One Minute Puberty
March 21st, 2011
One Minute Puberty. (Potentially NSFW.)
[Via Etre, via currybetdotnet]
If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
February 22nd, 2011
This Star Size Comparison is, essentially, a YouTube version of the Total Perspective Vortex.
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Scale
January 30th, 2011
Scale shows how the night sky would look if the Moon was replaced by various other planetary bodies.
I'm a little disappointed we don't get to see Saturn1 close up, but it's still a neat concept, well executed.
[Via Wis[s]e Words]
- By which I mostly mean Saturn's rings, obviously. ↩
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A rant, animated
January 12th, 2011
Dot Dot Dot – Animated. Highly entertaining.
[Via James Nicoll]
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4/11 – must do better
December 30th, 2010
The Beauty of Pixar: a mashup of scenes from Pixar's films, complete with appropriate musical accompaniment. Nice work – though if it were me, I don't think I'd have inserted the clips from The Shining and Goodfellas.1
On a personal note, can I just observe that when I read the list of sources used in making that mashup I realised that I've only seen four Pixar films. Four2 out of eleven: that's a really pathetic score, isn't it?
Pardon me, I just need to go and surrender my geek credentials until I've done some homework…
[Via kottke.org]
- I see why they made sense in context, but to my mind their presence mostly detracted from the spectacle of all those perfect pixels. ↩
- Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Though I do have Toy Story 2 on the DVR, waiting for me to get round to it. As it has been since … [checks timestamp on recording ] … July 2010. ↩
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Curvaceous
July 3rd, 2010
My first thought upon seeing these photos of a restored 1948 Buick Streamliner was – and I mean this as the highest of compliments – that it looks as if it was rendered by Pixar, most likely for The Incredibles.
Can't you just see the Streamliner as Bob Parr's Batmobile?
[Via Monoscope]
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Animator vs. Animation
April 10th, 2010
I could have sworn that I linked to Alan Becker's Animator vs. Animation years ago, but I can't find a trace of it and it's definitely worth seeing, so here it is (again?)
[Via Leedsboy, posting at Word Magazine Blog]
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One step at a time
September 1st, 2009
Evolving a better mousetrap, one step at a time.
[Via Kevan Davis]
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Noteboek
April 26th, 2009
Evelien Lohbeck's short animated film Noteboek is well worth a look.
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Clay chess
December 28th, 2008
I do like this chess stop motion film.
If chess games had looked more like that when I was a kid perhaps I'd have got interested and stuck with it.
[Via Betsy Devine]
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A Matter of Loaf and Death
November 20th, 2008
Well, that's the Xmas TV sorted. Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death Comes to BBC One This Christmas:
[Viewers...] will catch up with Wallace and Gromit who have opened a new bakery – Top Bun – and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer is targeting all the bakers in town so competition is drying up. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims but Wallace couldn't care – he's fallen head over heels in love with Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. So Gromit is left to run things on his own when he'd much rather be getting better acquainted with Piella's lovely pet poodle Fluffles.
[Via kottke.org]
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Johnny Crash
April 27th, 2008
Meet Johnny Crash.
A crash test dummy is tired of his job and secretly wants to be a great magician. So he quits his job and decides to realise his dream.
A very stylish animation.
[Via VideoSift]