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March 1st, 2017

LAST CALL TO JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES DURING MEMBERS APPRECIATION MONTH!

LAST CALL!

CLICK TO JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES TODAY
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Every February, Animation Resources celebrates the people who support us by providing special perks for new and renewing members. This year was no exception. Currently, there are five ebooks available for download on the Members Only page totalling over 800 pages. In addition, there’s 40 minutes of downloadable rare animated films in DVD quality. But that’s not all…

To celebrate our 2017 Members Appreciation Month, we will be sending every one of our members a $25 gift certificate for our download store. You can catch up on an ebook and cartoon you may have missed in the past.

ANIMATION RESOURCES STORE
https://store.animationresources.org

Our Member Appreciation Month is coming to a close, but there is still a little time to take advantage of all of the perks and benefits of membership. We are busy preparing for our Annual Meeting on March 11th…

ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION
http://animationresources.org/march-11th-animation-resources-annual-meeting-screening-party/

…so it will take us a week or so to prepare the March/April Reference Pack. In the meantime, we will leave the five volume Zim Cartooning Course up for download until the new Reference Pack is ready.

If you have been considering joining Animation Resources, don’t delay. Now is the time to sign up. All month long, we’ve reminded you about the great things our volunteers have accomplished in the past, and we’ve told you about our exciting plans for the future. If you want to be a part of all of that and share in the treasures of the Animation Archives, now is the time to act. It averages out to just $7 a month. Dues are $85 a year for General Members and $60 a year for students and educators.

JOIN TODAY!
http://animationresources.org/membership/levels/

It’s a small price to pay for the wonderful inspiration and information Animation Resources brings to you every day on our website and social media. But you’ll get much more than that… Throughout the year, we post downloadable e-books and animated films for our members. You owe it to yourself to be a part of Animation Resources. You owe it to the muse. Information is power. Invest in your creativity. Join Animation Resources.

LAST CALL!

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 9:25 am

February 15th, 2017

Join Animation Resources Today And Download A Rare UPA Industrial Film

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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.

DVD QUALITY VIDEO:

Man on the Land

Man On The Land (UPA/1951)

Animation Resources Advisory Board member, Steve Stanchfield recently contributed a high quality transfer of UPA’s Man On The Land to our collection of digitized animated films. This early industrial film includes animation by Pat Matthews, Grim Natwick and Art Babbitt, but animation isn’t the primary attraction here. It’s the drop dead brilliant layouts by Director Bill Hurtz, Associate Director Art Heinemann and background artists Bob Dranko, Boris Gorelick and Paul Julian (among others). Just about every setup in this film is strong enough to be an illustration in a book. Check out the depth and lighting in these backgrounds. They may be painted flat, but they sure aren’t composed flat. If you are interested in studying how to use camera movement creatively, this is a perfect film to study. No matter what part of the background the camera is panning over, the compositions are always absolute perfection.

REFPACK014: Man On The Land (UPA/1951)

MP4 Video File / 15:30 / 275 MB Download

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Check out this SAMPLE REFERENCE PACK! It will give you a taste of what Animation Resources members get to download every other month!

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Posted by Stephen Worth @ 3:47 pm

February 6th, 2017

JOIN Animation Resources Today And Download Three Surreal Van Beuren Cartoons!

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Van Beuren

Three Van Beuren Shorts

“Cubby’s Stratosphere Flight” (1934) “Jolly Good Felons” (1934) “Wild Goose Chase” (1932)

Of all of the golden age cartoon studios, Van Beuren is the closest in tone to current cartoons. The humor is quite random with plenty of surreal touches, and the drawing is basic but appealing. They truly represent the time and place they were made- New York City in the mid 1930s. In this Reference Pack, our Advisory Board member, Steve Stanchfield has selected three typical examples featuring three different sets of characters… Cubby Bear, The Little King and a pair of Mickey and Minnie clones.

Cubby Bear’s Stratosphere Flight (1934): The title of this Cubby Bear cartoon refers to the 1933 World’s Fair balloon flight by Jean Piccard. But the majority of the film deals with a polar night club inhabited by seals, penguins and walruses. A polar bear cop raids the joint and everyone scrambles.

Jolly Good Felons (1934): This short is probably the best of the series based on Otto Soglow’s Little King comics. It features some amazing early animation by Jim Tyer and astoundingly politically incorrect gags. Incongruously, the design of the prison riot at the end perfectly merges Soglow’s gentle style with the ruff and tumble Van Beuren animation style.

The Wild Goose Chase (1932): This Aesop’s Fables cartoon stars the boy and girl cat featured in “Silvery Moon” (aka “Candy Town”) another early Van Beuren cartoon. The plot of the cartoon defies description, so I won’t even try! But be assured it includes tons of surreal eye candy… Frogs playing banjos, tree stumps coming to life, singing skeletons… all to the tune of “Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella”, which you probably know from “Roger Rabbit”.

Many thanks to Animation Resources Advisory Board Member, Steve Stanchfield for sharing these three rare films with us.

REFPACK014: Three Van Beuren Shorts

MP4 Video File / 21:47 / 398 MB Download

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