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 June 1st, 2009 | Category: animation, movies
Carl Fredricksen, an elderly man with a floating house traverses through an undiscovered world of flora and fauna, accompanied by a young asian cubscout, a technologically enhanced golden retriever, and exotically strange bird….and, it’s completely acceptable because of solid personality and character development.
I just saw UP with my wife over the weekend. This has [...]
 January 31st, 2009 | Category: animation, politics / economics
The concept is direct and communicated in a creative way.
The animation speaks for itself very well.
Paris VFX and 3D animation studio Space Patrol handled the production of this 3D clip for French NGO Pain without Borders/ Douleurs sans frontières with the goal of increasing public awareness to pain in its various forms and drive enough [...]
 November 15th, 2008 | Category: animation
A twisted vision of consumption ascending a fictional chain of steam-punk creatures. Wir hassen teuer. (We hate expensive)
 October 8th, 2008 | Category: animation, music, television
First Aired: 1973
Lyrics & Music: Bob Dorough
Performed by: Jack Sheldon
Designed by: Tom Yohe and Bill Peckmann
Animation by: Phil Kimmelman and Associates
Fun Fact: Conjunction Junction was recorded on the same day as I’m Just a Bill, with the same band. Jazz singer Terry Morel sings the chorus.
Lyrics:
Conjunction Junction, what’s [...]
 July 17th, 2008 | Category: animation
Hahahaha. I found this my friend Alex’s blog. This is so weird and quirky. I could imagine a whole series of animated shorts done in this style. I hope to see more of these in the future.
 June 11th, 2008 | Category: animation, movies
This is one movie that I’ve been very excited to see since glancing at the maquettes last year at comicon. The character designs and poses were so dynamic! I am a kung fu classics movie junkie, so I was hoping they’d do some kind of justice or homage to the genre. After seeing [...]
 April 24th, 2008 | Category: animal kingdom, animation
Who can forget the brilliant and hilarious creature comforts created by the good folks at Aardman Animation?
The great news for all who enjoy anthropomorphic animals pining about politics, social matters, and annoying neighbors are all new episodes on animal planet.
Creature Comforts finds a new home on Animal Planet this week, with episode double-bills premiering on [...]
 April 14th, 2008 | Category: animation, music
What a great video that poses interesting questions that are relevant to our times and the cyclical nature of civilization. History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
When speaking about the song, Eddie Vedder stated, “That song is all about someone who’s drunk with technology, who thinks they’re the controlling living being on this planet. [...]
 April 4th, 2008 | Category: animation, music
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational Adventures in Music animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters by Disney’s Buena Vista Distribution on November 10, 1953. A sequel to the first Adventures in Music cartoon, the 3-D short Melody, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation [...]
 April 1st, 2008 | Category: animation, movies
This past weekend I was finally able to check out the latest release from the Appleseed franchise. In this newly released DVD, we have Shinji Aramaki reprising his role as director with the bad-ass John Woo who was brought in specifically to advise on story and action sequences. It is an interesting [...]
 March 24th, 2008 | Category: animation, personal
A group of friends and I have been talking about the economy for years. One thing that we agree on is being prepared for long-term situations, especially those of us that are married, have families, or responsible for other family members. What is ironic is finding this piece of animation today after reading [...]
 March 2nd, 2008 | Category: animation
The Wheel is a German animation short about the evolution of mankind through the vision of…..two rocks. The 2003 Academy Award nominee for best animated short film.
 February 28th, 2008 | Category: animation
My friend Alex posted this on his blog. This is an amazing piece of animation. I really enjoy the design and style of timing that was used for this project. Fantastic! It was originally made in french. If you want to see the english version go here.
 February 26th, 2008 | Category: animation
Hey so I guess I can talk about this now, since they’ve announced it on Vinylpulse. Thanks Jack.
Dr. Seuss mesmerized generations (and continues to do so) of children with numerous books filled with his unique drawings and memorable rhymes. Horton Hears a Who!, one of his most popular titles, tells the [...]
 February 9th, 2008 | Category: animation
This is from an animation project. My idea was that there would be this sound machine that would react to certain parts of a song. I was listening to a lot of Coldcut’s music, and was inspired by their videos where they edited visual elements to sound cues. Each element of the [...]
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