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wieczorynka · 15 days

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Dziwny świat kota Filemona, odcinek 11. Poważne zmartwienie

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youcantfiremebecauseiquit · 8 months

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Reksio

#reksio #polish animation #polish tv

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hotnunswithguns · 11 days

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Labirynth (1962) dir. Jan Lenica

#i might get around to posting more gifs from it maybe #film #old animation #animation #indie animation #60s #60s movies #vintage animation #polish art #jan lenica #lenica #polish cinema #polish animation

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featherglum · 1 year

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Wirtulandia fanart on tumblr dot com⁉️ It's more likely than you think!!

I know they've been dead for over a year, but I feel obligated to tag the only wirtulandia fan account known to man so... @wirtulandia-without-context

#wirtulandia #featherglum art #polish tv #polishcore #internetcore #kidcore #2000s cartoons #polish cartoon #polish animation #small art account #I believe in Bajtek and Kula Smakula supremacy #if you couldn't tell already

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magicmattie · 1 year

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Tango

1981

Zbigniew Rybczyński

Link to video (I can't embed it because it's age restricted due to nudity and a sex scene) https://youtu.be/lo8O8lYDzIU

The first Polish Oscar winner shows the hypnotising dance of everyday people in an everyday, tiny apartment. Too many by far for such a small space, these characters wear the uniforms of all social classes and professions. We see a schoolgirl, a militia officer, a thief, a housewife, a student, a drunk...

They crowd in the tiny space to give viewers a condensed glimpse into life in the People's Republic of Poland, a satellite state of the Soviet Union. In real life, in addition to rationing and poor or no access to necessities and commodities, people would often have to endure overcrowding in small, modest apartments with the exact furniture as the animated film depicts.

The work astounds even more if you have a minimum understanding of how animation is produced and what the actual technical boundaries of production were in 1981.

Since it’s 2022 and we are used to an entirely different toolset, let’s make sure those are clear.

Tango did NOT have:

-digital recording technologies (they didn’t exist)

-digital post-production or retouching (idem)

- live preview of the sequence (impossible when shooting on film without video-assist)

-layered editing or compositing (no such computers and programs existed)

Tango did have:

-analog photography

-double projection techniques

-hand-cut masking

-meticulously calculated dope sheets

-madness

There are errors in the film which reveal some of the technique, and make the feat even more impressive. These errors remain in the final version because the only way to remove them would be to shoot the entire sequence again.

With more than 30 characters moving through the frame and narrowly avoiding each other in their mundane dance, Zbigniew Rybczyński had to plan the production of this short film with extreme precision. He used a dope sheet- in animation terms, this is a sheet of paper on which the animator can plan out his film frame by frame.

Dope sheets can look daunting, but with a little patience and concentration they are not too difficult to parse. There are traditionally 24 frames in a second. When an action happens, the animator may want to mark a specific frame as containing a specific moment in that action. If he would like, for example, a boy to spend exactly six seconds climbing through a window, then frame 1 would mark the beginning of the ingress, while frame 144 would be the one where both his feet are firmly on the floor inside. Twelve seconds or 288 frames later, the boy has retrieved his ball and disappeared again outside. And the cycle begins again.

In addition to the classic dopesheet, Rybczyński also made a detailed action plan showing the room from above- a viewpoint never seen in the film itself.

Why write this down instead of just winging it? Well, when you have more than one moving element in your animation winging it can mean your meticulously planned animation is completely out of sync. It is difficult enough to keep track of the characters in Tango as a viewer- imagine the task of the animator!

If you want to see the dope sheet for Tango and follow along with the film in real time, check out the fantastic Data Driven Drawings website. The site is a collection of the practical work included Juan Camilo González's PHD dissertation. It features Tango alongside its dopesheet, and several other notations for animated films. Thanks to Juan Camilo González, we can see the behind the scenes madness of Tango much more clearly.

#Youtube #Tango #Zbigniew Rybczyński #Polish animation

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weramichel · 2 years

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#intuition #art #visual art #visual media #animation #rotoscopy #experimental animation #polish animation #animate #animated #roto #abstract #sun #shadows of the sun #shadow #dark #gothic

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toiletpapercosmos · 1 year

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#Daniel Szczechura #polish animation #poland #eugeniusz rudnik #1970

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thursdayisbetterthanfriday · 3 months

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AGROTECHNIKA

Artist: Leszek Marek Gałysz Year: 1982 Production: Studio Miniatur Filmowych

#animation #polish animation #animated film #animated films #robot #robotics #agrotechnika #ai #aritificial intelligence

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wieczorynka · 1 month

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Dziwny świat kota Filemona, odcinek 9. Poobiednia drzemka

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spicybeefu · 3 months

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What if Pokemon & Animal crossing had a crossover game?! #5 Made in Blender, with ACNL assets.

#pokemon #animal crossing #cute #retro #blender #lowpoly #animation #dragonite #lunar new year #year of the dragon #I could have polished a little more but I wanted to get it out by today!

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kaasiand · 3 months

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BEHOLD... MY MOST INSANE CREATION YET

SPRINKLINGS

#note that this is still a WIP—it's not in a super polished state yet! the rotating anim fucked up the animation blending #and i intend to wait until sdodr drops so i can replace its new species (🤞) instead. i want sprinklings to coexist with inklings and octos #splatoon #splatoon 3 #my art #my mods #splatoon mods

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featherglum · 1 year

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For women's day I am offering you the most unhinged woman I know:

Wektoria, my Wirtulandia oc (Yes, really).

Her whole deal is that she knows a lot about physics, mathematics and economics and is extremely angry about how little these things matter to other inhabitants of the virtual world. Which is why she spends most of the time inside her office complaining about how everything went downhill when Master stopped filling the land with normal things like trees or paths and moved on to nonsense such as lollipop forests or sentient cameras. When she does leave her house, it's usually to complain even more (this time to an audience!!) and try to execute an evil scheme related to either capitalism or making the virtual world more similar to reality.

I know I originally said she would appear after the reset, but since then I kinda had a crisis. So now she is in an au where the reset didn't happen (because I couldn't decide if it would be more entertaining for her to interact with Fishbone or Colonel. So now she can do both).

#featherglum art #featherglum ocs #wektoria wirtulandia #wirtulandia #polishcore #polish animation #polish cartoon #nostalgiacore #weirdcore art #weirdcore oc #polish tv #2000s cartoons #purple aesthetic

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magicmattie · 1 year

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Birth of a Nation

Kamil Polak

Poland, 2001

No, it's not THAT Birth of a Nation- although the title is a reference, so let's start by a recap of the film it calls back to. If you haven't yet heard of the 1915 movie by D.W. Griffith, the basic facts are that it was a horrifically racist drama depicting the birth of the Ku Klux Klan as the true national identity of the US despite the South losing the Civil War. Trigger warnings for everything anti-black, from slurs to blackface. It's a white supremacist's favourite film.

(again, not THIS film.)

The thing Hollywood does not like to admit is that Birth of a Nation was significant in shaping cinema as much as anti-black racism was significant in shaping society. Just check out the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes- they're all carefully worded paragraphs about how the topic is unforgivable but the movie is unforgettable. Troubling masterpiece. Epic, but controversial.

So, with that in mind, what's going on with the same title for this animated short? Is it a tribute? Is it also racist?

No, you can watch it without worrying about that- and while perhaps part of the experience of this film is to be concerned about the title, I'm happy to put you at ease straight away. Polak's 'Birth of a Nation' uses the title mockingly, and his choice of graphic and sound design for the characters emphasises the joke.

"Design for the characters?" yeah, I hesitated with that phrasing, you're probably worried to hear that, too, since the film touches on racism. Oh no, what does that mean?

Trust me, it's fine. Just watch it. To be honest, if I didn't give you the preface or translate the title, you probably wouldn't have even thought twice about it. Make sure to turn the sound on- it's one of those movies where it's absolutely necessary.

Oh, one more note. This is early computer animation, created by a film student with very limited resources and barely sufficient processing power. This has definitely influenced the design. It doesn't make the minimalism any less clever, though.

#Kamil Polak #Birth of a Nation #Polish animation #Youtube

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tapakah0 · 6 months

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