The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film

A video essay from the Atrocity Guide channel on Yuri Norstein, the Russian animator known for hand-crafted cut-out films, and the decades he has spent on a single project. It looks at his painstaking multi-plane technique and what that slow process says about animation as craft.

HN people point to it as a good introduction to Norstein's work for those who know Ghibli-era animation but not him.

“It was my introduction to his amazing work.”