The Greatest Animator Of All Time
Nathanael Smith is back after a week off, with a look at Rene Laloux’s La Planete Sauvage. My quest to check out older animations that I haven’t seen continues with the work of Rene Laloux, a ‘French animation God’ to quote this site’s founder. At his recommendation, and to mark the recent anniversary of Laloux’s … Read more
Genre – The Dark Crystal
Following on from the recent success of his piece on the works of Philip K. Dick , Tim Matthews returns with a look at The Dark Crystal. The chances are, that if you are a child of the eighties; the family movies you most fondly remember are probably a Disney animated classic, Star Wars, Back To … Read more
Ecology in Animation
Nathanael Smith takes a look at environmentalist issues in animated movies. Contains spoilers for Rango and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. A few of the (unrelated) animated films I’ve seen recently have shared a curious thematic similarity: a preoccupation with the environment. It is at its most obvious in sledghammer-subtle cartoons such as … Read more
Fear And Loathing In The Mojave Desert
Nathanael Smith brings us a look at Rango, in the latest Hope Lies In Animation. The word ‘fresh’ has is often misused. Any film with a the merest pretence of being different will be labelled as being fresh by the first lazy reviewer to encounter it. Yet the current state of CG animation is that … Read more
Unseen Animation – Only Yesterday
Nathanael Smith returns after a week hiatus with this weeks Hope Lies In Animation article. Until now I’ve only been writing columns on films that I previously knew and loved (excepting Tangled) so I’m starting a new sort of sub-column in which I’m exploring some animated films for the first time. So this will be … Read more
I Have Seen Beauty Thrive in the Most Fragile of Places
Nathanael Smith returns with Hope Lies In Animation, his weekly look at all things animated. This week Nathanael takes a look at The Secret Of Kells. At the start of this article I must beg your forgiveness. It is inevitable, when writing about a film I dearly love, that I will be reduced to an … Read more
Animation at the Oscars – The Shame Of The Academy?
Nathanael Smith returns with Hope Lies In Animation, his weekly look at all things animated. This week Nathanael takes a look at this year’s Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards The Academy Awards are fast approaching, and so it is with a sense of inevitability that film websites from the big to the … Read more
Seita and Totoro – The Greatest Double-Bill Of All-Time?
Nathanael Smith returns with Hope Lies In Animation, his weekly look at all things animated. This week Nathanael takes a look at two films, deemed by him to form “The Greatest Double-Bill Of All Time”, My Neighbour Totoro and Grave Of The Fireflies. I promised in my opening column an article about Isao Takahata’s Only … Read more
Tangled’s Triumph – What Makes Disney Great
Nathanael Smith returns with Hope Lies In Animation, his weekly look at all things animated. This week Nathanael takes a look at the latest feature from the Walt Disney company, their take on the Rapunzel fairytale, Tangled. 2009′s marked Disney’s return to hand drawn animation, the medium that made them great, with The Princess and the Frog. … Read more
An Introduction to Hope Lies in Animation
Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second would like to welcome Nathanael Smith to the the site, as our latest contributor. Thursday is shaping up to be “Contributor Day” here at Hope Lies, feel free to get in touch if you would like to get involved. Welcome to Hope Lies in Animation, a new column … Read more
