Going over your mobile data cap limit costs more than a long distance phone call from a hotel room and for what? Crossing some invisible line in the sand drawn by your carrier? That’s some bullsh*t. Brian Boyko explains exactly why data caps don’t so much protect network infrastructure as generate revenue. [Blogphilo] More »
Hand-drawn ink and paper animation is a technology that’s been around for quite some time, and on the whole, most people might even consider it completely out-dated. Animator Jake Fried took the opprotunity to spice it up a little bit with “The Deep End” by adding coffee and white-out to the mix, but only using one [filthy] sheet of paper. On top of the neat process, it’s one hell of a trip. Hold on tight. [Boing Boing] More »
If you have a love of science, particularly physics, you owe it to yourself to hunt down a book or a lecture by Richard Feynman. A brilliant theoretical physicist whose career included work on the original atomic bomb, Feynman eschewed the nerdy scientist stereotype, and nowhere is that more apparent than his musings on a simple flower. More »
Just about every time there’s a wacky current event, you have a weird CGI video to explain it for you from the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation. The clips are in a lightning fast production process, as you see fleshed out in the explainer above. But how do they go from idea to hilarious video? More »
Remember the classic Pixar animated clip, Luxo, Jr.? You know, the one with the pair of articulating Anglepoise lamps playing around, and shown with the Pixar logo at the beginning of their flicks? Well, in the latest occurrence of life imitating art imitating life, some guys have actually built an animatronic lamp that moves around like the one in the movies.
Well, maybe it’s not exactly like the one in the movies – for starters, this lamp is black, and both Luxo, Sr. and Jr. were white. Plus, this lamp is designed to interact with humans, tracking faces and sounds – not bounce around on a little rubber ball. Using custom code, the lamp is able to express a personality in much the same way that the lamps did in the movie.
The robotic lamp, named Pinokio, was created by Victoria University students Shanshan Zhou, Adam Ben-Dror, and Joss Doggett using Processing, Arduino, and OpenCV. If they ever manage to mass-produce these things and then license them through Pixar, they’ll sell millions.
It’s amazing what you can do with cardboard and a whole lot of imagination. Of course, you’d also need to have some skills and prior knowledge in animation in order to pull this of… but still, the whole thing is pretty impressive.
Guys and gals, check out one of Rogier Wieland’s awesomest animations where he transferred video stills onto cardboard cutouts and used his camera (and the cutouts!) to work his magic.
They’ve been around for quite a while, so if you’ve seen them already, I invite you to take a second (or third or fourth) look. Because they’re really that nifty.
And here’s another one:
Weren’t those cool? I wonder how many cutouts it took to make each of those.
[via Colossal Art+Design]
Do you remember the Rapture? Yeah, the idea of people freaking disappearing was so hilariously dumb. It never happened! But if it did, it would totally look like Greg Condon’s ‘drop-motion animation’. Watch him disappear over and over again and just leave behind a pile of clothes. [Vimeo via The Awesomer] More »
Here’s something that will bring a smile to your face. This site takes a still frame from a big-time, multi-million dollar animated movie and tries to replicate it in Maya, the 3D animation software, in under 30 minutes. The results are hilarious. More »
Before there were GIFs there were motion pictures. And before film on reels, these “movies” were made up of actual printed still images that zipped in front of your eyes in rapid succession with the help of machinery. Our friends at Oobject collected a batch of crazy zoetropes and other machines, both and new, that create moving images. No photoshop required. More »
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