Tag: animation

Peanuts Without Telepathy

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date May 2, 2009

“The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show” was a Saturday morning show that ran in ’83 & ’84. It was a direct lift from the Peanuts comic strips with nothing added except when absolutely necessary. You can kind of figure out what the three panels were if you try hard. It created some problems though: without Snoopy’s thought balloons how were you supposed to know what he was saying since DOGS CAN’T TALK? So you lose a few punch lines. You also recognize quick that Peanuts rarely gave a happy ending. Who needs a happy ending? Things going wrong is always more fun to watch, isn’t it?

Thanks Macleans!

Tags animation, Cartoons, Peanuts

Bowl Of Noses

Magnetic Fields: The Beauty Of Science

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date April 26, 2009

In “Magnetic Movie” the filmmakers use actual scientists’ discussions about the nature of magnetic fields but then illustrate it with sound and animation to give you a better idea as to what they look like. It’s freaky in the most beautiful of ways: it makes us think of all the things we can’t see but that do shape the world around us.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Tags animation, Magnetic Movie, science

Bowl Of Noses

Flip Your Wig!

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date April 4, 2009

Tags animation

Bowl Of Noses

The Ultimate Lego Star Wars Epic

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date March 11, 2009
1 Comment on The Ultimate Lego Star Wars Epic

We’ve been speculating here in our nose-filled bowls of what would be the great Lego mini-fig flick. We are working out the plot for Alien Invasion, but the bar has been raised. This will be in heavy rotation in our dish for quite some time I am sure.

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

Thanks Cloudal!

Tags animation, LEGO, mini figs, star wars

These Are Those Things

Wow! This is great! "Please Say Something"

Post author By Ted Hope
Post date March 5, 2009
1 Comment on Wow! This is great! "Please Say Something"

Thanks to IFC’s Independent Eye I have now seen my favorite film of 2009. David O’Reilly’s PLEASE SAY SOMETHING won the Golden Bear for short films at Berlin this year. It’s about ten minutes long but packs a wallup of emotion, innovation, and experimentation into those ten minutes. My day has been made.