Books

Books, Books, Books

Time for another round-up of recent reads I can highly recommend (How’s that for alliteration?). First up, a magazine: Disney Twenty …

Music Videos

“Plain Song” by Nick Park

Brad Bird isn’t the only Oscar winning animator releasing a live action film this month. Clay animator Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit) has …

Shorts

“Trim” by Peter Simon

Reverse beard pixilation is done so often it’s almost an animation meme, but there’s always room for one more, especially when it’s as …

Experimental

Stop-Motion Saturn

Designer Chris Abbas downloaded a public domain archive of still images captured by NASA’s Cassini Solstice Mission and composited them …

Music Videos

“Into the Cosmos” by Chopsy

Something for the vinyl heads: “Into the Cosmos” was directed by Chopsy (aka Darren Robbie). The short asks, “What happens to all the old …

Stop Motion

Dreadlock animation

Not letting anything go to waste, stop motion animator Jessica Bayliss made this stop-motion pixilation documenting the last moments of …

Shorts

Drift by Theo Tagholm

The dreamlike morphing imagery in Drift creates a mysterious and original style of movement that I haven’t seen before in any …

Stop Motion

Youth In Revolt animation

The Weinstein Company’s new film, Youth In Revolt, opened in ninth place at the box office this weekend. I haven’t seen it myself, but …

Stop Motion

Fun with Hair

Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of hair and pixilation. The film is by Andy Estep. (Thanks, Marc Deckter)

Advertising

Commercial Break: Gulf Oil

After Chuck Menville and Len Janson earned an Oscar-nomination for their automobile-themed pixilation short Stop, Look and Listen (1967), …

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