This wonderful animation tells the classic story of The Old Man and the Sea. Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov created this paint-on-glass animated short film in 1999, and received several awards and accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000.
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A survival guide for the zombies, by the zombies
There are tons of things and guides for humans to do during the zombie apocalypse, but unfortunately, not much is available for zombies in the way of guidance. When the zombie apocalypse happens, there will undoubtedly be a shit lot of people without the faintest idea of what they’re supposed to do. This video by …
Frankfurt Airport is Really an Imperial Starport
Not often does our world throw up such coolness as starships circling airports. Actually, it never really does that, but that doesn’t mean we can’t imagine. Since Star Wars Episode VII is in the works, you can expect a lot of things related to the movie making rounds. In that vein, checkout this sweet video that shows the Frankfurt Airport transformed into an Imperial Starport.
Stop Motion Animation Music Video from James
Music video for Moving On by James is a wonderful stop-motion video from BAFTA-nominated animator, writer, and director Ainslie Henderson. The video depicts the story of life and death, told with characters made of yellow yarn. Via Colossal
Impressively Detailed Animation Is Just 64 kilobytes
When it comes to detailed animation, we expect it to occupy a good amount of storage. Generally speaking, that rule holds true for most circumstances, and so it is quite a pleasant surprise to realize someone made an animation as detailed as this, using only a fraction of storage that would be expected; or to be exact, it only requires an extremely low 64 kilobytes.
Awesome Flipbook Animations Made From Recycled Bike Parts
Flipbooks by artist Juan Fontanive are incredible, not only are the animations beautiful, but the underlying mechanism is pretty darn sweet. The artist makes these mechanisms by recycling and repurposing parts from old bicycles and clocks. Then comes along the process of hand drawing, painting, and screen printing the images. Several of these display birds and insects in flight, a subject that goes extremely well with the sound made by the flipbook as pages shuttle.
Dad Animates Son In ‘Dragon Ball’ Theme For His Birthday
A man from Brazil spent six months in animating himself and his son into Dragon Ball for the son’s birthday. The animation replaces Vegeta, Trunks and Gohan with himself and his 9-year-old son. He also got the original Brazilian voice actors of Bulma and Goku into the animation, and to wish his son “Happy Birthday” with the animation. Hit ahead to see the video, it is in Portuguese though.
Golden Age of Insect Aviation
“In 1903, Olivia Wright was the first to pilot the great grasshoppers of North America.”
Golden Age of Insect Aviation: The Great Grasshoppers is a fun 10 second animation by Wayne Unten. He started off with a live action footage of a grasshopper shot with his iPhone, and then animated it into the video we see here.
Superman Versus Goku in Flipbook Animation
In a collision of massively powered heroes, Superman and Goku battle it out in this flipbook animation. There is a winner, although with subjects of different universes like these, it is difficult to entirely agree or disagree with the result. What we can agree with, is that Superman versus Goku would be one epic fight.
Light Goes On: Light Painting in Stop Motion Animation
Photographer Darren Pearson (previously) shot this stop motion animation of a light painted skateboard skeleton over several places in San Diego. We have to appreciate the skills, mixing stop motion animation with light painting is no easy job, hell, they aren’t easy individually either.