Created by a team of alums from the legendary Supinfocom graphics school, this short animation tells the story of a little boy called Gary who falls in love with a hot older chick. Bringing a new twist to this age-old dilemma, Gary creates an alpha male fantasy with which he hopes to seduce her (suspension … Continued
French-Swiss creative duo Ben & Julia just dropped a charming puppet-animation-analogue hybrid clip for a ditty called 1973 by French pop-rockers Tahiti Boy and the Palm Tree Family. A month-long process of puppet-building, felt-tip painting, animating, and shooting in an Alpine forest leaves us with an irresistibly cute composition of mysterious marine creatures, singing trees … Continued
Plops is a deliciously absurd rotoscope animation: colorful and pop-arty on the surface, but with with deeper, darker layers of meaning hidden underneath. It’s the kind of subverted surrealism that we find in American b-movies, underground pop culture, subversive comics, and in the art of Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon, to name but a few. … Continued
Egyptian-Swedish creative hotshot and former graffiti hero Tarik Saleh, has kindly shared the first footage of his Kafka-esque animated feature Metropia on Youtube. Featuring the voices of Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis, the film takes place in a grim, futuristic Europe comprising a vast and scary web of inter-connected underground tunnels.
David Oreilly, the talented young Irish animator and creator of the insanely popular Octocat series won a Golden Bear in Berlin for his brand-new series ‘Please Say Something‘. Oreilly made 25 episodes of this “30 Second Breakneck Heartbreak Uncut Turbodrama” which premiered this month at the Berlin Film Festival.
He won the hallowed peace prize. Some professed outrage, others popped open the Veuve. And yet others painstakingly plotted individual pixels to create a frenzy of Obama animated Gifs! We heart Gifologist Mark Portillo, and guess what: he’s making animated Gif portraits of the entire SubmarineChannel editorial team next. Watch this space!
Who knew paper craft could be so chichi? Following up from his award-winning Procrastination piece, Johnny Kelly’s first major project since joining Nexus follows the life-cycle of an apple seed. In an interview with Creative Review, Kelly sheds light on the painstaking animation process, saying, “everything was hand folded and glued. Myself and Elin Svensson, … Continued
OneDotZero alum Richard Fenwick’s site is worth going back to. The classic Safety Procedures alone is worth the visit. Coining a “cute gore” animation genre, his pure animation work features an unsettling blend of soothing instructional voices (occasionally peppered with muted screams) and gruesome cartoony visuals, that make for an irresistibly chilling ensemble.
South African artist collective The Black Heart Gang have created an epic hand-drawn animation on an audiobed of kabuki-inspired operatic warbling. The Tale of How has a Biblical/Apocalyptic feel to it, as intricate visuals depict the story of Otto, a tyrannical octopus who shamelessly munches on the innocent Dodos living atop his head – before … Continued
Forget the Film, Watch the Titles updates today with three main titles by one of Finland’s leading post-production studios Fake Graphics from Helsinki. For Swedish comedy 7 millionaires, Fake developed a 3D animated main title sequence around the theme of a board game with golden pawns that represent the different personality traits of each of … Continued
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