Entries Tagged as 'animation'

Tuesday, March 31st, 2015

Watch Hypnotic Animation About the Dawn of Life ‘Primodial’

Filmmaker Peter Clark looks at the dawn of life in this experimental animation that mixes photography, hand-painted film and CGI to create a hypnotic few minutes, where forms burst into life in various colors for a psychedelic interpretation of what the birth of existence may’ve been like for living beings.

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

This Is What H.R. Giger’s Home Life Was Like

The artist who gave us the alien creature from the Alien franchise and much more died recently, so as an absurd homage to the great man why not watch this hilarious animation that imagines what the artist’s home life may’ve been like. But turn away now if you’re easily offended, because this really doesn’t hold [...]

Friday, March 6th, 2015

Knuckle Visualizer, a Synth Made From Russian Dolls and Jelly Beans

This short film details a rather unusual synth, whose switches, dials, and knobs are made from rubber ducks, Russian dolls, and jelly beans. This strange instrument is part of an animation by Korean studio Minimalogue, who pair the synth with analogue, homedmade visuals made from wool or written in notebooks.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

JonTron Explores The Terrible Barbie Video Games That Have Plagued the World

There have been a lot of Barbie video games released over the years and YouTube JonTron takes on the brave task of looking over them to see if there’s been any hidden classics that we all might’ve missed. Because, no one but a five year old girl would ever consider playing them.

Sunday, March 1st, 2015

JohnnyExpress: Animated Short That’s Worthy of Pixar

Kyungmin Woo’s hilarious short animation JohnnyExpress centers around a delivery man, the universe’s “greatest deliveryman”, who attempts to deliver something to a very small customer living on a tiny planet—the planet being so small means he can’t quite find the recipient, and as he searches in vain for them, plenty of cartoon chaos unfolds as [...]

Thursday, February 26th, 2015

If Disney Cartoons Were Historically Accurate

Disney cartoons are not known for their historical accuracy, the horrors of history just don’t fit so well when you’re trying to make a joyful narrative that lends itself to young minds—without terrifying them. But Cracked have decided to add some truth to those Disney fairytales, which means the princess gets to sing and dance [...]

Friday, February 6th, 2015

Scientifically Accurate Barney the Dinosaur is Terrifying

If Barney the Dinosaur was scientifically accurate, the show would quickly move from suitable to kids to being absolutely terrifying for kids—and it would be especially terrifying for the kids in the actual show because they’d be getting maimed and killed by a rampaging monster.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

Turning the Nintendo Power Glove into a Stop Motion Animation Tool

Dillon Markey is an animator for Robot Chicken and PES, and so spends a lot of his time preparing and recording stop motion footage. He’s also a longtime fan of the failed Nintendo Power Glove. And so he decided to resurrect this 1980s relic and, with the help of an engineer, turn it into a [...]

Monday, January 19th, 2015

Robot Chicken: A Critical Component

When you look at The Avengers lineup, you do have to question why the heck they have Black Widow and Hawkeye as part of the team. The others possess superhuman powers that can take down gods, but those two are just puny humans. Well it turns out they are, in fact, critical components of the [...]

Saturday, December 13th, 2014

A Simple Trick Turns 2D Images into Amazing 3D GIFs

By adding two enchanted lines made ​​of unicorn dust, it creates internet magic on your screen and these images appear as if they’re 3D! Well, not quite. But it is a very simple technique: just by adding two vertical white lines to a 2D image, your brain is tricked into thinking it’s a 3D scene. [...]

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Here’s Your WTF Chinese Music Video of the Day

Even without the visuals of half-naked men in horse masks and chicken costumes and women dancing behind a giant band-aid, the lyrics to this song are enough to make you sit up and think, WTF? Because they mainly consist of the female singer making cluck-cluck chicken noises.