Halloween Cartoon for Oct. 8th

A weird bloody violent stop-motion short, from Japanese animator Takena Nagao. What I really like by this bare bones homemade animation, is how well it's animated, and edited. As well as limiting clay is, he gives the characters great expressions. This might be a little too gory for the littler kiddies, but enjoy just the same.

Halloween Cartoon for Oct. 7th

This is a stop-motion short written and directed by Tim Burton, while he was still an animator at Disney. He had it narrated by one of his idols Vincent Price, you later went on to appear as the inventor in Edward Scissorhands. And just like his other short Frankenweenie, (which will also make an appearance on this countdown) there is talks that Vincent will also be made into a full length feature.

Halloween Cartoon for Oct. 6th

A creepy cute stop-motion french Canadian short called The Country Heads. Enjoy!

Halloween Cartoon for Oct. 4th

This is a cool one where the animators took the audio from an old black and white cartoon, and did their own animation on top of it. What makes this really cool, is that they mix animation mediums. With puppets, stop-motion, and 2D animation. Very fun to watch.

Halloween Cartoon for Oct. 2nd

This is a weird one I found on a animation collection DVD years ago, and couldn't remember where I saw it, so I was excited to find it on youtube, for me and all of you to enjoy.

Trilogy Week #37 - Stop Motion Animation

I have been fascinated with stop-motion animation as far back as I can remember. I always knew there was something special in the way it was made, that regular animation wasn't. And it is still a field of art that I still get excited about when I new feature or short is made. So I hope if you haven't seen these three movies before, you'll go out and get them, and enjoy them as much as I did.