Haven’t posted any lovely eye-candy in what feels like a long while. Enjoy.
Category Archives: Fairy tale art
Rusalochka, with awesomely stylized animation
Check out the Russian version of “The Little Mermaid,” with magically delicious animation. I’m starting with part 2. If you’d like to watch the entire thing, just follow the link in the bottom right-hand corner of the YouTube embed and you’ll find the index for the rest on the right-hand side of the YouTube page.
Where the Wild Things Are
There are distinct differences between traditional fairy tales and fantasy short stories. When I teach my class, I ask my students to stick to the former and eschew the latter. I love fairy tales and I believe passionately in the discipline of writing to the traditional fairy tale form. Plus, in a six-week class, there’s not enough time to stray too far from the curriculum.
However, I love fantasy short stories and novels just as passionately. I love comics, too. Any story form that takes me out of the world I know and into a world of surprise and possibility is a story form that I love.
So it is with tummy-tingling, heart-glowy anticipation that I await the release of this movie:
Dave Eggers wrote the script, and while he may be the most maddeningly over-hyped hipster author in print today, he’s also one talented mother[shutyourmouth]. I can’t wait to see how the movie turns out!
Disney’s Snow White
A lot has been said against the “Disney-fication” of fairy tales, and for the most part I agree.
However.
Check out the introductory sequence of Snow White, which was released in 1937. It’s dark, dramatic, and exquisitely animated. It leaves The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast in the dirt. The evil queen is genuinely disturbing and, well, evil. The peacock throne is a nice touch.
Russian Fairy Tales
Vasilisa the Beautiful by Ivan Bilibin
This site has a nice version of “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” plus a couple more and some lovely illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Worth a browse.
the wild swans: 70s style
of course, i prefer the version with implied cannibalism and the incomplete transformation at the end, but this one makes up for its cowardice with awesome 70s anime style.
techno little red riding hood
Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
‘Little Red Riding Hood’ told in the curiously dispassionate medium of animated technical drawings. There are lots of ways to tell a story!
NoCloo.com
This image is an illustration from Kay Nielsen for “East of the Sun, West of the Moon.”
Nocloo.com is a treasure trove of Golden Age illustrations. In addition to their awesome blog, they have a big ol’ on-line store from which you can buy beautiful giclee prints of your favorite illos.
Russian Snow White
Check out this beautifully animated Russian version of ‘Snow White’ from 1951:
Courtesy of Coilhouse.
Teetering Bulb
Every once in a while you discover a new blog that is its own reward. Teetering Bulb is such a site. Illustrations that capture everything I love about illustration and lots that I love about fairy tales. Maybe one day I’ll get rich and commission them to illustrate stories for me. (sigh) One can dream …