"Two Minutes Out of Time" provides a Japanese-produced 3-D digital cartoon with a poignant human story.
Its only character is a 3-D digital cartoon of a young woman named Annlee, created by a Japanese film company.
As it stands, "Spirit" provides neither the profound human touch of the great Disney animation of the past, nor the dazzling, high-tech fun of present-day digital cartooning.
The skimpy site highlights the digital cartoon's scaly characters and supplies a few rudimentary examples of animation, but it stomps on an opportunity to educate young visitors about the pleasures of paleontology.
The Future," Paul Chan has pulled out the stops, offering up a double-channel 17-minute digital cartoon, projected on both sides of a hanging screen, along with charcoal drawings of owls, ravens, hawks and bats, prints and a toy gun with a radio inside that you hear by pointing the barrel at your head.
The latter is a colony for first-time offenders, which houses a sewing factory, and an experimental vocational program to re-train women prisoners to become digital cartoon animators.
Strange, then, that the key to unlocking the modern world is a collection of tiny digital cartoon images, spearheaded by the grand ringmaster of them all: little yellow smiley face man.
(Nicole Herrington) ★ 'Consuming Spirits' (No rating, 2 09) Chris Sullivan's animated feature — 15 years in the making — is a splendid anomaly in an age of digital, upbeat cartoons.
Sometimes the effort is put into out of the box delivery methods, for example creating a digital "guru" cartoon that shows us all the right answers.
