Posted in Animation, Travel, Video on Jan 12th, 2012 3 Comments »
DVF from Luis Aguirre on Vimeo. Diane von Furstenberg’s narration makes this. If you can figure out your suitcase, it’s pretty much you can figure out your life. [via The Kid Should See This]
Posted in Animation, Ideas, Video on Oct 13th, 2011 2 Comments »
Great animated video by Derek Sivers. This really is quite a common feeling and his conclusion – get it out there for the world to see – is brilliant. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Process, Stop Action, Video on Oct 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Jessica at Design Blog has a great post that goes Behind the Scenes of the Catch Me if You Can Title Sequence. Here’s the title sequence: Here’s the reference to an interview with the title sequence designers at Art of the Title: Catch Me if You Can. Kuntzel + Deygas stylistically transpose the handmade design [...]
Posted in Animation, Music, Smigly, Social Software, Video on Sep 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Alan Mezquida and smigly do it again.
Posted in Animation, Humor, Ideas, Video on Sep 21st, 2011 No Comments »
This embedded player should play all ten 1 minute videos back to back. If not here’s the YouTube page that lists them singly: The History of English in Ten Minutes. Where did the phrase ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by [...]
Posted in Animation, Audio, People, Stories on Sep 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
This piece is part of StoryCorps. After discovering it a week ago I’ve listened to it numerous times and it makes me smile and laugh every time. [via wimp.com]
Posted in Animation, Music on Aug 27th, 2011 2 Comments »
A brief history of Betty Boop Great short video on Betty Boop. Max Fleischer was a genius. Here’s Betty with Cab Calloway behind her. Amazing collaboration.
Posted in Animation, Cartoons, Humor, Smigly, Social Software, Video on Apr 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
Love it. Alan Mezquida and smigly do it again.
Cédric Villain’s wonderful animated film. Also available in French. See the Cliché web site for other credits and more information. See Cédric Villain’s web site for more of his work. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Animation, iPhone, Video on Nov 5th, 2010 No Comments »
GOOGLE MOBILE GIRL from Marek Okon on Vimeo. Here in Japan not many people know that Google search is just as powerful on mobile devices as it is on PCs. To communicate this to the Japanese market we developed a fictional character named Mobaco and developed stories around various situations she was able to solve [...]
Posted in Animation, Humor, iPhone on Jun 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
iPhone vs. HTC EVO & HTC EVO vs iPhone4 These are hilarious. Made me laugh really hard. [via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Animation, Art and Design, Video on May 26th, 2010 No Comments »
This is a fantastic documentary film on the history of pixel art, both digital and analog. Very well done. [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Animation, Music, Video on Mar 22nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo. Very nice animation driven by sound. Zoom full screen, turn it up, enjoy. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Animation, Movies, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
French Roast Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.
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.
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]
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]
Posted in Animation, Copyright, Movies, People, Video on Mar 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
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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