If Hieronymus Bosch had painted warm and fuzzy things I would imagine it would look something like this. A 2010 Oscar winner for animation, Shaun Tan takes the weird and makes it the wonderful with this fun little tale.
Check out the website at thelostthing.com, it’s a work of art in itself.
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When guarding castles, safety is quite important.
Another wonderful little film from Bird Box Studio.
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Your Saturday evening rogue music video is here!
I love me some techno and I love my computers. Printers, on the other hand, are obviously made by minions from Hell. Now, if only more printers could do this that opinion might change…
Animation by Tinspider Studio via Aniboom (we will see more from tinspider for sure)
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Unlike the re-imaginings of Star Wars characters in old world Japan that I’ve posted, Terry Cook went the fine art route and painted them in watercolor. And I do mean ‘fine art’ as the artist has rendered these portraits skillfully enough to rate display on the best wall of any home or gallery.
Darth Vader
Grand Moff Tarkin – an often overlooked character
Boba Fett
Master Yoda
Imperial Storm Trooper
C3PO and R2D2
You can find all 11 prints at Terry Cook’s website.
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The power of belief can be a weapon as well as a shield.
Cinematically, Crossover is precisely the opposite of of today’s blockbuster movie; while the blockbuster takes actors and places them in 3D CGI environments, animator Fabian Grodde meticulously created a miniature environment and added 3D CGI actors.
There is no official description of this short outside of technical details, and few folks have bothered to step into the breach – probably due to the implied critique of Christianity in the film with the use of the cross symbology. Whether fair or not when looked at through the lens of history (any number of symbols or cultural icons could have been used) the short offers a lesson in the dangers of unquestioningly following the crowd.
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The Story of Animation is an educational film about the process of animation. Although aimed primarily at potential animation clients, the film has something for everyone – animation students, animation artists, animation producers, and anyone who has ever wondered about how animation is made, or simply enjoys animation!
Read more about the production of this short at thestoryofanimation.com.
h/t Elven Dance
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Working at the library I’ve seen a lot of Penguin Books. (their penguin classics series is a staple) This short is to celebrate the launch of the Penguin English Library series – sort of a ‘super-classics’ imprint.
by Woof Wan-Bau
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How many of the movies can you name?
Fast Film is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.
A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy’s secret headquarters.
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A triple play of classical music animations to help start the week!
Stephen Malinowski has been animating music since 1985 when he began the Music Animation Machine project with an Atari 800 and some custom software. Over the years Mr Malinowski has upgraded his computers, refined and rewrote his software, and even wrote a Conductor program as well as an iPad app.
The last video of this post is a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the Music Animation Machine.
Vivaldi, Winter, Four Seasons Allegro:
While they look quite different, the MAM videos share the concept of music-driven computer animation with Wayne Lytle’s work on Animusic.
Brahms, Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60, first movement:
Find more at his Youtube channel, smalin.
Debussy, Arabesque #1, Piano Solo:
A documentary of Mr Malinowski and the MAM:
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A Sunday doodle…
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