Category: Animation
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Magic Highway, USA
I’m fond of retro-futurism, the appreciation of past visions of the future; often the “future” in which we are currently living. I’m particularly delighted with future visions rendered out in that wonderful ’50s & ’60s modern cartoon style that seems to be having a bit of a revival these days. Disney’s Magic Highway, USA is…
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NuFormer 3-D Building Projections
NuFormer is a design firm based in the Netherlands. They have developed a computer-based projection system for creating the illusion of moving, 3-dimensional alterations to the surfaces of buildings. The results are striking, as you can see in this video on Vimeo. Bear in mind that these are not CGI in the usual sense, the…
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The Zoomquilt II
Like its predecessor, The Zoomquilt I, which I wrote about in 2006, The Zoomquilt II is a collaborative art project by 34 different artists. Basically an amusement, this is an animated sequence of scenes, each one of which is related to the others by a transitional area within the image that allows for a continuous…
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A is for Atom
A is for Atom is a 1952 (released in 1953) educational cartoon explaining the wonders and mysteries of atomic power, sponsored by General Electric and directed by Carl Urbano (who later went on to work for Hanna & Barbara). Like the more well known and widely distributed Our Friend the Atom, a longer, part live…
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Time Out’s 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam
“Greatest” and “best” lists always elicit responses of varying degrees of disagreement, as they are meant to do, from “Well, maybe…” to “You’ve got to be kidding!”, and this list, Time Out’s 50 greatest animated films, with added commentary by Terry Gilliam, is no exception. That’s the fun of it, of course, you’re prompted to…
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Televolution
Televolution is an animated short by Malcolm McNeil, who I have written about previously here and here. Originally shown in Japan in 1990, when some of the the tech he suggests was almost prophetic, the animation is meant to salute the birthday of Charles Darwin (an event that just passed again recently). McNeill traces the…