Jamie Stone and Anders Jendenfors made this brilliant ‘washing powder’ animation about a kid named John who has lots of thoughts about Mars and man’s destiny in space. Beautiful and just hilarious.
Category Archives: Animation
Animation: The Story of the Book
One of the submitters to my Vimeo short films group, Robert Lyons, sent this short French stop-motion film in. He worked as the directory of photography on it. The director was Delphine Burros. It’s about a librarian who opens a magical and evil book.
Gulp: World’s Largest Stop-Motion Animation
Gulp is a stop-motion film created by animators at Aardman. It was shot entirely on a Nokia N8 camera and has the distinction of having used the largest set for a stop-motion film in the world. A beach!
Star Trek – Infinite Space: Free Browser Game Preview
This looks pretty good. There’s a new free browser game called ‘Star Trek – Infinite Space‘ coming this summer. You of course get to command either a Star Fleet or a Klingon ship. The explosions look impressive, as do the starships in this little preview.
In My Merry Oldsmobile: 1932 Fleischer Advertising Cartoon
A 1932 cartoon advertisement for Oldsmobile by the Fleischer studio. Via Hidden Los Angeles.
Animation: Bad News – A Media Fiction
Here’s a wonderful animation that takes us inside a newspaper’s world of print and ink. Chaos ensues as the world waits on the edge of disaster. Words become danger and begin to fail as the stories get worse. The film was directed by Bastian Böhm and Nico Uthe from their own story.