Posts tagged with cool animation
February 1, 2012 | Video | 
by Jenni Sparks |
I’ve been a fan of This Is It Collective’s work since I saw their first video, Bad Things That Could Happen. This Is It is a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London and they produce colourful, well-designed animations and videos. This one in particular made me snigger with joy.
December 17, 2011 | New Music | by Princess Chelsea |
From outside of Wellington comes a very young bedroom producer who makes his own magical brand of sexy Italo disco while also creating his own album art and animating his own music videos. He will often sing female-style backup vocals in falsetto and shred hair metal guitar solos over his beats. The majority of New Zealanders were still unaware when he took off to Paris while still a teenager and began making waves in Europe.
November 18, 2011 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
Animator Lara Lee is interviewing different children about their favorite animal for this adorable animation series, My Favorite Animal.
November 3, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
Word Salad is a mixture of hand-drawn animation and mysterious, ominous music by Micah Buzan. I don’t know what else to say, except that it’s an astonishingly beautiful piece of artwork.
October 22, 2011 | New Film | by Xavier Toby |
Animated plastic toys. Peppered with brilliant slapstick. A storyline that makes the most wondrous stupid sense. Too excited to form proper sentences. Amazing animated film from Belgium. Hilarity that just builds and builds until your head explodes. Read more
September 6, 2011 | Video | by Zolton |
Set to the sweet animation of Johnny Kelly, this cover version of Coldplay’s The Scientist by Willie Nelson is achingly beautiful. The short film, itself, ‘depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future’.
September 2, 2011 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
They should resurrect Liquid Television or make another Heavy Metal movie to showcase the animation and artwork of illustrator Matthew Wade, whose work definitely relates to what I do i.e. skeletons, monsters, and grossness.
August 25, 2011 | Video | by Gerry Mak |
This short animation by Kaleb Durocher and Michelle Chrzanowski expresses a sense of loneliness and isolation that I can relate to sometimes. I’ll be in my room reading Sylvia Plath and listening to Nine Inch Nails and realize no one understands me.
August 20, 2011 | New Film | by Matt Taylor from Sixty40 |
Mr O’Reilly is a unique breed amongst animation directors, having both style and substance. I’d call him an auteur, but he’d call me a nasty name or send me a virus. This short film left me more satisfied after 14 minutes than many feature films can do in 90. And heck, you can buy his film in HD for 4 Euros.
August 9, 2011 | Video | by Zolton |
Remember the thrill you used to get watching the Count go thrugh his familiar routine every week on Sesame Street? The adrenalin rush that would build as he got closer and closer to the end? Well, this stop-motion remake of the classic Pinball Number 12 animation from Sesame Street will get the blood pumping again. Guaranteed.
July 2, 2011 | Video | by Bright Archer |
I’ve admired the work of Clyde Peterson: be it as a musician, filmmaker, animator, or writer of brilliant comics, for many years now. Here’s one recent, awesome as always example. Perhaps it will make an admirer out of you, too.
June 25, 2011 | New Events | by Jason Howe |
I’m happy to be involved with this audio/visual experimental, improvised performance troop consisting of four artists, three freestyling MCs, and a live four piece band. Inspired by Pictionary, Mr. Squiggle and animation, Sketch the Rhyme incorporates live drawing projected for the audience to see, rappers freestyling, and it’s all being inspired by the sketching. Read more
June 21, 2011 | New Design | by Antoine Corbineau |
French animator Chloe Mazlo just finished the art direction for Albert, a fun and addictive iPad and iPhone game produced by Fingerlab. The result is a smooth, pleasant mix of low-cost design and advanced technology.
June 20, 2011 | New Film | by Gerry Mak |
I just got to check out Canadian filmmaker/animator Jeff Chiba Stearn’s debut documentary, One Big Hapa Family, about intermarriage between Japanese-Canadians and white Canadians. Read more
May 21, 2011 | Video | by Marissa Nadler |
Orion Rigel Dommisse is perhaps best known for her music. But her animation is insane, in the best possible way. Here is Nervous Cat, one of my favorites of hers.
Artist Matt W. Moore recently ran an exhibit in Cincinnati showing off his very dope vector like canvas paintings. What’s really ill to me is that the medium used here is spray paint, and you get to see him at work doing an entire wall in this style. Really clean, really fresh.
Carmen Ortiz is a self-taught illustrator from Spain with a huge talent to feel and express faces of human soul. Her hand-drawing technique, using only black and white, makes her style unique and recognizable. She can distil a personality and tell a life story with just one image. Read more
Back in the day, New Zealand pop absurdists, Split Enz were the finest damn Australasian band around. This track, I Walk Away, off their final album — Spellbound — is their ultimate moment: a hefty dose of pure melodic majestry, wrapped around the aching lyrics and quirky arrangements of genius frontman, Neil Finn.
What is it with these big fake islands that look like things from the air? We’ve had palm trees, a map of the world, and now an island that looks like Russia! Read more
What would you be prepared to do for $5? I mean, really? Would you sell your first born, dance with a stranger? Yeah? Well, now you can prove it. The Fiverr site is ‘the place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5′. Err, five dollar Skype clarinet lesson, anyone?
There’s no shortage of bands channeling the surf rock and psych of the 1960s, but the Super Vacations’ sloppy vocals, drunken guitar riffs, and blown out production give them a knowing swagger that has as much in common with Beat Happening and Thee Headcoats as with the Pyramids. They seem to take pride in how bad they are live, but their debut record shows a lot of potential.
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You’ve got to give it to the guys at American fashion label, Attus Apparel. Just over a year into business and already they are producing some of the more … ummm … interesting photo shoots out there. Read more
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Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
Honest Food Preparation Instructions
Yes, we’ve all been there: the chinese food from last week that still looks edible amongst the bare surrounds of an empty fridge. But really, we shouldn’t. Just let it be. Or College Humor will expose you! Read more
Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
Inside this sea urchin shell is an organic perfume made from grapefruit and basil essential oils. This bottle, designed by Stephanie Simek, is refillable and is packaged in a wooden box decorated with a satin photograph and padded with slices of exfoliating loofah sea sponges. The Honeymoon-themed fragrance is all natural: made from plant-based oils and contains no alcohol or chemicals. We like. Read more
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