A series of 9 animated shorts based on the Frank comics by Jim Woodring, featuring computer/CGI, traditional cel, stop-motion, and even sand painting techniques. Contributing animators and musicians include COCOA, Eri Yoshimura, Naomi Nagata, TAMAPRO/DROP, Taruto Fuyama, Masaki Maito, Kanako Kawagushi, Masaya Sakaue, Bill Frisell, Dame Darcy, and Woodring himself.
Visions of Frank is finished and has 9 Episodes. It is also Known as: Visions of Frank: Short Films by Japan's Most Audacious Animators, Visions of Frank: Short Films by Japan's Most Audacious Animators
Genres: Anthropomorphism, Dementia
Top 8 Anime Like Visions of Frank: Short Films by Japan's Most Audacious Animators
8. Kago Shintarou Anime Sakuhin Shuu
In these jokey short films, many of them crudely animated, Kago's sick sense of humor reaches its full heights of absurdity. There's a playful surrealist sensibility to Kago's work, as well as a tendency to revel in the ridiculous, the crude and the disturbing. His work straddles a weird boundary between avant-garde experimentation and low-brow fart jokes—the punchline of one of these films is literally an oozing torrent of shit—although, admittedly, his videos seem to lean a bit more heavily towards the fart jokes than his comics. But hey, who doesn't appreciate a good fart joke once in a while?
Kago Shintarou Anime Sakuhin Shuu is finished and has 15 Episodes. It is also Known as: 駕籠真太郎アニメ作品集, Short Animation of Shintaro Kago
7. Popee the Performer
Popee the Performer deals with a circus that operates in the middle of the desert. Each episode deals with the small cast of characters attempting at times to rehearse their performances, but it usually dissolves into the characters trying to humorously destroy each other in the usual cartoon manner.
The star of the show, Popee, is a clown in an odd red-striped jumpsuit and bunny ears. He is adept at juggling, being a clown, pulling large knives and small bombs out of thin air. He is not adept at ever succeeding in his nefarious plans to hurt his poor assistant or the owner of the circus. His mischievous nature is the driving force of each episode.
Popee the Performer is finished and has 39 Episodes. It is also Known as: POPEE the ぱフォーマー, Popee the Clown
6. Nihon Animator Mihonichi
The short film series "Japan Anima's Exhibition" presented by Studio Khara and Dwango. Original projects, spin-off projects, promotional films, Music PV, and VJ Films, etc... Various omnibus animations produced with love and energy, regardless of any genres. The digital distribution anime series bring opportunities for project development, R&D, human resources development, and free production under limited period and budget, to explore the possibilities of future film production.
Japan Animator Expo is finished and has 35 Episodes. It is also Known as: 日本アニメ（ーター）見本市, Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition, The Dragon Dentist, Ryuu no Haisha, 龍の歯医者, HILL CLIMB GIRL, ME!ME!ME!, Carnage, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko & Ichiro Itano: Collection of Key Animation Films from Mobile Suit Gundam, Yasuhiko Yoshikazu Itano Ichirou Gensatsu-shuu, 安彦良和・板野一郎原撮集, 20min Walk From Nishi-Ogikubo Station, 2 Bedrooms, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, 2mos Deposit, No Pets Allowed., Nishi-Ogikubo-eki Toho 20-bu, 2 LDK, Shikirei 2 Kagetsu, Petto-fuka, 西荻窪駅徒歩20分2LDK敷礼2ヶ月ペット不可, until You come to me., Tomorrow From There., Sokokara no Ashita., そこからの明日。, Electronic Superhuman Gridman: boys invent great hero, Denkou Choujin Guriddoman boys invent great hero, 電光超人グリッドマン boys invent great hero, Yamadeloid, Yamaderoido, ヤマデロイド, POWER PLANT No.33, Evangelion:Another Impact, Kanón, Sex&VIOLENCE with MACHSPEED, Obake-chan, おばけちゃん, Tokio of the Moon's Shadow, Tsukikage no Tokio, 月影のトキオ, Three Fallen Witnesses, Sanbon no Shougensha, 三本の証言者, The Diary of Ochibi, Ochibi-san, オチビサン, I can Friday by day!, ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC feat.daoko/Teddyloid, {"(Making of)evangelion"=>"Another Impact"}, Iconic Field, Guuzou Sen'iki, 偶像戦域, On a Gloomy Night, Ibuseki Yoruni, イブセキヨルニ, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Bikachou Shinshi Kaikoroku, 鼻下長紳士回顧録, Rapid Rouge, Shinsoku no Rouge, 神速のRouge, Hammerhead, Hanmaheddo, ハンマーヘッド, "COMEDY SKIT 1989" Conte (Hitman) 1989, Konto (Koroshiya) 1989, コント（ころしや）1989, Bubu & Bubulina, Bubu to Buburiina, ブブとブブリーナ, ENDLESS NIGHT, BUREAU OF PROTO SOCIETY, Hisutorii Kikan, ヒストリー機関, The Ultraman, Za Urutoraman, ザ・ウルトラマン, GIRL, Neon Genesis IMPACTS, Shin Seiki Inpakutsu, 新世紀いんぱくつ。, "Ragnarok" Hello from the Countries of the World, Sekai no Kuni kara Konnichi wa, 世界の国からこんにちは, Robot on the Road, Kabi no Robo kara, 旅のロボから, Cassette Girl, Kasetto Garu, カセットガール, Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot, Kidou Keisatsu Patoreiba REBOOT, 機動警察パトレイバーREBOOT
5. Ani*Kuri15
15 one-minute shorts created by various people from Japan's animation industry. The title of the collection, Ani*Kuri15, is abbreviated from the words "anime" and "creators".
Season One
Shinji Kimura - title: Attack of Higashimachi Ni Chome/Attack of Higashimachi 2nd Burough
Shōjirō Nishimi - Uchujin Raikou Hiroshi no Baai/Invasion from Space - Hiroshi's Case
Akemi Hayashi - Namida no Mukou/From the Other Side of the Tears
Osamu Kobayashi - Sancha Blues/The Aromatic Tea Blues
Yasufumi Soejima - Hyotoko/Blaze Man
Season Two
Atsushi Takeuchi
Mamoru Oshii - Project Mermaid
Kazuto Nakazawa - "yurururu" ~Nichijou Hen~
Ranji Murata and Tatsuya Yabuta - Gyrosopter
Tobira Oda and Yasuyuki Shimizu )
Season Three
Michael Arias - Okkakekko
Makoto Shinkai - Neko no Shuukai/A Gathering of Cats
Shōji Kawamori - Project Omega
Mahiro Maeda - Onmitsu Hime
Satoshi Kon - Ohayō/Good Morning
Ani*Kuri15 is finished and has 15 Episodes. It is also Known as: アニ＊クリ15, Ani*Cre15, Ani Kuri 15, Ani-Kuri 15, Anikuri 15, Neko no Shuukai
4. Animation!
A collection of short animations, from the revelations Tomoyoshi Joko and Hiroco Ichinose.
By Tomoyoshi Joko
AFRO - 2006
Mr. Cloud and Mr. Rain - 2007
Buildings - 2008
Lizard Planet - 2009
Kanagawa Dog - 2009
By Hiroco Ichinose
annihilation - 2005
The last breakfast - 2006
Ushi Nichi - 2007
ha-P - 2008
COSMIC! - 2009
YOKOHA-MAMAN -2009
morning - 2009
Joint
Buil-Bun - 2006
Animation! is finished and has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: Animation!, Animation! Tomoyoshi Joko & Hiroco Ichinose Film Works 2009
3. Tokyo Loop
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum. The stories are:
Tokyo Strut
Tokyo Trip
Fishing Vine
Yuki-chan
Dog & Bone
Public Convenience
TOKYO
Black Fish
Unbalance
Tokyo Girl
Manipulated Man
Nuance
Hashimoto
Funkorogashi
Fig
12 O’Clock
Tokyo Loop is finished and has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: トーキョー・ループ, Tokyo Loop
2. Sweat Punch
Sweat Punch is a series of five Studio 4°C shorts collected as a direct-to-DVD package film entitled Deep Imagination.
Sweat Punch is finished and has 5 Episodes. It is also Known as: スウェットパンチ, Deep Imagination, Dan Petory Kyoushu no Yuutsu, Professor Dan Petry's Blues, End of the World, Kigeki, Comedy, Higan, Beyond, Garakuta no Machi, Junk Town
1. Fuyu no Hi
Fuyu no Hin is a 2003 animated film directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. It is based upon the renga of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Basho.
The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material—the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute .
The released film consists of the 40-minute animation, followed by an hour-long "Making of" documentary, including interviews with the animators. Fuyu no Hi won the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003.
Winter Days is finished and has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 冬の日, Fuyu no Hi
