Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
If you’re going to party this New Years you should probably be able to recognize the characters you will likely meet…
Directed by Aloke Shetty and animated by Rajiv Eipe of Rawshark Films.
h/t Laughing Squid
This award-winning tale directed by Alex Weil is a bitter-sweet adventure of a city rat that chases an empty chip wrapper.
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we’ve been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up our genomes: the DNA double helix. Then, in 2001, scientists wrote down the entire 3-billion letter code contained in the average human genome. Now they’re trying to interpret that code; to work out how it’s used to make different types of cells and different people. The ENCODE project, as it’s called, is the latest chapter in the story of you.
To read the ENCODE research papers and more, visit http://www.nature.com/ENCODE
Animated by Paul Rayment with music by Sergei Prokofiev.
This is the 1953 animation from UPA (who also did The Tell Tale Heart and Rooty Toot Toot) and shouldn’t be confused with the 1969 DePatie-Freleng version animated for the Thurber story-based tv show My World and Welcome to It.
In 1951 animation studio United Productions of America (UPA) announced a forthcoming feature to be faithfully compiled from Thurber’s work, titled Men, Women and Dogs. However, the only part of the ambitious production that was eventually released was the UPA cartoon The Unicorn in the Garden (1953) via
You can read the short story this is based on here.
via UNSW (Univ of New South Wales College of Fine Arts)
Directed By Elliot Dear at Blinkink.
In this animated short from Richard Condie (who also animated The Big Snit, a classic itself), an old fool meets a young fool at a crossroads in the 14th century. The old fool stays behind while the young fool skips blindly down the wrong road. The old fool must then teach his young apprentice about the consequences of taking the wrong road. A quirky tale told without words.
(have i mentioned how much i love the national film board of canada?)
He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flickering segments of real life and illusion. Only the lighthouse has his memory. But the memory will maybe vanish.
Stop motion animation with paper cut outs and paint on glass. Kangmin Kim also animated the well received short 38-39˚c.
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