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Category: Animation

  • Mysteries of Vernacular

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    As much as I love art, I’m also fond of words; and I find the the origin of particular words fascinating because it shows, as in art, how we develop things and put them into use over time. I also like animation. Mysteries of Vernacular is a series of short, artfully crafted stop-motion animations explaining…

  • The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome

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    Directed and animated by D.C. Turner and narrated by comedian Tim Minchin, The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome is a short (4, 1/2 minute) animated video about the history of our attempt to understand our own genetic structure, the latest stage of which is the ENCODE project. On YouTube. [Via BoingBoing]

  • Jacob Wyatt

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    Jacob (Jake) Wyatt is a comics artist and animator who came to my attention by way of his beautiful short animation, Metro, which was done while he was a student (top three images above, plus promo, 4th down). Metro is about a young girl, a subway, a fox and… other things. It’s simply but very…

  • Bendito Machine

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    Bendito Machine (blessed machine) is a series of nicely realized fantastical animations created by Jossie Malis, produced by Zumbakamera and animated by Malis and Pau Martinez. This is a series of animations, done primarily and very effectively in sihlouette, of which the most recent and by some degree the most entertaining, is Bendito Machine IV…

  • The Higgs Boson Explained (PHD Comics)

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    Curious about the “Higgs Boson” breakthrough mentioned in the popular science news lately, and/or the nature of the very small10 particles that make up life, the universe and everything? (Of course you are!) Well Daniel Whiteson, an experimental physicist at CERN, where the exciting high energy particle smashing action has been taking place, explains it…

  • Night Light (Qing Han)

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    Night Light is a delightful and beautifully realized short animation (1 minute) by Qing Han, done as a fourth year project as an animation student at Sheridan College in Ontario. It follows a young girl whose painted fish immediately come to life. You can see more of Han’s visual development work on her website, and…