Your Face

Bill Plympton's Academy Award-nominated "Your Face" goes the Bob Clampett route, with a man's face changing in all sorts of ways while he sings. This short shows the heights that animation can reach when one puts one's imagination to it. It was certainly a neat one. Available on YouTube.

This cartoonist is absolutely brilliant. His work is more fun than nitrous oxide and more beautifully disturbing than the root canal that comes with it. This piece is a must-see for anybody pursuing a career in the animation/cartoon field, and probably also for anybody who ever liked looking at stuff.

This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there's not really any story as such here, it's more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it's a bit like one of those kaleidoscope toys you had as a kid where shapes change randomly but still with some symmetry and order to them. It's an enjoyable few minutes of skilful drawing.

I love the song more so than the animation They work well together though

This short, nominated for an Academy Award, is visually exceptional and conceptually wonderful. From what I've seen of his work, it's also one of the most conventionally "normal" pieces he's done! It's a kick to watch. Plympton is an acquired taste and I seem to have done so. If you like good animation that messes with the boundaries and sometimes colors outside the lines, try Plympton. By all means, catch this one! Most recommended.