Actually a (brilliantly) poorly-animated and appropriately unhinged video by Australian artist Isaac Moore illustrating the epic 8-minute proposed plot synopsis of the next Star Wars movie offered last month by Parks and Recreation actor Patton Oswalt.
(Top: a earlier tribute by Jef Castro)
An all-new speedrun classic from 1A4 Studio.
Previously: Star Wars, The Matrix and Back To The Future
Of this charming short, director Tom Jobbins sez:
In 1977 NASA sent a Golden Record into space. It encapsulated thegreatest achievements of humanity, and included photographs of its species. One of these photos is of Larry, he hopes this will propel him to the status of Earth Ambassador. This is Larry’s intergalactic story of life and love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ihbslUc0Y
Including twenty two properties from the Land of Ooo to battle over as Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess, Tree Trunks or the Ice King’s crown.
Want, man.
£29.45 on Amazon.
Here Is Today is a visualisation that places ‘today’ in the context of this month, this year, this century and so on until you feel very, very small and insignificant indeed.
Get your chronological context on here.
A masters thesis animation made by Daniel Sierra at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sierra describes the calming, mesmeric piece as an attempt:
…to visualize waveform patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerizing audio-visual experience in which sight and sound work in unison.
Additionally this was an opportunity for me to create a song and visualize it at the same time. Being interested in the aesthetics of linking sound and visuals, this was a very exciting project for me. It gave me the chance to experience the process of creating music and visuals simultaneously as they both influence each other. At the same time I learned a lot about simulation effects, particles and procedural animation. The animation was done purely in Houdini, using Houdini’s VEX language to create the tool that could generate and animate waveforms. The music was made in Reason.
Full screen HD for best effect.
Egregia cum laude.
Two incredible hand-drawn animations by Jake Fried, who uses one sheet of paper per animation, layering Tippex, paint, ink and coffee to create the fleeting details of changing scenes.
By the final frame, each sheet of paper is covered with a layer of mixed material, inches thick.
Cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening lost his mother last month.
You’ll already be familiar with many of the names mentioned in her obituary.
