We just came across this delightful little morsel of short filmness, created back in 2007 by the young hotshot they call Ray Tintori (of MGMT psychaedelia fame). Death to the Tinman has echoes of the marvel comic about it, with our protagonist in the role of flawed super-hero. Complete with elderly, avuncular side-kick and devoted … Continued
Haha! This is très entertaining, you send in your crappy home video and Helsinki-based animators Anima Boutique add cheeky little characters known as The Guys, who like to stir things up some. If they’re not electrocuting unsuspecting hipsters, they’ll be off kissing honeymooning hotties or pinching innocent ladies’ bottoms. Every Monday a new episode is … Continued
It’s an animation that visualizes the mass psychology of greed, aspiration and the inexplicable lust for picket fences which landed the American (nay, global!) housing market in the fine mess it is today. Created in Cinema 4D, Beeple’s retro-hued summary of the cyclical progression (or should that be regression?) from simple human survival to mindless, … Continued
In a similar vein to the Half-Life 2-esque sci-fi viral we blogged about a while back, What’s in the Box? is a special effects tour de force by a couple of Dutch student lads messing around with film, scaling and background matte geekology in their bedrooms (presumably). An apocalyptic vision of provincial Holland set to … Continued
This 10-minute candylicious animation by motion graphiste Kirsten Lepore tells the story of one forward-thinking cupcake who runs away to sea in a sugar-cube boat. The sugar soon liquifies, leaving poor cupcake stranded and alone on a desert isle. No Robinson Crusoe, our cupcake does his best to piece together a ramshackle shelter using sugar-cube … Continued
“Shit” is how cult guro manga artist Kago Shintarō likes to describe his work. But this barmy animated short is more like “tha good shit”. One of a handful of new shorts he’s been posting on Youtube, Terror of Golf Course features a pesky golf hole that’s messing with his mind and ends up eating … Continued
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
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
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.
Toronto-based boutique film studio the Purchase Brothers, have created a short film inspired by the sci-fi first-person shooter game Half-Life 2. On a budget of just $500, the resourceful indie duo filmed the first two episodes with no crew, no script and very little time, as security patrols tried to hunt them down. Intended as … Continued
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