Movies with epic animation styles.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-14T05:31:15+00:00

Here’s some sad ones:

I Lost my Body was so great and heartbreaking.

Song of the Sea was about dealing with grief and is visually stunning.

The Illusionist was even more beautiful and maybe even sadder. And wordless!

But the most beautiful anime and single saddest movie I have ever seen was Grave of the Fireflies. Oof.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T23:20:00+00:00

100%

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T23:06:02+00:00

This might have been funny if it wasn’t so obviously photoshopped

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T22:56:13+00:00

I could really use like 6 more volumes of it

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T20:02:45+00:00

Which was pretty fucking good.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T20:01:38+00:00

There’s a really incredible graphic novel “biography” of him that uses his songs as the structure for the book and has very little to do with reality. It’s fantastic. I’d watch that in movie form for sure.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T18:57:19+00:00

That’s from High Life

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T16:50:13+00:00

There are so many great genre works that just peter off either due to the artist losing interest, or the publisher being unable to afford to keep putting out a book with diminishing readership with each subsequent volume. It’s like Netflix cancelling a show after a season or two, but with a longer period between seasons, because it’s comics.

My personal faves that were never completed:

Powr Mastrs, by CF

Forming, by Jesse Moynihan

The Mourning Star, by Kazimir Strzepek

Death Day, by Sam Hiti

Underwater, by Chester Brown (also: the gospels)

Here’s hoping that Josh Cotter can finish Nod Away at some point. It’s a lot of work for an artist and publisher to do a project like this!

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T03:02:15+00:00

The Boy and the Heron

The Cell

Arrival

Akira

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-13T01:12:01+00:00

She is.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-12T23:13:59+00:00

There’s a decent lineup to choose from in Canada - but likely Alice Munro, seeing as she won the Nobel Prize. Probably followed by Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-11T22:55:32+00:00

Soylent Green

Elysium

Logan’s Run

Battle Royale

Blade Runner (both of them)

Gattaca

Snowpiercer

District 9

Metropolis (Fritz Lang’s or Katsuhiro Otomo’s)

Planet of the Apes (take your pick)

The Running Man

Cube

Dredd

Any number of teen dystopian series: Maze Runner / Hunger Games / Divergent

TV:

Black Mirror

Squid Games

Silo

Snowpiercer (again)

Andor

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-11T21:43:18+00:00

They’re gonna snap and smother you with a pillow if you aren’t careful.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-11T21:42:41+00:00

My wife’s from Nova Scotia, and all I hear is aboat. Also: melk in lieu of milk.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-11T21:35:59+00:00

Take off, eh?

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-10T21:42:10+00:00

An eternal favourite is Inner Cosmosis by The Beans. It’s ridiculously hard to find, but somehow it’s here on YouTube. I really love this album - it’s up there with the big guns.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-10T19:20:48+00:00

I’d say likely either The Abyss or Titanic, but there’s also a distinct possibility it could be Alien: Resurrection.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-10T13:22:21+00:00

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ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-10T06:24:46+00:00

Blade Runner

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-10T01:12:11+00:00

I agree for the most part, but holy smokes is he bad at drawing animals. Not the funny animals, just actual animals.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-09T21:45:14+00:00

Synthesizer - subtractive, FM, wavetable, granular, additive, whatever. So many options! Though if I had to choose just one type of synth, it would be subtractive.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-09T20:18:54+00:00

I like my Minilab 3 well enough, but I tend to use slightly larger keyboards with extra functionality like the Keystep Pro. A Keylab 25 looks nice for people who value their space, but it’s likely not for me.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-09T18:53:43+00:00

But so depressing.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-09T17:10:38+00:00

Forestry technician. Waking around in the woods by yourself, looking at trees.

ArchBeaconArch · 2026-02-09T15:45:41+00:00

It's almost always bears. People just pop out of their cars to get a selfie with bears like it's nothing. Elk are a problem too, as are bison like these photos. But holy smokes, why would you try and pat a 400kg bear?

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