"Zoomquilt II" is a collaborative flash animation created in 2007. It consists of image contributions from 20 artists connected in a continuous zooming motion. A free screensaver is also available for download.

COMBO (2 times loop) is a collaborative animation made by animation artists "Blu" and David Ellis. What is unique about this animation is that where animation usually takes places on paper or inside a computer screen, this animation is physically created and/or hand-drawn inside an actual physical environment, on the walls and in the spaces of an actual building (click-into this posting to watch the video).

If you are interested in some very cool short animated films check out the Film Page on the University of Hertforshire’s digital animation program (also check out their page on Vimeo). These films are made by students as graduation projects and are really very impressive.

this page, set up by Japanese TV station Wowow offers an interactive experience of a live Radiohead performance of their track “15 Step” during the group’s 2008 Japanese tour. It allows you to remix the video in real time using pixellized flash video streams captured from 12 different points-of-view, and to generate your own custom mix of the live performance.

the new Radiohead music video for their song "House of Cards" was created using a technology that captures 3D images as data, without cameras or lights. A version of the video was released on the Google code page, which allows you to manipulate and move in or around the objects as the video is playing using a 3D viewer. You can also download and modify the data to come up with your own version of the video.

Hark Hark!

Someone took the “Death Star Canteen” skit by British comedian Eddie Izzard and created an animation using LEGO figures that is truly hilarious.

"More" is an award winning, academy-nominated animated short film made by filmmaker Mark Osborne in 1998. The 6 minutes film chronicles the life of a lonely individual with a colorless existence, but who is nonetheless propelled to change his life by a (literal) fire in his belly.

The guys from South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) have come up with some animations that ’illustrate’ the words of wisdom of Alan Watts (philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion according to Wikipedia) — to be found for your perusal on this Souljerky blogposting entitled "South Park Zen".

Rating: 5

Rating: 5