Tag: animation
Cyriak, master of psychedelic, fractal animal animations, returns today with Chimpnology, a celebration of the titular furry primates. What starts as a relatively straightforward video of a bunch of monkeys dancing in suits quickly becomes characteristically grotesque, a apes sprout extra limbs upon limbs and eyes become mouths become eyes. Its all set to a […]
Plastic Infinte, by the audiovisual group sculpture, is 7-inch record with some trippy designs printed on it. Play it, and those designs whir by in a multicolored mush. Shine a strobe light, however, or film it playing at the right shutter speed, and you’re treated to a delightful zoetrope animation. Check it out below. Sculpture is […]
There’s a snippet of a video called “Ira Glass on Storytelling” that’s become a mantra for a certain type of aspiring creative person. Speaking about what might be referred to as the “taste gap,” the This American Life host advises that anyone who wants to do artistic work hits a wall at a certain point: your […]
To create the video for Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s “Everything Is Everything,” filmmakers Santiago Carrasquilla and Joe Hollier shot footage, played it back on an iPad, scanned the iPad screen, then animated those individually-scanned frames together. The resulting clip occupies a pleasing middle space between analog and digital, with warm, inviting shots interrupted by disarming glitches and splashes of color. […]
To create the animations you see above, the design house Moniker created instructions for drawing each frame, then let visitors to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum draw them themselves. Some frames had strict, specific instructions — “Connect all dots to all dots. Use straight lines.” — others were more ambiguous and open to interpretation. The process creates […]
Artist Allison Schulnik makes traditional claymation and stop-motion films that flow between strangely pretty and somewhat sickening. Her previous clip set to Scott Walker was trippy. Her newest Eager is somewhat of an opus. It starts off minimally, with expressively choreographed, stringy, ghoul-like figures, and then blooms to complete forests of insane flowers, their centers gaping and flapping and morphing into skulls […]
Willy Hartland is an animator who worked on both Beavis & Butthead and Daria. For his latest project, he’s creating what he calls an “Animated Documentary” of NYC. What does that mean? It’s a ten-minute film depicting “the everyday challenges that urbanites meet in public spaces,” using Hartland’s drawings of real-life New Yorkers and their situations as source material. […]
LSD, ABC, they’re all just LETTERS, man. The animated short LSD ABC is bizarre and brilliant. It took over a year for creators Laura Sicouri and Kadavre Exquis to animate and score the film, but we have a hunch they took their time and had some fun here and there. E is for Ectoplasm. P […]
In a seemingly unlikely and wonderful collaboration, artist Gary Baseman teamed up with South-African duo Die Antwoord to make… The Buckingham Warrior, a tale inspired by Gary Baseman’s father Ben Baseman who survived the holocaust, fighting the Nazi invasion in Ukraine’s birch tree forests for almost 4 years. Big up to the MOCAtv YouTube channel which has some amazing […]
New York-based, internationally-sprawling Aboveground Animation collective is showing new work at MOCA at the end of the month, presented by MOCAtv. Casey Jane Ellison’s crew consistently produces solid, varied work that pushes media boundaries and fucks your brain into a different dimension. The latest commissioned works from Kathleen Daniel, Barry Doupe, Erin Dunn, Lauren Gregory, Jacolby Satterwhite and […]
