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egypturnashNina Paley's one-woman feature cartoon Sita Sings The Blues is awesome. You should download it*, watch it, and paypal her a few bucks. (Due to the songs she used being in Copyright Jail even though it's old enough that it should be PD, she can't distribute it through normal channels; this is a saga as long and convoluted as the story behind her deciding to make this movie, or as its original source material, the Ramayana.
It's animated entirely in Flash, using all the tricks John taught me to avoid when possible - it's flat, it's clearly a work of Flash, it's made with maybe two dozen individual pieces per character. And yet it is beautiful, compelling, and moving. Well worth the time it'll take to download. It's alternately mocking and reverent of its source material - which is, IMHO, how we cartoonists show reverence.
* that link goes to the torrent my machine is still sharing on; you can also find higher- and lower-res torrents, or get an http download from archive.org.
It's animated entirely in Flash, using all the tricks John taught me to avoid when possible - it's flat, it's clearly a work of Flash, it's made with maybe two dozen individual pieces per character. And yet it is beautiful, compelling, and moving. Well worth the time it'll take to download. It's alternately mocking and reverent of its source material - which is, IMHO, how we cartoonists show reverence.
* that link goes to the torrent my machine is still sharing on; you can also find higher- and lower-res torrents, or get an http download from archive.org.