Category: film gifs

Anthony Samaniego

Anthony Samaniego, Computer Graphics, Endless Loop, Film Gifs

Anthony Samaniego is a visual artist practicing in photography, video and 3D animation. His work deals with the subjects of beauty and time. More information can be found at the artist’s site: https://www.anthonysamaniego.com

“Mossy bank and darksome glens”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit, “The Wrong Trousers”, 1993

“The Wrong Trousers” is a 1993 stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his silent but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989’s “A Grand Day Out”, and preceding 1995’s “A Close Shave”.

As in “A Grand Day Out”, the thirty-minute film uses sight gags and exaggerated physical comedy and quiet moments, as well as a few subtle film parodies. The film premièred in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993. It won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

The Aardman animations are some of the funniest films out there. Wallace and Gromit films are my favorites. “Chicken Run”, another film from Aardman Animations, is a great film about chicken escaping their coop (with references to Steve McQueen’s “The Great Escape”) and loaded with lots of sly humor. Lots of work and time go into making these films; worth seeing them all.

Hermann Hesse: “There is No Such Thing as Time”

Artists Unknown, Computer Graphics, Animated Photo Gifs

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?“ That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

—Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Red Fox

Artist Unknown, (Red Fox), Computer Graphics, Animation Gifs

“To survive
we’d all turn thief

and rascal, or so says the fox,
with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,
her white knife of a smile,
who knows just where she’s going:

to steal something
that doesn’t belong to her –
some chicken, or one more chance,
or other life.”
― Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House

Champloo

Champloo, Computer Graphics, Anime Film Gifs

“A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced. Service to them is not demeaning; service is an expression of their prowess and their pride; they serve because only they are strong enough to serve with such flawless perfection and such consummate ability. It is a source of pride to them.

Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai