By Artie Knapp (USA – ArtieKnapp.com) Illustration by divaDzine BEFORE THE SUN had even broken across the horizon, young Larkin Wyley was anxious to start his day. Larkin was confident he was going to make a paleontology discovery so big and so grand, that it would put his name in the Kid’s Hall of Fame. [...]

Who is Tanya Grishko? She made this film and it’s just absolutely magnificent. There’s not a false note anywhere in it. The timing is brilliant, never missing a beat. I love the scene in the bar where she starts lapping her drink and all the customers are just staring at her. Fantastic. Beautiful drawings. If [...]

This is the opening cinematic from the upcoming Wii game Epic Mickey. It is fun and has that ever-flowing look of a Disney cartoon. I have one quibble with it. You can’t always do in computer animation what you do in hand-drawn animation. In this case, I think the problem is in Mickey’s hands. They [...]

Simon Tofield has another episode of his extremely amusing Simon’s Cat series.

A film about an attractive spy during a rocket launch. By Clement Bolla, Aurelia Vernhes, and Laurent Gillot.

Here’s how you obfuscate 1000 years of history. You animate it into an unintelligible eight minutes for an expo in Shanghai because certainly those Chinese are interested in how the Poles won their freedom. But the real problem with this animation that seems to place Poland’s entire history squarely into an Xbox game is the [...]

If you don’t know anything about being a painter, Andy Warhol clears it all up in this short film clip. This is the entire 20th century in art summed up to perfection by a raving genius.

Here’s a 1936 cartoon from the Max Fleischer studio. Little fish need to go to school under the ocean. But one little fish doesn’t behave so well and gets hooked by some dangerous trouble. Here’s an undersea ABC game I made for little fishes.

Animator, Michel Gagné, has just premiered his latest film.  Sensology is a visualization of music played by Paul Plimley (piano) and Barry Guy (bass).  The images actually look like the sounds they accompany.  I couldn’t help thinking all the way through the film that the pictures were exactly how the notes sounded.  I’m normally very [...]

Filmmaker Declan Moran made this under 2-minute version of Dante’s Inferno which is based on a book called Dante’s Inferno: A Comedy’ by the Brothers Grim & Grimy (undead). I like it.  Dante’s actual book is so full of colorful Italian whining that I find it almost unreadable.  I mean really, the nasty old fellow [...]