YouTuber pwnisher staged a contest for digital animators, in which they each took a simple prompt and created unique environments around it. The winners are named at the YouTube page. Here are the entries strung together. The only thing they have in common is the rear view of a character walking toward a mountain in […]
Cyriak Harris has gathered up all his Teddy bears for his latest video adventure into surrealism. Also buildings, cats, cars, sheep, and spider webs made of rope. This one could easily be looped into an endless sequence of weirdness. [via Laughing Squid]
Stop-motion animation is such a familiar idea to us that young children try it at home. But you have to wonder about the pioneers that came up with the idea more than 100 years ago. After all, it was a serious investment in both time and money back then. Vox takes us back to the […]
With all the monsters defeated, a king feels his days of glory are past. His daughter wants him to feel important again. With the best of intentions, she hatches a plan to make the king a hero again. Royal Madness is from the French animation school Gobelins, but no French skills are needed to catch […]
YouTuber C4D4U gives us an experimental animation featuring Tetris played with what appears to be gummy candies or jello jigglers. He talks about “rendering textures,” while the rest of us are mesmerized and can’t stop watching. The whole video is frustrating on many levels. Tetris is such a familiar game that we can’t handle the […]
This is Russian computer animation from 1968. Boing Boing gives us a short translated explanation. More than 40 years ago in 1968 … A team led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov creates a mathematical model of the motion of the animal (cat). The BESM-4 machine, executing a written program for solving ordinary (in the mathematical sense […]
To try to explain Attack on Titan to someone who doesn’t watch the show (and capture all the depth of the franchise and not just write it off as a show about dudes attacking naked giants) is not easy. The show is violent, layered, complex, and maybe one of the best things out there right […]
If any of you were on the interwebz last week, you probably saw the somewhat jarring trailer for the new live action Jem movie based on the old 80’s cartoon. Pretty much anyone who grew up on the cartoon saw the trailer and wheezed out a WTF, as it looked like nothing resembling the original […]