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Share your art: works in progress
Thanks to everyone who added their work to our Share your art gallery on theme of home. We have selected a few favourites for you to browse. Now, on to the next project. This month's topic is our broadest canvas yet: works in progress. We chose the theme in response to many of you who told us that you wanted to be...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Viral Video Chart: Chris Hadfield, Daft Punk, Arrested Development
David Bowie has won frenzied acclaim for the videos from his new album The Next Day, but it's a cover version of one of his songs that has caused an online buzz this week. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a version of Space Oddity on board the International Space Station, and it turned the spaceman –...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Cannes 2013: The Congress – review
The Israeli animator Ari Folman took Cannes by storm in 2008 with his shattering Waltz with Bashir – a rotoscoped marvel, mining the director's own experiences as a young conscript at the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon. The Congress – a skittish sci-fi drama based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem – at least...
guardian.co.uk (3 days ago)
MPA's Chinese Pitch Competition Names 'Pig Digging' Winner
Beating three other finalists, animator Chen Xifeng will head to Los Angeles for a five-day immersion course and meetings with Hollywood executives.
hollywoodreporter.com (4 days ago)
Ray Harryhausen. Animator. June 29, 1920 - May 7, 2013. Aged 92
They might never have heard of him but to a generation of children Ray Harryhausen was a hero.
dailyexpress.co.uk (9 days ago)
Here's the best visual guide to gymnastics skills you'll ever see, period.
Even hard core gymnastics fans might be stumped if asked what a Gogoladze is on floor or a Balabanov on rings. Fortunately, one animator has taken the time to create some incredible animations of certain named skills on...
examiner.com (10 days ago)
Curator on 'hoarder' Harryhausen
The curator of the late animator's collection on his 'remarkable' legacy
bbci.co.uk (11 days ago)
The animated life of Ray Harryhausen
Horatia Harrod on the fantastical worlds of the legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, who has died at the age of 92.
telegraph.co.uk (11 days ago)
AUDIO: Ray Harryhausen's work 'inspired'
Peter Lord, co-founder of Aardman Animations, pays tribute to the American animator and special effects master, Ray Harryhausen, who has died at the age of 92.
bbci.co.uk (11 days ago)
Film pioneer behind Jason’s skeletal warriors dies at 92
Ray Harryhausen, the animator and visual effects pioneer behind film classics such as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of...
thetimes.co.uk (12 days ago)
SFX master Ray Harryhausen 1920-2013
The animator and visual effects pioneer created some of the most striking images for fantasy films ever made
cbsnews.com (12 days ago)
Ray Harryhausen dead: Stop-motion animator dies aged 92
He was particularly known for the famous skeleton fight sequence from the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts
mirror.co.uk (12 days ago)
Visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen dead at age 92
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Influential visual effects maker and animator Ray Harryhausen, who brought monsters, skeletons and mythological beasts to life for movies like "Jason and the Argonauts" long before computers took over the job, died Tuesday at age 92, his family said.
reuters.com (12 days ago)
This Is Brilliant
Eventually, we all have to fight the things we create... it's just human nature. Animator Jonny Lawrence knows this, so he went ahead and got his ridiculous – and awesome – fight with his ink drawing out of the way. Via Viral Viral Videos
huffingtonpost.com (12 days ago)
How to add video and images to Your LinkedIn profile
LinkedIn, the traditionally text-heavy social network for professionals, is getting visual with the launch of the LinkedIn Professional Portfolio, which lets you upload images, videos, presentations and documents to showcase your work. "This means you can illustrate your greatest achievements in the form of...
pcworld.com (12 days ago)
Program will answer questions about JustFaith
Susie Paloma, JustFaith Ministries board member and regional animator, will lead a "JustFaith Ministries -- Engaging Spirituality Leadership Training" program from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 18
thonline.com (15 days ago)
It's Such a Beautiful Day – review
American animator Don Hertzfeldt gets more from the humble stickman than you'd believe possibleThis may be the week's biggest discovery, though you'll have to venture to London's ICA, where it plays until Thursday, to find it. American animator Don Hertzfeldt specialises in the kind of stick figure bored students...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
Close up: Star Trek, Star Wars and other stars
Catch up with the last seven days in the world of filmThe big storyAs the last metallic shrieks of Iron Man 3 die away, movieland is getting ready for the next blockbuster to come hurtling down the pipe. Attention now turns to a little number called Star Trek Into Darkness, directed by someone named JJ Abrams. Now,...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
Don Hertzfeldt: the best animator you've never heard of
His delightful blend of dot-eyed stickmen and dizzying existentialism – showcased in 2012's It's Such a Beautiful Day – makes Hertzfeldt an unstoppable force in stop-motion cinemaReading this on mobile? Click here to watch trailerWe take Gromit's eyebrows for granted. The trusty pooch of dithering inventor Wallace...
guardian.co.uk (17 days ago)
Watch the Cutest Animated Short About an Omelette-Flipping Dog Ever Made
This two-and-a-half-minute short made by animator Maddie Sharafian about an overworked guy and his ultradevoted (and culinarily inclined) dog is really the best. It's almost as if an extra from Studio Ghibli went off in search of a stage at Gusteau's restaurant in Ratatouille, only to return straight home to cook...
nymag.com (18 days ago)
LOOK: 'Girls Are Not Considered'
One woman tried to "lean in" in 1938 -- but it didn't work out too well for her, and not through any fault of her own. When Mary V. Ford applied for the animator training school at Walt Disney, she was informed that "girls are not considered" for creative positions: No Women Need Apply - A Disheartening 1938...
huffingtonpost.com (19 days ago)
Wife recreates beloved TV show intros for husband's birthday
Leigh Lahav, an artist and animator from Israel gave her husband Oren Mendezitsky a birthday gift fit for a television addict: a recreation of his favorite television show's opening credits tailored just for him.
dailymail.co.uk (29 days ago)
Richard Williams: the master animator
Richard Williams was a pioneer of hand-drawn animation, working on films such as The Pink Panther and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But perhaps his most enduring work is his masterclass, The Animator's Survival KitWhen the animator Richard Williams celebrated his 80th birthday last month he was the subject of widespread...
guardian.co.uk (30 days ago)
Q&A with ‘SIMON’S CAT’ creator Simon Tofield: Living with cats is ‘endless source’ of...
ONE SIMON — famed playwright Neil Simon — likes to say that comedy can come from the friction of a person’s wants and desires running smack against some obstacle. To that equation, another Simon — Internet-famous animator/author Simon Tofield — might add “cats.” Read full article >>
washingtonpost.com (1 month and 5 days ago)
New music: Haiku Salut – Glockelbar
This Derbyshire trio drew up a list of dream collaborators and one of them said yes. Unfortunately it wasn't MadonnaReading this on mobile? Click here to listenA quick glance at Derbyshire-based trio Haiku Salut's official website immediately dispels any notion that their delicate instrumentals are the works of...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 6 days ago)
Stolen London laptop sends secret spy pictures of its new owners using it - 3,000 miles away in Iran
London-based animator Dom Deltorto had installed the tracking software - Hidden App - just in case his MacBook Pro was ever taken
mirror.co.uk (1 month and 6 days ago)
Stolen Laptop Is Sending Its Owner Secret Photos From Its New Home in Iran
Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto's laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. More »
gizmodo.com (1 month and 7 days ago)
Relax to This Video of Moving Chanel Brushes
Last year, Chanel teamed up with AnOther Magazine and animator Quentin Jones to create a whimsical stop-motion video introducing their unusual brown (or grey, or both?) nail polish, Particulière. For this year's collaboration, the magazine asked Royal College of of Art graduate Sarah Beeby to take on the beauty...
nymag.com (1 month and 8 days ago)
FishBowl Animated Series 'The Potts' Debuts (Exclusive Video)
“How I Met Your Mother” EP Chuck Tatham collaborates with animator Todd Goldman on the FishBowl web project.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
Animator recreates classic video games with Post-it notes
A video games fan has created stop motion animation celebrating such retro classics as Ms Pac-Man and Donkey Kong using only a blank wall and a lot of Post-it notes.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 14 days ago)
