Posts tagged with cool animation
November 3, 2009 | New Illustration | 
by Gerry Mak |
Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort’s amazing short CARDBOARD was made with painted cardboard placed on the street. The character designs are pretty cute, too.
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October 19, 2009 | New Events | by Casper Johansson |
Between October 21-24, the Australian International Animation Festival is heading to Newcastle, just out of Sydney, where 110 films from 26 countries will amaze, delight, amuse and confuse — perhaps all at the same time. There will be ‘two international programs, a showcase of Australian animation, highlights of SIGGRAPH Asia, a digital program for for the brave, a late-night hour of oddness in Late Night Bizarro, and for those under 18, there’s a special kids program of international animated treats’. Tickets are $5 per session or $30 for festival pass to see all eight programs. No pre-sale — at the door and cash only. If you’re in the area, be sure to check it out. Read more
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September 18, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
Graphic designer Siggi Eggertsson compiled over four hundred images that he created over the past six years into this weird animation.
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September 11, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak 
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Stephen Irwin (not to be confused with the Crocodile Hunter) made this great animated short which tells the story of an abused dog via a series of looping flipbooks.
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September 3, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
Man, it must be so cool being a kid right now with awesome videos such as this animation by Luke Jinks to get them excited about science.
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August 31, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
Scott Coello manages to make a dog fart beautiful with his short animation made from old bank statements, scrap paper, junk mail, and whatever else he could find.
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June 19, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
I hate it when giant, one-eyed propellor monsters crash my day out in the park and absorb me into their bulbous bodies. Good thing I have my trusty insect-dog with me most of the time.
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June 10, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
For this short, British animator Davide Prosser turns crude, gestural, 2D drawings into dynamic 3D characters via AfterEffects, making for a very unique aesthetic. Though, like so many other animated shorts, Clockwork has no dialogue and utilizes rather cliched themes such as urban isolation and the dehumanizing effect of labor, the style and presentation of this film is still quite affecting.
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June 1, 2009 | Video | by Xavier Toby |
Some hidden video treasures? Here are five videos that remain criminally under-viewed. Though, instead of laugh-out loud funny or stupid, these are more about quality animation and music. Read more
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May 25, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
This short by Australian animator Luke Randall reminds me of this story about soldiers developing feelings towards the robots that help them out on the battlefield.
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May 13, 2009 | Video | by Zolton |
This brilliant i-stop motion animation by New York-based illustrator Edwina White was created at CCA Santa Fe, in New Mexico, and features the evocative soundtrack of The Windmills of Your Mind, as sung by Noel Harrison.
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May 8, 2009 | Video | by Xavier Toby |
This is one of the most amazing short films I’ve seen on Youtube, or anywhere for that matter. Apparently everything has been done before, but the innovative and creative ways stop-motion animation is applied in this clip is totally unique. It’s hilarious and fun, and it proves that there’s no substitute for hard work. Some thirteen hundred photographs were used to create this animation, and to do it so well there just isn’t any shortcuts. Each picture had to be snapped, placed and photographed again. It would’ve taken forever.
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April 17, 2009 | New Film | by Xavier Toby |
Written and directed by Australian, Adam Elliot, the Mary and Max stop-motion animation is his follow-up to the Oscar winning 2003 short, Harvie Krumpet. He’s a man dedicated to his art, with each scene individually shot using real figurines. It took him ages to create, and while the sombre storyline is directed squarely at adults, it’s an enriching, gripping and beautifully told meditation of a film that you simply must see. A momentous artistic achievement that’s also a great yarn.
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March 5, 2009 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
Here’s a cute little After Effects animation by Ned Wenlock is reminiscent of Ren and Stimpy in terms of the gorssness of the the subject matter, but it’s less ironic and provocative. The bedbug is actually pretty adorable.
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March 4, 2009 | Video | by Mike Daly |
The imaginative films of Irish animator David O’Reilly play between so many extremes: sentimental and apathetic, beauty and ugliness, high and low art, technological and human, juvenile and mature. His latest ‘vectorpunk’ endeavour, Please Say Something, has just won the Golden Bear for best short film at the Berlinale.
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Anyone following my progress lately will notice that I am increasingly obsessed with masks, faces, textures, patterns, and repetition. Ryan Bubnis inspires some new ideas in me with his charming, richly-textured images. Read more
The Highline railway track is a 30 foot high, 1.45 mile long disused piece of infrastructure threading its way through 22 blocks of downtown Manhattan. Read more
There’s a fun range of prints up on the Boo Ware site, a Sydney based t-shirt label that began selling at the legendary Paddington Markets in 2003. You can still find them there every Saturday morning. Their tees are ’soft and comfortable with original, quirky prints’.
Sculptor Richard Stipl creates disturbing, gothic, vaguely religious tableaus using hyper-realistic, resin casted figures that quite often are engaged in some bizarre behavior, covered in blood, leaking gore, or otherwise frozen in some horrific pose. A friend of mine said, ‘If you’re going to develop that level of skill, why would you use it to make such ugly things?’ I kind of like gross things, though, so it doesn’t bother me. Read more
In this post-everything mash-up culture, it’s still sometimes disarming to see how a small tweak can completely change the meaning of iconic images. Read more
Peter Nalitch is Russia’s answer to Manu Chao. His video for the song Guitar is a Borat-like jab at low-budget, post-Soviet awkwardness — absurd English lyrics, Eurotrash earnestness, bad wipes, and cheap subtitles. But its tongue-in-cheekness is quite apparent, and the song is disarmingly catchy and romantic.
Brilliance can be handed down in many ways — through your voice, your hands, your mind. One individual that possesses it in many ways is young French musician, M83. Read more
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Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
Check out Mike Stimpson’s Lego reinterpretations of classic photographs. Stimpson’s version of Malcolm Browne’s iconic 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc is particularly twisted. Read more
Italian-born, New York City-based photographer Paolo Ventura creates fairy-tale like pictures out of amazingly constructed, miniature dioramas that almost trick the eye into thinking he’s a tilt-shift photographer. Read more
Good thing Kris Kuksi channelled the trauma of growing up with an alcoholic stepfather, his disdain for ‘the typical American life and pop culture’, and his fascination with the macabre into obsessive, baroque assemblages, paintings, and drawings. Read more
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
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