Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
A musical murder mystery, and classic animation, from the folks at UPA.
Animated in 1951 by John Hubley.
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)
A triple play of classical music animations to help start the week!
Stephen Malinowski has been animating music since 1985 when he began the Music Animation Machine project with an Atari 800 and some custom software. Over the years Mr Malinowski has upgraded his computers, refined and rewrote his software, and even wrote a Conductor program as well as an iPad app.
The last video of this post is a half-hour documentary made in 1996 about the Music Animation Machine.
Vivaldi, Winter, Four Seasons Allegro:
While they look quite different, the MAM videos share the concept of music-driven computer animation with Wayne Lytle’s work on Animusic.
Brahms, Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 60, first movement:
Find more at his Youtube channel, smalin.
Debussy, Arabesque #1, Piano Solo:
A documentary of Mr Malinowski and the MAM:
An 8-bit character escapes the 2D world. (looks more like 16-bit, but who’s counting?)
Animated by Steve Jones
Formed in 1993, the Squirrel Nut Zippers play an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, klezmer, and swing. They found some popularity in the late 90’s during a neo-swing revival that included artists such as Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Mocean Worker.
“Nut Zippers,” is a southern term for a variety of old bootleg moonshine, and the band’s name comes from a newspaper account which related the story of a highly intoxicated man who climbed a tree one night, refusing to come down even after authorities arrived. The article’s headline read: “Squirrel Nut Zipper.” It is also the name of a candy dating back to 1890. via
Winner of “Best Animated Music Video” at the 1999 Vancouver Animation Festival. Directed by Raymond Persi and Matthew Nastuk.
h/t Vital Vaudeville
Exploring the tension between Surface and Volume. One gives birth to the other as white lines rise from black space and give shape to invisible structures that are driven by sound. via
I’ve watched this video a few times, being a Glitch Mob fan, and I still have no clue as to what in the hell that description means and how many drugs I’d need to take to relate that to the video. If you have an idea please let us know in the comments. Please.
Whatever the video is all about, it’s some interesting animation and The Glitch Mob lay down beats with some serious gravity.
Animated by Markus Feder.
This incredible short is a visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand Ries.
Animation by virtual republic
I just discovered The Glitch Mob for myself a few months back and am rapidly becoming a big fan. This video is definitely helping that along.
A frog can make for an interesting imaginary friend. The tune from Eatliz is as inventive and irreverent as the story.
Directed and animated by Guy Ben Shetrit [et al].
I can honestly say that this is the first time I’ve seen toast used as an animation medium.
All 215 loaves of bread used in the making of this video were past their sell-by date and rescued from the clutches of certain disposal. via
Animation art by Geoff Mcfetridge, Champion Studio
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