Big Bird – a young male pelican who arrived at Greystoke Mahale resort in Tanzania injured and separated from his flock.
For four months, staff nursed him back to health until the day he finally took flight again with a GoPro minicam attached to the end of his beak.
Our favourite bizarrozoologist talks about trust, assisted by the onscreen gymnastics of praeternaturally ripped Cirque du Soleil performers Alya Titarenko and Gael Ouisse.
The Bottle Boys hoot and toot their way through an old (and slightly newer) school medley including Pong, Pac Man, Tetris, Mario, Zelda, Sonic, Pokemon, World of Warcraft and Angry Birds.
Damn pitch perfect retro skiffle hipsters.
https://vimeo.com/67200324
An After Effects tribute to the opening titles of Game of Thrones – nifty motion design by animation student Mathilde Loubes.
Overstepping Artifacts – a fractalised ambient/drone/experimental music video from French animator Alexandre ‘Ricardo Montalban’ Lehmann.
If you liked it (and haven’t already fallen over sideways) check out his equally psychedelic 2011 video Astroblast.
Full screen, headphones, avoid the brown acid, etc.
Photographer Jan Helmer Olsen’s mesmeric aerial drone footage of reindeer being herded at Kautokeino in Norway.
Raf Ramakers – a team of digital media designers from Hasselt University in Belgium are investigating the possibility of applying the compact folding mechanisms of three dimensional puzzles to create mobile touch screen devices capable of physically transforming from phones to tablets and games controllers.
Paddle is an illustrative demo of the concept.
Narrowly missing out on a Best Animation BAFTA this week, Ainslie Henderson’s excellent stop-motion short (and University of Edinburgh graduation film) tells the story of a nervous amateur as he takes to the stage on open mic night at the Egg and Sparrow pub.
Making of featurette here.
