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Classic SNES games in the real world

“A little SNES tribute. Working on this really made me nostalgic *sniff* All sprites animated by hand … took a long time …”

Submitted by Steve J.

Awesome zoetrope cake inspired by the work of Tim Burton

It’s a cake… it’s a zoetrope… it’s inspired by the movies of Tim Burton and it was designed by Alexandre Dubosc.

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Saturday morning cartoons: “Life’s a Jungle”

Straight to video rip-offs of popular animated features isn’t new, but this rip-off of Dreamworks’ Madagascar called ‘Life’s a Jungle’ is particularly fucking awful. At least when companies were ripping off hand-drawn 2D films, there was some kind of value to them, but this is just hideous.

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Saturday morning cartoons: “Redux Riding Hood”

In 1997, Mia Farrow, Garrison Keillor, Michael Richards, Fabio, Adam West, and Don Rickles lent their voices to Redux Riding Hood, a wonderfully weird jazz-inflected short cartoon that toured the festival circuit. The short was nominated for an Academy Award and then for some reason disappeared completely until just recently.

An interview with Terry Gilliam from 1970 on his stop motion animation

One of the things that made Monty Python recognizably Monty Python other than the actors themselves were the stop motion animation sequences that ran in between skits on Monty Python’s Flying Circus and in various places in the Monty Python movies. Here, Terry Gilliam talks about those some of his animations for the show and how they were conceived.

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IHC After Dark: The tale of Chonto

Strangely compelling, and possibly worth 14 minutes of your time. Because you weren’t going to do anything anyways.

C’mon, give it a shot. There’s a monkey in it!

Saturday morning cartoons: “Crayon Dragon” by Toniko Pantoja

A girl is commissioned to paint over an old concrete illustration, in which to her surprise, sinks into. She befriends a painted dragon who has a wing missing.

Saturday morning cartoons: The Avengers in “Disassembled”

If The Avengers were done by Ren and Stimpy creator John K, it might look something like this short from Junaid Chundrigar.

‘The Raid’, remade with claymation cats

Lee Hardcastle’s The Raid holds nothing back as trained SWAT cats force their way into a building occupied by a criminal gang. They’re adorable, in a bloodthirsty way. Content warning: violence and gore.

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Saturday morning cartoons: “Kickball”

Dana Terrace is a third-year animation student at the School of Visual Arts, and probably has tons of stories to tell. Kickball, about two new friends meeting after a quick dust-up, is a really sweet beginning.

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Saturday morning cartoons: “The Eagleman Stag”

A gorgeous and wonderful animated short about the acceleration of time:

Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter times increasing pace. Peter also discovers that if you repeat the word ‘fly’ for long enough it sounds like you’re saying ‘life’. This is of no real help to him. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.

IHC After Dark: Cyriak animation, “Because”

“So I found a stupid photo of my face and decided to make a video out of it. Why? Just because. Its all done with 3d layers in Adobe After Effects, it also gave my computer severe indigestion and melted my brain somewhat.”

Check out the awesome Diablo III prequel cartoon, “Wrath”

Diablo III is launching on May 15th. Are you getting it? Whether you are or not, check out this wicked Diablo III prequel cartoon, done in a Saturday morning/American anime style.

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These are the earliest known sketches of Mickey Mouse

You’re looking at the earliest known drawings of Mickey Mouse, cir. 1928, by Mickey Mouse co-creator Ub Iwerks. You’ll note that even though the face changed, Disney and Iwerks knew from the very beginning that Mickey’s iconic circular ears would pretty much always stay in the same place on his head, no matter what he was doing.

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