Aside from True Grit there hasn’t been a decent Western movie in years. No, Rango was neither a Western nor good, but Little Tombstone, made by students at ESMA Toulouse, makes me long for the days of the Spaghetti Western and shows, once again, why being an Undertaker is the superior career path. More »
As revolutionary as the introduction of CGI was for animation, sometimes hand-drawn pieces can still be just as amazing. Case in point: Keep Drawing by South Korean animation house, Studio Shelter. Each frame is drawn in a distinct animation style but stitched together around the same characters. Just check it out, you’ll see what I mean. More »
To the naked eye, the intricate paper patterns attached to these bike wheels look like nothing but a blur when it’s in motion. But when filmed with a video camera, the limited frame rate reveals complex animations. More »
The magic of the muppets is that they’re ‘real’, or as real as puppetry gets. Still, even when the Muppets could have easily gone CGI, they stuck to their roots. That doesn’t mean everything in the new Muppets movie was old school though. Even muppets need the magic of the movies. More »
Micaël Reynaud, a french animator, turned photographer Michael Jang’s black and white head shot series into a fluid animation that merges different people’s faces, mixes other people’s features and trips the hell out of you. It looks like a gentle, rippling pond of changing faces. More »
Lions with swords. Yeah, the ’80s was a pretty special time. So special that this time-lapse painting of the Thundercats is your nostalgia inducing video of the day. More »
NMA, the absolutely weird and wacky animation group that whips up those hilariously ridiculous videos about any ‘news’ event, has released an iPad app. Called NMA.tv, the app was originally banned by Apple a few weeks ago but has now been approved. More »
Netflix is having themselves quite the week, and everyone’s favourite insaneo Chinese animators are here to show us how things really happened. Apparently it involved asteroids, disc-headed mutant siamese twins, laser pistols and the Insane Clown Posse. Although in fairness, that mix of ingredients would have made more sense than what actually happened. More »
This glitchy music video, created by Desrumaux Celine, is like watching the Apollo launches, but through the lens of a Hanna-Barbara Saturday morning cartoon. More »
