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Oceansize is a really impressive short monster movie created by four French animation students. Here’s a direct link with more information, and here’s a version with English subtitles (although you don’t really need it). [via io9]

A wonderful homage to my favorite movie, John Carpenter’s The Thing. Via MeFi

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

“Existing approaches to interaction with digital video are complex, and some operations lack the immediacy of interactive feedback. Our research in video annotation, visualization, and interaction harnesses computer vision to aid users in understanding and communicating with digital video. We are developing new approaches for computing the motion of points and objects in a video clip, and interactive systems that utilize this data to visually annotate independently moving objects in the video. We have applied this interface to construct visualizations of a short video clip in a single static image, using the visual language of storyboards. The principal advantage of the storyboard representation over standard representations of video is that it requires only a moment to observe and comprehend but at the same time retains much of the detail of the source video. The layout of the storyboard can be optimized to place the elements in a configuration that maximizes the clarity of presentation. We also explore novel interaction techniques for random video frame access using the natural spatial dimensions of a storyboard representation or an individual video frame.”

Read on.

sweetgifs.com Via NOTCOT.org

These monsters are result of my effort to learn Processing and encourage others to do so by showing the source code. Also, at the end, my plan is to do a short music reactive video using these monsters. So if you feel like you can make one too and be part of it, rules are simple:

Link!

Don’t think I’ve posted this before, and if I did who cares? It’s awesome, and I just rediscovered it. Now that I’ve been taking care of a cat for a while (Please don’t leave me, Kitters!) it seems even more realistic. Especially the batting at the face.

When Frank and Ollie retired from production on the same Friday I was the next animator on Ollie’s desk the following Monday; the very desk he had used for decades to create so many indelible animated moments. I was properly awed as I sat down in Ollie’s chair, at his desk.

As I was checking it out and getting the feel of it I noticed the pencil sharpener was full of shavings. Instead of throwing them out I poured them into a glass jar, labeled it and set it atop the desk. Good luck shavings… a simple reminder of the hard work required to create magic. My own jar of real Disney dust. The last jar.

Read on. [via Waxy.org: Links]