Anthropomorphic Foods

Posted by Miss Cellania in Advertising, Video Clips on November 7, 2009 at 11:56 pm


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Which is better, a fresh apricot or a dried apricot? The way they argue, nothing will be settled. This is just one example of a series of talking food ads to promote the Supercooks program from the British Food Standards Agency. See sausages, potatoes, nuts, and more discuss their virtues at Eat Me Daily. Link -via Everlasting Blort

 
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Dancing Ferrets

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on November 4, 2009 at 1:01 pm


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A group of ferrets dance for your entertainment. The music is a cover of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” arranged by The Moog Cookbook. Animation by Sandro Cruz. -via Buzzfeed

 
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Fantaisie in Bubblewrap

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on October 22, 2009 at 11:30 am


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The bubbles are doomed when people get hold of bubble wrap! An award-winning horror story by Arthur Metcalf. NSFW language. -via Everlasting Blort

 
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Forensic Reconstruction of Fictional Skulls

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts, Cartoon & Comic on October 19, 2009 at 10:41 pm

If scientists and police investigators can reconstruct a face from a skull, why can’t we figure out what Skeletor looked like before he was a skeleton? David at Ironic Sans went to work, or to be accurate, his wife did, and recreated faces for Skeletor, Manuel Calavera, and Jack Skellington. Link -via Laughing Squid

 
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Cardboard

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts on October 15, 2009 at 9:13 am


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This amazing animation is a wonderful combination of real public space & cardboard animation filmed stop-motion, by Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort with audio by Steven Aerts.

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The History of the Chipmunks

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic, Music on October 11, 2009 at 11:27 am

In some cases, no one will get behind a wacky idea until there’s nothing left to lose. Such is the case with Ross Bagdasarian Sr. who recorded a novelty song called “The Witch Doctor”. As his record company was close to bankruptcy, three executives went along with recording a chorus of three sped-up voices he called The Chipmunks.

Production commenced and in just a few months leading up to Christmas of 1958, the record shot to the top of the charts, becoming one of the best selling singles of all time. Bagdasarian won two Grammy Awards, Liberty Records was saved from bankruptcy, and the Chipmunks became a household name with children all over the world.

And that’s just the beginning of the story of Simon, Theodore, and Alvin. Link -via Boing Boing

 
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Simon's Cat in "Hot Spot"

Posted by Ali S. in Animal, Cartoon & Comic, Funny, Video Clips on September 29, 2009 at 10:42 pm


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A brand new animated short by Simon Tofield.

More videos of Simon’s Cat featured here on Neatorama: Fly Guy, TV Dinner, Let Me In!, and Wake Up!

 
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Resonant Chamber by Animusic: Animated Self-Playing Musical Instruments

Posted by Alex in Music on September 24, 2009 at 3:16 am

This one is fantastic: take a look at this very cool computer graphic animation of self-playing musical instruments, titled Resonant Chamber by Animusic.

Link [embedded YouTube clip] – by the way, The Presurfer is 9 years old today. Happy Blogiversary, Gerard!

If you like that, here’s another one called Pipe Dreams over at Miss Cellania: Link

 
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The Cat Piano

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic, Video Clips on September 9, 2009 at 12:32 am

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A short film by The People’s Republic of Animation. The musical instrument featured is a Katzenklavier (previously at Neatorama). -via Metafilter

This is part of Neatorama’s “A Day Without Cats Counter Protest” inspired by A Day Without Cats on the Internet.

 
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Little Big Love

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on August 17, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Love is hard when you’re a little robot in a big world. A little bit creepy and a whole lot of cute, Little Big Love is a bittersweet short film from Tomas Mankovsky. Link

 
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Blip

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic, Video Clips on August 3, 2009 at 9:27 am


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See what happens when two aliens try to take over the same world in Blip, a short animation by Sean Mullen and Ben Harper of the Irish School of Animation. -via the Presurfer

 
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Fly Guy

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on July 26, 2009 at 1:42 pm


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Simon’s Cat tries to catch a fly. From the drawing board of Simon Tofield. -via Metafilter

Previously: Cat Man Do, Let Me In, and TV Dinner.

 
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The Spongebob Squarepants Quiz

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on July 24, 2009 at 11:44 am


We all love Spongebob Squarepants! Even when he is (or maybe because he is) ridiculously annoying. Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your knowledge of Bikini Bottom trivia. I only scored 50%, but my kids aced it. Link

 
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Work In Progress

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on July 8, 2009 at 1:03 pm

An animation from Industrial Light & Magic, Work in Progress tells the story of a couple of modern-day Dr. Frankensteins. The moral of the story is that brains and brawn are small beans compared to the power of magic pixie dust. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

 
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Candy Fireworks

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on July 2, 2009 at 2:01 pm


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Sweet, safe, and delicious fireworks, from PES. -via Buzzfeed

 
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The Terrible Thing of Alpha Nine!

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on June 23, 2009 at 11:32 pm


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Space explorers go to Alpha Nine to check out the monster, which turns out to be what you’ve secretly thought space aliens were really all about. This animation was Jake Armstrong’s thesis film at the School of Visual Arts. -via Dark Roasted Blend

 
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Deadline

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on June 11, 2009 at 7:11 am


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Bang-Yao Liu created this stop-motion animation for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. It’s cute and clever, and I really relate to the pressure of working on deadline and dealing with distractions. There’s also a “making of” video. Music by Röyksopp. -via Digg

 
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Wedding Invitation

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on June 4, 2009 at 8:36 am


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Corey McKenna created this unique stop-motion video as an invitation to his wedding to Rachel. The music is M79 by Vampire Weekend. More detailed directions are in another video. Do you think anyone will show up? -via Arbroath

 
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Sorry I'm Late

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on May 21, 2009 at 10:14 am

Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and you just can’t get where you’re trying to go? That’s the idea behind this collage-style animation by Thomas Markovsky. Link -via Everlasting Blort

 
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The M.A.S.K. Quiz

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on May 19, 2009 at 11:57 am


Of course you are familiar with Transformers, He-Man, and G.I. Joe, but there was also M.A.S.K. If you remember this show, you’ll do well on Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. Link

 
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Roman Klonek

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on May 7, 2009 at 10:51 am


I just love the whimsical designs of Polish artist Roman Klonek! This picture shown is a detail from an animation called Cheewing Gum. Link to artist’s site. Link to an exhibition of posters. -via Everlasting Blort

 
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Humans! A Public Service Announcement

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic on April 1, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Humans! is a short animation by Reza Rasoli, Greg Gunn and Casey Hunt of Three Legged Legs. It’s done in the style of a PSA – and while you may not agree with the gloom and doom depiction of humans as parasites, it’s still a very interesting (though a bit gory) animation.

Hit play or go to Link [aniboom] – via Cool Infographics

 
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Reinterpreting Little Red Riding Hood

Posted by Queuebot in Cartoon & Comic, Video Clips on March 25, 2009 at 1:59 pm


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For a school assignment, Tomas Nilsson decided to create this animation of the story of the Little Red Riding Hood, in the style of Röyksopps Remind Me music video.

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The Seed

Posted by Miss Cellania in Video Clips on March 22, 2009 at 11:13 pm


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This video by Johnny Kelly follows the life cycle of a seed, but that simple description doesn’t do justice to this animation. -via Digg

 
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Penguins Travel in Groups

Posted by Miss Cellania in Advertising on March 2, 2009 at 11:17 am


Advertising agency Duval Guillaume produced a cute ad for Belgian bus company De Lijn, emphasizing that it’s safer to travel in groups. Link

 
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Guard Dog

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic, Video Clips on February 19, 2009 at 10:31 pm

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Guard Dog is about a bulldog who takes his duties very seriously. This animated short by Bill Plympton was nominated for an Oscar in 2004. -Thanks, Katherine!

 
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The New Simpsons Intro

Posted by Ali S. in Advertising, Cartoon & Comic, Funny, Video Clips on February 15, 2009 at 5:50 pm


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After almost 19 years of the classic Simpsons introduction scene today the brand new HDTV intro with brand new drawings and animation is being heralded across the interwebs. Being a life long fan of The Simpsons TV show this really is quite a breath of fresh air to the tired yet famous intro scene. So far since this post there have been up 521,439 views alone on YouTube since February 13th.

 
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Sebastian's Voodoo

Posted by Miss Cellania in Cartoon & Comic on February 13, 2009 at 11:41 am


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A brave little voodoo finds a way to save the day in this award-winning short from Joaquin Baldwin. See more of the winners of Aniboom’s annual competition. Link -via I Am Bored

 
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Yellow Sticky Notes

Posted by Queuebot in Video Clips on February 6, 2009 at 3:46 pm


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A video from animator Jeff Chiba Sterns that documents the past nine years of his life, along with other world events, drawn on nothing but yellow sticky notes.





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A Condensed History of Stop-Motion Animation

Posted by Queuebot in Media on February 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm

With "Nightmare Before Christmas" director Henry Selick’s new film Coraline opening this weekend, SlashFilm’s Kevin Kelly atkes a retrospective look back at the history of stop-motion animation, a discipline that still requires delicate hands-on precision to make the scenes come to life, one frame at a time. In an era of CG effects, this analog realism is a breath of fresh air.

These films started appearing more and more frequently because in 1897 an art teacher in the UK had invented plasticine: a non-drying clay that was easily malleable and would retain its shape well. Since it was easy to sculpt and manipulate, filmmakers soon found themselves using this instead of simply moving objects around and photographing them for their subjects.

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