Tag: Animation
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Copying is not theft – wonderful cartoon
How I love Nina Paley – she of Sita Sings the Blues, who has created this animation and song and open-sourced the soundtrack production – leading to this wonderful big-band-style jazz song about copying arranged by Nik Phelps and sung by Connie Champagne. 1 minute of fun and education, can’t say fairer than that *nod*…
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Best music video on YouTube. Ever. (TIWTIWMF Pt 3)
Kirk and Spock gay slash vid? Check. Indie cool via Shatner’s cover of Pulp, probably the best cover in the 00s? Check. Nostalgic Star Trek cartoon with funny implied shots of drinking, screwing and drug use? Check. Is this the best video that boldy goes where no others do on YouTube? Most probably.
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Flash geekery – typewriter animation effect
Usually only talk music and video in this blog, but as I don’t have a professional blog atm (maybe I should) here’s a cool Flash thing I did. I wanted to do a typewriter effect, you know where each letter types on – top Google hit is this very old-school solution with some mistakes. So…
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…
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A man thats on the run, is a dirty son of a gun
via Jeb 50PoundNote this wonderful funny paperlicious 70’s kids TV style animation for the Yazoo-sampling ‘Bubblicious’ by Rex the Dog which I think is out in February. Tony Hart would’ve been proud (RIP)