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Definitely NOT for kids, but really really funny and very well done!
-Mike Milo

Yo ladies and gents! Have a gander at this artsy piece… Peace out!
-Mike Milo

Congrats to HAPPY FEET and THE DANISH POET for winning best animated film and short, respectively.

…not to mention Scorsese, but that’s a different blog.

-Jake

Check out this great online series by James Far which has reached 13 million downloads to date. Xombified. I’ve been following it for years and I have to say it’s pretty cool for an online series. Nice designs, pretty good acting and a decent story. And just recently Devil’s Due picked it up as a comic book series.

Honestly I’m kinda surprised no one in animation has tapped into this dude for a series.

From the Xombified website:
XOMBIE, a downloadable web series created by James Farr, boasting more than
13 million downloads, tells the story of a variant zombie (called “Xombies”, capable of thinking and feeling) named Dirge; Dirge discovers a young human girl named Zoe who suffers from amnesia, and, as his last good act before becoming dust on the floor of this ruined, zombie-filled world, begins a dangerous journey to return Zoe to the safety of her loved ones. Along the [Read more…]

While this video is a bit strange, it’s nice to see animation talked about on television. Walt Disney didn’t make Tom & Jerry, but I don’t think that’s the point of the video anyway.

-Floyd Bishop

Check out this touching film about loss and getting old called The Piano
-Mike Milo

J.Otto Seibold, the creator of Olive the other reindeer recently did a pop up book about Alice in Wonderland. to promote it they also did this quirky little interactive piece animated by Feel Good Anyway Studios.
Check it out!
-Mike Milo

Meet Jeremy Vanhoozer!
A great artist with a lot of interesting ideas. Check out his site here!
-Mike Milo

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Voltron, any episode, then you’ve seen this bit of animation. They used it every time they needed to form Voltron.

What other famous (or infamous) re-uses of animation can you think of? I’m not talking about walk cycles that go on and on, opening credits, or Yogi running past the same two trees over and over. I’m wondering what other shows used entire sequences of animation over and over?

-Floyd Bishop

Check this interesting little file out. It shows the steps of someone making a painting. I have no idea who did it but I believe it was done with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. ( my favorite app BTW) Pretty cool huh?
-Mike Milo