http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFG1O4bRSw
a short animated film by brian carroll. this is a homage to german animator oskar fischinger, set to the classical piece "danse macabre" by saint-saens

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/07/05/animation-pioneers/
5 early animation before Walt Disney by: Cohl who made Fantasmagorie in 1908 considered the father of the animation cartoons. George Melies who made the prolific egg en 1902. Winsor McCay who made little Nemo in 1911. Stuart Blackton who made the enchanted drawing in 1900 and the work of a photographer Eadweard J. Mybridge in 1893, that isn´t animation, He made photograph of animals in motion but was one of the early experiments whitin animation.

http://vimeo.com/31956969hand drawing animation

Amazing animation by a French graphic designer call Olivier Beaudoin. It look 2D but I think is made with a 3D software because the animation have this perspective and depth that 3D programs does.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPfTlpCKaw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO4PlvIE6bkThe amazing Mr Bickford by Bruce Bickford. An animator who work with clay animation. He is famous because of his collaboration with Frank Zappa in the 70s. He works with stop motion making disturbing and shocking transformations with plasticine.

British museum project. This is my latest animation. I used hand drawing animation as a technique and I made my drawing with ink. The animation got this yellow colour because I wanted to look like old, like the thing kept in a museum. I am not very happy with the editing and is something I would like to improve. for instance, the music is not properly set up not having fade in and out when is needed, and some sound effect are missing.
Overall, I am very happy with the final result.

Lcc group animation 2011. This project was an animation group we did with the sound student in London College of Communication. I wrote the script and the mood board in the pre production stage, so the animation is based in my ideas. In the production, I did all the sand animation bit and the other guys did the flash bit. In the post production; I did the title and credits and the other guys did the editing; The techniques we used were: hand drawing animation in flash and sand animation in a multiplane set up rostrum camera. I enjoy so much the production process because, I was in charge of the sand animation and the process was about experimentation; first, because I changed the colour of the sand using different food coloring and food spices. second, because I play with the sand in the shooting and was a very good experience.
In the beginning I felt that the animation was somehow unfinished, perhaps because all the problems that bring to work with other people. However, I felt very please of the final result after we polished it.

MICKEY MOUSE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
Mickey mouse is the most recognizable character of Walt Disney studios. He was created in order to get the right by the company in 1928, because his predecessor Oswald the lucky rabbit was taken away with most of Disney staff by Universal in a plot: Walt Disney refuse to deal with Universal and after finished the last Oswald the lucky rabbit cartoons he contractually owed universal, he created the new Disney studios. After that, He make sure He owned all the rights of every character make by his company.
Mickey's body design was made by circles in order to make the animation movements more easy. Mickey saw his debut in New York on November 18, 1928, in a sort animation film call Steamboat Willie, and since, He has been the most successful character ever created.I would like to mention that in the early Mickey mouse days. the very Walt Disney was the voice!!

The main character for a comic project,I have written a strip but It is so sketchy that I need to polish it.

The History of animation

I am amuse to know that early animations dated 5.200 years old,  I am talking about the bowl found in Iran in 1970, that have a sequential drawing of a goat, so  when you spin it you can see the goat moving around...that is amazingly clever!!http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/oldest-animation-discovered-in-iran/Another early animation is call Zoetrope, that is a device that produce an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures, It was created in china around 180 AD. This device used to hang over a lamp, and pictures painted on the panels would appear to move if the device is spun at the right spin.

The modern zoetrope was invented in 1984 by a British mathematician. Similar device was invented at the sane time in Belgium and Ausria giving them a different names.
In 1980 the film maker Bill Brand installed a type of linear zoetrope in the New York's subway; It consisted of a linear wall with 228 slit in the face. Behind each slit was a hand painted panel. Riders in subway moving past the display saw a motion picture within. After that a guy call Joshua Spodek develop a class of linear zoetrope that saw the firs commercial success in Atlanta subway system. Since, this class of linear zoetrope was used in different overground around the world.
Studio Ghibli and Pixar are using zoetrope in exhibition and museums.

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