Absolutely stellar work by comic artist and "animotion" director Dmitry "Ahriman" Grozov of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Do not miss this anime trailer for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
That time Phyllis Diller roasted the Haunted Mansion
Back in 1972-3, Disney ran a short-lived variety show called The Mouse Factory that intercut classic animation with live action, framed by celebrity hosts that kind of threaded it all together into a mashed-up, loose storyline. Read the rest
Fragmented animation about kindness and coexistence.
Ugly is an animated film by Nikita Diakur and Redbear Easterman that examines the way all living things are connected, even the ugly ones. Read the rest
This Rick and Morty green screen tattoo is fantastically effective (for now, anyway)
Fantastic German psychedelic animation from 1970 by Yellow Submarine's art director
Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009) was the German illustrator and designer best known for art directing the Beatles' 1968 animation Yellow Submarine. In 1970, he created this magnificent opening animation for the ZDF broadcast movie series "Der Phantastische Film."
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Neko Case, Mark Lanegan bring on the WTF in weird animated music video
OMG, what did I just watch?!
Neko Case’s anthropomorphic, animated genitals enjoy a corndog with Mark Lanegan’s top hat-adorned penis in the new video for “Curse of the I-5 Corridor.” The song appears on Case’s seventh solo LP Hell-On, which Rolling Stone named one of the 50 Best Albums of 2018 So Far.
Stay weird, you two. Read the rest
This toast thinks he's sexy, but he's kind of a jerk
Big Toast is an anthropomorphic slice of toast who like to slather himself with butter and pines for his ex-girlfriend, a fried egg. Read the rest
"Carlton, Your Doorman" - Emmy-winning 1980 animated TV pilot
Zach Smith writes, "Lorenzo Music's Carlton the Doorman was one of TV's great unseen characters...but he finally got a face in this special, intended as a series pilot. And he...kind of looked like a hippie. The intended series would have been one of the first adult-oriented prime-time cartoons, but while it didn't make it past the pilot, it did win an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program...and Lorenzo Music would have better luck in animation a few years later when he started voicing Garfield the Cat. The special, which was never rebroadcast after its initial airing, is also available on the RHODA: SEASON FIVE DVD set from SHOUT! Factory, and the YouTube channel this is on has a treasure trove of unaired series, alternate first episodes, concept presentations and more." Read the rest
She-Ra reboot looks great
Coming to Netflix soon. It's enraged the online nazis for the usual reasons, but this time it's particularly delicious because they can't even pretend it was ever for them. When they say she looks like a boy, all you have to do is take that thought seriously, just for a second, to understand how completely they're losing that particular aspect of the culture wars.
Watch "The Frog," a deeply weird short film from 1908
Spanish film director and cinematographer Segundo Chomón (1871-1929) was a pioneer of movie special effects, camera tricks, and optical illusions at the intersection of technology, art, and magic. See more of his surreal work at the Internet Archive's "Segundo de Chomón Collection."
Animator Cyriak has indigestion
Someone give Cyriak a chalk pill: "Some animation experiments that congealed into a video." Read the rest
Artist is animating "This is America" with vintage Mac software
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New York City animator and illustrator Wahyu Ichwandardi (aka @pinot) is currently animating Childish Gambino's "This is America" music video in MacPaint (software from 1984) and MacroMind VideoWorks (1985) on a Macintosh SE. On Thursday, he was 375 frames in. He's been sharing his progress on Twitter since June 9:
Trying to capture Donald Glover’s motion in MacPaint. pic.twitter.com/gL7JErrJpN
— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 9, 2018
Synchronizing. pic.twitter.com/7GgGFn4Htz
— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 18, 2018
MacPaint doesn't have layers for onion skin drawing. But at least it has copy paste o/ pic.twitter.com/97fKtf0FFX
— Wahyu Ichwandardi (@pinot) June 10, 2018
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Designer makes figures that are simultaneously charming and troubling
Jun seo Hahm likes to create strange and wondrous beings, like this mouth-walker or these "negative-metaballs" below: Read the rest
Watch this fun Fortnite flipbook
YouTuber Mr Mash likes to make flipbooks. His latest is a depiction of Raven from Fortnite dancing. Read the rest
Watch this terrific animated storybook of the Dark Souls video game plot
Illustrator Versiris has a new series called Video Games Retold, and the first episode is a worthy entry for the story of Dark Souls. It's wonderful if you just want to revisit the game's themes, or even if you never played and want to know the story line. Read the rest
Star Wars fans: You have to see this animated ASCII remake of Episode IV
It was 1997 when Simon Jansen started his remake of the first Star Wars film -- Episode IV - A New Hope -- as an ASCII animation (or "asciimation," as he coined it). Read the rest
Trippy and relaxing animated insects move to a hypnotic beat
Felix Colgrave animated this wonderful video for Nitai Hershkovits' Flyin' Bamboo. Read the rest
