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My Green Crocodile. Another incredibly layered animation by Yuri Norstein (Yurly Norshteyn)!

Sweet Dreams

With lamp shades made from waffle cones and log cabins made from carrots, this animation is awesome (for far more reasons than described here). By Kristen Lepore.

Travels of an Ant by E. Nazarov.

Tim Burton circa 1982

Notice the elaborate movements, the suspenseful pauses, and fine details in this dark and amazingly done stop-motion.

Something to keep in mind as a technique when videoing your next dance party.

Love it when people experiment! Something about this animation is just so cool...

Remember this one? The "one, two, three, four, five" song with pinballs, from Sesame Street.

Yuri Norstein came to Rhode Island School of Design in 2001, where he officially changed me from a Landscape Architect to an Animator. Yuri Norstein, Francesca Yarbusova (Yuris' wife), and cameraman Alexander Zhukovsky created works like Heron and Crane, an animation of profound depth and beauty. Created in 1974, Yuri invented the method of animating on different layers of glass, allowing him to bring fog, leaves, and branches to different levels of the movie screen. His thought-provoking masterpieces still stand today as some of the most beautiful and meaningful animations of all time.

Though not animated, this video of shadow puppets shows how important acting and exaggerated.

The well-animated introduction to the 1964 Pink Panther.