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A lens featuring some of the strangest and most innovative animation. This lens is a bit long, and i might later distribute the content through other lenses

The Link List 

Strange Attractors - An Animation Showcase
Strange Attractors is a showcase of Victorian animators.
SE3D animated film showcase
Animated film showcase from HP
Student Film Showcase
Film sowcasing student contributions
AWN showcase
High quality animation showcase including films from Disnet, Nickelodeon and others
Ottawa 2006 International Animation Festival
Canadian animation film showcase
Bitter Films
The home of Bitter Films

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New Flickr Pictures 

SD人物的日常XD by 南宮博士

curated content from Flickr

Youtube videos 

I must say.....that anime intro for X-Men totally kicks ass, and We Are The Strange is shaping up to be a very interesting thing

"We Are the Strange" Trailer






Strange Transmissions Trailer


My Animation



tripping

curated content from YouTube

Netflix Movies 

001- Corpse Bride

This animated Tim Burton tale set in 19th-century Europe centers on Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp),...
002- Flushed Away

In this lively comedy from DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features (Wallace & Gromit), London high...
003- Princess Mononoke

In this anime epic from director Hayao Miyazaki, Prince Ashitaka (voiced by Billy Crudup) is infecte...
004- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Faced with almost certain destruction of her planet's natural resources, warrior princess Nausicaa r...
005- The Invincible Iron Man

In this animated adventure based on a Marvel Comics character, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs...
006- Persepolis

Marjane (voiced by Chiara Mastroianni) just wants to be an ordinary kid, but that isn't easy in 1978...
007- Kiki's Delivery Service

In director Hayao Miyazaki's gentle, animated adventure, young witch Kiki (voiced by Kirsten Dunst)...
008- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Two years after leading the charge against the evil Sephiroth in this sci-fi anime adventure, Cloud...
009- The Animatrix

Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated f...
010- Batman: Gotham Knight

Batman takes on Deadshot, Killer Croc and other deadly foes in six anime-inspired short films. Toget...
011- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

It's an Armageddon scenario with a Greenpeace subtext when Dr. Aki Ross races against time to keep p...
012- The Cat Returns

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to...
013- Futurama the Movie: Bender's Big Score

In this animated sci-fi tale, the wacky Planet Express crew returns and soon finds themselves victim...
014- The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

Aeon Flux creator Peter Chung steps even farther out of the proverbial animation box with this edgy...
015- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Writer-director Mamoru Oshii's animated thriller concocts a complex follow-up to his monster hit, Gh...
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A Scanner Darkly 

The novel

A Scanner Darkly is a 1977 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. The semi-autobiographical story was set in a dystopian Orange County, California in the future of June 1994. The book can be considered Dick's master statement on drug abuse, in light of his extensive portrayal of drug culture and drug use.

from Wikipedia

The Link List 

A Scanner Darkly (novel) wikipedia entry
Explanation of the novel's title

The "scanner" is a holographic recorder/projector on which the main character is made to view clips of his own life by his superiors. It is also a reference to a Biblical verse in 1 Corinthians 13 that includes "we see as through a glass darkly", and thus refers to the main character's weak grasp on reality.[1] Ingmar Bergman's 1961 film, Through a Glass Darkly, lifts its title from the same passage. Furthermore, the initials of Scanner Darkly are also the initials of Substance D, which the characters refer to as Slow Death.

In Chapter Eleven of the novel, the novel's central character, Bob Arctor / Fred, thinks to himself, "Does a passive infrared scanner ........ see into me - into us - clearly or darkly?"
A Scanner Darkly (film) wikipedia entry
A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 film by Richard Linklater starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Rory Cochrane. It is based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are among the film's executive producers. The film was written and directed by Richard Linklater in Austin, Texas. It was released on July 7, 2006 in theaters within limited cities including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston and Minneapolis. It was distributed in wide release on July 28, 2006. Extensive on-set footage of the filming of A Scanner Darkly was featured in a UK documentary about Richard Linklater directed by Irshad Ashraf and broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2004. The movie was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival, and the world premiere took place at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts on April 30, 2006.
Official movie site
The official Waner Indepent movie site for A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves
A Scanner Darkly
IMDb entry for A Scanner Darkly

Trailer for A Scanner Darkly 

Since i cant really post the movie in it's entirety, then here is the trailer

curated content from YouTube

Taiwanese anti-smoking commercial 

on Google Video

Animated taiwan commercial
Part of the taiwanese anti-smoking campaign

The Chinese Classic - Tsai Chih-chung Series 

This story based on chinese history is produced by Jamar Idea, the one who also made the Teardrops of Sun video above

The Chinese Classic - Tsai Chih-chung Series

The Chinese Classic animation is based on the comic books authored by well-known caricaturist, Chih-chung Tsai. Jamar Idea Production Co. is responsible for computer animation of the product. The content is the famous Chinese philosophical masterpieces, based on Mr. Tsai's original work. We will present it in live and simple animation. The production consists of twenty-five parts: In terms of animation creation, to present the flow of the characters, and exhibit the art of 'Zen', Jamar Production combines 3D and 2D computer animation technology, to develop the unique style of 'China Great Thinkers'. This series not only has breakthrough animation style, but also lower manpower production cost. This is dramatically due to the use of digital tools. It creates a new opportunity for domestic animation companies. If you need more information, please contact Gilbert of Jamar Idea: TEL: +886-2-8227-1887 #21 e-mail: gilbert.wei@gmail.com gilbert@Jamar.com.tw ... (more)

curated content from YouTube

Caffeine Enconium 

Just goes to show the weird things that can happen when you mix an already hyper fast-paced anime, with caffeine(to some the nectar of the gods ^_~) and classical music

curated content from YouTube

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