Le Praxinoscope & le Zoetrope

I visited the Musée des Arts Décoratifs recently and was happy to see some praxinoscopes and zoetropes!

Animation tutorials from Animade

"Super short animation tutorials with an emphasis on simple effective movement."

Article on itsnicethat.com
Animade portfolio
Animade's very cute facebook 'like' link

Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

Here's a great papercut animation for Josh Ritter’s “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home”, made from over 12,000 pieces of construction paper by Prominent Figures




(thanks to Emma for the link!)

Fleet Foxes Animation

The Shrine / An Argument from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.

Royal Canadian Mint - Parks Canada

Came across these spots by Crush inc. to advertise some commemorative coins, love the simple shapes and textures.

Baby I’m Yours - Breakbot

Here's a pretty cool hand-painted watercolour animation by Irina Dakeva and her team which took three and a half months and over 2000 individual paintings.

Breakbot - Baby I'm Yours (feat. Irfane) - HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.

Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side)

 

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi 

After sunset, an old Parisian bookseller closes his little shop. The characters from the books displayed on the shelves suddenly come to life. Dracula's girlfriend Mina and Macbeth's skeleton fall in love.

Watch it on Nowness.com

Second Hand

Second Hand from Isaac King on Vimeo.

Joy of destruction

JOY OF DESTRUCTION from Xaver Xylophon on Vimeo.

Between Bears by Eran Hilleli

This is a lovely simple animation, the colour & lighting really add to the flat vector look.

Cliché ! version française

The Lost Thing

I hadn't watched any of the Oscar coverage but just noticed that "The Lost Thing" won best animated short based on the book by Shaun Tan. Passion Pictures did a remarkable job of translating Tan's layered, textural artwork & fantastical creatures to the screen. You can watch the whole thing here.

The Saga of Bjorn

Of Music which evokes images (Allegro Non Troppo - animation)

Allegro Non Troppo - animation

This is a fragment of an animated film made by Bruno Bozzetto in 1976 to illustrate 6 musical pieces. Valse triste by Sibelius in this fragment, there are 5 other episodes on youtube.

Robotbag changes the world

Hello again!

I know I am a big last minute mongrel, but my friend Simon Kinane and I are entering a version of Robotbag to a competition that finishes today, Friday.

Part of the score is the reaction of the audience.
So, if you want, watch the film and comment!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO6Pe2xCnJ0

:] animation!
elida.

Moonlight (long version)

Tinderboxers all,

This is the long version of that OneSecondFilm we made last week.

Does it take too long to load? Should I upload a smaller version?

Big or small, I hope you like it!

elida.

One Second Film: Moonlight

Hello!

I am still quite bad at keeping up with Tinderbox, but here you are: the latest crop of our weekly animation meet. I think it doesn't really work, there is too much movement involved, three different actions narrated in one second. I think I have to show just one.
So, I think you will see a second version soon.
In the meantime, howwwwwwwl!

By the way, Damo, fantastic austronaut cartoon. Great indeed.
My internet connection is too weak to see the film you posted, but I will try!

elida.

Buildings & Vampires

This short animation directed by Sebastian Baptista & Nico Casavecchia illustrates the story Max makes up for his mam at the start of 'Where the Wild Things Are'. The combination of animation on top of live action stick puppets is nicely done and integrated pretty seamlessly.

Pixar: Day and Night

Pixar is famous for their award winning animated feature films. They also produce little show-piece animations to accompany new releases in cinemas. This one, Day and Night is shown before Toy Story 3. If you get a chance to see it on the big screen, it's captivating!

Caroline Leaf: The Street (1976)