Animation

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…

DC Comics and Warner Bros have announced a release date for their anticipated animated adaptation of the retro sci-fi comic DC: The New Frontier. Following a world premiere at San Francisco’s Wondercon convention next year, the movie – following the formation of superhero team the Justice League in response to an alien threat in 1950s…

A Planet of Cute, Human-Hating Aliens

New Line Cinema announced today that it will be distributing Planet 51, Europe’s biggest CGI film ever, in 2009. The $60 million dollar film features astronaut Captain Chuck Baker landing on a planet filled with 1950s-era aliens who live in complete fear of aliens, namely Chuck himself. Gallery of cute aliens after the jump. This…

“Ben 10” Draws Record Numbers For Cartoon Network

The Cartoon Network had its biggest ratings in the channel’s history last week when it aired the live-action Ben 10: Race Against Time made for television movie. The show, about a 10-year-old kid who can transform into 10 different aliens using a device called the Omnitrix, pulled in almost four million viewers. It dominated both…

Astro Boy Will Be “Dark Pinocchio” Story Of Robot Violence

The animated Astro Boy movie, due out in 2009, will be a gorgeous and painterly homage to Hiyao Miyazaki and early George Lucas, director Colin Brady tells FirstShowing.net. This “dark Pinocchio” story (about a robot who can never become human) will feature hardcore robot-on-robot violence. And judging from the first concept art, it’ll be gorgeous.…

Must See: Futurama

Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn’t be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That’s why we’ve rated them 1-5 on the patented “crunchy goodness” scale. Must see by Sherilyn Connelly. Title: Futurama Date: 1999-2003 Vitals: A dimwitted pizza delivery boy is accidentally frozen in 1999 and reawakens in 2999, where he…

Michael Gondry’s New Flick About How His Son Is A Galactic Dictator

Michael Gondry, who directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the futuristic flick about consumer tech for selective memory editing (see clip), says he’s set to direct an animated scifi feature with his 16-year-old son. It will be a space opera about a dictator and a rebel, which Gondry says is an allegory for their…

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…

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…

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…

The Jetsons “A Date With Jet Screamer” (1962)

The Jetsons episode A Date With Jet Screamer originally aired September 30, 1962 as the second Jetsons episode ever. Even with flying cars and robot maids the Jetsons still utilize punch card computers to cook their instant meal. The advancements of push-button technology are obviously evident in most Jetsons episodes but it’s funny to think…

Dancing on the Moon (1935)

The 1935 Fleischer Brothers cartoon Dancing on the Moon gave audiences a peek at the wondrous age of space travel, still decades from becoming a reality. It is difficult to imagine the world of 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, watching a cartoon like Dancing on the Moon with such optimism. I picture…

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. Now that’s one remarkable piece of artwork—showing…

All’s Fair at the Fair (1938)

The world presented in the 1938 cartoon All’s Fair at the Fair is one of automation and robots. We see the World’s Fair through the eyes of an adoring couple, impressed by the promises of the future. The future is full of robots, specializing in cutting hair, shaving, teaching humans to dance, and otherwise perfecting…

The Simpsons go to EPCOT

Fans of Disney’s Epcot, (the theme park formerly known as EPCOT Center), seem to fall into three categories: 1. Angry 2. Bored 3. Nostalgic There are a number of websites devoted to EPCOT that critique the theme park and Disney management for letting it become the laughstock it now seems to be. (For the Simpsons’s…

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…

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.” NVIDIA says the…

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. Most only have a…

Cool Ad: The Street is His Turntable

Here’s an ad for DJ equipment maker Eclectic Breaks for its Pro-X-Fade crossfader. It’s a clever animation that has a pencil-armed DJ manipulating a miniature world from his god-like perch, spinning cars as if they were vinyl, with the street being his turntable and passers-by standing in as the crossover. Nice piece of production work,…