Almost six years ago I decided I was going to start rewatching Adventure Time from the beginning. This time though, I decided I’d watch just one episode a day and then make a GIF of some part of it and post it to my Tumblr. I definitely appreciated the show more the second time around since I wasn’t watching it while distracted and story arcs/running jokes are easier to stick with when you see them every day instead of months apart. Continue reading
Category Archives: Animation
Typographic and logo music videos
Last month, Gizmodo posted about the video for The Supermen Lovers – Say No More. I love this style of animated video: a simple constraint, like using the same text, being run through thousands of possible motifs. It reminds me of all the iterations the Munny has seen or the painted helmets of The Vader Project. Continue reading
Family Guy as drawn by Disney
http://www.hulu.com/embed/avBP_fL1-sPN_CoKWv5GOw/569/700
Embedded above is my favorite segment from Family Guy’s parallel universe jumping episode on Sunday.
Kings of Power 4 Billion %
Paul Robertson, the genius who brought you Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Streetfight 2006 (which is also my favorite t-shirt), has just released his latest film. Kings of Power 4 Billion % makes even less sense, but is just as fun as the first film. There aren’t any mirrors up yet, so ping me if you’d like to use mine.
Animation fascination
I found out a friend has a strong interest in animation so I was going to share a few links with them, but hey, why not everyone?
- Cartoon Brew is an animation blog.
- Drawn! is an illustration blog that often covers animation as well.
- Sandbox World focuses more on comic books, but also does animation.
- all kinds of stuff belongs to John K the creator of Ren and Stimpy a features a lot of cartoon theory. John K created the first cartoon made specifically for online distribution and had a huge influence on the development on Flash because of this.
- Funny Cute is Katie Rice’s blog. She started working as an artist for John when they revived Ren and Stimpy.
- Channel Frederator is a weekly cartoon podcast which always features good stuff.
- Waveform is a podcast for electronic music videos which are generally animated.
- Adult Swim Fix is updated on Fridays with the next week’s premiers plus old episodes.
- SIGGRAPH video review features short clips, but has the title and creator so you should be able to find the full length versions easily. Finding that today reminded me of one of my favorites from last year’s show: Bubble Girl
Channel Frederator Awards
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=3042923807511265223&hl=en
(all embedded videos are queued for the correct cartoon)
Recently the Channel Frederator cartoon podcast held their first ever awards show. I had seen many of the winners, but these are the few that I hadn’t seen and absolutely loved:
“The New Guy” – Ed Skudder (above) won for best use of a robot. Continue reading