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If Pixar made an animated Star Trek movie
It may look a little bit like this. Or a lot like this as a matter of fact. This should happen, it would be damn cool. Pixar Star Trek artwork courtesy of Minion Factory.
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Super Mario Post-it note stop motion fun!
Super Mario get’s animated using Post-it notes in this extremely creative and fun stop motion video. The video was created by Final Cut King. There is also a behind the scenes look at how this stop motion video was made, which utilized “hundreds and hundreds” of hand-made Super Mario images.
8-bit character Wreck-It Ralph is on a quest to prove he can be a hero
Over the weekend before seeing the movie Brave, they had a trailer for Wreck-It Ralph, which looks like it’s going to be a really good animated movie, with a few of your favorite video game characters that you might remember from when you were younger.
Enhance your fonts with animated typography
If you’re looking for a great way to enhance the fonts on your website, animated typography may be a great option for you. Typically in the past, animations have been accomplished through Flash, but as Flash is slowly dying off, and alternatives to achieve similar results are coming up. Animated typography is one of them.
Create cinemagraphs in just a few easy steps with Cinemagram
Cinemagraphs are a hybrid of a photo and video combined into one animated image, with the animations typically being a very subtle animation in only one part of the image. For example, you might have wind blowing a flag around in an otherwise completely still photo or someone’s hair moving around.
Check out this Wall-E case mod built from scratch
Remember Wall-E, the robot that that was programmed to clean up trash on earth in the Pixar animated film back in 2008? He was so adorable that the film was a huge hit, grossing in over $521 million worldwide and won a few awards too. Many have been infatuated with with Wall-E ever since, and according to Pondly, one unknown Russian builder took it upon himself to build from scratch an extremely detailed, working case modification of Wall-E. This may be the best case mod I have seen.
Beautiful concept art and color scripts for all your favorite Pixar films
For every Pixar animated movie made, the artists create color scripts which are visual representations of scenes throughout the film which will show the colors, tones and lighting. Also for each film, the artists always do concept art of their ideas about the movie. Most of these pieces of artwork are never seen as they are done behind the scenes.
How Pixar 3D computer rendering looked 40 yrs ago
Back in 1972, making 3D graphics wasn’t really too much different than the way it’s done today, it’s just more advanced now. The basic concept is still the same though, using polygonal vertices to make up three dimensional models. In this video which was created by Ed Catmull the founder of Pixar, you can see how the first digital 3D rendered images look like.
TechCrunch gets the animated treatment
You know you’ve made it in the industry when you get the Taiwanese NMA animation video treatment. If you read TechCrunch or any tech blog for that matter, you probably heard about the goings on over at TC. If you haven’t, skip to the video for a quick rundown. If you have time, first read this post by David Carr at the NY Times, then read this post by MG Siegler at TC. Follow it up by yesterday’s post from Arrington himself and then consider yourself in the loop.
Awesome Sonic the Hedgehog flipbook animation (video)
I haven’t seen a flipbook in a long while. But they have always been something of interest. Of course it takes a lot of skills and creativity to make one this good. Check out this flipbook animation of Sonic the Hedgehog “Bloody Renegade X” by Bloody Renegade X.
New YouTube video animation tools
YouTube has a new set of animation tools available. Some of them you might already recognize like Xtranormal, which they have already been available. But now the new animation tools are fully integrated into YouTube, so you can just create animated videos easily with your YouTube account (no extra sign up’s or anything required). I just created a quick animation with GoAnimate just to see how easy it was to do. It was fairly simple, and as you can see animations are great for creating memes.
