Category Archives: animation

Friday Night Flicks: Dustin

Tonight’s flick is a student project from Facultat Design — Film & Animation, Georg Simon Ohm, Nuremberg Institute of Technology.     Watching this might be a pleasant way to spend a few minutes this weekend while trying to stay … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: The Twelve Days of Christmas

What would it really be like to receive all the gifts listed in The Twelve Days of Christmas? This is Anomaly‘s story of one young woman who did. Language warning: as in Bridget Jone’s Diary.     May your season … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: OK Go “Obsession”

I first posted this flick back in 2017, the year OK Go released the video for their song Obsession. Since the theme for this month’s flicks is printmaking, it seems appropriate to post it again. The film was made using … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Panera Pop-up

There are two flicks this Friday. The first is an advertisement filmed using a pop-up book as the “set”, the second is a video about the making of the pop-up book used in the ad.       If you … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Hungarian Inventions

Here’s another pop-up book for August, this time from Gábor Filkor.     If you have a little more free time this weekend, you could read about Hungarian inventions here or look at another video —a stop motion animation— from … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Zahhak The Legend Of The Serpent King

This week’s flick features the pop-up book of Zahhak: The Legend Of The Serpent King. From the text on Youtube: Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King, created by Iranian award-winning artist and filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian and Meggendorfer Prize winning … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Type Books Animated

It’s a holiday long weekend in a lot of places in the Northern Hemisphere, so it seemed a good time to re-post a stop-motion animation I first shared with readers nine years ago.     Perhaps you could spend your … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: House Hippos and Cowboys Herding Cats

With the addition of Artificial Intelligence to the already existing toolkit of CGI, it has become just about impossible to determine whether the images we see on the Internet are real or not. However CGI has long been pretty effective … Continue reading

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Friday Night Flicks: Christmas Animation by Madfly

Tonight’s flick is a sort of animated Christmas card created by Madfly six years ago for clients and friends.     It’s good when friends stick together.

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Friday Night Flicks: Scaredy Cat

Tonight’s flick from Zombie Studio pokes a little fun at traditional horror movie tropes.     If you wish to terrify some kitties this Hallowe’en perhaps you could spend the weekend making yourself a cucumber costume. If you are more … Continue reading

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