they actually were all part of greek mythology

 

slowing down

the blogs going to be a little slow and sparse the next few days as i'm headed to new york for a week. i'll try and post but no promises. please accept this awesome short from headless productions as an apology.

star wars episode IV: speed run

star wars in one minute

BUNNY FRIDAY

hellz yeah bun lovers it's friday! fuck this week by enjoying some animated bunny shenanigans. happy weekend.

disney menstruation!

apparently this is a commissioned film disney did back in '46

lumpy space princess everything

eight and a half glorious minutes of her

Rejected

can't blog. must go snowboarding. you should do something for you today as well. that said, take 9 mins and 20 secs out of your life and watch the greatest animated short of all time by don hertzfeldt (especially if you've never seen it).

At the Opera

delightful short by juan pablo zaramella

Nowhere Near Here

dude, this video by pahnl whatnow is SO GOOD. the song rocks and the animation is adorable and painfully labor intensive. be sure to read artist's statement below as well.


Nowhere Near Here from Pahnl Whatnow on Vimeo.

'Nowhere Near Here' is a stop motion animation that uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, in Coventry, on the 7th October 2010.

With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting 'Nowhere Near Here', I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.

This is street art, this is life and thank you for watching.

...for those of you that may be interested in prints, a selection of film stills from 'Nowhere Near Here' are currently available at pahnl.co.uk/​store.php

Animated Albums

unfortunately i'm not super tech savvy enough to figure out how to link to these gifs but trust me when i say this is a cool site and you should visit it. it's called animated albums and it's a rad tumblr that does exactly what the name implies. check it out!!

HOLY SHIT THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME

found this on geekologie today and all i can say is you NEED to watch it. the city of prague commissioned an animated light show to be projected on top of the old town square astrological clock in honor of it's 600th anniversary and the result is crazy cool. the video is over 9 mins long and you can skip around if you want but if you have a sec, you should really watch the whole damn thing... the special effects are FANTASTIC.


The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

Blockhead's "The Music Scene"

thanks to dan for this one! song title is rather appropriate too on the inaugural day of monday music... as for the video (which is what's actually prompting me to post this) bit of an acid trip but who the fuck cares when it's grade A animation.

"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

Cycles

here's a really awesome animation by artist cyriak that's basically just a bunch of looped animations all created in after effect. my favorite are the giant AT-AT teddy bears that start appearing about half way through...! enjoy!