A dystopian short by Robert Findlay featuring a hungry man in a world where people live underground and are serviced by smiley-faced, urinal-shaped, floating robots.
Sure it’s ahead of us all.
Category Archives: Animation
The adventures of five green men on a rather superbly flexible dandy horse of the mind, created by Cool3DWorld.
A new animated video essay from The School Of Life. To wit:
Many of us lead lives that are harder than they should be because we haven’t realised a basic thing about ourselves: that we are introverts. We therefore keep driving ourselves into situations and challenges that should best be avoided and neglect our distinctive style of being content. We should dare to learn whether we belong in the introverted camp.
Previously: No One Will Ever Love You Like Your Mother
A nutty Adult Swim Smalls short by Robert Bohn wherein a crustacean seeks help to avoid drying out at a grocery store.
A nutty, glitchy short created in Adobe Animate and After Effects by UK-based animator Dan Britt for Adult Swim in which Richard, his identical twin Graham and a spaceman ‘from the planet Space’ experiment with friendship art and mortality.
Another thought-provoking video essay from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt. To wit:
Humans are proud of a lot of things, from particle accelerators, to poetry to pokemon. All of them made possible because of something humans value extremely highly: intelligence.
Previously: Climate Change: Who’s To Blame?
A delightful, if heartrending stop motion short (eight years in the making) by Suresh Eriyat about mistakes and forgiveness wherein a young girl attempts to redeem the accidental breakage of a family heirloom by selling baskets on the streets of Mumbai.
Making of… featurette here.
Clue: it’s probably not the one you’re thinking of.
YouTube brain-box CGP Grey messes with the classic visualisation of our solar system enshrined on classroom walls around the planet.
A tongue in cheek short about early learning toys by NY animation studio Bullpen. To wit:
…the games we design and give our children. It’s all fun & games. Until it isn’t..
An increasingly chilling time-lapse visualisation of every COVID-19 death worldwide from January to June 2020 (Inspired by Isao Hashimoto’s “A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945”) created by James Beckwith, who admits a follow up may be necessary. To wit:
Each country is represented by a tone and an expanding blip on the map when a death from Covid-19 is recorded. Each day is 4 seconds long, and at the top of the screen is the date and a counter showing the total numbers of deaths. Every country that has had a fatality is included.
Needless to say, the cacophony builds relentlessly.