Light-Paint Piano Player by Ryan Cashman

Ever since the animated short Pika Pika by Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno, there’s been a slew of light-animation both in the advertising …

A Political Cartoon by Joe Fournier

Apparently my last post about Sarah Palin wasn’t animated enough for some readers, so here is “Sarah Palin and the Bush Doctrine: An …

Love by Yoji Kuri

It’s a shame that Yoji Kuri’s animated shorts aren’t more widely available in the West, especially considering that Kuri is one of the …

Unnatural History of Wall Street

Today is bad news if you work on Wall Street, but it’s good news for folks who want to watch cartoons about Wall Street. Animator Gary …

Random Cartoons are coming!

This just in! Mark your calendars! The animation event of the year! Nicktoons Network will start airing Random! Cartoons begining on …

The Brilliant Conclusion of ‘Octocat’

Below is the stunning and brilliant conclusion of the online animated series Octocat. When I posted the first episode last March, …

Dr. Kill and Mr. Chance

This is rather bizarre, but leave it to the French. A current project out of Paris, Reality Toon, is an homage to classic Hollywood …

Mike Grimshaw’s Quiet Please

As a response to YouTube’s takedown of Signe Baumane’s animated short, Canadian animation director Mike Grimshaw has posted an old film …

Organs

It’s Labor Day in the United States. I’m still at Cinecon. What better way to spend a holiday than with the latest from that looney …

French Roast Production Blog

French animation studio BIBO Films is working on a new CG short called French Roast directed by Fabrice O. Joubert and with character …

3038 Photos in 3 Days

A kid in Boston, Robbie, took just over 3000 digital photos in three days documenting his life in and around the city, and then compiled …

Procrastination by Johnny Kelly

Excellent mixed-media student short by Johnny Kelly of the Royal College of Art. I was going to post it last weekend, but, well, you know…

Pools Stokbrood by Daan

Pools Stokbrood is an amusing one-minute short directed by Daan based on a text by Russian surrealist and absurdist poet Daniil Kharms. …

The Best of The Best!

A heads-up for animation fans stuck in L.A. over Labor Day weekend. Bill Plympton will present The Best of The Best: An Animated Evening …

ELA in Love at First Byte

Co-director Fernando Sarmiento descibes ELA in Love at First Byte to me as, “A weird mix between She Ra, Tron and Flash Gordon.” It also …

Oktapodi Online

The French CG student film Oktapodi has been winning all sorts of awards this year including the “Best Animation” prize at the Imagina …

Animated Chicago by Joe Fournier

One of the newest, and most unexpected, outlets for original animation nowadays appears be newspaper websites. For the past year or so, …

Varmints Trailer

Studio AKA has released the trailer to Varmints, a followup to the 2004 BAFTA-winning short JoJo in the Stars. I’ve always loved the way …

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