Archive for the 'Animation' Category

French Roast

Posted in Animation, Movies, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »

French Roast
Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.

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Chinese animated film “See Through”

Posted in Animation, People, Video on Sep 30th, 2009 No Comments »

Chinese animated film “See Through”
The animator Jokelate has made a fantastic antiwar film, it’s really worth watching. Zoom it out to full screen turn up the sound and enjoy. About 16 minutes, well worth it.

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Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation

Posted in Animation, Art and Design, People, Places, Stories on Aug 16th, 2009 No Comments »

Sand artist, Kseniya Simonova, performs a story of love against the backdrop of Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
This is a wonderful performance although I have to say that the cuts to the women crying seems a bit over the top. Still, it’s brilliant and worth watching.
[via Justin Blanton]

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Deadline

Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Photographers, Stop Action on Jun 10th, 2009 No Comments »

Bang-yao Liu’s senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Fantastic.
And, the making of video:

[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Nina Paley and Sita Sings the Blues

Posted in Animation, Copyright, Movies, People, Video on Mar 24th, 2009 No Comments »

This is a trailer for Nina Paley’s full length animated feature: Sita Sings the Blues.
Nina’s earlier work, Fetch was a wonderful early animation that showed a bit of her creativity but Sita takes it to another level (another world).
In the process of releasing Sita, Nina ran into issues surrounding her use of some background music [...]

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Cartoon Network rebrand video montage

Posted in Animation, Creativity, Humor, Video on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »

Cartoon Network rebrand video montage
Click on “Click here for rebrand montage.” Then click “play.”
Wow, talk about having fun with computers. Dang.
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Betty Boop: Snow White

Posted in Animation, Creativity, Video on Feb 27th, 2009 3 Comments »

Max Fleischer’s 1933 classic from The Moving Image Archive.
Fleischer had the most amazing imagination and this and other Betty Boop classics hold up amazingly well in this world of Pixar and Dreamworks.
[via Gary Sharp]

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Bubblicious

Posted in Animation, Creativity, Music, Video on Jan 14th, 2009 No Comments »

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.
This is great. Stop animation deconstructed as part of the stop animation. Very nicely done.
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Pretty Loaded

Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Creativity, Ideas on Jan 13th, 2009 1 Comment »

Pretty Loaded
When Flash loads into a browser, a “pre-loader” comes out to let you know that a program is loading in the background. This is a collection of the most amazing pre-loaders, all brought to you in (you guessed it), a Flash pre-loader.
I can’t stop watching these, they’re incredibly wonderful.
[via kottke.org]

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Alex Budovsky Animation

Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Creativity, Movies, Music, Video on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »

Last Time in Clerkenwell is a fantastic piece of animation by Alex Budovsky with music by The Real Tuesday Weld. Check out Alex’s other pieces on YouTube and at the Alex Budovsky web site.
[via Ken O'Connell]

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Nina Paley and Fetch

Posted in Animation, People, Video on Oct 8th, 2004 No Comments »

I discovered Nina Paley a few years ago when I saw her amazing animation Fetch. I still watch Fetch from time to time because it’s an example of skill, imagination, creativity, and humor. She’s also a cartoonist who does a number of strips.

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