Chew On This

Chew On This is an almost daily round-up of animation films, news, ideas, rumors, gossip, humor served with astonishing, unique and raw insight from Chris Robinson, the world's greatest one balled animation writer and thinker. Chris is an author, writer and the artistic director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) and is a well-known figure in the animated film world. His style is lively and direct. He is quick to speak out vigorously on various platforms and is famous for his outbursts and aversion to empty rhetoric. Robinson authors a column entitled The Animation Pimp on Animation World Magazine's website. He has one testicle.

World Series Champs Get Digitized

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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS DIGITISES MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WITH SGL FLASHNET ARCHIVE

Ball Breaker - Ipad film by Ushev and Robinson

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Ball Breaker

 

 

 

In late summer 2012, the National Film Board of Canada asked Theodore Ushev and myself to make a quickie film using only an iPad to promote their PixStop app.

Dock Ellis and the LSD No No

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Ah... nothing more American than baseball and acid trips.

Trailer for Chris Landreth's Subconscious Password

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Chris Landreth just finished up a new film, Subconscious Password. I've seen it. It's fantastic. Here's the trailer....

Drunk Animation!

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Drunk animation

 

Nothing like a little drunk animation to get your weekend started. 

The Smallest Movie Ever Made!

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IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever — a one-minute video of individual atoms repeatedly rearranged to show a boy dancing, throwing a ball and bouncing on a trampoline.

 

A Boy and His Atom

Animation Terror

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Act of Terror

 

Interesting little animation documentary about a woman's terrifying experience on the London Underground.

Cinematheque Quebecoise turns 50

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Canada's wonderful Cinematheque Quebecoise turns 50 this year. They celebrate with an animation by Diane Obomsawin.

Canadian animators get sticky

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Bunch of Canadian animators get sticky together. It's not as kinky as it doesn't sound.

 

The masters get sticky

575 Wandsworth Road by Lizzie Oxby

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Check out this little piece of awesomeness from UK animator, Lizzie Oxby. I think she went to RCA once. Might have shown on her films in ottawa. That's not important right now