Flying Lotus - Kill Your Co-workers

this is much better than Avatar.

Star Wars Uncut

You remember this project right? Take Star Wars and divide it into 15 second chunks, then invite fans to recreate each piece. Well, they finally finished in April, had a couple screenings, now you can watch the entire movie online. It's awesome. Shades of Hard Ware Wars. Be sure to watch it now, before Lucas comes to his senses.

Key scenes:
• "You're a little short for a storm trooper."
• Millennium Falcon escaping the Death Star.
• "Red 5 standing by.."
• uh, the entire end battle!

LINK to Star Wars Uncut!!

The Japanese Chinese explain the Jay and Conan dispute....

Taybor Tobacco

A little experiment...

this is a little insane

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

N.A.S.A. "A Volta"

Quay brothers meet Daft Punk meet Scarface. My jaw is still open...



The "making of" cleverly hides any hint at how they did it. Although, it may have been entirely CG.

Bendito Machine episode 3

Enigmatic, twisted, simple and compelling.

click the link below...the older episodes are available to watch too.

LINK to Bendito Machine

Best use of tilt shift technique

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Little Dragon

gets with some chocolate company for a sweet spot. 




Here's the music video for the song "Fortune".

Experimental 3D applications

Kudos to Rich for sending me these...



RabbitHoles 3D Motion Holograms: Gnomon Gallery, SIGGRAPH, and Pixologic / Gnomon Party from douglas johnson on Vimeo.



ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

random links

garbage cars Self explanatory.

clusta Sweet design blog.

GOOD -video Political and other short video essays.

Art of the Title Great hi-res movie title sequences. They have a limited selection, though.

Star Wars comes home

You may have seen this already...which proves my point again - anything is cool if it's motion tracked.



via.

Minilogue video

You can motion track anything into some handheld footage and it looks awesome. Not to slight this animation, which is cool, but just sayin'.

Get Your War On

"...you wanna impress me, eat a car stereo, or a..a..deep fried encyclopedia..."

Animation test

...something I was messing with today...

Convincing CG

This company Image Metrics analyzes video of an actor's performance, then creates a facial animation that matches pretty damn close. They say they eyes are 90% of the performance, but to me it's the subtleties around the mouth that are the give away.

Weekend Pussy Hunt etc.

John Kricfalusi, of Ren and Stimpy fame, went on to make some flash webisodes of "Weekend Pussy Hunt" (starring Cigarettes the Cat) in addition to "The Goddamn George Liquor Program". Incidentally, it looks like there may be new episodes of the latter.

John K. also has a blog called "All Kinds of Stuff" where you can keep up to date with his projects.

This one starts off slow, but there's a couple good gags in the middle, one of which involves a part of the body giving birth (it's not the part you think).

"Weekend Pussy Hunt" #1

Awesome Burger King commercial

Thanks to Kyle for bringing this awesome Burger King commercial to my attention.

Sweet animation I've seen the first episode awhile ago, looks like they have another. Click on "watch"

The return of Futurama

Great WIRED article about the return of "Futurama".