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03.29.08 by Widge @ 8:17 pm Ah, Aardman. How we love ya. We know you best as the creator of fun stuff like Wallace and Gromit. And Creature Comforts. And Chicken Run. But you have a dark side to you, it seems, that we rather enjoy as well. NSFW for animated bums. I'm speaking anatomically here. Direct link for the feedreaders. Categorized as: Animation
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03.29.08 by Widge @ 12:32 am It's apparently stop motion animation night here at the TechnoCave. Cabinet of Wonders posted some info on a cool-looking animated short called "The Animal Book" by Second Home Productions. You can read about it here, and see the trailer below: It's sort of like what would happen if you threw Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman and one of my favorite shorts, "More," into a blender. Categorized as: Animation
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03.28.08 by Widge @ 11:35 pm We've recently seen the Tron lightcycle sequence recreated with actual bikes. Now see it done with stop motion and cardboard. Bonus points for the making-of bits at the end. Categorized as: Animation
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03.17.08 by Widge @ 12:15 am Saturday Morning Blog knew very little about these Ford commercials starring Dr. Seuss characters. I know even less. But I do concur that they are rather interesting. At least they didn't do "Horton Hears a Rattle in His Ford Engine." Although that might have been even more interesting. Who knows? Categorized as: Animation
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03.14.08 by Widge @ 4:15 am  A piece of pottery has been revealed to exhibit the world's oldest known instance of animation: a cavorting goat. (Follow the link to see an animated image of the goat in action.) A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt City in the 1970s features a series of five images that researchers have only recently identified as being sequential, much like those in a zoetrope. Giving the bowl a spin, one would see a goat leaping to snatch leaves from a tree... Just like ArchaeoBlog (where we found this article), we count nine images. But it must be that New Math we keep hearing about. In a further comment, researchers have also proven scientifically that this piece of pottery is a better piece of animation than all the Disney cheapquels put together. "Give me a few seconds of a leaping goat over the whole of Bambi 2 any day of the week, pal," one remarked. Categorized as: Animation
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