A superb little animation by Michael Frei. Watch below!

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Hey all! Guest contributor Kirsten Lepore here! Thought I’d put together an occasional animation-themed post with some of my all-time favs, both old and new.

In the current landscape of computer generated and manipulated imagery, there’s still something so special about a pencil drawing on paper — or in the case of animation, thousands of them.  So these 5 films, all mostly or entirely hand drawn, have been some of the most inspiring for me over the years.

“Triange” by Grace Nayoon Rhee

Grace Nayoon Rhee is an amazingly talented young filmmaker, currently working towards her MFA at CalArts.  She imbues the characteristically harmless hand drawn medium with such a disturbing and cinematic quality, that I can’t help but get completely sucked in to the world she’s created.  The sound is incredible as well.

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This incredible hand-drawn animation by Kijek / Adamski was created entirely with marker drawings on paper.

Watch the animation below!

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Here’s a peek at “Old Feed”, a hand-drawn animation with oil painted backgrounds by Melbourne-based Rubber House. I’m sold.

If you’re on Twitter you might already be up on Twibes. I personally hate the name (Elmer Fudd anyone?), but they allow people who share common interests to communicate with one another.

I just launched two different Twibes:

Join the Booooooom Twibe.

Join the Hand Drawn Twibe.

If your Twitter account was recently compromised by the Mikeyy worm (like mine was) your wallpaper was probably reset. Nate Williams comes to the rescue with some nice tiling hand-drawn beauties!

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I wanted to post about some awesome hand-drawn type by Blake E. Marquis that I saw for sale on YWFT, but then I came across these awesome pencil drawings on his Flickr. So this post is kinda all over the place. Great work nonetheless.

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Great video for Of Montreal’s Id Engager, directed by Marc Reisbig and Hanne Berkaak (passion pictures). Always great to see hand-drawn animation getting some love! This came out a bit ago but I only saw it now, so there!