If you're in the area....

Here's something you can do this Thursday.

Storm: The Animated Movie

Via Boing Boing, via @donttrythis.

Le Royaume (The King and the Beaver)

Le Royaume (The King and the Beaver), by Sébastien Hary

Futurama Characters in Three Pixels

Source unknown.

Education Reform (?) Animated

I've been watching a few of these here and there. This was suggested by Mrs 'Panic. Consider this a post from her.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Via @annietown

Starcraft Legofied

I Met the Walrus

The story goes that this kid named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. Lennon's earnest vagueness makes a great soundtrack for some brilliantly executed (if comically literal) narrative animation. Let's watch, shall we?

Art of Akira exibit

At www.artofakira.com

Those single cels are pretty slick.

via neatorama

I see your Mormons...

...and raise you Jehovah's Witnesses

Little Red (via @andevers)

By Ciara, via A. N. Devers.

The TV Show!

At the risk of attracting more Japanese spammers, here's a little gem spit up by the internet today:

Galspanic carefully sets the trap for the wily Litcube...

Further research has shown me that the Kentucky Fried Chicken figurehead known as Colonel Sanders is actually involved in this movie.







(Galspanic hides in his camouflaged bunker and waits...)

8-Bit LEGO Trip

Via @feliciaday.

Delirium

Delirium from diegooriani on Vimeo.

via @neave

Attention

link

Crashes with a Message

Sort of. Mostly, the makers of this series of little morality plays just prove that they are completely fucking mental.

The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9

DoInk: Sweet Online Animation Tool

The Empress of Denmark's Sister Escapes by mrpony, made at DoInk.com

I've only started to mess around with DoInk, but it's pretty amazing. A co-worker of a friend showed me this robust online animation tool, with all sorts of sharing and community built in. The drawing tool is one of the best I've seen online (it kind of mimics Flash's drawing tool, which I use almost exclusively), and the animation compositer is fairly simple, but it incorporates layering and basic loopable clips. The animation I made is admittedly boring, but I didn't have a lot of time to mess around with it, and just wanted to play with the basics.

I ran into a little trouble getting tweened clips to revert to their pre- or post-tweened state, but this could just as easily be my problem, having learned on an entirely different system. Clips made there can be exported to youTube or exported as swfs (!)

The most wonderful thing about Doink is that once you share an object you draw, it's available to everyone on the site. If you need a picture of a duck, say, you can search for one and incorporate it into your animation (This system might sound a little familiar to Ruby). This sharing concept meshes with a lot of ideas we've been kicking around at work about the educational value of remixing content, and lowering the skill bar for formerly difficult types of content creation, including animation.

Near as I can tell, the community is fairly small, but the tool is nice enough that I hope to see them attracting a critical mass soon.

Disney Patterns

As loath as I am to post directly from the Curated Internet, there's this, and it's a little mind-blowing:

Ressemblances dans les films Disney - Streaming