Every year, hundreds of millions of suckers people desperately spend billions of dollars trying to lose weight. We put ourselves through 2 minute exercise routines, start crash-diets, and try some of the most inane ways to melt away the pounds we have piled upon. Animator Dave Carter’s short is an exaggerated, tongue-in-cheek look at the various ways people could possibly lose weight in under 60 seconds.
Dave says that this is his first clay animation, and adds that this will be (probably) the only time he will “use a hairdryer for 14 hours straight.” The short won the best minute film award at the 2010 Animation Block Party in NYC, and has also been screened at many film festivals.
Note: Be warned that the video is somewhat risqué due to some scenes with poop and drug references.
Link to Dave Carter’s site.
In this animated film by Bird Box Studio, a pair of wildebeest come to find out that both reason as well as intuition can be double edged swords.
Link to the video on Youtube.
French animator Kadavre Exquis’ (previously) latest animation is a mind-melting exploration of various facets of retro technology, sounds and music. The film is spliced together with lo-fi animation taken from the ’80s, old thriller film titles, and experimental films.
If you liked the electro-pop soundtrack accompanying the short, you will be interested to know that the artist has released a small soundtrack of jingles, which he composed over the past few months.
Link to ‘What is Dead May Never Die’ on Vimeo.
A stop-motion animation music video by Jesse Mann, which he created for hip-hop/electronic band Union’s “Wings (feat. Elzhi)” track.
Link to the video on Youtube.
A fantastic animated homage to the original Star Trek series, by The Quintek Group.
Link to the video on Vimeo.
“PCKTKNFE” is five and a half minutes of pure geeky entertainment. A great blend of animation and live action, the music video was created by artist James Dunhour and musician Robert Kinsella. The duo intended the video as a homage to video games, comic books (among many other nerdy things).
The stop-motion video was a six month labor of love for the twosome, with James bringing in his years of experience in building bead sprites, and Robert’s original chiptunes track providing the perfect foil for the animation.
Don’t stop watching the video when the credits roll, as there is a bonus clip at the end.
Link to the video on Youtube.
French animator Kadavre Exquis’ short film “Childhood of a Circle” is one of the most gorgeous pieces of animation I’ve watched this year. The short film tell the tale of Archibald, a lonely bear like creature whose life is suddenly changed by the arrival of a mysterious circle.
The animated film’s lush visuals, soothing background score and an evocative voiceover is a loving homage to classic European cartoons, that some of us were lucky enough to be exposed to in childhood. The OST of the film was composed by Kadavre Exquis himself, with John Kassab, the multi-award winning sound designer from Australia, taking care of sound design.
You can watch the film after the jump.
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I just loved this music video for Gotye’s “Easy Way Out.” The stop-motion animated video was created over a period of 9 months by Oh Yeah Wow, a production studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
The film’s surreal, but evocative visuals were created to tie in effortlessly with the thematic premise of the song – the mind-numbing and depressive elements of doing the same things, day in and day out.
Hit the jump to watch the music video.
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Skip is a charming little animated film, whose two central characters unwittingly traverse through time and movie genres, only to finally end up falling in love with each other.
Created in the old school style of animation by Sarah Jolley, a student of the Vancouver Film School, the film is refreshingly different change from the current crop of animated films made using excessive CGI.
[via Neatorama]
Tiny, but filled with soul!
Watch “Tiny Story” from Sebas & Clim on Vimeo.
