Noteboek

Noteboek from Evelien Lohbeck on Vimeo.

I found it at Gizmodo.

This is just plain cool. Not just the idea, but the execution.

A Wolf Loves Pork.

A Wolf Loves Pork

I'm not sure if this really counts as animation.

It's clever. But you can only get away with this style once.

Still, the time, effort and dedication are impressive, as is the fact that it's not just a one-joke short, but could have been.

Magnetic Movie

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Via Boing Boing.

I just find this fascinating. I reached a point where I just assumed the whole thing was a hoax (albeit a well-executed hoax).

Here's what the film's website says about it: "In Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor have taken the magnificent scientific visualisations of the sun and solar winds conducted at the Space Sciences Laboratory and Semiconducted them. Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor were artists-in-residence at SSL. Combining their in-house lab culture experience with formidable artistic instincts in sound, animation and programming, they have created a magnetic magnum opus in nuce, a tour de force of a massive invisible force brought down to human scale, and a very most beautiful thing.'

"With Magnetic Movie, Semiconductor have tapped into a new and ancient aesthetic of turbulence. We can hear it in the sounds of natural radio-naturally-occurring electromagnetic signals from the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere-that course through Magnetic Movie, at times animating the animation, a quick nervous response condensed into static. The sound itself is the product of the combined turbulences of the earth's molten core, weather systems and electrical storms, ephemeral ionization in the upper atmosphere, and the solar winds."

I read this to mean that the images are indeed fictional, but not necessarily wholly inaccurate.

"The Simpsons" goes HD

Simpsons HD Credits

At long last, "The Simpsons" goes HD.

Tonight's episode will be the first to be broadcast in high definition, and apparently these are the revamped widescreen opening credits.

Found on Gizmodo.

Le Ballon

Le ballon
by ddbparis

I just wanted to give you a short cartoon for your morning enjoyment. This version is much sharper and clearer than the version posted on YouTube.

From what I can gather, TiJi is kind of a French equivalent of "Nickelodeon."

Where the Halo Is Matt?

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The video that dares to answer the burning question, "What if, in addition to countries all over the world, 'Where the Hell Is Matt" could have visited video games?"

Wedding (Cake) Crashers

Verdi Wedding Cake

Via Cake Wrecks:

Nice food-related stop-motion animation.

New Wallace & Gromit

The new short, "A Matter of Loaf and Death," premiered in Australia on December 3rd, then aired in France on Christmas Eve and then aired in Britain on Christmas Day.

Wikipedia has a detailed entry -- too detailed to look at if you don't like spoilers.

Amazon.co.uk shows it as being released in the UK (Region 2) on March 9, 2009.

Amazon.com shows it as "Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available."

And while I'm talking about new animation releases, the fourth new Futurama feature, "Into the Wild Green Yonder," will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on February 24.

Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Via Boing Boing.

Yep. It's exactly what the title says. A Star Wars fan has a friend who has only ever caught snippets of the original trilogy on cable, and he asks her to piece together the plot based on what she remembers of those snippets.

Very cool, very creative short film.

Simon's Sister's Dog

Simon's Sister's Dog

Not as funny as Simon's Cat. But this one's a promo for the RSPCA.

Ad agency holiday party invitation

Charlie Brown Ad Agency

Via Boing Boing:

"I won a silver Addie!"

"New World Order"

Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

It seems that everyone is passing this video around, so I guess I need to do my part as well.

It is pretty funny, though.

Disney. Period.

This lost Disney/Kotex co-production has been making the rounds quickly today -- Boing Boing picked it up from feministing.com, and it's been spreading like a virulent communicable disease ever since.

So let me pass it on to you.

Very cute.

Clever animation.

A relatively short "making of" video can be seen at oktapodi.com.

The blogs/websites/portfolios of five of the six directors are here, here, here, here and here.

If the player above doesn't work for you, here's a high quality YouTube version.

Simon's Cat

This is the most recent "Simon's Cat" cartoon.

The other two cartoons (and future ones) can be found here.

You probably need to own a cat to appreciate these fully.

Western Spaghetti by PES

Cute. Clever. Creative.

More information about and films by PES here.