Paint-on-Glass Animation

Posted on July 29th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

I’ve been digging through various animation processes lately, and have unearthed some exquisite examples of paint-on-glass animation by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov.

The first film is ‘Mermaid’, Русалка (Rusalka) after Alexander Pushkin’s poem. It is in Russian.

The following clips are the artist’s take on Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. Unfortunately, the film is in two parts here, and not of the quality deserving the artist’s effort, but it’s still quite stunning. This version is in English, however there are other higher quality clips on youtube that are not, should one wish to switch languages.


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Beautiful Things

Posted on July 12th, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

Since I seem to be on a roll posting random youtube clips, I thought I’d go ahead and post a recent one I stumbled across. However, I’m ahead of myself — let me put a few things into context. As usual, I’ve started right at the end, instead of the beginning. (more…)

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Dose of Darkness

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by solocrow.
Categories: Generic Blatherings, Moving Pictures.

And people wonder why I refuse to do commercial art….

www.bitterfilms.com for more madness.

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