Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
A being struggles to deliver a crystal to an inscrutable machine.
This is me dragging through every airport ever.
Directed by Sava Zivkovic.
This beautiful (and award winning) animated short tells the tale of survival and sacrifice.
Created by the students at The Animation School in South Africa.
While I admit that only part of this day-late-bonus-FNMV is animated, in it’s defense, it is Bootsy, so the live action parts are closely related enough to qualify.
Bootsy Collins is a bassist and a veteran of both James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic. This tune is with Bootsy’s Rubber Band. I’ve always had a taste for heavy funk and he knew how to bring it. Drop some Johnny Guitar Watson and Ohio Players into the playlist and I’m set.
In 1976 Collins, Catfish, Waddy, Joel Johnson (1953-2018), Gary “Mudbone” Cooper, Robert Johnson and The Horny Horns formed Bootsy’s Rubber Band, a separate touring unit of Clinton’s P-Funk collective. The group recorded five albums together, the first three of which are often considered to be among the quintessential P-Funk recordings. via
It’s Friday of a particularly brain-melting week for me, so this FNMV is how I’d like to get my weekend underway. (pun intended)
Released in 1968, I think this film opened the door for animation; from children’s cartoons and trifles, into serious adult entertainment. Soon after we saw Fritz the Cat hit the screen, and the The Dirty Duck, Wizards, Heavy Metal, the list goes on.
This is the second of two (so far) shorts set in a small village with a church that has a problem with attendance, or rather, the lack thereof. In this one, the priest may, or may not, have induced a bit of a windy path to heaven. (One can never tell in these situations.)
For general information Fluctus is Latin for a flow or billow, or possibly disorder. Many apply here.
Animated by Stefan Vogt at Filmbilder.
We’re back with the further adventures of Maca and Roni, two bumbling assistants to Dr Albert. This short demonstrates one of the problems with superglue.
Animated by Kyungmin Woo at Brickstudio.
This is one of two (so far) shorts in the same village where the church has a bit of a time getting the parishioners to attend service. Figuring to take a page from Arthurian legends, the priest brings out to the square a sword caught in a stone. (Well, a Gladius. A Roman short sword.)
Animated and directed by Stefan Vogt via Filmbilder.
A good video for a Monday. It’s never a good move to pretend you’re someone you aren’t, and donning a halo, either literally (if possible) or figuratively (common) has its own unique issues.
While heaven is hosting an awesome party, cashier Dave is stuck working in the skies local convenience store. An angel from the party comes into the store to buy some more alcohol but he’s so drunk he forgets his halo, which Dave realizes he could steal and use to get into the party.
Directed by Chloe Parker and created by the students at Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand
Another day-after-FNMV (friday night music video) and another animation test from Fennah, this time featuring Ludwig as the performer. Yes, I’m still partial to Shuck, but this guy is pretty badass. I’m really liking these character models.
The story behind Fennah’s characters is, well, an extensive story, and comes with several episodes of a webshow, Satellite City, with a cast from an alternate dimension. Sam Fennah has also put together a pretty deep and detailed backstory on the characters.
I’ve loved the Animusic videos since I first saw them years ago. The technology is a kind of reversal on music animation in that rather than creating the animation to fit the music, the music itself creates the animation.
Wayne Lytle, a composer of progressive rock music and computer scientist, has been creating these incredible music videos since 1995 and, with David Crognale, released the first Animusic video in 2001.
This is the first track from Animusic 2 and serves as notice that the animation is a big step up from the first Animusic video album.
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