Links: animation

A YouTube video by CaptainGranit of the path these planets make circling the Sun

It's over 10 years old, but this animation about design and intention holds up well.

The largest LED screen in the world is also a sphere. Fittingly in Vegas. It looks bonkers.

I absolutely love all of this… Things made in Blender! Experiments that might have gathered dust! The delight and joy in the process! Chill sharing! Delightful and inspiring.

Clinton Jones organizes and curates these render challenges and they’re really great. Now I’m going through older challenges thanks to a collection of links on MetaFilter.

Smitten with the story and production of this piece by Mathew Salton with additional animation by James Bascara.

Read this article about delight in product design and enjoyed the illustrations by Dan Zucco. He’s got a class on Domestika that looks quite good.

Yup, more with the AI stuff. This particular thread by Sergei Galkin details the steps to transfer a physical toy to the digital world in very short order.

Mr. Doodle's project over the last few years is quite impressive. Dedication and consistency FTW.

Someone remixed Dr James O'Donoghue's animation with faces. This makes science concepts easy to grok.

It's like a Dorling Kindersley book come to life. Lots more 'Animigraffs' by Jake O'Neal.

By Vaskange using the Endless Paper App. It's not really endless, but it's got dystopian robot melancholy down pat. / via MeFi

Ralph Ammer’s 17 minute talk about drawing is delightful on many levels, part of which are the animations to illustrate his points.

A lovely animation of an astronaut swimming through stars

A lovely animation indeed. "Don't live in the grand scheme of things"

This is a terribly sweet, well done and moving song + animation about video games / via Waxy

That's one glorious timeline design (and animation)

In order to make things you need to understand them. In order to understand them, you need to first learn to notice them. You need to see the little details of the stitch on the handbag, or the almost imperceptible swipe animation on the app’s login screen.

Neato

Impressive

This song's a couple years old, and the baby animation is a little cheesy, but overall? Totes adorbs.

A vector looking animation (made in AfterEffects). Retro goodness with an incredible behind the scenes video. / via DaringFireball

Perfect animations round these out / via Brand New

when computer animation is elevated to folk art

I want to make a stop motion animation factory on the desk in my bedroom now.

Not out yet, but so hopeful that maybe it will be awesome! / via DJ

Animation: Henning M. Lederer / Music: Jörg Stierle

The animation looks beautiful

Lovely illustration and animation / via Yewknee

new open-source animation tool / via Yewknee

/via Yewknee

Mesmerized by this animation.

A timeless animation by Christoph Niemann of Sendak's interview on NPR's Fresh Air. Always worth a revisit.

Could this be the HTML 5 animation tool I've been hoping for? Looks promising...

This looks like a great class to learn how to animate a character in After Effects

Another great video from Apple describing how to get started with animations and how to make them effective for user interface. Sidenote: Their Keynote template is deliciously simple and effective.

Animation and drawing app inspired by Norman McLaren, maker of much awesome during his tenure at the National Film Board of Canada. Looks great for kids and adults (iPad app)

A poem by Shane Koyczan animated by many. A touching view of the effects of bullying.

Animation themed to the music while spinning on the turntable. Filed under neato. / via Coudal

Mac and PC versions available. Looks powerful good. / via @fchimero

A fine animation by MK12 / via DaringFireball

I quite enjoyed this animation by Buck. 

I love mid-century modern and all that, but it's new interpretations of graphic design like this that get me super excited. I won't deny there's some frustration because I don't know how to make animations like this, but I can watch, and ooooo, and ahhh.

Possible underpinning for xkcd movie? Just a thought. (via Keaggy)

Diggin this animation. Found while surfin 'round Nizmlab, a site to curate the loads of videos out there into something manageable. (via Fresh Arrival)

Some links you see float by the stream a few times and you finally dive in after that. (lovely animation via makenosound, TMN, clusterflock, MeFI...)

Well done animation made tongue-in-cheek for recruitment purposes. (via joemygod)

Tealights + patience = pretty dang incredible stop-motion animation (via Drawn!)

Learning should always be this visually solid.

fan-curated gallery of inspired and inspiring artwork from the animation studio (via alertbutnotalarmed)

Funny to see a digital implementation of something so simple. (via bearskinrug)

An ambiguous animation painted on public walls. (via Coudal)

I am mesmerized by the introduction movie/animation. (as seen on the Longboard)

Help the planet. Awesome enviroanimation (via Drawn!)

Quite lovely animation (though the Joker is still creepy) via cpluv

Compose an aesthetically pioneering 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video that illustrates the theme of “See What’s Possible.” The winning work must incorporate or close with the Adobe Photoshop logo. 20K prize (+ CS suite)

And encoded with YouTube's currently cruddy compression. Still, the goodness is visible (via Veer)

the video (animation by Alyssa Timon)

Another bit o animation

Animation stuff to watch when I'm done working