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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.

If you want to share in the treasures, JOIN TODAY. This month is Members Appreciation Time at Animation Resources, and for the next 30 days we will be sharing reasons why you should be a member of our important project. It’s easy to join. Just click on this link and you can sign up right now online…

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 10:37 am

February 25th, 2020

E-Book: Jugend Magazine 1918

Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. In April 2015, they were able to download this wonderful e-book of illustrations from 1918 issues of the German magazine, Jugend. Our Reference Packs change every two months, so if you weren’t a member back then, you missed out on it. But you can still buy a copy of this great e-book in our E-Book and Video Store. Our downloadable PDF files are packed with high resolution images on a variety of educational subjects, and we also offer rare animated cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources as downloadable DVD quality video files. If you aren’t a member yet, please consider JOINING ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.

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PDF E-BOOK:

Jugend Magazine

January – June 1918

The late 19th century marked the beginning of one of the greatest explosions of culture in modern times. Two forces were colliding- modern industrial technology, and a revolution in hand made arts and crafts. At first, these two things seem to be mutually exclusive, but they came together perfectly in a Geman magazine called Jugend. Titled after the German word for “youth”, Jugend was at the forefront of the arts and crafts movement. In fact, in Germany, art nouveau came to be known as “jugend-stil” (Jugend style). Utilizing state of the art color printing techniques to reproduce hand drawn lettering and beautiful sketches and paintings, Jugend set a standard in graphic design that continues to be felt to this day.

This PDF e-book contains all of the major illustrations from the first six issues published in 1918, and includes an introduction by Stephen Worth. This PDF e-book is optimized for display on the iPad or printing two up with a cover on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

REFBONUS001: JUGEND 1918 PDF

Adobe PDF File / 267 Pages
245 MB Download

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 10:39 am

February 18th, 2020

NEW! Quarterly Dues At Animation Resources!

Quarterly

The Animation Resources dues are a bargain when you think about all the incredible reference material you can download each year. But we understand that coming up with the dues for a whole year can be tough for some people. The Board of Directors has decided to institute a quarterly billing option to help you get started as an Animation Resources member.

JOIN US FOR ONLY $25!

When you sign up for the Quarterly Membership, you will pay $25 for three months of dues. At the end of the three months, your PayPal account or credit card will be automatically charged for the next three months. You can discontinue your membership at any time by visiting https://animationresources.org/membership/.

25 Dollars

For the low price of $25, you will become a full member of Animation Resources, and you will be able to access the Members Only page to download our Reference Packs, chock full of e-books, still-framable videos of rare animation, and podcasts on a variety of subjects. You can download this valuable material to your hard drive and amass a useful personal library that will serve your self-study needs for your entire artistic career.

Animation Resources dues levels are “grandfathered in”, which means that as long as you remain a member, your dues will never increase. Since we have been providing bigger and more elaborate Reference Packs lately, we plan a dues increase in the near future. But if you join today, your dues will never increase.

Animation Resources membership is one of the biggest bargains in animation. You owe it to yourself to be a member of Animation Resources. We want to help you become a better artist… and all it costs to join is $25.

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