In the following clip, Brandon McConnell, a prominent street artist from San Diego, California, who hones his craft while conducting live demonstrations of his work in public, shows his superlative spray-painting talents by producing a work of art — […]
Tag: animation
Matrix-Style Flipbook Animation
The following video, which was a TV advert entitled Flipbook for the LG Viewty mobile phone in South Korea, shows a flipbook animation — a book of pictures creating the illusion of movement when pages are flipped quickly — which is played out in the […]
October Jones’ Doodle Art On Public Transport
Joe Butcher, better known by the pseudonym October Jones, is an animator born and raised in Birmingham, UK. Having developed a keen interest in animation, most notably the cartoon works of Chuck Jones (a much-loved, Academy […]
Deadline: Post-It Stop-Motion Animation
In 2009, Bang-Yao Liu, a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, created a stop-motion animation video, which used only Post-It Notes, for his senior project, the result of which was something of a spectacle, […]
“In The Fall”: Animator Steve Cutts Delivers Yet Another Stark Warning About Finding Yourself Trapped in Mediocrity
In this 2-minute short film entitled “In The Fall”, London-based illustrator and animator Steve Cutts presents the viewer with another dispiriting, disenchanting glance at society, one in which our main character is seemingly engulfed in […]
“Happiness”: Illustrator Steve Cutts Tackles The Rat Race Wherein We Find Ourselves
In Steve Cutts’ own words, Happiness is “the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment”. Be sure not to let the film’s title or his synopsis fool you — animator, illustrator and, […]
“El Empleo”: Surrealist Short Film Zeroes In On People’s Mundane Existence, Might Make You Want To Quit Your Job
Argentinian filmmaker Santiago Grasso’s 2008 short film entitled El Empleo (“The Employment”) is a seven-minute animation which is nothing short of relentless, scathing and brutally honest in its pursuit of highlighting the misery and dullness that engulf […]
Animator Steve Cutts Tackles Smartphone Addiction And The Bleak World In Which We Live (Or Are Going To Live)
In October 2016, acclaimed musician Moby hired London-based animator and illustrator Steve Cutts to produce the music video for his song entitled Are You Lost In The World Like Me? Inspired by the work of pioneering animator […]
Ben Rubin’s NYC Subway Doodles
Artist Ben Rubin has discovered an imaginative way in which to drown out the hullabaloo and tediousness of New York City subway commutes to and from work: on his iPad, he doodles cartoon characters interacting, albeit […]
5 Animated Films For Those Looking For More Than Just Pixar, Or Something Completely Different
1. WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2008). An Israeli filmmaker begins to interview veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, a conflict in which the filmmaker had also served, to recapture the memories of his own term of service. […]
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