Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
The fun and whimsical animation we’ve come to expect out of the Goldfish videos and this track even adds a 3D fish butt to the mix. Yeah, I’d never seen a fish butt before either.
Apparently not content with a great heavy beat and funky jazzy swingy melodies, the Goldfish have spun a few of their tracks into some fun and trippy animations.
From “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s album Straight outta Lynwood. Animated by Bill Plympton.
Simple shapes, simple movement, simple idea, simply riveting.
Director Renaud Hallee’s first venture into animation, Sonar, has been described as a perfect example of ‘how to listen to music with your eyes’.
This is a track from the self-titled album Storm Corrosion, a collaboration between Porcupine Tree‘s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. According to Wilson, this album is supposed to be the completion of a trilogy which includes the Opeth album Heritage and Wilson’s solo work Grace for Drowning. (both excellent albums imho)
This is the title track from Steven Wilson’s upcoming album due for release on the 25th of this month. The third solo album from the Porcupine Tree front man was engineered by our old friend, the legendary Alan Parsons, and tells tales of the supernatural.
Steven Wilson has worked with several bands I’ve become a fan of including Opeth, Blackfield, No-Man, and Storm Corrosion, to name a few.
I’ve been playing Everquest for almost 12 years now. These days I’m one of those casual players that puts in an hour or two an evening grouping with an old friend, although I did my time as a guild leader and sometimes raider years ago. Hopefully that explains why I love this short animation.
From what I understand, the backgrounds and character models were essentially ripped from the game, rather than doing a modded machinima video. Official EQ patches cause enough problems with the game so I can only imagine what kind of nightmare trying to mod a local server instance would be…
Anyways, it uses the old models (pre-Shadows of Luclin) and looks to be staged at the appropriate home city for the character races; Wood Elf in Kelethin, Dark Elf in Neriak, etc. At just over a minute, however, it’s way too short and I hope someone picks the project back up.
Sung by Annette Hanshaw in a 1927 recording. This is one scene of the 81 minute animation by Nina Paley based on the Hindu epic The Ramayana.
“Sita Sings the Blues” is based on the Hindu epic “The Ramayana”. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”
A beautifully done animation by Anat Dayag telling the story of a ballerina that frees herself from her music box.
Music is Don Quixote by Ludwig (Leon) Minkus and Lone Harvest by Kevin MacLeod.
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