SMFA Animation

Igor Kavalyov is an animator born in Ukraine in 1963 at the time part of the USSR. Igor animated a short in 1990 called Yego zhena kuritsa. ...

Revisiting an old tidbit of information from a previous animation course, "Human Behavior", the music video to the song of the sam...

The image above is a still from The Quay Brothers' animation The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984). In a world of banal objects and str...

The use of mythology has been a constant theme in our class. In Harpya (Harpy) an extremely creepy and unreal short made by Raoul Servais. I...

Born in Estonia in 1946, Priit Pärn is one of the most recognized animators from the area. Although art and animation were not Pärn's...

Jan Svankmajer is a Czech artist known for his unique surreal animations. He attended the College of applied Arts in Prague as well as the...

Raoul Servais, an independent film maker "The Magician from Onsted" earned a world famous reputation. In 1963 Servais attended The...

Jiri Trnka’s The Hand is a puppet animation with a theme equivalent to the Twilight Zone. It is a story about an artist who makes ceramic ...

Yuriy Norshteyn was born during a World War II evacuation in Penza Oblast. He studied at an art school, but his first career was working in ...

There are some high quality images from Jan Lenica 's animation film, "Ubu et le Grande Gidouille," posted on one of my favo...

While reading Norman M. Klein's Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon , one aspect that was fascinating was...

Both Warner Brothers and Disney are incredible forces in film. Perspective on the origins and development of these major studios is inc...