The Ruffled Crow

Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things

Tag Archives: Animation

Jungle Dancing – TinSpider Studio

Feather Leather – Spoonbill

Printed Rainbow – Gitanjali Rao

LAPSUS – Juan Pablo Zaramella

The Sand Castle (Le chateau de sable)

Rooty Toot Toot – UPA

The Lost Thing – Shaun Tan

If Hieronymus Bosch had painted warm and fuzzy things I would imagine it would look something like this. A 2010 Oscar winner for animation, Shaun Tan takes the weird and makes it the wonderful with this fun little tale.

 

Check out the website at thelostthing.com, it’s a work of art in itself.

Guard – Sketchy

Printer Jam – Mistabishi

Your Saturday evening rogue music video is here!

I love me some techno and I love my computers. Printers, on the other hand, are obviously made by minions from Hell. Now, if only more printers could do this that opinion might change…

Animation by Tinspider Studio via Aniboom (we will see more from tinspider for sure)

Crossover – Fabian Grodde

The power of belief can be a weapon as well as a shield.

Cinematically, Crossover is precisely the opposite of of today’s blockbuster movie; while the blockbuster takes actors and places them in 3D CGI environments, animator Fabian Grodde meticulously created a miniature environment and added 3D CGI actors.

There is no official description of this short outside of technical details, and few folks have bothered to step into the breach – probably due to the implied critique of Christianity in the film with the use of the cross symbology. Whether fair or not when looked at through the lens of history (any number of symbols or cultural icons could have been used) the short offers a lesson in the dangers of unquestioningly following the crowd.