A Peculiar Creature: The Animator

All the way up in the attic, someone is drawing sweat, ink, and tears to treat your eyes to wonderful animated films. Animation is the love of their life. Creating 24 frames a second is what they love to do 24/7. Get a glimpse into the life of the peculiar creature we love so dearly: the animator.

This special program, A Peculiar Creature: The Animator, is a tribute to these passionate, fun, and sometimes quirky creators consisting of self-mocking animation, serious explanations, and silly how-to’s.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013

Showing in this program

Animated Motion #1

Norman McLaren / Grant Munro
Canada, 1976
9 min.

Animatin’ Rap

Dan Povenmire / Jeff Marsh
United States, 2011
3 min.

Animation Tutorial Part 1, AKA “The Secret of Animation”

Giovanni Braggio
Denmark, 2013

fake animation tutorial

Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit

Bob Godfrey
United Kingdom, 1961
5 min.

Fifty Pairs of Hands for One Single Frame

Unknown
The Netherlands, 1961
10 min.

Promotional film for the Dollywood studio aimed at ‘advertising men’. The documentary images give a nice insight into the different steps in the production process of the stop-motion film Pleasure Revived (1960), such as the storyboards, the music, the building of the sets, manufacturing the puppets, animating with the stop-motion camera and the final editing.