Entries Tagged as 'animation'

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

A Claymation Cat Meets Video Game ‘DOOM’ In This Gruesome Animation

A claymation cat tools up and heads off to fight demon hellspawn in this claymation from Lee Hardcastle. Called ‘Claycat’s DOOM’ the video is made in anticipation of the upcoming DOOM reboot and there’s plenty for fans of the series to enjoy here. It’s basically the video game remade in play dough. But with a [...]

Saturday, May 7th, 2016

The History of Headshots in Gaming

Pow! Headshot! Nothing is more satisfying in a first person shooter video game than landing a headshot—the only thing more satisfying is if you landed the headshot on a friend who’s playing while sat next to you, so you can gloat in the flesh.

Monday, April 25th, 2016

Very Funny and Very Weird Parody Trailer For Captain America: Civil War

Aldo Jones is an Italian video editor who has a penchant for creating truly bizarre but very funny parodies of popular trailers—he did a great one for Batman Vs. Superman and now he’s turned his singularly weird skills to Marvel’s eagerly awaited Captain America: Civil War. Similar to Jones’ previous efforts it involves adding loads [...]

Saturday, April 16th, 2016

DRUM = ANIMATION

You may’ve thought that playing a drum was only good for making lots of noise and upsetting the neighbors, but one animator has used their drumkit to trigger patterns in an animation. The result is loops of abstract animation which explode upon the screen.

Monday, February 8th, 2016

Aug(De)Mented Reality 4 – Illustrator Invades the Real World (Again)

Illustrator Hombre McSteez (aka Marty Cooper) presents the fourth part of his series where he adds some unhinged fun to reality using nothing but a Sharpie on some transparent sheets, where a range of creatures invade everyday life and bring some Looney Tunes mania to the world.

Monday, February 1st, 2016

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ in 60 Seconds

For their Speedrun series of animations 1A4 Studio run through popular movies in a matter of seconds, condensing the film’s narrative into something easily digestible and far less time-consuming, something more akin to our attention spans in the internet age.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

Stunning Stop Motion Video Made By Sanding Objects Away Half Millimeter at a Time

Armed with an edge sander and a camera Laurin Döpfner has created a mesmerizing stop-motion video. He sands away various objects—wood, walnut, transformer, skull and analogue camera—half a milimeter at a time and takes photographs of each stage. Then using around 650 photos he turns them into an animation which reveals the inner structures of [...]

Monday, January 11th, 2016

Freaky Human Spiders Battle Freaky Winged Skeletons in Animation ‘Hominid’

Brian Andrews’ short animation Hominid imagines a bizarre world of flying human forms and giant human spiders, that are presented as though you were watching the video with x-ray vision. Meaning you can see through these creatures and peer into the skeletal workings that go on under their bizarre exteriors.

Monday, January 4th, 2016

Animation vs. Minecraft: Stick Figures Create Havoc with a Minecraft Cube

Alan Becker is an animator who’s responsible for the classic Flash animated series ‘Animator vs. Animation’ which was made all the way back in 2006 when the internet seemed like a completely different place. Fast forward nearly ten years and he’s released another animation featuring his signature stick figures causing chaos on his computer screen.

Thursday, December 24th, 2015

Uncanny Valley, a Sci-Fi Short Film About VR Addiction

This sci-fi short imagines a dystopian future where vast slums are full of junkies, but these aren’t the drug-addicted junkies we know of today. These junkies are addicted to virtuality reality, getting their violent kicks in the world of online gaming in this stylish CGI-heavy short film.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Sub-Zero Stays Dizzy in a Move Far Worse Than a Fatality

“FINISH HIM!” screams the Mortal Kombat game in this amusing animation, but Scorpion refuses to end Sub Zero’s life in a brutal and bloody move. Instead he lets him live, except Sub-Zero has to live in a perpetual state of dizziness, forever spinning around and around. It’s some kind of torture.