Tag: animation
As a runaway orphan with magical powers, Lucy is not a typical teenager. And when she meets MOJO, a 7-foot-tall enchanted statue of cement, she embarks on a dangerous quest to determine the source of MOJO’s powers and to reunite her with her own father — all while evading a group of shadowy figures who […]
Tommy Stathes only graduated from college two years ago, but he is already one the country’s foremost experts on old school animation. The New York Daily News credits the 26-year-old Queens native as being “by far the youngest serious collector of old cartoons in the country,” an expertise that was cultivated long before he graduated […]
In what reminds us of the old arcade games of the ’90s, animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon give a short tribute to the Simpsons. Pixelating the intro with their own specific twist on the famous “couch gag,” Simpsons aficionados will recognize all of the references to show’s past, including the Stone Cutters, Homer in […]
“Color Separated” is a new music video for Swedish electrofunk producer Beem, directed and animated by Sam Rolfes (profiled in ANIMAL’s Artist Notebook here). Click to play above, in all its gyrating, moshing, dayglo-horror glory. “The vid was created over a month of tearing apart the gnarled 3D objects and environments that litter my hard drive from previous […]
Morbidly creative animator Lee Hardcastle has a fresh new clip for you. It’s so gory. You are about to see Bebop’s head come undone in a visceral, splattering, gurgling fashion that really pushes the visual possibilities of claymation, all in a faux lofi vignette stylized as grainy, vintage video. Look at this mess. “Blood” everywhere. (And yes, that reboot sucked.) […]
Cuphead — a new game developed by Studio MDHR, announced at the recent E3 conference — exists totally in an hand-drawn style reminiscent of 1930’s cartoons. Authenticity is provided by “taking the time to use actual cells and is inking by hand,” Daily Dot writes. The game allows you to play as Cuphead or Mugman, while you battle […]
Artist Rick Silva, whose new media landscapes were on view at TRANSFER Gallery last year, has just launched a new project — The Silva Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future. The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving […]
Here’s the latest video from Jake Fried, an animator who creates constantly morphing psychedelic tableaux almost entirely by hand. This one is called Headspace, and it accurately portrays the way it feels getting out of bed on Monday morning. Enjoy. […]
3D printing is a new, buzzy technology that signifies hip forward-thinkingness; stop-motion animation is delightfully quaint, analog, and old-school. Why not combine the two? That’s what DBLG did to create Bears on Stairs, a stop-motion short in which every frame is individually 3D-printed. Efficient? No. Buzzy? Definitely! Watch it above. […]
Benjamin Stephan and Christoph Haag created the video above by animating onto various powdered substances — one looks like salt, another like powdered graphite — frame by frame, with a precise mechanical drawing device called a pen plotter. It’s mesmerizing, and I could watch for a lot longer than its 40-second length. The making-of below reveals […]
