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100,000 visits to this blog!? Wow, thank you all for coming here, and hopefully being entertained.

Since animatio stuents were asking me about which books I recommend, I've placed a cartoon/art-related book list and some new animated shorts in the sidebar, have a look, and enjoy.... and the Octapodi link in the previous post has been fixed, watch that amazing little 3D cartoon.

Thanks for coming, there's LOTS more goodies coming soon.

Oktapodi - An Amazing Short Film!!!

Fatties 2 - Finally coming to theaters!

'Watchmen' Posters Compared to Original Ads

Plasmic Studios has constructed a page where you can, at just a simple mouse-over, compare the Watchmen character posters with the original comic ads they were based on.

Here they are.

Coraline Featurettes

Do Pretty Girls Fart? - Unaired MythBusters Clip

Freestyle Horse

Redesigning The Stop Sign

Dancing Goop

A non-newtonian fluid is a liquid that doesn't display properties of liquids or solids. It's a simple solution of cornstarch and water, and when you put it on top of a speaker it totally parties down.

Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Watched by over 6 million viewers, this video of a Carnegie Mellon professor who is just died of pancreatic cancer 3 weeks ago, contains some nice inspiration.

RADIOHEAD SELECTS FOUR WINNERS OF THE ANIBOOM ANIMATED VIDEO

Radiohead, aniBoom.com and TBD Records have named the winners of the IN
RAINBOWS Animated Music Video Contest, as selected by the members of
Radiohead themselves.

Due to the extraordinary quality of the submissions, Radiohead decided
to choose four winning videos, rather than a single winner, and is going
to provide the additional prize money so that each of the four creators
receives $10,000 to produce their full-length video. Radiohead will
possibly use the videos in support of future singles from IN RAINBOWS.

The winning video clip submissions and their creative teams are:

--15 STEP V2.0 by Kota Totori, Japan, for the song 15 STEP
(http://www.aniboom.com/video/236519/15-step-v2.0/).

--16 TRACKS VS. VIDEOTAPE 2.0 by Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus Winter,
Germany, for the song VIDEOTAPE
(http://www.aniboom.com/video/236713/16tracks-vs-videotape-2.0/).

--RECKONER V2 by Clement Picon, France, for the song RECKONER
(http://www.aniboom.com/video/235299/Reckoner-v2/).

--TRANSMUTATION by Tobias Stretch, U.S., for the song WEIRD
FISHES/ARPEGGI (http://www.aniboom.com/video/233397/Transmutation/).

"The aniBoom video competition, totally blown me away it has," said Thom
Yorke, lead vocalist of Radiohead. "We are proud that IN RAINBOWS songs
were the source of inspiration for so many amazing creations."

The contest invited all creators and Radiohead fans from across the
globe to produce a one-minute animated music video clip for any song
from the band's latest album, IN RAINBOWS, for a chance to win the
$10,000 grand prize to produce a full-length animated music video.
aniBoom received more than 1,000 entries, representing more than 150
cities, 40 countries and five continents.

Fans voted for their favorite video and helped determine the finalists
from which Radiohead chose the winners. More information on the contest
can be found at aniBoom.com (http://aniboom.com/radiohead).

For complete details on the contest, visit www.aniboom.com.

[Via Dan Sarto]

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