Supermoine Holypop

Wow, so much energy in such a short animation, the sheer craziness is just soaking through the screen while you watch this little... I don't even exactly know what this is, but it's fun indeed, check it out:

Animated Wind Map of the Earth

Check out this online animated wind map for the earth, you can zoom in, rotate and enjoy the thousands of little moving lines on your screen. Not very useful but very beautiful indeed:

http://earth.nullschool.net/

Beans

A great and fun commercial for Haynes Baked Beans:

Isometric Animated Short

Here is a little animated short from Mirai Mizue. Back in the days when they first tried to introduce 3D to the games the popular solution was the isometric method. It's 3D in a way but really it isn't because it doesn't have perspective. I really enjoyed games with this style so I have soft spot for these kind of animations. Modern. Enjoy:

The Employment - Animated Short

This animated short by Santiago 'Bou' Grasso got more than a hundred awards on film festivals all around the world. The technique doesn't offer anything new or revolutionary, what sells it is the idea. It's sad, it's deep, it's moving. And it's true. Check it out:

Check out the director's website as well, it's a treat to surf on:

http://www.opusbou.com.ar/

The Backwater Gospel

The Blackwater Gospel is an animated short from 2011 directed by Bo Mathorne and produced by the Animation Workshop (www.animwork.dk). It's in 3D but the characters, backgrounds are very artistic, almost watercolor looking, really cool animated short with a bizarre story. Check it out:

Contre temps - animated short

Here is a beautiful little animated short from French artists. The backgrounds and the scenery is hand painted I guess and the characters and some of the objects are in 3D, but with a cool cartoonish cell shading, so they don't stick out as much. The basic idea is really good but I think the screenplay could have been a lot better and the characters look a bit general to me, but the world and the images are really cool to look at, the atmosphere is there and it was a graduation film, so actually I really shouldn't complain. Check it out:

2 minute extract on youtube

or you can watch the full short on vimeo:

 https://vimeo.com/71695621

Snowpiercer - Prequel

I've posted the trailer of this upcoming movie a few weeks back, now we have an animated prequel which sets up the world for the movie in a nutshell. Looks good, check it out!

Korgoth of Barbaria

Aaron Springer's and Genndy Tartakovsky's name might be familiar for people who used to watch Cartoon Network back in the 90's with Dexter's Laboratory and Power Puff Girls on air. Aaron went on directing Spongebob and Squarepants episodes and now is working on Gravity Falls, another animated tv series. Genndy created Samurai Jack but later moved on from tv series and directed his first feature animation: Hotel Trasylvania, it's really good, check that out too. What I have here is something what could have been an instant cult classic animated series, instead it became a cult classic pilot episode with the most ridiculous and over the top macho action you can imagine. 22 minutes of pure barbarism. As one of the commenters on youtube said: "the greates show that never happened". Way too cool to miss it!

Best Animated Series - Part 1.

This time I've made a little collection of the Best Animated Series. Mind you I don't know them all, I just picked from the ones I like and respect.

Adventure Time. This is a new series but it's one the most creative and fun I've ever seen. It's more for adults  than kids, but can be enjoyed by everyone with some intelligence. The style of the animation fits the themes perfectly, childish but stylish. Enjoy.

Ed, Edd & Eddy. This was on Cartoon Network when I was really young and I loved it from the first episode I've seen. The ever twitching fashion of the characters, the realistic adventures and small town locations were all lovable and engaging. Sorry for the quality.

Johnny Bravo premiered around the same time South Park did, it was a bit controversial in it's time, but nothing too over the top, he was just a lovable character who lived in his own world, with his own value system which made a great and fun show.