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Animation is hard work!

A wonderful video from the late 1930s, a newsreel, has been posted to YouTube. It depicts Fleischer studios in action, making a Popeye cartoon. In this age of computer animation, when things work differently, it’s a real treat to see animators in action, drawing for a change. Golly, cartoons were sure hard to make! We, as spectators, can’t possibly imagine the incredible amount of work that goes on to produce a 7 or 8 minute cartoon, but this video does a pretty good job of setting us straight on that subject. This is why old cartoons are still relevant. The sheer amount of work it took to make them qualifies them as works of art. We should do our best to preserve them and share them with generations to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFhmw8rri0c

[via Cartoon Brew]

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Amazing sand art videos

An artist by the name of Ilana Yahav draws with sand on a glass table. Her art is memerizing, and the results are amazing. This page on her site has sample videos of her work. Highly recommended!

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Chad's Design For Television (1960)

From A-HAA!: “Remember those matchbooks that said ‘Draw Me!’ on the front? They advertised a correspondence course called ‘Famous Artists’. Everyone made fun of ‘draw Binky the Skunk any size but the same size’ – but the truth of the matter was that the Famous Artists Course was no laughing matter – it was one of the best art instructional courses ever created…”

Read the entire post for some great background info on Chad Grothkopf, one of the great animators. Here is the link.

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