Our Wonderful Nature is a short animated film about the mating habits of the water shrew. Warning: this film contains animated, animal violence and sex. Enjoy.
Credits: Directed by: Tomer Eshed Animation: Tomer Eshed, Dennis Rettkowski Sound: David Ziegler Music: Stefan Maria Schneider
Here is an animated mockumentary that omaggs2000 put together explaining the history of evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day. If you don't enjoy the story, you will enjoy the animation. Link.
A couple weeks ago, one of the paste-up tables here at work was filled with hundreds of t-shirts. They were mostly identical, except that each one had a slightly different stencil on it, and some had the bottoms removed or a hole punched in them. I've been curious what they were doing.
It turns out that they were making a stop-motion, flipbook-style commercial for Erberts and Gerberts. Each frame of the video is on a seperate t-shirt, and the model wore each t-shirt successively, filmed by a normal mini-dv camera. When the video is digitally sped up, you get a nifty animation.
The folks who were working on this were cool enough to film the whole process of making the video. You can see the production process and maybe spend a weekend making a stop motion video of your own.
Over at the Simpsons Movie website you can create your very own Simpsons character (avatar). Create an account and save your avatar; You can see your character in unexpected places on the website. [via Neatorama]
Meet one of the talents behind Pixar's blockbuster films -- Designer Jason Deamer created memorable characters in such movies as 'Finding Nemo' and 'Ratatouille'. Starting off by fetching sandwiches and making copies, Deamer climbed his way up the Pixar ladder and became one of four character designers for 'Ratatouille' and is currently the character director for the upcoming feature animation 'Wall-E'.
Read the full interview and see some of Deamer's sketches here.
This 3D animation makes childbirth look like a breeze!
Take away the soothing background music and add a sweaty, cranky, tired, grunting mommy-to-be, the smells of the delivery room and the bodily fluids, and then you'll have yourself a true birthing experience.
"There was a brief flirtation with Comedy Central and Adult Swim," Matt said. "The whole TV thing seemed creepy. They wanted to plug it into their model -- that all comedy was gag-related, not character-driven. They left the door open, but we liked what we were doing and kept doing it online."
With Time Warner's Cartoon Network and Adult Swim also headquartered in Atlanta, it seemed natural for Homestar to jump in with them. But a deal has failed to materialize, and the Chapmans are in no hurry to strike up conversations again.
The mission of PSST is to produce original short films through the collaboration of different teams of designers, directors, and animators. Each film is comprised of three sections produced by three different teams. This process is the whole idea behind PSST! – a technique derived from the Dadaist game of Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone and applied to the arts of motion graphics, animation and film-making.
In July 2006 PSST released six films and this year, March 2007, they released nine new films. All films are available for download on their website.
Our Wonderful Nature is a short animated film about the mating habits of the water shrew. Warning: this film contains animated, animal violence and sex. Enjoy.
Here is an animated mockumentary that 
Viewty put together a very cool flipbook animation with changing frame rates. 
Over at the 
Meet one of the talents behind Pixar's blockbuster films -- Designer Jason Deamer created memorable characters in such movies as 'Finding Nemo' and 'Ratatouille'. Starting off by fetching sandwiches and making copies, Deamer climbed his way up the Pixar ladder and became one of four character designers for 'Ratatouille' and is currently the character director for the upcoming feature animation 'Wall-E'. 
This 
PSST! Pass it on
