Here is an excerpt from artist Naoyuki Tsuji's "A Feather Stare at the Dark" (2003), a simplistic, yet hauntingly surreal, hand-drawn animation made from charcoal drawings.
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A unique characteristic of Tsuji's minimalist style is that each frame is created by partially erasing and redrawing the scene on the same sheet of paper. Traces of the previous frames remain visible as the dream-like action unfolds, creating an uncanny sense of motion and the passage of time.
yomope
remind's me blu work. great video.
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penguinwalk
I, too, was reminded of BLU, but I think this style is closer to that of William Kentridge.
[]Patricia
Thirded on the BLU! It's a similar technique.
[]vxv
BLU reminds me more of Svankmajer
[]kristin
I think this small piece is truly beautiful and deeply organically evocative. It has a palpable effect upon my soul and heart, bypasses my brain. In this sense it is surreal in the best way. And beyond this there is also a raw complicity that builds between the material and the viewer. We cannot retreat from the streaming movement of the unusual subject matter, and an anxiety along with a sort of bliss of uncertainty eventually captures us entirely. The resolution at the end is like a portent.
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