Pixar’s zoetrope looks amazing, I’d love to see it in person.

Why Can’t We Walk Straight?

I can’t even begin to imagine how much work went into creating Big Bang Big Boom, and incredible piece of large-scale stop-motion animation.

Alma is a terrific short film by Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas, available on Vimeo for a limited time (I don’t know how long, catch it now). (via waxy)

The COP15 logo (United Nations Climate Change Conference) is terrific. It was built with a program that adds “dynamic, real-time movement to the logo and takes the rigid grid of the logo and animates it with a series of parameters like flocking and flow fields.” I’d embed it, but the videos look better in context.

Wow, very impressive, here’s the “Trinity Help” scene from The Matrix, done in stop-motion with only Legos (although I’d really recommend clicking through and watching the bigger version instead):

The side-by-side comparison is also great. Finally, here’s the LegoMatrix site.

(via kottke)

The Metropia trailer looks like it uses moods and themes that play the uncanny valley to its advantage. (via twitch)

If you are a fan Jarratt Moody’s typographic Pulp Fiction mashup, now you can buy the t-shirt version. (via josh spear)

3D printers, “machines that use inkjet print-heads to spray layer after layer of a UV curable liquid that hardens into a solid”, were used for some of the model making in Coraline. So Coraline ended up having 200,000 facial expressions at her disposal, while Jack from The Nightmare Before Christmas only had around 800. Here’s a featurette on the subject on YouTube (also embedded in the article).

I saw Coraline with Amelia yesterday, and it was excellent. We agreed, not scary per se, but it had creepiness to burn. Anyway, via neilhimself, the “making of” featurettes that will be on the DVD have been released on YouTube, including a bit on the remarkable microknitting.

P.S. I wonder if Pixar can hold off on releasing Up until 2010 so they can both win best animated feature?

I always loved Bud Luckey’s Sesame Street cartoons (even if I didn’t know who Bud Luckey was until Boundin’ came along):

• Martian Beauty
• The Alligator King
• The Ladybugs’ Picnic
• Three on a Lady’s Lap

You can search YouTube for more (or for the inevitable day when those particular copies are pulled).

Brightcove has clips from the new Wallace & Gromit short, “A Matter of Loaf and Death.” I like the new morning routine. (via twitch)

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline gets the Henry Selick treatment. Could be a very, very nice pairing of author and director.

Amazing what you can do with index cards and a sharp knife. Scroll down for the time lapse video too. Funny to watch the Cheez-its in that one.

My Inbox has been very fun over the last 24 hours. It all started with a recommendation from a coworker of this Weird Al video ("not for the crappy song but for the amazing Flash animation"). I had to reply with another Flash video with the word "Creep" in the title: the Radiohead acoustic video that made the rounds awhile ago. Worth a rewatch if you caught it then, and if you've never seen it, click through now. The same coworker then kicked in this sketch by Rowan Atkinson doing the naughtiest roll call ever (NSFW). How he pulled that off with a straight face I'll never know.

Okay, new coworker, new paragraph. His contribution was this unique juggling routine, Conic. YouTube then recommended other routines by the same guy: Orthogonal is fantastic, the Hemisphere preview is enticing, and may lead you to the full award-winning routine. Finally, a little playful bit: Nestled Boxes.

All reminiscent of Michael Moschen's work (certified genius). In particular check out Triangle, Threeball, and Light (yes, he was David Bowie's arms in Labyrinth).

Last, from an entirely separate quarter, a friend passed along this link: Lords of the Logistic. I've seen a few things like that in person, and it stopped me in my tracks every time.

I've seen various folks adopting this as their forum avatar:

I like it, probably because I've had days like that.

There's no info about the creator, but Ze is hosting a video titled "Animator" that is definitely worth checking out.