This music video of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ hit ‘Thrift Shop’ was made in MS Paint. And it takes every single lyric of the song completely literally. So when the song says poppin’ tags, tags will literally be popped. And when the song says this is f*cking awesome? The word ‘this’ will literally be f*cking the word ‘awesome’. It’s freaking brilliant! [Literal MS Paint] More »
Keeping with a proud tradition set forth by films like The Matrix, The Terminator, Godfather, Karate Kid, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the third installment of the Robocop franchise was an unmitigated, series-killing, disaster. It represented the worst of early 90’s action flicks. However, when BenJamin Wigmore compresses it from a 104 minute shit storm down to a mere 2:10, RC3’s actually kind of entertaining. Or at least tolerable. More »
Who’s to say if some methods of animation are better than others, but some are differently rarer. It’s not often you see someone animate in chalk, but that’s exactly what artist Chris Carlson did. And while the results are cool, it certainly wasn’t exactly an efficient method poissible; it took 30 hours of chalkin’ over four days. But the result is pretty sweet. I wish the game I had on my old Nokia brick had looked like that. [YouTube] More »
In a world overrun by bubblegum pop and easy listening, where all hope for head-banging seems lost, there’s only one man that can save us: Captain Metal, the arpeggio-spewing, poser-crushing, Flying V-riding dark lord of Rock. Together with his legion of chicken minions and arsenal of Gibson rockets, Celine Dion doesn’t stand a chance. More »
We’ve come a long way since the days of Cool World and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I mean, just look at last December’s blockbuster, The Hobbit. Peter Jackson’s Weta Studios (the same group that created Looper’s skylines and District 9’s extra terrestrial tech) leverages cutting-edge CGI techniques to meld live action and digital animation so seamlessly you’d swear those giant eagles were real. [/Film] More »
Because Disney, who owns Pixar, now owns Lucasfilms and because they got J.J. Abrams to direct Star Wars even though he’s already directed Star Trek, it’s not out of this world to imagine a Star Trek animated series by Pixar (as incestuous and sacrilegious as that may be). Canadian artist Phil Postma wondered the same and animated the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series. Is it weird that I would want to watch this? More »
Not every Oscar-worthy film is a mammoth, Speilbergian effort. Small stuff’s good too, and what better showcase than the Oscar nominated animated shorts. You’ve probably heard of Paperman, and the animation tech behind it, but another one, Adam and Dog has popped up on YouTube and it’s worth a watch. More »
Who’s to say that hours of bludgeoning Orcs with abandon while expecting the safety of reincarnation at a continue point doesn’t make us just a little more cavalier with our corporeal selves? Animator Doug Hindson explores the effects of blurring of digital and analog realities in Stuck. More »
This animation, called The Future by Alex Goddard, is pretty much perfect. Everything is going to hover. In fact, I won’t believe we’re in the future until more things start hovering. My favorite part of the clever animation was when hoverboards are still only ‘coming soon’. [Alex Goddard Vimeo] More »
Good. Bad. These are relative ideals that depend almost entirely on which end of the gun is facing us. A quartet of French art students—Michaël Balthazart, Clément Granjon, Quentin Sauvinet, and Raphaël Gaudin—collaborated at ArtFX 2012 to explore this concept in Voile Noir, which follows a pair of pilots, Allan and Yvan, as they attempt to deliver a bomb that will single-handedly end the war. More »
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