Saturday Night Live. He at one time was working with Ralph Bakshi.

Totally unrelated but very funny, Mike L. Mayfield was an animator on King of the Hill, and runs the site http://www.citizensagainstsafetygoggles.com

The first animation I saw by Mike is The Lollipop Tree which was inspired by an audio tape he found in a dumpster behind a church.



Mike also creates a commercial spoof called "Uncle Hell"
Search youtube for Citizens Against Safety Goggles and then follow Uncle Hell for more episodes, starting here: