Category Archives: Animation

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Love, hate, extraterrestrials, the opening lines of Like A Prayer by Madonna and a tale told in reverse – an imaginative Galway Film Fleadh 2013 winning short by IADT student Rory Kerr.

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A 2008 Oscar-nommed short directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes, recently released in its full format online and featuring the misadventures of a pair of dour unfortunates attempting to deliver a coffin to a graveyard.

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Russian animator Alexey Zakharov shows how he composited his incredibly detailed 3D ‘fanimation’ of the Futurama opening sequence.

Yes, that’s Meryl Streep as Mom…

Previously: Futurama In 3D

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Vintage photos deftly remixed (Terry Gillam style, but no less worthy for that) into hilarious gifs by Brooklyn artist and animator Cari Vander Yacht, who acquires the random shots in thrift shops, then scans and converts them. Sez she:

At a certain point, one must justify their creepy acquisition of other people’s pasts. Either you make up stories about how you’re related to the people in the pictures or you animate them.

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Redditor (and Adventure Time fan) reallylovely spotted an antique chair at an auction and instantly saw the Finnish pareidolia.

$20, a little sanding and some deftly applied paintwork later, a masterpiece was born.

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