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1) Forming Game
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Instructions: Open box. Unfold board. To begin play, place any shape on the board and interact with it with your hands. A series of forms will unfold. They may seem familiar or suggest a hidden order. Try to influence the shapes, or sit back and let them arise naturally. Do not be concerned with winning. Forming Game is played for creative fun. The result of several months of interplay between animation filmmaker Malcolm Sutherland and composer and...
2) HA'Aki
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
HA'Aki is a short abstract-impressionist film in which the animation and the music were made simultaneously in an organic process of symbiotic creativity. Filmmaker Iriz Pääbo tells the highly subjective story of a complete hockey game using a new cinematic vocabulary she calls "animbits." Pääbo readily admits she is not the biggest fan of "Canada's national game," so the great, though highly underappreciated NHL stalwart of the '60s and '70s,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An advanced race of giant lobsters from outer space land on Earth "sunny side up," but no one knows why. An utter failure of communication with these galactic crustaceans catapults the world towards Armageddon bisque! World peace is at stake! What can save us? A little straight talk, perhaps? With tongue planted firmly in cheek, director and writer Janet Perlman untwines the classic 1950s B-movie motif to weave a thoroughly madcap, animated parable...
4) Animation
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the history of animation and discusses how animated films are made today.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How People Got Fire centres on Grandma Kay (based on elder Kitty Smith) and the connection she forges with the village children through the oral tradition of their culture. Twelve-year-old Tish is one of those children - an introspective, talented girl who feels particularly drawn to Grandma Kay's kitchen. Here, past and present blend, myth and reality meet, and the metaphor of fire infuses all in a location that lies at the heart of the community's...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
Gale Presents: Udemy is an online learning platform that provides instruction for adults who want to upskill for a new job, advance in their current profession, or deepen a personal interest. This top collection, curated from courses from Udemy.com and powered by Udemy for Business, gives users access to relevant skills training, helping them achieve success at work and in life. Before enrolling, users can review key information about a course, its...
7) Joe
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seraphim "Joe" Fortes, born in the West Indies, became one of Vancouver's most beloved citizens. Using a colourful blend of music, poetry, cut-out and computer animation, this film celebrates Joe's life. For more than thirty years, Joe Fortes swam in English Bay. He was a self-appointed lifeguard at first, but he became so famous that the city of Vancouver finally rewarded him with a salary for doing what he loved best. He taught thousands of people...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and a handsome prince. This worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the princess, but will Betty be wakened with just a kiss? Drawn in India ink, this animation sets the Perrault classic in Claude Cloutier’s disjointed, anachronistic and playful...
9) The Trenches
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young man is getting ready to fight at the front. On the battlefield and in the depths of the ditches, the recruits are dreading the order to attack. It’s war. The roar of explosions moving ever closer forebodes a spectacle of horror. Anxiety tightens its grip. The signal is given. The soldier leaps out of the trench and into a hellish expanse where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead as far as the eye can see. Using brush and India...
10) Motion capture
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Many are familiar with Andy Serkiss groundbreaking motion capture role as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings film series. But motion capture has come a long way since it first began! This title introduces the technology behind motion capture, using many of todays most popular movies as examples. Special features highlight famous uses of motion capture, and pioneer profiles introduce some of the most influential mocap filmmakers in history. This high-interest...
11) Design
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
Gale Presents: Udemy is an online learning platform that provides instruction for adults who want to upskill for a new job, advance in their current profession, or deepen a personal interest. This top collection, curated from courses from Udemy.com and powered by Udemy for Business, gives users access to relevant skills training, helping them achieve success at work and in life. Before enrolling, users can review key information about a course, its...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1982
Language
English
Description
Computer programmer Kevin Flynn is determined to find out who stole his ideas for several popular video games. When he gets too close, the supercomputer MCP digitizes Flynn and puts him in one of the video games he created, and makes him fight for his life.
14) The LEGO movie
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary LEGO minifigure is mistaken for an extraordinary MasterBuilder, and is recruited to help stop an evil tyrant from gluing their world together.
16) Antz
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Life is no picnic for Z, a small worker ant with some very big ideas, whose chances with the beautiful Princess Bala are literally one in a billion. When Z convinces his soldier ant buddy to switch places with him, his simple life takes a wild turn.
Publisher
Bagdasarian Productions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In these episodes from the television series, whether he's convincing her that he deserves to meet England's princess or substituting for one of her babysitting jobs, Alvin goes paw-to-paw with Brittany and gives Dave seven more reasons to yell ALVINNN!!!
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year and even Goofy's chicken noodle ice cream cone has melted into soup. So Mickey and his pals are cooling off at Star Lake. Pete's hosting a Hawaiian luau, and it just might be the best beach bash ever, but only if you can help the gang pick the right mouseketools to get the party started. You'll ride on a tide of fun with Mickey as you reel in a big, red Gooey fish, float above the clouds with Pluto in a giant soap...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The universe is in grave danger of extinction! The evil Snake extinguishes the stars as he passes through the galaxy, causing chaos and plunging the planets into darkness. The Little Prince must leave his asteroid home in his quest to outsmart the Snake and save the universe from doom.
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