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Monday, March 2nd, 2020

Donation of Collection of Russian and Polish Puppet Animation

Colgarol the Bear

Last week Animation Resources received two big boxes in the mail as a donation from a longtime supporter in Canada. Davey Jarrell and I opened the boxes this weekend and were amazed at what they contained. It’s a 20 year collection of material related to stop motion puppet animation, primarily focusing on Russian and Polish films. Included are books and catalogs along with dozens and dozens of rare DVDs from all over the world.

I was most intrigued by a stack of DVDs and 16mm films from the Russian puppet series Colargol (aka Barnaby Bear, Jeremy, Beertje, etc.) I’ve never seen these films before, but based on the books and a quick check of the DVDs, they are wonderful. If you aren’t familiar with them, just take a look at this image…

Every artist worth his salt has a personal reference library, but Animation Resources is building the ultimate artist’s clip file. Animators of all kinds have donated material of all kinds so we can digitize them and share them with our members. We do that every other month in our RefPacks. You can expect to see some eye popping puppet films in our upcoming ones.

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Thursday, December 5th, 2019

RefPack030: Last Chance To Download!

All gone! You missed it! We’ll be announcing our new RefPack on Monday.

We just posted Reference Pack 030 to our Members Only Page. Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Make sure you download the Reference Packs before they’re updated. When it’s gone, it’s gone!

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The latest Animation Reference Pack was just released and it’s jam packed with fantastic material to study and inspire you… This one is even bigger than our last one, with volume 2 of our e-book series on the Austrian caricature magazine “Die Muskete”, a classic Russian fairy tale featurette, and a series of Disney educational films from the 1950s

But that’s not all… This time we are re-running some of our hardest to find videos… incredibly rare films based on Lawson Wood’s Gran’pop Monkey and a reel of Campbells Soup commercials that includes what may be the first animated commercial aired in color!

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At Animation Resources, our Advisory Board includes great artists and animators like Ralph Bakshi, Will Finn, J.J. Sedelmeier and Sherm Cohen. They’ve let us know the things that they use in their own self study so we can share them with you. That’s experience you just can’t find anywhere else. The most important information isn’t what you already know… It’s the information you should know about, but don’t know yet. We bring that to you every other month.

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Friday, October 11th, 2019

RefPack030: An Amazing Russian Fairy Tale Featurette

REFPACK 030

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Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. These downloadable files are high resolution e-books on a variety of educational subjects and rare cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources in DVD quality. Our current Reference Pack has just been released. If you are a member, click through the link to access the MEMBERS ONLY DOWNLOAD PAGE. If you aren’t a member yet, please JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.

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Dead Tsarevna & The Seven Bogatyrs

Ivan Ivanov-Vano / 1951

Although this film closely resembles the story of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, this adaptation is based on a Russian fairy tale about the Princess Tsarevna. The film closely follows the poem written in 1833 by Aleksandr Pushkin. If you are interested, there is a synopsis of the story at Wikipedia.

The director of this film, Ivan Ivanov-Vano began his career in animation in 1927 and made three dozen films over his half century career, most of which were based on Russian folk tales. Early on, he was heavily influenced by Disney, but his personal style developed and grew over his career. In 1947 he directed the first Russian animated feature film, The Humpbacked Horse; and he helped establish ASIFA (The International Animated Film Society) in 1961.

This film incorporates design motifs unique to Russian art and it reflects its culture perfectly. In the modern world, animated films are made in Asia, India, Europe and the United States that all look pretty much the same. It would be good if a diversity of regional styles developed again. After all, art should be a personal expression of one’s life and culture, not a product manufactured to someone else’s design.

REFPACK030: Dead Tsarevna (1951)

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