Hasta La Gadget!

Okay arcade fans, prepare to have your mind blown. This stop-motion animation made from Post-It notes looks like real arcade game footage. It is completely amazing and has me nerding out. All of your favorites are represented. Well, not all, but several classic games are well represented.

It features Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Zelda and more. What you’re about to watch is 5,722 individual still frame images lovingly converted into an animation.

This feat was accomplished by Michael Birkin, who has a lot of free time and an amazing talent. Michael says it took him all of his weekends and holidays for the last 11 months to complete using 4800 Post-its and traditional stop-motion techniques. And while it’s possible it could have been computer animated (due to the barely-changing shadows and reflections), it’s still the coolest thing you will see all day.

And if Michael isn’t an awesome stop-motion animator, he’s an awesome computer animator. Either way, it’s a win.

[via Obvious Winner]

Doctor Who has been around for half a century now. And many of the earliest episodes were lost or destroyed early in its history. The fourth episode of “The Tenth Planet,” a story featuring the first regeneration to the second Doctor, was lost in the 1970s. All that was left was a short clip of the regeneration. Now technology saves the day.

To the delight of fans everywhere, Planet 55 Studios is re-creating the lost episode in an animated format. They have been working on it for two years, and now they have released the first clip. In it you can see the regeneration scene and it looks pretty great.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see more.

[via io9 via Nerd Approved]

After spending roughly $2.5 billion to build the Curiosity rover and deliver it to Mars, there’s no way NASA would let something as trivial as a mechanical breakdown or software glitch stop its journey—not when we could just send up a repair-bot to fix it. Nicolas Hommel and Matthieu Findinier produced this bubbly animated short positing what it would take to get the mechanical Magellan of Mars back on its feet, er wheels. More »

For the terminally impatient or those just short of time, here’s everything that happens in The Matrix crammed into just 60 seconds of animation. More »

Created by Czech designer Lukas Vojir, this animation is a retro-futuristic short commercial for a make believe life on Mars. The style of the animation is wonderful, I just love how everything unfolds on the geometrically shaped red planet, and the world is imaginative and perfectly rooted in our past thought of what the future would look like. [Lukas Vojir via Laughing Squid] More »