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CGI is not an "improvement" on drawn animation, stupid people! It's just different from it!!
Jankovics Marcell - Sisyphus (1974)
I
love the point where the man pops into an abstract, swirling Ronald
Searle-type line. It's this kind of graphic horseplay that excited me about animation in the first place. Connie Rasinski animation at 3:05.
But Jankovics improves on it, with purposeful timing & finesse.
Animation for adults from USSR.
"1962...The artist-realist accidentally creates an abstract painting and becomes famous."
There is even a spoof of Jackson Pollock at work.Cold War propaganda
equating abstract art with Western falseness, but it is clear
that the film makers adored that art. Some of the best abstract
painting & animation I've seen. By comparison, the "positive"
realist art for "the people" comes across as falsity, especially at the wind-up. The moral is ironic, and the artists involved most likely knew it. What are you gonna do in a Fascist state? Un-be-fucking-lievable. And, thankfully, in pantomime.
(I haven't yet found a translation of the name of the creator.)
LAUGH AND SIN, a short Russian gag from a few years ago. I came up with a
"Slug & Ginger" gag in the 1980s that was very similar to this. At
the time, it was irredeemably hostile and inappropriate.
Only one of a series of naughty TV fillers, aired, I would guess, after midnight. Here are, supposedly, all of them. Real SEX TO SEXTY stuff. (The "mermaid" one is possibly the pilot; it has the least repetitious gag, better cartooning, and a sexier woman.)
