Karel Zemans amazing short "Inspiration" (Inspirace), made in 1948, is a love-story set inside a single drop of water, which Zeman animated by heating and bending fragile blown-glass figurines.
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Karel Zemans amazing short "Inspiration" (Inspirace), made in 1948, is a love-story set inside a single drop of water, which Zeman animated by heating and bending fragile blown-glass figurines.
The films of master Czech animator and director Karel Zeman (1910 - 1989) are a glittering jewelbox filled with wonders spun from ancient myth and modern science: moon men and underwater pirates, pedal-powered airships and diabolical engines of destruction. In films like THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE and BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Zeman combined cartoon and stop-motion animation, puppetry, matte paintings and live action, creating a fantastic mechanical clockwork that anticipated the work of later animator/directors such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. Born in 1910 in Ostromer, Czechoslovakia, Zeman began his career as a window dresser and poster artist, graduating to filmmaking in the mid-1940's with a series of shorts featuring his animated alter-ego, Mr. Prokouk. Inspired by the pioneering films of magician/director Georges Melies and the fiction of Jules Verne, Zeman began animating, art directing and often writing his own features in the early 1950's, overcoming miniscule budgets and rudimentary equipment to create his elaborate adventures. The joy of Zeman's work is often in the details: stop-motion owls against a crescent moon sky, a gold pocketwatch trapped in a bottle, a crew of sailors who literally paint their ship into existence.
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Congratulations, yours is a superb channel, these flicks are molten gold. Say I once watched that documentary by the BBC called 'The Last Machine', which featured Terry Gilliam, and I remeber him talking about some milestones animated films made in Europe, also several scenes taken out of those were proyected. Do you remember it? Good one.
this is truly one of the greatist animations in stop-motion ive ever seen! plus probably one of the most difficult ever to have been animated. nowdays they would do this in c.g.i!
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