Animator Bard Edlund visualises the paltry diversity of Oscar winners over the years (including his own advance predictions for 2015). He sez:
A lot of noise has been made about the lack of diversity among nominees for the Oscars this year. This video shows how many black, hispanic, and asian winners there have been throughout history, across four main categories — best actor/actress, supporting actor/actress, writing (original and adapted screenplays), and directing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyG56NN6EEU
Mashed, what produced this, writes:
Do you remember that 90’s sitcom about a shark that was also a sofa?
Of course we do. Why do they never show repeats of that?
A struggling med student gets a zombie flatmate in this graduation film by 3rd year students of the Animation Workshop of Viborg in Denmark.
An excellent addition to the 12 Minutes About Peace WW1 commemoration project by plan78 animation studio in Belgium. To wit:
An exploration of the absurdity of the lines created by human beings called ‘borders’. Two people meet on such a line. One takes this more seriously than the other but, step-by-step, they find a peaceful solution.
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A really very daycent and deftly put together pixelated tribute to the Simpsons’ opening sequence [complete with extended couch reveal] which could so easily be an actual Simpsons opening sequence, but isn’t.
Directed and animated by Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon with music by Jeremy Dower.
The sumptuously animated tale of two friends who embark on a project to build a rickety bridge over a huge chasm. Made by Carl Beauchemin, Thomas Chrétien and David Forest of Lightning Boy Studio in Montreal.
45 minutes at 299,792,458 metres per second by art director and animator Alphonse Swinehart. To wit:
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it’s unfortunately very slow. This animation illustrates, in realtime, the journey of a photon of light emitted from the sun and traveling across a portion of the solar system.
Supercell thunderstorms photoshopped (possibly using witchcraft) into rotation from single photographs (not video) by weather photographer Mike Hollingshead.
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