“O Apóstolo” trailer

Here’s something that’ll jolt you out of any post-Thanksgiving Day lethargy: a creepy and suspenseful trailer for O Apostolo (The …

Stop Mo “Community” clip

NBC’s Joe McHale/Chevy Chase sitcom Community is doing a holiday themed show in faux-Rankin-Bass style stop-motion. Here’s a 13-second …

“Nanny McPhee Returns” Titles

The Submarine Channel posted a nice, in-depth Making Of interview with Paul Donnellon of Voodoodog, about his stop-motion end credit …

“Sandman” opening titles

This past Monday we posted the trailer for Germany’s new stop mo feature, The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams. Delighted by the …

The Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams

Rankin-Bass lives! Actually, this has nothing to do with Rankin-Bass – but you can see the influence. Sinem Sakaoglu (The Three …

Phil Tippett’s “Mad God”

Stop motion animator Phil Tippett (Ewoks, Robocop) was one of the first to embrace CG creature effects and is now head of one of the most …

“One Minute Racist” by Caveh Zahedi

Indie filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has incorporated animation into his features and also made a couple animated shorts, including One Minute …

“Visit” by Kangmin Kim

While animation is usually a time-consuming craft, some people push it further than others. All I could think of while watching Kangmin …

“The Eagleman Stag” trailer

The Eagleman Stag is a new short by 26-year-old London-based animator Mike Please, who is a graduate of Royal College of Art. It has some …

A trailer for a Jimi Hendrix short

This is the trailer for The Experience, a Jimi Hendrix-themed short that was produced to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of his …

“Bottle” by Kirsten Lepore

The first time we wrote about Kirsten Lepore, she was studying at Maryland Institute College of Art where she’d made an inventive …

Dreadlock animation

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

CBTV Student Fest: Pdingpdoong

We’re going to India for this weeks’ episode of the Cartoon Brew TV Student Animation Festival. Pdingpdoong is directed by Krishna …

Accumulonimbus by Andy Kennedy

An experimental animated short by Brooklyn-based animator Andy Kennedy, Accumulonimbus depicts various objects moving around in a spin …

News! by Darcy Prendergast

Melbourne-based artist Darcy Prendergast, explains that his latest film, News!, was “inspired by my constant hatred for news and current …

Heart of Refuge by Piotr Kamler

Polish animator Piotr Kamler (b. 1936) won the Grand Pix at Annecy in 1975 for his film Le Pas, but I’ve chosen to display an earlier …

In the Fall of Gravity by Ron Cole

Ron Cole, the person who made the cable-controlled skull mechanism for the Chuck Liddell puppet in the Lipton Brisk ad, directed and …

Lipton Brisk Does Animated Ads Again

Lipton’s Brisk iced tea brand aired one of the most memorable animation ad campaigns of the Nineties which starred stop-motion versions …

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