What's your favorite Don hertzfeldt work? I really like world of tomorrow 2
Paper Trail is my new fav, which I was lucky enough to see twice. Otherwise obvious pick is It's Such a Beautiful Day.
>>153989816It's such a basic bitch answer but Rejected is still very near and dear to my heart, even after all this time.
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>>153990032Leave.
The poptart commercial where the photo booth is a toaster
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>>153990013I love the ending with the entire 2d paper world collapsing because of Don's declining mental state and the lack of purpose for those rejected toons
>>153989816I cried at the end of I Am So Proud of You
It's gotta be World of Tomorrow. Also I remember seeing his Simpsons Couch gag without context and it blew me away because I instantly recognized the art style
>>153989816Either the first World of Tomorrow or thishttps://youtu.be/pMQ-t3nGzrI?si=PHAdm-dUCIeH1HWm
>>153989816Where can I even watch this?
>>153990827IIRC this fill thing is now up on his youtube channel
People like Don Hertzfeld and Bill Plympton, among others, are what I always thought of when the topic of “independent animators” was brought up. These guys who are pretty underground and known mostly through their cool self-made short films. Obviously things have changed since then but the fact that people don’t mention them in the conversation anymore is a damn shame.
>>153990827WOT part 1 is free on his channel but I think you have to rent/buy part 2 and three on vimeo or pirate it
>>153990141ngl I always thought he made those
Don Hertzfeldt is an old hat, now Don Megahertzfeldt is where it's at
>>153990885Episode 1 is. 2 & 3 aren’t.
>>153990933For me it's Vince Collins because he was very prolific throughout the 80s and 90s and barely anyone remembers himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OHnC24Qx8k
>>153990977Well that was cool as fuck.Someone should really make a documentary or something about early/pre-internet indie animators. The guys who would take shit to festivals and animate commercials to make ends meet.
>>153990977shit I didn't know he made this, I remember watching this a few years back and getting insanely anxious
>Give me your money>Give me your money>Give me your money>Give me your money
>>153991038I first discovered him when I saw some gameplay footage of an old DOS edutainment game he made called Vinceworld. Check it out if you like really weird experimental late 90s animation and early CG
>>153991038Yeh that shit is cool as hell.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-XTeyV8Dk I remember seeing this one animated project from I think the 70's or 80's where multiple animators animated a single character in their own unique styles, can't remember the name of it but it was insanely impressive.
>>153991038Canadian TV doco Splat! did that somewhat (I first learned about Don through them showing Billy's Balloon)
>>153990977I don't remember which episode but I remember seeing this on Off the AirMight have been the closing segment
>>153990013I'd put the It's Such a Beautiful Day feature film at the top but I must admit Rejected has a lot of sentimental value to me. I still quote it to this day.
I have to wonder how he's able to read his story boards
>>153990977was this the guy who made that psychedelic animation of alice in wonderland, where Alice is just constantly morphing / zooming in?
>>153991080Those starsare billions of years old
What's your favorite scene? Mine is:>*eye twitch*>I do not have the mental or emotional capacity to deal with his loss, but sometimes, I sit in a chair late at night and quietly feel very bad. When the night is at its most quiet, I can hear death. I am very proud of my sadness, because it means I am more alive. I no longer fall in love with rocks.
>>153993353That was good. Also:>"Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead"
>>153993353pink dinosaur
>>153990959kek
>>153990731>the animation show hell yeah this a great short.
>>153989816Such a beautiful day, it hits me like a fucking truck every time, due to thats essentially whats waiting for me in about 20, 25 years. Im geneticly dispositioned to get alzhimers and dementia on top of long life expectancy. Watching this was really the first thing that made me feel my mortality and was probably the first time I genuinely wept from a film as an adult.
>>153990933I'd argue that Felix Colgrave is a pretty good modern example of this as well. Like yeah he's mostly digital (you can see Newgrounds in the DNA of his early works), and he has done some commercial work, but his style is unique and expressive enough that it feels like a true expression of who he is as an artist, rather than just "this looks cool and is easy to animate".
Don Hertzfeldt recently uploaded an HD version of Rejected in case anyone wants to revisit this classic.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_m_NYXCek
>>153990958Is it fair to say Pop-Tarts™ plagiarized ol' Donnyboy?
>>154001237I thought Don had addressed this on his website, but apparently the post was in reference to an entirely different ad campaign:https://web.archive.org/web/20050205140010/http://www.bitterfilms.com/atruestory.htmlAt any rate, it seems like a fair statement, Hertzfeldt knockoff ads were a minor fad in the 2000s.
>>153989816Sorry, but I've never cared for his stuff personally.
>>154003622why
>>153990032>>153990108I'm suddenly reminded of Elingtonville where all the nerds pride themselves in knowing a lot about their hobbies so they go so far as to have a "trivia off".Meanwhile faggots on /co/ think it's cool not to know about highly regarded works of the medium.
>>154005115But the joke was that the things they know are meaningless...truly "trivia" in the actual sense of the word. Especially in the original comic where the contest ends on a disagreement over an insanely small detail.
>>154005429Yeah I realize the whole point of Eltingville is to show how nerds are often genuinely terrible people. Just noticing the difference between nerds like them and some /co/fags. Still pretending that ignorance is cool is also lame.
>>153990295The final shot of the bunny-eared guy fruitlessly screaming out of existential horror and rage as his universe literally collapses and closes in around him remains a surprisingly haunting image, which is impressive because the only other scene that character is in has him firing angry ticks out of his nipples at unsuspecting children.
>>153990933It's kind of wild to think that Plympton has eight feature length films to his name but he hardly ever comes up in conversation. On some level I get it because I'm not really into his features either, I find his shorts more entertaining and a lot easier to watch. But it seems like he should get more credit based purely on his record. His book "Make Toons That Sell" is also an interesting read.
>>153993353I always think she’s going to say “mental retardation” and get caught out when she mispronounces “degradation”
Shoutout to that time Don Hertzfeldt directed a Simpsons couch gag.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78gYyTrG7YI like how he manages to fit in an emotional beat while poking fun at how long the series has been running.
>>154007267>Hawk Tuah man!
>>153989816He’s supposedly working with Ari Aster on a new movie.https://thefilmstage.com/don-hertzfeldt-and-ari-aster-collaborating-on-a-big-existential-horror-animation/
