Not-Miraculous Ladybug but I needed to share it: Little Door Gods.
Door Gods are guardian spirits protecting households in the tradition of Chinese folklore. Written and directed by Gary Wang, Little Door Gods
is a modern-day story of two Door Gods facing unemployment in the
spirit world, as ever fewer people in the human world believe in the
spirits anymore. One of the spirits ventures into the human world to
make trouble in order to prove his value, leading to unexpected
encounters and transformations.
Light Chaser Animation, a Beijing-based animation studio, revealed the official trailer for its first feature film Little Door Gods. Little Door Gods will be released in Chinese theaters on January 1, 2016.
They’re all phenomenal. If you have five minutes, please watch each of them. Warning: some hit HARD.
Mary Blair (1911-1978)
Worked for Ub Iwerks, MGM, and eventually Disney. Known for creating incredibly vibrant watercolors, which clashed with the studio aesthetic at the time. Disney eventually let her loose, and her aesthetic can be strongly seen in Cinderella, Peter Pan, and especially Alice in Wonderland.
Evelyn Lambart (1914-1999)
Hearing-impaired Canadian animator who worked with Norman McLaren on several pieces that the Canadian government would later declare masterworks. She directed her own films, making her one of the first women in animation to take the director’s chair. She was known for scratching up film stock to create “jazz” like patterns, the sort of thing you’d later see in Fantasia,Donald in Mathmagic Land, and the like.
Lotte Reininger (1899-1981)
German director who created the technique of silhouette animation, preceding Disney by 10 years. Started out making titles for movies and moved on to make her own animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, in 1926!As for the rest of her career, well - watch the short.
Claire Parker (1906-1981)
Created the “pinscreen” animation technique, where 240,000 tiny metal rods were manually manipulated in and out of a board in order to create an animation – think tweaking pixels by hand. She and she alone owned the patent on it.
Alison de Vere (1927-2001)
One of the first women to work in British animation, and was design director for The Yellow Submarine. She went on to create many animated shorts at a commercial studio, winning prizes for virtually almost every single one of them. She is often credited as Britain’s first female animation auteur.
This project is slowly starting in terms of extras and a few different aspects before the funding comes in, but since there’s about a week left to pledge, he still would like to try and make that stretch goal. I’ve tagged you guys since I know you share an enthusiasm for these films and we need your help.
