Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Kiwi!

"Kiwi!" is an animation created in 2006 by then New York City School of Visual Arts student Dony Permedi for his Master's thesis.

It is an internet classic with more than 36 million views on Youtube.

Definitely worth the watch (it may not be in HD, but it has substance).



Kiwi from Dony Permedi on Vimeo.


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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Johnny Express

So many short animations out there, produced as projects by art students or by small studios in order to showcase their work. Many times they are graphically beautiful, but the script is below par. Other times the exact opposite happens.

As a result, I don't often post short animations, but when I do, it's because... they're good.




JohnnyExpress from AlfredImageworks on Vimeo.


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Monday, November 18, 2013

Pinky and the Brain Tongue Twister

I remember seeing this as a kid, when it first came out in the early 90s.

Brilliant.





[Transcript]

0:00-1:11


KS: I am honoured by your visit.  Let me show you our assembly line.
First, sheets of sheer synthetic sheepskin are slit into several Kicky-Sack shoe shapes in 
shapely shoe sizes by six sitting sheet slitters.  

B: I only see five sitting sheet slitters. 

KS: The sixth sitting sheet slitter's sick.  His son Sammy's subbing 'til the sick sixth sitting
sheet slitter's back, sitting pretty.

P: You're not the sheet slitter?

S: No, I'm the sheet slitter's son.  

P:  Well.... You keep on slitting sheets until the sheet slitter comes. Haheheheh!  Whooohaaah.
  
 [View of a machine labelled "Sheet Slitter Shoe Shaper".]
  
KS: The Shoe Shaper then shapes the slit synthetic sheepskin sheets,
and shoots out shoes through the chute.

KS: Now, this is Mr. Plunkett, the new khaki sock plucker.  (I had to fire our previous sock plucker.
He had a bit of an attitude.)

B:  So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker?

KS:  The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet
slitter got sick.
  
[Lights dim. Machine whirs and slows down.]
  
KS: Whoops!  Don't worry; just an electrical problem.  One of the Kicky-Sack sack pickers will have
to flick the plug.  

P: Not the khaki sock plucker?

KS: Oh, my, no!  The Kicky-Sack sack pickers flick the plug. The khaki sock plucker can't reach
the socket over the latex child perambulator fenders we use to line the treadmill.

B: It might make more sense to have the sixth sitting sheet slitter's son flick the plug, if the sack
pickers and the sock pluckers are behind the rubber baby buggy bumpers.
  
[Sammy flicks the plug.  Everything whirs back up.]
 
KS: I never thought of that! 


1:11-1:41
 
B: Now, Pinky, here is the plan.  Remember, every step must be performed with precision!
 
You must slit the sixth sick sheet slitter's son's sheet, secure it next to the toy boat from 
the Hackensack Socko Kicky-Sack Sack Kickers' picnic in Secaucus, stretch it past 
the sack pickers' station and the sock plucker's chute, and pick a sack, pluck a sock, 
and flick the plug,so I can put the pea in the plucked sock with the picked sack for ballast 
and bounce it off the rubber baby buggy bumper, into the Parker Packard purple pewter pressure pump. 
 
Is that understood?

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Logorama

I hope this isn't a repost.
Google assures me that the word "Logorama" has never been mentioned in this blog. Until now.
I first saw this in 2009, but I have no idea why I didn't post it back then.

From Wikipedia:

"Logorama is a 16-minute French animated film written and directed by H5/François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain, and produced by Autour de Minuit. The film depicts events in a stylized Los Angeles, and is told entirely through the use of more than 2,500 contemporary and historical logos and mascots. The film won the Prix Kodak at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards."

Enjoy!

Caution! Some language and violence. This isn't your average kids cartoon.



Logorama from Human Music & Sound Design on Vimeo.


Absolutely brilliant!
It deserves to get the HD treatment at some point.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Fresh Guacomole (Animated Short by PES)

"Fresh Guacamole" by PES was nominated in the "Best Animated Short Film" category at the 2013 Academy Awards. 





We've seen work by PES in this blog before.

Friday, March 29, 2013

"Clever Girl"

Straight out of the Jurassic Park archives, but nicely done.



What? No juggling?

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Friday, August 24, 2012

Vaesen

A prince sets off on a journey to save his dying father, driven by his fear of failing him.

Nice animated short film from Denmark with Pink Floydesque music.




(from one of the Youtube commenters:

"Vaesen/Väsen/Vesen (Danish/Swedish/Norwegian respectively) means a being, or entity")

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Intro (Made With Stop-Motion Animation)

A fantastic piece of work that took 6 months to create.




UPDATE: Unfortunately the sound has been muted by Youtube due to a copyright claim because, apparently, George Lucas (or is it Disney) is not rich enough yet. Greedy b******s.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Maestro

Hungarian animation nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.