Entries Tagged as 'animation'

Saturday, March 15th, 2014

Banksy, Elbow and Idris Elba Have a Message for You About Syria

To mark the third anniversary of the civil war in Syria, Banksy, Idris Elba and rock band Elbow have teamed up to release this remindful video as part of a global vigil. The video features one of Banksy’s most iconic images, that of the little girl holding a red balloon, but this time it floats [...]

Friday, March 14th, 2014

Lee Hardcastle’s Claysplotation Movie Spook Train – Official Trailer

It’s got Cyriak Harris doing the music with Hardcastle writing and directing—and after watching the trailer you’ll be eager to see this violent claymation horror movie about a haunted fairground ride, but first Lee needs to get it funded on Kickstarter, so you can go and donate if you’re feeling all Harvey Weinstein.

Monday, March 10th, 2014

Pull My Finger…

It doesn’t matter if it’s your pet, you, your girlfriend, or even a chimney, farting is intrinsically hilarious and this humorous video featuring guffing gas flares proves it. But behind the flatulence lies not a late night curry but a serious message about fracking. That aside, these anti-fracking chimneys will have you giggling like a [...]

Saturday, March 8th, 2014

Freaky Fractal Music Video Will Trip You Out

Get ready for some eye-candy overload – French animator and musician Alexandre Lehmann has decided to mess with your mind today, because he’s unleashed this psychedelic tripfest of a video onto the internet, created using fractal software that generates otherworldly weirdscapes of architectural forms and alien lands. It’s part of his Musicians With Guns series [...]

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

Creepy Music Video For Cheryl Merkowski’s Walls Fall Out

Oh man, it’s time to start praying to whatever entity you believe in, because after watching this you’ll realise there is no God, because if there was why would they let someone unleash this horror on to the world—an emaciated female creature who looks like ET starts off the unholiness before it moves on to [...]

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Want To Know The Secret Identity Of Andy’s Mom In Toy Story?

Online magazine Slate have an article up which reveals exactly who Andy’s mom is in the Toy Story trilogy and what her relationship is to the toys in the films—specifically one toy in particular: Jessie. According to the article, Jon Negroni has a theory that Andy’s mom is in fact Jessie’s previous owner, Emily.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

SpongeMen SquareWatch

Imagine if the cast of SpongeBob met Alan Moore’s Watchmen and they morphed together to become one! That’s what animator El Cid has done with his take on these two disparate universes that have come together because he probably got really stoned one day and thought what a brilliant mashup idea it would be. And [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Megaman Gigamix Fan Opening

If you’re a fan of a comic and you made an animated opening for a hypothetical cartoon of it and you were all excited for it, chances are you’d show your friends who’d politely say how mega-awesome it was before it was resigned to the bin of internet history—but one fan, known as Panman, made [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Giant Wind-Up Bots Take Over Buenos Aires

When the technological singularity comes and Skynet goes sentient, if it looks as harmless as this with shuffling, wind-up bots leisurely plodding along then bring it on—this would make the world a much more enjoyable place, you could just park your ass on a bench and watch the world go by like you were in [...]

Monday, February 17th, 2014

BADGERFIELD 4: Thomas the Dank Engine

If there was ever a train equivalent of Chuck Norris, this is it, in the video game world anyway—watch in awe as 64 Battlefield Players try to stop it whilst it plows through tank after tank and laughs in the face of military helicopters firing missile after missile, nothing will stop it reaching its destination, [...]

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

Junkyard by Hisko Hulsing

A stunning piece of animation from Dutch filmmaker Mr. Hulsing in a film that captures our urban lives in all their grittiness. The narrative centers around a man who is robbed and stabbed on a train. In the last few seconds as he lays dying a friendship from his childhood flashes up before his [...]