So, once upon a time, the Corpse Bride, a plague doctor*, and Rainbow Dash the My Little Pony went Trick or Treating...


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Alright, time to stop messing around on teh intarwebs and get busy. I have pretty much one costume down and two to go before tomorrow. Hopefully, it won't be too many years before they can start putting them together themselves...

Angus decided he wanted to be a plague doctor. If you've seen those fancily decorated Renaissance-type masks with a ( Read more... )

Here's a creepy little surreal animation for the season from the National Film Board of Canada, that I just happened to stumble across at YouTube the other day. It seems like when I used to go to animation festivals, their stuff formed most of the show. There also used to be a show late at night on Cartoon Network (pre- Adult Swim) called Oh, ( Read more... )

I am conflicted whenever I go to the grocery store. I like using the self-checkout and bagging my own groceries, using my own bags that I bring and thereby cutting down on the use of plastic. As a matter of fact, a nearby city (Long Beach, CA) has actually banned plastic shopping bags, and my own city is considering the same measure.

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(I started a group at Gather.com for grownup fans of all kinds of animation...this was originally posted there. I'm sure you guys, being far more internet savvy than the folks over there, have all seen it already...)


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From the fine folks at Aardman, who brought us Wallace and Gromit, the world's biggest stop motion animation:


Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

(That's an actual human in the boat...)


Gulp. The making of. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

Sand art done by this Sand in Your Eye.Pretty darn ( Read more... )

I love all kinds of animation, and this video was a free download from iTunes awhile ago. The song's not bad either. I think the little sock fish are my favorite part.

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So, Angus has decided, on a few viewings of reruns (seen fairly often in this household because my father recently became a fan), that he's soured a bit on Avatar: The Last Airbender because he didn't care for the ending.* Turns out that at 12, he's a total Zutara shipper. He decided to come up with his own solution. After viewing a few Kaput & ( Read more... )