Homage a William Kentridge and Sergeo Leone???

So like any properly procrastinating student attempting to get work done on an icy Friday night, I've just been cruising around YouTube where I stumbled on this video, a homage to Sergeo Leone's famous spaghetti western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The animation is actually done with sand on a light table. I found the finished product to look remarkably similar to the animated drawings of South African artist William Kentridge. His short animated films, like History of the Main Complaint, are actually only one drawing, photographed, edited and photographed and edited and photographed on and on continuously -- you can see the erasure marks. It's a phenomenal layering and morphing process -- a process of continual erasure and addition. While I'm not a fan of the dark content, I can't help but be captivated by Kentridge's process (oh artists and their processes!). For a lighter Kentridge film, watch this homage to George Melies' 1902 Voyage dans la Lune.