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The Brothers McLeod decided to enter a film into the DepicT! mini-shorts competition. They gave themselves the added challenge of producing their entry in under five hours, which is an admirable feat even when you take into account they had previously recorded the voice track. The finished film, The Existential Pleading of the Inner Heart, is an amusing bit of nonsense that charts the “thoughts and feelings of an Internet filmmaker called Colin T. Heart and might be a little bit autobiographical.” (Watch it full-screen for best effect.)
Perhaps most impressively, they also managed to document their four-and-a-half-hour production with a manic making-of video:
The craft of hand-drawn animation, virtually absent from American bigscreens (Winnie the Pooh and The Illusionist being the notable exceptions), has a far stronger presence in TV series work, advertising, and especially amongst independent filmmakers. This Sunday in Brooklyn, animators Bill Plympton and Pat Smith catalog some of the recent hand-drawn achievements in the latter area with their first-ever Scribble Junkies Festival of Drawn Animation, which they aim to turn into an annual event. Depending on the reaction to this premier edition, Pat tells me that they want to expand to multiple screenings next year, as well as accept submissions.
The screening, which takes place at the Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn), will present recent independent work by filmmakers Ryan Woodward, David Chai, Caleb Wood, Colleen Cox, Rebecca Sugar, Don Hertzfeldt, Brothers McLeod, and Fran Krause, as well as the two festival organizers. There’s a reception at 7:30pm, screening at 8:30pm, and an after-party and awards ceremony. Tickets are $11. Regular event updates can be found on Bill and Pat’s blog Scribble Junkies.
Not only is the title the same, but the whole visual aesthetic is so incredibly similar (scribbly chalk-like white lines on a black background) that I actually couldn’t believe that this wasn’t a homage or an intentional sequel or remake.
They claim on their site that they had no idea and go on to list lots of other examples of people independently coming up with the idea of a moonbird in culture and I’m inclined to believe them, but it’s a very spooky and interesting coincidence.
Simply awesome! I can’t wait to see
him cleaned up.
Sorry wrong post. But I can’t wait to see the finished product. I love this style.
What I’m amazed at is how closely similar this is to John Hubley’s 1959 ‘Moonbird’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgma3KJuSw
Not only is the title the same, but the whole visual aesthetic is so incredibly similar (scribbly chalk-like white lines on a black background) that I actually couldn’t believe that this wasn’t a homage or an intentional sequel or remake.
They claim on their site that they had no idea and go on to list lots of other examples of people independently coming up with the idea of a moonbird in culture and I’m inclined to believe them, but it’s a very spooky and interesting coincidence.