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The World's Largest stop Motion Animation

Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8.

'Gulp' is a short film created by Sumo Science at Aardman, depicting a fisherman going about his daily catch. Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.

The animators: aardman.com
The sand artists: sandinyoureye.co.uk

Για τα παιδιά που είναι στο κόμμα (ακόμα)

Trailer for the new videogame Stalin VS Martians.

Obviously, the main concept behind this real-time strategy game is pretty much clear if you can see its name. It just speaks for itself. The fact that such bizarre game exists is quite an event. It doesn't really matter what's behind the name or if the game is playable at all. The concept is enough.



Music video for the song "S.T.A.L.I.N" perfomed by Firelake, a metal band from Kiev, famous for participation in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl soundtrack. The track features lead designer of Stalin vs. Martians on vocals.
LOL

And the best of all...
Barbarian Gorbachev destroys Soviet Union!



Gorbachev the Barbarian freeing the Russian maidens by single-handedly slaying the evil army of Stalin zombies with his axe, machine gun, and eye lasers. In doing so he secures awesome for the Soviet Union causing snack foods to rain from the heavens prompting a sexual innuendo fest on a beach somewhere and the creation of his own song played by a band that has a pyro on the drums.


Official site (in Russian too!)

Pigeon Impossible

by Lucas Martell

The film took nearly 5 years to complete and is the first attempt at animation by writer/director Lucas Martell: "When the project started, it was mostly an excuse to learn 3D animation, but by the end of the project I had spent so much time reworking and polishing the story that I just wanted people to laugh."
The end-result is a hilarious 6-minute romp through the streets of Washington D.C. as our hero fights to save himself, and the world from the chaos reigned down by a hungry pigeon. Breathtaking visuals and a sweeping soundtrack showcase the work of nearly one-hundred talented artists and musicians, and the film stands as a testament to what can be accomplished by a team of dedicated volunteers working for the love of their craft.

Machinarium game

Machinarium is independent puzzle / adventure game
developed by the makers of web-games
Samorost and Samorost2.

You can pre-order Machinarium and you will be sent the download link
with the final version of the game as soon as it’s officially released
(which is planned for October 2009).

Pre-ordering has several advantages:

• You’ll save $3. The price is now $17 instead of $20 after releasing.
• You will immediately receive “Pre-order Pack”
  which includes 5 hi-res pictures and 5 MP 3 tracks from Machinarium Soundtrack.
• With the game you will get also Machinarium Soundtrack by Floex.
• You will feel great by supporting indie developers;)

Designed & developed by Amanita

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The fan and the flower

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The Drawer of Memory

A newcomer and very promising animator, this short is his first work ever.
Po Chou Chi from Taiwan.

Hallucii

by Goo Shun Wang

Tom Waits animation

Tom Waits and Donna Gordon as the stripper,
Performed live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action
frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live
action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand
held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the
background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each
take. Two strippers, Donna Gordon was the choice, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then re-drawn, inked by Mike Cressy and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to produce this film.
Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent ( David Silverman, producer and director of the Simpsons TV series, and director of the NEW Simpsons movie to be released in July of 2007, was our head animator and also his FIRST job as an animator) and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist . But
the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.
A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever
being released or sold commercially, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!
In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the
technology used in this short.
The production materials (character sketches, layouts,
storyboards, animation drawings and cels) are still amazingly intact and held in private hands. However, a few of the production elements managed to slip away over the last 28 years and occasionally, one of these rare gems can be found on ebay.
To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia.

-Austin Stein