Wednesday, March 19, 2014

WWE Slam City - Alberto the Barista

What our friends at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios have been up to, in between "The Friendship All-Stars of Friendship" and the new season of "Robot Chicken."


Check out the entire "Slam City" series by clicking here.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Saturday, January 25, 2014

BONUS: Old "Simpsons" sketches from animator David Silverman


A few days ago he started tweeting "Simpsons" sketches, like the original model for Miss Krabappel (RIP) and a bunch of sketches from the Poe segment of the very first “Treehouse Of Horror.”

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Lego Thriller

Annette Jung animates the opening scene of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" using Lego bricks.


Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Experimental animation meets pottery

This fascinating video begins as its own making-of documentary, and slowly morphs into the completed animation.


Monday, December 23, 2013

A Krampus Christmas [Screen Novelties]



Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936)

A creepy old man with a creepy laugh thinks it's a good idea to break into an orphanage on Christmas Day. That's not the way you're supposed to take it, but it's not untrue.

Dig the sneaky use of models at the beginning and end that look convincingly hand-drawn... until the camera moves, and you get a better idea of what you're looking at. Very innovative stuff.



Friday, December 20, 2013

Hardrock, Coco & Joe

Produced by Centaur Productions in 1956, this short, like "Suzy Snowflake" and "Frosty the Snowman," has become an annual tradition in certain regions.


Thursday, December 19, 2013

Peace On Earth

This is a truly bizarre little cartoon disguised as family treacle: a deceptively sweet Christmas tableau with cutesy woodland creatures gives way to an anti-war statement by revealing itself to be set in a post-apocalyptic world wherein war caused the extinction of humanity. And it was released in 1939, when World War II was underway in Europe, but America had yet to become involved. Ballsy. Merry Christmas, humanity!



Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Miser Brothers

Why leave well enough alone when you can, you know, not?

In 2008, the popular Rankin/Bass characters, the Miser Brothers, were revived for a sequel special. The original voice of the Heat Miser, George S. Irving, was still alive and returned to perform the character once again.

This modern special sought to recreate the original style of Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation and is largely successful, although improvements to the technology and techniques of stop-motion animation couldn't help but to have an effect on the finished look.

Here's the new rendition of the Heat Miser/Snow Miser song. (For the original version, click here.)