#animated movie
Hidden Animation ~ J’ai perdu mon corps (I lost my body), dir. Jérémy Clapin (2019).
J’ai perdu mon corps is a long-length animated movie which received the highest distinction (Cristal du long métrage) at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2019. It tells the story of a disembodied hand in search of its body, young Naoufel. The storytelling is split in two : the hand’s quest and Naoufel’s life as he falls in love with Gabrielle and how it changes his life. Scenery and art style are both urban and poetic, showcasing the city of Paris, its subway lines and its apartment buildings.
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Hidden Animation ~ La Fameuse Invasion des ours en Sicile, dir. Lorenzo Mattotti
The animated movie is an adaptation of Dino Buzzati’s short story. Tonio, the bear king’s son, has been kidnapped by hunters and the bears rally to leave their mountains and try to invade Sicily which allows them to learn more about humans. The movie is a collaboration between France and Italy and was selected for the official competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Magic of Animation ~ Scenery
~ Song of the Sea, dir. Tomm Moore
Hidden Animation ~ Louise en hiver, dir. Jean-François Laguionie (2016)
Louise en hiver tells the story of an old lady who is left alone in a small city by the sea at the end of the summer. Tempests start to rise and Louise has to fight against a capricious nature and her own solitude. The movie is an ode to old age and was created combining traditional 2D animation and CGI to help produce the feeling of an animated painting.
Watch the French trailer with English subtitles
The director’s official website
Hidden Animation is a series created to showcase unknown gems from the animated world
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Hidden Animation ~ La Jeune fille sans mains, Sébastien Laudenbach (2016)
La Jeune fille sans mains is loosely based on the brothers Grimm’s tale in which a poor miller is tempted by the devil and agrees to sell his daughter to him in exchange for gold. In her attempt to escape, her father manages to cut off her hands and give them to the devil. The story is then centered around the daughter and her survival despite her infirmity.
The movie has been praised for its visual rendition and unique art style emphasized by the use of clean sketch lines and vibrant colours. The movie was awarded at the Annecy festival.
Hidden Animation is a series created to showcase unknown gems from the animated world
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Hidden Animation ~ L'Illusionniste, Sylvain Chomet (2010)
L’Illusionniste is based on a scenario written in 1956 by Jacques Tati, a French mime, actor and director. The script was conceived as a personal letter to his eldest daughter with whom he had a very difficult relationship. Tati died before he could make the movie and Sylvain Chomet, who directed Oscar-nominated animated movie The Triplets of Belleville, kept Tati’s original intention by staging a relationship between a struggling illusionist and a girl who is convinced he is a real magician.
Hidden Animation is a series created to showcase unknown gems from the animated world
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Hidden Animation ~ Les Contes de la Nuit, Michel Ocelot
~ The director’s official website
Hidden Animation is a series created to showcase unknown gems from the animated world
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It’s been a crazy ride with years worth of GIF posts and hundreds of followers - you guys are the best and I love you all. It’s been an unbelievable time.
My nannying jobs have come to an end and although I could keep posting I’d hate to have NannySeekingSanity die a slow death due to inactivity or neglect! I’ll be keeping the many pages up for everyone’s enjoyment but no new posts are coming. I know, it’s breaking my heart too!
Before I leave you, here are my parting words:
So long!
Farewell!
Auf wiedersehen!
Goodnight!
It’s been great Tumblr!
I’m making a movie!
I’ll post more about it in the coming weeks, but here’s a new project I’ve got rolling. It’s all independent and will be 95% done by me (Except some of the audio and music stuff). I don’t update Tumblr super often so if you want to follow my progress I highly suggest following my Instagram!
I’m hoping to have a section of it on my site soon so I can go into more detail, and soon I hope to have a demo animatic before too long as well!
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Tangled (2010) Rapunzel
Dipper got a cameo on Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers!!!
Coronavirus can’t kill me because i died the day Red ended up with Silver and not with Chuck.
Title:The Secret of the Selenites/Le secret des Sélénites
A French feature-length animated film by Jean Image
Released in 1984
76 Minutes Long
In the depths of the moon lives a mysterious people, the Selenites, who have the ability to live eternally thanks to an invaluable talisman. Baron Munchausen, accompanied by his faithful friends with strange abilities, take off on board a sumptuous boat to the moon in search of the gift immortality.
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Title:The Secret of the Selenites/Le secret des Sélénites
Release Year: 1984
Production Country: France
Film Director: Jean Image
Length:76 Minutes
The film begins in 1787. Baron Munchausen’s Uncle Sirius, an astronomer, stimulates the adventurousness of his nephew. Sirius says that on the moon should live the Selenites, who know the secret of immortality. On a ship upgraded with hot air balloons, Munchausen travels with his friends to the moon and meets not only the friendly Selenites, but also a hostile alien race who also claim the secret of immortality for themselves. Finally, the Baron learns the secret of the Selenites.
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Title:The Secret of the Selenites / Le secret des Sélénites
Release Year: 1984
Production Country: France
Film Director: Jean Image
Length:76 Minutes
Synopsis:
The film follows the adventures of Baron Munchausen, who is prompted to travel to the moon by his Uncle Sirius, an astrologer convinced that it is inhabited by an ancient race called the Selenites. The Selentites incidentally possess the secret of immortality. The Baron takes up his cousin’s offer and travels to the moon using a tall masted ship pulled by three hot air balloons and he is aided by his super-ability friends. When they reach the moon, they are initially placed in jeopardy as their craft lands in a crater and they fall into a subterranean sea inhabited by monsters; however, the Selentites come to rescue them and take them back to their kingdom where they meet the King and Queen of the moon. However, while he is there with his friends, the moon is invaded by the Green Meanies, led by the ostentatious Trivert, who will stop at nothing to get the talisman of eternal life for themselves. They manage to defeat the meanies and they are awarded the talisman for themselves and for Sirius — and they gain the secret of eternal life. The film ends with the Baron and Sirius at the end of the 20th Century, in a futuristic world inhabited by flying cars and skyscrapers reminiscing on their adventures.
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English:The Secret of the Selenites
French:Le secret des Sélénites
AKA: Moon Madness/Moontrek
Release Year: 1984
Production Country: France
Film Director: Jean Image
Animation/Production Studios: Films Jean Image
Medium: hand-drawn animation
Genre: fantasy, adventure
Length: 76 minutes
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English:Delta Space Mission
Romanian:Misiunea Spatiala Delta
French:La Mission Spatiale Delta
Spanish:Mision Especial Delta
Release Year: 1984
Production Country: Romania
Medium: hand-drawn animation
Genre: sci-fi, space opera
Length:67 minutes
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English:Delta Space Mission
Romanian:Misiunea Spatiala Delta
French:La Mission Spatiale Delta
Spanish: Mision Especial Delta
Released In 1984
67 Minutes Long
This is the first feature-length science fiction animated film made in Romania, a sequel and continuation to a Romanian animated series of the same name directed by Victor Antonescu, with characters drawn by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia.
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English:Delta Space Mission
Romanian:Misiunea Spatiala Delta
French:La Mission Spatiale Delta
Spanish:Mision Especial Delta
This is the first feature-length science fiction animated film made in Romania, a sequel and continuation to a Romanian animated series of the same name directed by Victor Antonescu, with characters drawn by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia.
Synopsis:
The year is 3084, man settled interplanetary space, but space is still full of secrets… On a research mission to a newly discovered Galaxy heads the most advanced spaceship, Delta, operated by an extremely powerful electronic brain. Project Delta was conceived in order to establish a dialogue between intergalactic civilizations. Soon after an alien journalist, Alma, was allowed to board the spaceship, she and the captain noticed that the super-brain that controlled the ship could act by itself. No one, however, counts on the fact that this artificial super intelligence will want to explore the area of human emotions and feelings. Eventually, they realize that the journalist’s beauty was the reason for the brain’s odd behavior. She became its muse. The enamored machine becomes out of control and threatens all living things around them.
Directed By: Călin Cazan, Mircea Toia
Country: Romania
Year:1984
Running Time: 67 minutes
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Lensman·A Japanese feature-length animated film
Released in 1984
Running Time: 107 Minutes· Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Lensman took four years and $10 million to make.
SF Shinseiki Lensman was released in Japan in 1984. Carl Macek’s company, Streamline Pictures, dubbed the movie into English and released it in America as Lensman in 1990.
Lensman is somewhat remarkable from a technical perspective, as it was the first anime movie to combine computer-generated animation with traditional cel animation. The movie is above-par from a technical perspective for an anime of the period.
The movie is very loosely based on Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith.
Based on the seminal space opera stories by E.E. Smith that eventually inspired Star Wars, the feature film directorial debut by the famed Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and one of the earliest anime movies to combine computer animation with hand-drawn cels,Lensman certainly has pedigree.
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Lensman / SF Shinseiki · A Japanese production
Japan Release Year: 1984
U.S. Release Year: 1990
Based on the classic science fiction novel Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith
Running Time: 107 Minutes· Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa
This was the first anime film to use CGI animation along with traditional hand-drawn animation.
The bulk of the film was created in the traditional cel-oriented fashion (which some CG animators would call 2D) but the directors wanted some 3D/CG elements to give the film a new look. Allegedly the only feature film that had used this technology before was Tron.
Co-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri later became one of the most respected names in anime, directing notable films including Wicked City (1987),Demon City Shinjuku(1988),Ninja Scroll(1993),Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust(2000),Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007) and a director of episodes in the anthology films Neo-Tokyo (1987) and The Animatrix(2003).
Reviews:
“…There are some sharp visual effects here, a combination of imaginative and innovative computer animation and the traditional hand-drawn animation, and when the special effects take over the film seems to come alive.” —Chris Hicks, Deseret News
“Adapted from the best-selling science fiction novels of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, this superbly animated film combines detailed hand-drawn animation with state-of-the-art computer graphics.” —Ken Innes, Absolute Anime
“The sense of cosmic scale that Smith specialized in is something that Japanese animation does like nobody else… (This was interestingly the first anime film to feature computer animation…) The action is exciting, particularly the speeder-bike chases near the end or the escape from the Overlords stronghold. The filmmakers design a fabulous array of ships — the Boskonian fleet are black clouds lit up from inside with lights, or their planetary patrol ships that are like hollowed-out animal skulls drooping with pink innards.” —Richard Scheib, The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
“An excellent example of its genre, Lensman will delight the growing ranks of Japanese cartoon fans in the United States. The storytelling and character development are minimal by Western standards, but superior to the recent Akira; and the film offers the requisite array of jazzy effects, including explosions, ray gun battles, weird-looking aliens, rapid-fire editing and computer-generated imagery.” —Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times
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Lensman · A Japanese production
Released in 1984 · Based on the classic science fiction novel Galactic Patrol by E. E. “Doc” Smith
Running Time: 107 Minutes· Directed By: Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Lensman took four years and $10 million to make.
Synopsis:
In the 25th Century, Kimball Kinnison is an eager young pilot from a lonely agricultural planet called Mquie. Kim is living a peaceful life with his father as a farmer on their planet until one day when a runaway spaceship is detected moving at a high speed towards his father’s farm. The Galactic Fleet ship Britannia manned by Lensmen is fast approaching the planet Mquie with vital data about the location of the villainous Boskone Empire’s Devil Planet. As the spaceship is about to crash land in their corn field, Kim, being the excellent pilot that he is, boards the ship before it crashes and lands it himself, along with his companion, Van Buskirk.
On board the ship they find a severely injured, dying man whom with his dying words begs Kim to take something of his to the Galactic Fleet. The man has a legendary Lens — a semi-sentient crystalline device— embedded in his hand. As the Lensman is dying, he mysteriously passes on the Lens to Kim.
Kim becomes involved in a galaxywide battle between the forces of good and evil when this mysterious Lens of the Galactic Patrolman attaches itself to his wrist. It has turned Kim into a Lensman. Other than giving Kim unknown powers, it also contains vital information for the victory of the Galactic Fleet over the evil Boskone Empire. Kim must now bring the Lens to the Galactic Fleet. But this is not an easy task when Lord Helmet of the Boskone Empire is willing to use everything in his power to stop him.
Pursued by the Boskonians, Kimball, and the burly engineer Van Buskirk, along with spaceship Britannia inhabitants nurse Clarissa MacDougall, and the reptilian Lensman Worzel, undergo a dangerous journey to return the information to the Galactic Patrol.
Kim is soon zipping between planets on the spaceship Britannia, fighting the evil Boskone Empire with some help from the roaring Von Buskirk, and their other alien companions. Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
Lensman is a visual adventure for the eyes. Watch as young Kim must survive the perils of the galaxy as the mysterious and frightening villains close in on his every move. With the Boskone secrets trapped within the powerful Lens Kim is gifted with, it is his responsibility to relay it to the Galatic Fleet before the Boskone Empire can catch him… but with their willingness to destroy entire worlds to get at him, does he even stand a chance?
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Title:Lensman [Also Known As: Lensman: Secret of the Lens | Original Japanese Title: SF Shinseiki Lensman]
Release Year: 1984
Production Country: Japan
Film Directors: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Hirokawa
[Co-director Yoshiaki Kawajiri later became one of the most respected names in anime, directing notable films including Wicked City (1987),Demon City Shinjuku(1988),Ninja Scroll(1993),Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust(2000), Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007) and a director of episodes in the anthology films Neo-Tokyo (1987) and The Animatrix(2003).Lensman was the first animated feature film he directed.]
Animation/Production Studios: Kodansha, MK Productions, Madhouse, Toho Company
Medium: hand drawn animation, CGI (at the time, the computer graphics it introduced were revolutionary, though they may seem a little primitive today)
Genre: sci-fi, space opera
Length: 107 minutes
