Nicolas Ménard
@nicolasmenard.com
Animation, art & design Québécois based in London, UK Co-founder of Eastend Western RCA MA 2014 eastendwestern.com nicolasmenard.com
Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Noguchi's New York — Animated Playgrounds (2026) - YouTube
Eastend Western presents five animated films entirely hand painted over 1,800 celluloids, inspired by Isamu Noguchi's unrealized playground proposals for the...
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🎥 ↑ 🎥 ↓ Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum
It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.
Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation
I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!
It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.
Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.
Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.
A busy start to 2026... animations for the Noguchi Museum incoming 🚨 artdaily.com/news/189662/...
New exhibition explores Isamu Noguchi's lifelong relationship with New York City
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum announced Noguchi’s New York, on view from February 4–July 5, 2026. Organized on the occasion
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This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.
Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.
You can enjoy Kawamoto’s beautiful puppet films right here: archive.org/details/kiha...
Kihachiro Kawamoto Animation Collection : Kihachiro Kawamoto : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Given name: 喜八郎Family name: 川本Birthday: Jan 11, 1925Died: August 23, 2010.Japanese designer and maker of puppets, a director, writer and animator of...
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Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 10mo agoFrom: The Demon (1972), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto
The Rest is History repeating that Disney invented animation makes me doubt the accuracy of everything they talk about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPa...
We Went to Disneyland with Bob Iger
YouTube video by The Rest Is History
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Listen to Nicolas and watch that fantastic short. And if the YouTube link doesn’t work in your country, this one might do the trick www.dailymotion.com/video/x9tpkqc
The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List in “Retirement Plan”
Dailymotion video by The New Yorker
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Nicolas Ménard@nicolasmenard.com · 10mo agoGo watch the best short film of the year, now available on YouTube: youtu.be/2Mqa4zfJdx4
Go watch the best short film of the year, now available on YouTube: youtu.be/2Mqa4zfJdx4
The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List | “Retirement Plan” | The New Yorker
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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That is, there is no broad "AI jobs apocalypse," as AI is too unreliable and limited to do jobs that demand accuracy or empathy. But plenty of managers will use it to try to replace human art with cheaper "good enough" AI art. So it does appear that bosses embracing AI are hitting creatives hard.
‘One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats’ Iris Murdoch
Brilliant thread by Michèle
Michèle Champagne@michelechampagne.com · 10mo agoIn Toronto last spring, there was the curious case of “Protect Bathurst”: An anti-bus lane business owner seems to have used angry “AI”-gen personas and mobile video campaigns to fake “resident concerns”. It was @shawnmicallef.bsky.social who found the videos questionable.