Animation

star wars

This is What Happens When You Combine Boba Fett, Flashdance and Fireworks

This is what happens when you mix Boba Fett, Flashdance and fireworks: a brilliant, but somehow disturbing stop-motion animation, that's what. Damn you, Patrick Boivin, for mixing everyone's favorite Star Wars bounty hunter with the movie scene that made me horny for the first time. [Editor's Note: TMI!] On the other side, it could have been a lot worse: More »

10:00 AM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Jesus Diaz
15,023 views, 36 comments

graffiti animation

MUTO is Among the More Astounding Videos We've Seen Online...or Off

Italian artist BLU is famous for painting politically and socially charged street murals, but his recent project involving street animation may be his most visually stunning. Called MUTO, the video is a series of digital stills assembled from sequential paintings on the streets/walls of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's been floating around a bit, but if you haven't seen it, the effect is a sort of living, evolving mural that follows a dramatic, character-drive storyline. And if you watch one thing online today (or tomorrow or the next day), this should be it:

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10:50 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
29,311 views, 61 comments

Latest by leMel: Should be submitted for OSCAR consideration. more »

wall-e

New Wall-E Promotion Posters Invoke 1950s Ad Stylings

Fans of retro-styled poster art and Pixar films can now buy Eric Tan's 1950s throwback WALL-E prints. The WALL-E designs, which include pictures of Wall-E and Eve next to slogans such as “The Future is NOW!” were previously handed out as promotional postcards at the San Diego Comic Con 2007. These new poster-size versions measure 13 inches by 19 inches and cost $165 unframed. More »

2:30 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Elaine Chow
17,760 views, 44 comments

Latest by Jones91: @keene: words that would make Dave Ramsey proud :-) kudos more »

wall-e

Wall-E Movie is Jonathan Ive's Latest Design Job

CNNMoney/Fortune has a story out saying that Eve, the female character to stand opposite Wall-E in the movie of the same name, was designed in part by Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive. The robot design is kinda cool, in that it reminds me of the most recent incarnation of Marvin the Paranoid Android, but the real story to be told is of Ive's day spent with the Pixar guys working on Eve. More »

8:27 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Adrian Covert
26,166 views, 39 comments

Latest by tehronin: + comes bundled with QuickTime! more »

star wars

Leaked Clone Wars Trailer is the New Force Hotness

Feast your eyes—squinting a bit—on the leaked two-minute trailer that was briefly seen in YouTube and then pulled off just to be rescued at the last minute by a Polish Corvette, saved into an astromech droid, launched onto a desert planet, and found by us in a garage sale somewhere in Kraków. Or something like that. The trailer further shows the work of the three hundred 3D animators who have been working on this project at Lucasfilm Animation for the past three years. And except for its lousy quality it, it seems that we are in for a ride (here's hoping Mr. Lucas didn't write the dialog.)

2:40 PM on Sun Apr 13 2008
By Jack Loftus
116,313 views, 89 comments

Latest by n/a: You guys who are critizing this clip are idiots. lol. Look at the ships in the video. They look vastly better than the CN cartoon. I think even the characters look better. Just compare Asajj Ventress in this clip to more »

science

Sewer Gas May Allow For Suspended Animation

Suspended animation — the state that space travelers are always put into in movies so they don't age while traveling for many years — may turn out to actually be possible, and it's a simpler process than you'd expect. Yep, all you need to fall into a deep sleep and not age is a good dose of sewer gas. More »

5:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Adam Frucci
16,956 views, 45 comments

crayon cartoons

Paper Mario Animation, Six Weeks of Work in 60 Seconds

Here's an enormously entertaining little video that took thousands of times longer to make than it does to watch. Created by an animator who calls himself "sketch (537CH)", he says it took six weeks to create this Paper Mario Animation. We like the way he moved the paper cutouts over the crayon-colored backgrounds, resulting in accurate and realistic-looking Mario action. Nice work. [Daily Motion, via CrunchGear] More »

3:30 PM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Charlie White
10,285 views, 32 comments

flash wizardry

Outrageous Rube Goldberg-Style Animation Brings Online Catalog to Life

Is this a shopping site or a Rube Goldberg machine? It's both. Ride along with the rambunctious kitchen items in this brilliant example of Flash programming on a promo site from Dutch retailer Hema. The site loads slowly because there are probably thousands of readers just like you trying to view its hilarious animation, but we've saved you the trouble by recording its crazy sequence for you here. We'd like to see Amazon try something like this. [Hema, via boing boing]

2:15 PM on Tue Nov 6 2007
By Charlie White
14,833 views, 25 comments

Latest by Pixlmonkey: obnoxious as crap. more »

that darn cat

Folded Paper Turns Into Hilarious Animations by Rob Ives

Rob Ives makes it easy to fold up pieces of paper and turn them into animated paper sculptures. His Flying Pig kits require just a bit of folding and a touch of white glue here and there, and suddenly you have yourself a "Cat Walk" model like you see here. Don't like cats? Choose from a menagerie of other $8.95 paper animations depicting animals, jokers, a creepy hand and chickens pecking in a row. There's even a guidebook that'll show you how to create your own paper engineering marvels. In the gallery on the next page, see this kitty in action, and a few more of Ives's unique inventions. More »

12:30 PM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Charlie White
4,948 views, 5 comments

Latest by soundengineer: they sell these at store near my place...look pretty cool! my first take: cute, but great for collecting dust. A pretty safe gift to give to dexterous children...and yeah, the gifs are borked for me too...it's like red webby more »

trailers

Second Wall-E Trailer Hits The Internet

The second trailer for Pixar's Wall-E hit the French video site Allocine late last Friday (it officially came out today at 8 p.m. EDT) and the movie looks like it will be nothing short of awesome. While I could have done without Cars, and thought Finding Nemo was overrated, I absolutely loved Toy Story, Ratatouille and now this trailer. Wall-E revolves around a robot living in a future world who aspires to be more than a lowly worker bot. And he presumably sets out to achieve his dream. What also makes this film interesting is that it will be sans-dialogue according to the director. Robots in the future with a slight avant-garde twist? Consider me excited. [Allocine via Kottke via Daring Fireball]

8:16 PM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Adrian Covert
30,536 views, 54 comments

Latest by n/a: does anyone else wish someone would make a full-length version of Rockfish? [www.atomfilms.com] more »

3d

MotionPortrait Animates Still Photos, Turns On Internet Dating World

MotionPortrait has released a new photo imaging program of the same name that can take a regular 2D picture and transform it into a moving, smiling, talking 3D model. According to the company, a one-gigahertz CPU can handle the 2D-to-3D transformation, which then allows the user to change eye color, hair-style and facial expressions. The CG animation can even be synced with sound to respond to various inputs. More »

9:10 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By ybaranovsky
28,915 views, 20 comments

led screen

World's Biggest Fake Fish Tank

A 250m by 30m LED screen has been installed in the ceiling of a new mall in Beijing. That's an impressive 7,500 square meters of viewable area, and comes with an impressive $32 million price tag to match. It hangs 80 feet in the air, and is actually five screens combined. Check out a video after the jump. More »

6:33 AM on Fri Sep 7 2007
By msparkes
178,333 views, 38 comments

format war

HD DVD Paid $150 million to Studios for "Promotional Consideration"

Paramount and Dreamworks went HD DVD exclusive today. Then, a Hollywood news blog reported that the HD DVD camp paid Paramount $50 million and DreamWorks Animation $100 million for "promotional consideration." We asked Paramount and the HD DVD camp about this, and received a quick albeit vague reply: "Whenever we conduct co-marketing, production deals or other agreements, we never discuss business terms." More »

5:39 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Wilson Rothman
12,838 views, 40 comments

software

Computer-Generated Image Looks Exactly Like a Beautiful Woman

It's hard to believe, but you're looking at computer-generated image of Korean actress Song Hye Kyo, created by Indonesian CG artist Max Edwin Wahyudi. To create this stunning shot, he used a combination of digital sculpting and design application Pixelogic Zbrush and animation modeling software Autodesk 3DS Max. More »

9:39 AM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Charlie White
13,743 views, 67 comments

3d

Adrianne Curry - Full Video This Time

You kids just can't get enough of the Adrianne Curry. So we've got two more video for you regarding the Most Important NVIDIA technology of all time. The first is a demo of the model in full, glorious YouTube compressed detail. The second is newsreportish, but has a nice clip of Adrianne critiquing her digital body. More »

10:40 AM on Sat Dec 30 2006
By Mark Wilson
2,271 views, 11 comments

pcs

Digital Adrianne Curry Smolders Like the Real One

Sure, you can tell which one of the pictures above is the digital Adrianne Curry, America's Next Top Model and all-around smokin' celebrity, but the digital version still manages to raise the gigahertz level a bit. She's teamed up with graphics cardmeister NVIDIA to create "the world's first real-time virtual 3-D celebrity." More »

8:36 AM on Fri Dec 29 2006
By Charlie White
8,949 views, 35 comments

home entertainment

Ray-Tracing to Revolutionize Gaming Graphics?

The quality of gaming graphics is about to take a quantum leap, especially if 26-year-old Daniel Pohl has anything to do with it. He's already knocked the gaming world's socks off with Quake 3 RT, an experimental version of that first-person shooter using ray-tracing, a technique that computes the paths of light rays, adding extraordinary realism to images. More »

10:22 AM on Tue Dec 19 2006
By Charlie White
1,798 views, 38 comments

zune

Zune Arts Zune Animation Home

Much better than a Zune suppository, this repository of Zune animation stems from their comingzune.com teaser site. Apparently after putting up a few videos, Microsoft had so many artists wanting to put their own Zune content online that MS just decided to make another site to dump all these videos on. More »

7:15 PM on Fri Nov 3 2006
By Jason Chen
777 views, 7 comments

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