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Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
It may not be a complex animation, but Bird’s horn fills it in nicely.
A visually decadent short from Alessandro Correa.
1884 imagines a film made in 1848 with steam power, narrating a tale of laughable imperialist derring-do and espionage set in a futuristic 1884, when Europe is at war, steam-powered cars fly in the sky and man has landed on the moon. via
Directed by Tim Ollive with long-time collaborator and Consulting Director Terry Gilliam. The film also has it’s own website.
On the eve of the first flight to the moon, an astronaut ponders his ordinary-sounding name.
Released in 1962, it was set in the near future – August 22nd, 1970 – which ended up being about a year from when man actually landed on the moon.
From Format Films, 1962. Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini, voices by James Whitmore and Ross Martin.
Your Saturday Rogue Video is one from the somewhat hidden Funk page here at The Ruffled Crow, so prepare thyself to Get Thee Down and Be Thee Funky.
I became a fan of Bootsy Collins back in his days with the P-Funk collective. Bootsy is the grand master of the mean and nasty funk groove – to this day, as far as I’m concerned. So while this video isn’t fully animated, it does have Bootsy in it and that’s pretty much the equivalent.
From Bootsy’s 1990 EP Jungle Bass.
Machinima is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. via
Borderlands game-based animated music video for the never-before-released track Play For Real by Crystal Method featuring The Heavy and directed by Machinima director Kootra.
Your occasional Friday Rogue Video is a Goa trance track from Sun Control Species,
Animated by Astralseeker
Sometimes one’s ego can, quite literally, get them into a world of shit.