Category Archives: Animation

Imagining Cars of the Year 2000

By Jay | Published: 01/13/2013

A world overrun with automobiles is the dystopian nightmare of the cartoon “Automania 2000” from 1963. So many cars have grid-locked that people have just been living in them for the past 5 years. The lively cartoon is a quirky anti-consumerist critique of 1950s excess. via Cartoon Brew Cross-posted on My Black Brick.

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Chalk animation evolves

By Jay | Published: 09/10/2012

Nicholas Gurewitch of the Perry Bible Fellowship creates animations with chalk in this mesmerizing music video for The Spinto Band.

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Changing Education Paradigms on RSA Animate

By Jay | Published: 12/13/2011

The RSA was founded in England in 1754 as an “enlightenment organization” dedicated to bringing new ideas and debates to a mass audience. To aid in that mission they have been creating animations of talks given by academic and intellectual leaders and philosophers. Rather than using the TED technique of the PP slide show, RSA [...]

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Marching Marker Men

By Jay | Published: 09/23/2011

It’s hard not to think of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti when watching this video of marching, trembling, anonymized men in this French music video. Louise Attaque – Du monde tout autour

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