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Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
More excellent animation from TinSpider Studio. The ‘old style’ animation pairs very well with this great neo-swing tune!
Music by Enzo Siffredi & JFTH
Your Saturday rogue video is a great mash of animation and musical styles.
More at Spoonbill’s website. From the album Zoomorphic.. Animated by Jonathan Chong aka Dropbear
Sometimes contentment comes in something as small as a matchbox.
Beautiful animation by Gitanjali Rao
Curiosity can be a problem for more than just cats.
Lapsus (noun): a slip or lapse
1977 Oscar winning animated short by Co Hoedeman. Via the National Film Board of Canada.
A musical murder mystery, and classic animation, from the folks at UPA.
Animated in 1951 by John Hubley.
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.
When guarding castles, safety is quite important.
Another wonderful little film from Bird Box Studio.
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)
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.