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AnimationObsessive

Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.

Animation Obsessive Staff Twice a week Since February 2021 Over 74,000 subscribers

Keeping up with animation is hard.

There has never been more of it available — whether new or old, foreign or domestic, familiar or strange.

Getting lost in all this abundance is easy, if you don’t have a guide.

That’s what we’re here for.

We cover a little of everything — including the rare and underappreciated stuff you won’t find elsewhere.

The archive

Animation Obsessive is a research project, ultimately.

Most of the stories we publish begin as ideas on our list. A number of them linger on that list for years, as we gather research material and allow ourselves to bump into sources organically.

Reinventing Pooh Engraving Across Time Norstein and Japan Animating the ’60s in Cuba The Roots of Vietnamese Animation Visions in Uzbekistan Exactly How They Did It How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki The Artist Who Colored Ghibli Tolkien in Japan Making the Video That Made Gorillaz The Toy Story You Remember When Stick Figures Fought How Ray Harryhausen Conjured the Skeletons The Pressure That Made Miyazaki and Takahata
We dig up the richest stories and most intriguing tidbits we can — drawing on international news, rare books, lost websites and more.
Our research is expensive, both in time and money, because we break new ground.
Proposed

The Collections.

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The Eastern Bloc

  • Reinventing Pooh
  • Engraving Across Time
  • Norstein and Japan
  • Exactly How They Did It
$18
02

An Atlas of the Unwritten

  • Animating the ’60s in Cuba
  • The Roots of Vietnamese Animation
  • Visions in Uzbekistan
$18
03

The Japanese Masters

  • How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki
  • The Artist Who Colored Ghibli
  • The Pressure That Made Miyazaki and Takahata
$18
04

The Ones Everybody Saw

  • Making the Video That Made Gorillaz
  • The Toy Story You Remember
  • When Stick Figures Fought
  • How Ray Harryhausen Conjured the Skeletons
$18

All four

Fourteen pieces.

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  • Sunday and Thursday issues
  • The full archive
Yearly
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  • Everything monthly includes
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Studio & LibraryProposed
$600
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  • Everything membership includes, for a whole studio, department or library
  • The full archive back to February 2021
  • One invoice, one renewal, one contact

Until next time!

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