Gilliam was a part of Monty Python’s Flying Circus as an animator. His cartoons linked the show’s sketches together and defined the group’s visual language in other media (such as LP and book covers and the title sequences of their films). His animations mix his own art, characterised by soft gradients and odd, bulbous shapes, with backgrounds and moving cutouts from antique photographs, mostly from the Victorian era.

Terry Gilliam’s Do It Yourself Animation Show (cutout animation)
The Terry Gilliam fanzine

Terry Gilliam

Movies featured in this video:The Black Cauldron, Toy Story, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, Inspector Gadget, Dinosaur, Recess: School’s Out, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Snow Dogs, Peter Pan 2, Cinderella 2, Lilo & Stitch, The Country Bears, The Jungle Book 2, Piglet’s Big Movie, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, George of the Jungle 2, Teacher’s Pet, Home on the Range, Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, Ice Princess, Lilo & Stitch 2, Chicken Little, Bambi 2, The Shaggy Dog, The Wild, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, The Santa Clause 3, Enchanted, Bedtime Stories, Race to Witch Mountain, Tron: Legacy, Prom, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, The Muppets, Frankenweenie, Oz the Great and Powerful, Planes, Maleficent and Into the Woods.

BADLAND is a multi-award-winning side-scrolling action adventure with innovative physics-based gameplay and stunning atmospheric graphics and audio.

Badland

The song “Remind Me” by Röyksopp is famous for its computer animated video, directed by the French motion graphics studio H5. It features a day in the life of a woman working in London’s Square Mile solely through infographics; this includes labelled close-ups of everyday objects, product lifecycles, schematic diagrams, charts, and is generally illustrated in a simple isometric visual style. Remind me won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for best music video. Directed by Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy.

H5

Royksopp Remind Me

Jason and the Argonauts (1963) was made in collaboration with stop motion animation expert Ray Harryhausen and is known for its various fantasy creatures, notably the iconic fight scene featuring multiple warrior skeletons.

Ray Harryhausen Creature List

A short animation with a lot of dancing.
Music and animation by Wim Goossens © 2017

Using stunning hyperlapse photography the Cities team show how electric light has become so powerful in Hong Kong. This clip was taken from the ‘Cities’ episode of BBC’s Planet Earth II.

Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) is a fantastic film that transports us to a place filled with wonder and magic. Our goal with the opening title sequence was to set the tone for the audience to enter the unique, imaginative world that Sam Raimi created. The black and white, stereo 4×3 sequence was designed to flow seamlessly into the film’s first scenes which are set in Kansas in 1905. We drew inspiration from a pre-cinematic form of 3D entertainment, the Theater of Perspective. These miniature paper theaters contained layered images arranged to create scenes with rich 3D depth. Our cinematic fly-through fuses today’s modern 3D cinema with the wonder and showmanship of Oz’s time. The sequence uses 37 different fonts and carefully designed imagery that matches the movie characters and creative credits.

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It was a masterpiece, in many many ways. It came from a time where 3D animation looked very stiff, uncanny and just awkward in general. Fluid animation existed in 2D for decades by then, and there were multiple techniques and principles of animation that existed for it. Sadly, these principles were never exploited in 3D back then. John Lasseter, the main animator behind this, studied using the animation principles of disney’s nine old men, and put them to great use in this short. It basically proved to the world that 3D could be more than just a bunch of fancy-looking wireframes for sci-fi films. (Pixar 1986)

Luxo Jr (Pencil Test) 

A simple ballet, originally conceived as one act in of an entire evening of machine theatre. The music was composed and performed by Arthur Ganson. (starts at 1:20s low res.)

Arthur Ganson

From January to May 2014, Francois Beaurain wandered the streets of Monrovia and made animated gifs of the people he met and the places he visited.
Monrovia animated is currently part of Making Africa exhibition by Vitra Design Museum and Gugenheim Bilbao.

Monrovia animated

Things start off innocuously, with a kiwi taking a casual stroll down a road, eventually encountering and tasting some golden nuggets. The nuggets are delicious, it turns out, too delicious to resist. (2015)

Andreas Hykade