Tag: animation
Last time we showed you one of Jake Fried’s maximalist hand-drawn animations, we could only speculate as to the insane amount of effort behind it. Now, we have some hard facts. At 60 seconds long and 25 frames per second, that’s a mind-boggling 1500 frames scanned into Photoshop and pieced together in Final Cut, a […]
Indie animator and cult hero Don Hertzfeldt has finished his renowned tour of It’s Such a Beautiful Day, the last of three connected epics — heart-wrenching short films documenting the life and trials of Bill. There’s something very wrong with Bill. Giant fish-heads come out of his skull. Hertzfeldt is as known for his stick-figure, hand-drawn style […]
Synesthesia is a neurological disorder (and/or gift depending on worldview) in which your five senses sometimes seem to have their wires crossed — you can hear color, see sound, so on and so forth. Oscar López Rocha‘s animation Synesthetic Locked, is a glitchy, screechy, 3D-ish stereoscopic simulation thereof, a dizzying RGB web of weird associations. […]
Animals is an animated web series that (almost) shares a name and a similar set of interests with this very website. The latest episode features a bizarre love triangle of three pigeons who get nice and awkward before stumbling upon some sort of dead mammal. I won’t ruin the surprise for you. Phil Matarese and Mike […]
Annette Jung of Berlin-based Talking Animals recently made this 30-second animation of Michael Jackson dancing, using only LEGOs. Complete with the Billie Jean outfit and those token weird breathing sounds of his, “Lego Dance” has all kinds of nostalgic appeal. …Familiar? […]
Evan Seitz, the Atlanta-based motionographer who brought you minimalist-y montage quiz animations Alphagames, 123Films and Geovideos, has just released the last in his 5-part series, ABCinema – Take 2. Film nerds rejoice and take a minute to absorb 26 all new two-second soundbites from mostly classic films with a few more contemporary nods than the […]
It starts off familiar enough. Times Square. Faded REVS tags. The High Line… and then, traffic lights begin to bloom in clusters, subway turnstile bars unfurl and wave like seagrass, street lights blossom into dandelion shapes. This New York Biotopes animation by German student Lena Steinkühler is going to BLOW YOUR MIND. Watch as everything industrial and metropolitan becomes […]
French animator Joseph Vasconi created the above short, in which each of 2012’s 12 months gets a single second of bold, minimalistic slide of animation. In January, we see a cruise ship tipping over (remember that?), in 2012 we see Kim Dotcom going behind bars, and so on. There are a few pretty cheeky surprises in […]
Architecture, like graphic design, is an art form that nearly every American interacts with on a daily basis, but few outside of understand on any mechanical or historical level. Animators Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez hope to remedy that–at least the history part–with the above animation, The ABCs of Architects. Each letter gets an important architect, his or […]
Think you have patience? Watch The Deep End, a new hand-drawn animation from Jake Fried, then get back to me. What must have taken hours upon hours to complete races by in a mere 60 seconds, as eyebrows sprout airplanes and snakes become tongues. Fried lists his materials as ink, white-out, and coffee, though it’s […]
