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.
The best of the season for whatever you celebrate (or not).
On this Christmas eve I’d like to re-post one of the most powerful animations I’ve ever seen. We adopt our cats from the local shelters and generally look for the older, harder to adopt cats. While the last times of any pet can be difficult for a family, we hope that we enriched their last years as much as they added to ours. Please give a pet from your local shelter or pound a gift this holiday season and adopt. You and they will be rewarded every day.
This is an incredible little piece of animation. Akin to bringing a minimalist painting into three-dimensional reality, Omer Ben David uses shading, few lines, and movement to suggest forms and describe the world.
The film sets the story of an old house cat who bids farewell to his home, his owner and the world he used to know. via
I have lived with several geriatric cats in my time and Mr Ben David does an excellent job on the cat’s movements. The cat getting up onto the back of the sofa gave me a twinge, and by the time the film was over I was missing every old cat I’d ever had.
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.
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