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.
We stumbled across these high-lair super short comedy sketches featuring a couple of absurdists goofing about, on the marvellous Channel 101. Supershort 1 is our fave: old etchings with moving mouths and funny accents – it doesn’t take much to make us chortle!
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
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s extraordinary 3D interpretation of a Hyeronimus Bosch-like post-apocalyptic world – otherwise known as “Fucking Hell” – can now be seen as a short film on their website. Set to the dramatic film score from Oliver Stone‘s seminal 1986 war movie Platoon, the Chapman clip is, in line with their signature style, … 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
TheOneMinutes is… a collection of one-minute videos! But it’s more than that, otherwise we wouldn’t mention it now would we. It’s a well-designed online platform for cross-cultural content sharing where the contrasts and parallels of our vast, complex humanity can be glimpsed upon, in little one-minute chunks. From documentary-style insights into remote Albanian village life, … Continued
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.
Second in our series of shorts by the inimitable Sietske Tjallingii, aka Miss T, The General is a veritable gala of home-made wonders, that culminates in a darkly humoristic satire on American post-imperialism. A battalion of sandy tankers appears to advance threateningly, before being crushed by ruthless, Nazi-looking army boots. The camera pans out to … Continued
This no–frills production presents DJ Derek, a character so loveable that you just can’t stop watching. A white gentleman, now in his 60s, he found his calling as a bringer of good vibes in the form of rocksteady, ska and roots music. The trans-cultural ex-accountant grew who up in poverty-stricken post-war Bristol (UK), found solace … Continued
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