Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Besides being a funny little tale, this is one of the best cut-paper animations I’ve come across in a long while. The sets are intricately drawn without being over-drawn or distracting.
‘Catwalk – Black Cat Crossing’ is a humorous animated short film that takes the viewer into a lovely and detailed designed comic city. There you’re going to witness a row of odd incidents that are obviously related to Matilda, a quite inconspicuous old lady (via)
Animation and concept by Dennis Beckstein, Patrick Kayser, Marian Sander, Manuel Ritter
You could take a lot away from this video, but at a minimum you’ll find striking animation with an excellent trance track. I Won’t Stop by Faithless, animation by Paranoid Now
Two of my favorite things, together; science humor and cats!
I, for one, welcome our Chemistry Cat overlords…
Quickmeme.com has a bunch of ’em collected for our perusing pleasure and there are generators everywhere.
And this is a perfect excuse to post a great little animation of Tom Lehrer’s The Element Song. The man was brilliant and will have a digression of his own here one of these days soon.
Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something. A stop motion animation written and directed by Christopher Kezelos.
I picked up the Justice album “Cross” a few years ago after hearing a snippet of the track Genesis on, of all places, NPR. Filler between stories on Morning Edition or some such. (I found Zero 7 and The Battles that way too)
Think of them as an exuberant Daft Punk (both are French duos) with emphasis on the ‘punk’ part.
When I went to put this little excursory post together it became clear right away that it just wasn’t going to be quite that easy. Generally it never is when it comes to my writing, but this just kept getting worse.
So to solve it, and embrace my inner divericator, here is a triple digression…
D.A.N.C.E. is the most known cut off the album and won Justice some awards, including best video, and it’s easy to see why. This is some of the most innovative animation I’ve seen in a long time. Watch this video with the sound off first time through.
DVNO is an excellent track and has animation that is strongly reminiscent of 1980’s animated typography.
Genesis is still, by far, my favorite track off the album; heavy techno with an edgy funk. It’s unfortunate that its the blandest of the videos I can find…
Computer animation, “traditional” animation techniques, a killer soundtrack, and some remarkable puppetry, to put it mildly. The fluidity of the tyger is truly impressive, as is the overall flow of the video as a whole.
Tyger by Guilherme Marcondes of Brazil, based on a William Blake poem
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