Paper vs. Paper

As far back as I can remember, my favorite form of animation has been stop motion. I used to spend hours making clay dinosaurs in the hopes that, one day, I too could become a create of stop animated shorts (if only on the side).

Sadly, aside from a rather bad movie I made in the 5th grade, I never did follow through on that dream. Be that as it may, I remain appreciative of the talent it takes to create such works.

Unstructured Bendito Machine

Bendito Machine is an animated story with a moral. What, precisely, that moral is, I'm not sure. It may be a simple tale of how greed corrupts and destroys, it may be a cautionary tale about the reliance on technology, or perhaps a story about the futility of conflict and nationalism, or maybe even something to do with religion.

Regardless, the iconic animation is beautiful and the story is intriguing even if the precise message is a bit equivocal.

Be warned: this one's a bandwidth buster.

Unstructured Showdown

If you've ever been a teenage boy, you've doubtless pondered the sort of question where you ask who would win, Superman vs. Hulk, or Batman vs. Spiderman, or Optimus Prime vs. the big robot from Voltron (and so forth and so on).

The Ultimate Showdown is a flash animation, set to a very catchy song, that takes that line of thought to its ultimate conclusion.

The "History" of Science

A rather snarky "history" of science.

Unstructured Choo-Choo

This is from a surreal CGI animation that was done as part of a senior thesis.

Unstructured Dazzle

Light art, created by long exposures and a bright, moving "pen", is cool enough but animating it increases the magnitude of the cool by a factor of "wow".

Trapped in a Drive Thru

The concert was great.

In case you're in need of an Al fix, here's the video of Trapped in a Drive Thru which is, of course, the parody of R. Kelly's Trapped in a Closet.

Son of Al

I'm going to see "Weird" Al Yankovich tonight at the Coor's Amphitheater. In honor of the occasion, here's an animated interview that he did for Doogtoons where he explains how popular it was to be a Spelling Bee Winning / Accordion-playing prodigy.

Fight, fight!

It would seem that little stick dudes fighting is now, officially, a genre.

Unstructured Dream

What you see here is a frame from a rather serene and meditative flash animation called Dream. Please enjoy.

Egg

Today's fun is a clever bit of interactive flash animation called, simply, Egg from the talented group at www.vectorpark.com. Egg starts out as a rolling egg that follows your cursor around. As time progress, the egg goes through an immense number of clever permutations.

Be sure to set aside some time before you take a look at this. It's both time consuming and mesmerizing.