Steampunk! Stop motion! Just two of our favorite things, and they gloriously unite in this charming stop motion composition – from Agfa to Zeiss – of dismantled antique cameras. We’re big fans of the creators over at the Shamptonian, a splendid institution that will re-instate your faith in humanity. Incidentally, you can read the full … Continued
Digital design agency Bigfish.tv are outdoing themselves with Fest – a series of offbeat short animated musicals. 62 Episodes online now, and counting. Great for iPod, this stuff will put a smile on your face where ever you are. Episode 36: Toast is the creator’s favorite.
Amazing London animation collective Trunk just dropped a grotesque music promo for Tom Fun Orchestra’s “Throw Me To The Rats,” directed by dynamic new directing duo Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney. An incontinent cat treads the boards of a vaudevillian cardboard theater.
This animated evolution of the video game will resonate with even the most casual of gamers. German animation house Musclebeaver recreated all the usual suspects one pixel at a time (quite literally), opening with the innocent simplicity of Pong and climaxing in a lusty exchange between a frisky Mario brother and hot virtual mamacita Lara … Continued
Motionographer editor Justin Cone critically reflects on the success of Mass Animation’s crowdsourced 5 minute animation “Live Music” in his article “Mass Animation=Mass Exploitation?“. In his very good analysis of the pros and cons and the ups and downs of the “democratization of animation“, Cone explains why mass animation won’t work and could potentially hurt … Continued
It looks like Shynola are back, after the sad news last year that their chief creative genius Gideon Baws had passed away suddenly, aged just 33. And the dream-like bizzarity that is this video for Coldplay’s new ditty won’t disappoint! With Chrizzle Martin (decked out in rainbow colors) fighting a giant psycho-squirrel and a team of … Continued
The animated opening cinematic for the upcoming edition of the music video game Rockband is simply stunning. Centered around the music of none other than The Beatles, the game’s spectacular sequence takes you from the Beatles’ early beginnings at Liverpool’s grungy Cavern Club, all the way through their career, and ends with an epic grand … Continued
“Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition – Met the greatest earthquake ever known – High on the rapids it struck their tiny raft, And plunged them down a thousand feet below – To the Land of the Lost…” Remember?
When creatives of the commercial kind make something just for the hell of it, we get a warm, glowing feeling inside. “You made this beautiful oeuvre just for us?”, we say (while checking said oeuvre for clandestine logo placement). Well, Doug Purver sure did, with his charming short Omar and His Skyhook.
Known and loved for their long-standing line in ground-breaking vector art, Bangkok / Baltimore-based collective YouWorkForThem have been at the helm of the design radar for like, ever, having hit the scene with aplomb way back in 2001. They recently released a sumptuous abstract animated short known as The Interpretation.
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