Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go beserk? you left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see i've gone completely out of my mind.

Today's Great Cartoons post is brought to you by the letter A

Today's post is going to be shorts from two very different artists. One of whom you recognize from some of the best films from the japan, and other helped shape your childhood with her many short musical interludes for Sesame Street.

First the latter.
Sally Cruikshank made alot of bits and pieces from Sesame Street. If you grew up in the 80's or early 90's you should be able to recognize her bizarre and unique visual style right off the bat. She also did some intros for a few movies.
And best of all, she has a Youtube account herself.

Now for some reason she has disabled embedding on one of them, and its my personal favorite one. So to see it you'll have to follow this link.

more things by her for oldschool Sesame Street.
The Island of Emotion

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ABOVE IT ALL
(warning: really catchy song)

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She's also made several short films which are even more bizarre and imaginative that the things she made for sesame street.
This one is a particular favorite of alot of people due to having a really bizarre soundtrack composed by Danny Elfman.

Face like a Frog
I cant describe what this thing is like. It is nucking futs.

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Now this next bit is another couple of things from sesame street. One is animation and one is more like a machination. But both should be familiar to anyone who grew up watching the show.

The alligator king

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Now.

The next big chunk of this post is about Koji Morimoto. One of main brains behind Akira, Memories, Mindgame, and The Animatrix. Also the director of Studio 4c's first GENIUS PARTY (a collection of wildly inventive short cartoons).
In fact, I think in my first ever post of one of these GREAT CARTOONS things (back when front page posts actually mattered), I believe I posted one of my favorite films by him, Noiseman Sound Insect. Which was a sequel of sorts to his Franken's Gears cartoon short.

Anyway enough blather.

This is a music video he did back in 1995 for musician Ken Ishii
You can see that Koji is a big fan of cyberpunk futurism.

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Dimensional Loop

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koji morimoto and michael arias (who made tekkonkinkreet) made this neat 30 second spot together

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Now these next two were suggested by Mindchamber. These are old HBO shorts that used to run on tv a while ago.
Apparently this pinball one gets deleted off youtube all the time so see it as quick as possible.
Arcade Attack

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MITEY-O's
i love the combo of 2d and 3d in this

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This next thing is a commercial for a game. I normally wouldnt post such a thing but this game uses a very neat art style. And was made entirely by 2 guys. Thats impressive. Also its a good game.

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Now in my last post I said I was going to start posting more student films and Luis seemed to think it was a pretty good idea. So, here we goooooo.

IMAGO
a french student film

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Geraldine by the uber-talented (and someone I greatly admire) french artist Arthur de Pins who's made a whole slew of short films, the majority of which are done in flash. He uses masking and shape tweens like noone else I know. But he doesnt use them hardly at all in this early short by him.
An funny cartoon about a man who wakes up as a woman.

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And the animation reel of my friend Catoblepas who is probably one of the best animators on this site.

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And thats all for this one. Good day!