Animated Abstract Book Covers

This is a pretty amazing fusion of graphic design and motion graphics. German designer & animator or Henning M. Lederer puts historic minimalistic cover designs into motion. In many ways it reminds me somewhat of Oskar Fischinger's pioneering abstract...

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Holiday Sweater Video

As we get a little closer to the holiday season, thought I'd share this video that I put together for the Port of Seattle for the holidays. By taking Jake Bartlett's amazing skill share class I learned the technique...

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Pretty Great Video: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia

This short video is well worth your time: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia from Portland's amazing animation studio HouseSpecial.

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Impressive visualization of US & UK bombing raids during WW2

A friend of mine showed me this amazing animated visualization and I had to pass it along. It points out the location of every bombing raid by the RAF or the US Army Air Forces during the second world...

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Cool Animated Infographic: The Universe by the Numbers

Wow, in the immortal words of the Animaniacs, "It's a great big universe, and you're not."

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Funny Animation: Ep 1 Doraleous and Associates

This is funny to me as someone who has played way to much Dungeons and Dragons and started a business. Good work from, Hank and Jed Movie Pictures.

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Great Animated Short: Mountain from Dave Prosser

This is a cool short animated film from Dave Prosser. I love the atmosphere in the film. I am particularly fond of how the trees and telephone poles have eyes, a delightful touch of whimsy in this slice of...

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Monday Movie: The Future Forms Of Life

Check out the cool/trippy short film The Future Forms Of Life by David Lance. The great if midly disturbing animations are based on Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures. I think I've fought some of these things in a video game...

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Great Video from TED… The Electric Vocabulary

Ever wondered where the world electron came from? No, you incurious bastard! Anyway, for the more inquisitive check out this great animated video lesson by James Sheils, animation by TED-Ed. View the full lesson via neatorama

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tribute!

My inner geek is going nuts over this great tribute to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Malcom Sutherland (that's TMNT to you). Though I wish it had the Vinilla Ice Ninja Rap as the soundtrack, now that would...

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Great Title Sequence… Anatomy of a Murder by Saul Bass

Saul Bass was a great and inspirational artist. He's a personal hero of mine, here is his classic intro to the film Anatomy of a Murder by Otto Preminger. In fact probably better than the film itself! If you're interested...

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It’s like an animated Far Side! Wildebeest

This is great, a gem from Bird Box Studio. It's like a Far Side cartoon, Wildebeest.

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