Dave Creek, Lead Character Designer Of ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ Memorialized With Traveling Exhibit Of His Hand-Crafted Bonsai Treehouses
Dave Creek’s Traveling Treehouses are on display at Shriners Children’s Southern California in Pasadena.
Installations
Venue Operator Of Immersive Disney Animation Exhibit Files For Bankruptcy In U.S.
The Toronto-based company cancelled or prematurely closed the touring Disney exhibit in a number of cities last month.
Disney Is Developing An ‘Immersive Experience’ That Will Tour Globally
The touring experience will launch in Toronto later this year, followed by many other cities in 2023.
Michael Frei’s ‘KIDS’ Is A Short Film, Game, And Installation Rolled Into One
“From the start, I wanted to create a film that uses code,” says Frei, whose film will screen next week at Annecy.
‘Paradise’ by Studio Smack
A contemporary animated interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights.”
Look Inside Dismaland, Banksy’s Bleak New Theme Park
The art provocateur has transformed a derelict English seaside resort into the ” UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction.”
Brazilian Animation is Taking Over Times Square
“Parallel Connection,” a piece by Birdo and OSGEMEOS, plays on 45 screens in Times Square nightly.
‘H OM E OMOR PH ISM’ by Ouchhh
A homeomorphism, also called a continuous transformation, is an equivalence relation and one-to-one correspondence between points in two geometric figures or topological spaces that is continuous in both directions.
Watch An Animated Short Presented On 74 Different Screens
An animated short told on over 70 screens from a 2-inch smart-watch to a 65-inch curved HDTV.
A Mexican Cemetery Comes Alive Through Animation
“They say Mexicans have a special fascination with death,” writes Christian Bermejo of the Mexican animation website Tweenbox. “We don’t believe it but maybe playing around with mapping in the cemetery doesn’t help.”
Norman McLaren Centennial Celebrations Take Over Downtown Montreal and Scotland
Animation is overtaking the streets of downtown Montreal’s entertainment district, the Quartier des Spectacles, and various cities in Scotland in honor of Norman McLaren’s centennial.
“Transe Le Gros” by Julie Faure-Brac
This sequence—Transe Le Gros—by Julie Faure-Brac was made for “Incantations”, an interactive installation produced in …
“Evolution” by Dirty Puppet
Australia’s coolest boutique design/animation studio Dirty Puppet recently created this unusual rectangle-shaped piece, commissioned by …
Kelly Richardson’s “Mariner 9” Animates Futuristic Mars Landscape
How might Mars look like a hundred years in the future, after we’ve sent dozens of rovers to explore the planet? That’s the idea that …
“Highly Strung” by Dave Jones
Not strictly animation, but Australian filmmaker Dave Jones directed a live show the end of last year that combined interactive animated …
“MÖBIUS” by Eness
I think it’s really exciting when animation breaks the confines of the rectangular screen and shares the physical space around us. …
An Interactive Architectural Projection
Two things stand out about this architectural mapping piece by Paris-based 1024 Architecture which debuted in Lyon, France last …
Animated Skateboads by Natas Kaupas
Public Domaine, a skateboard art and culture show currently on display at Gaite Lyrique in Paris, features an installation of classic …
How Animation Can Interact with Nature
I’ve written fairly often about the contemporary evolution of animation beyond the flat, rectangular, non-interactive screen. Animation …
“The Cyclotrope” by Tim Wheatley
I’m really into zoetrope-related experiments this week, which is a line I don’t recommend using as a conversation starter at any party. …
“Rotary Signal Emitter” by Sculpture
“Rotary Signal Emitter” is a picture-disc LP created by Sculpture, the London based duo of musician Dan Hayhurst and animator Reuben …
3D Zoetrope Projection Mapping by Graeme Hawkins
Hands down the coolest thing I’ve seen in the past week–heck, in the past month! Graeme Hawkin, the mad Scottish animation scientist …
Animated Space in the Cosmopolitan’s West Lobby
One of the most exciting evolutions within the animation art form in recent years has been its development beyond the traditional screen. …
The Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera
We posted the centerpiece of this animation back in 2006, but here is an expanded version featuring the pre-show with Bill Hanna and Joe …
Puck Cinema Caravana
Dani from the Spanish animation blog Protoones turned me on to Puck Cinema Caravana, a cool little project from Spain conceived by Carles …
Kenny Scharf’s Barberadise
Kenny Scharf, one of the first “lowbrow” artists to popularize cartoon culture in ‘fine art’, is back with a new exhibit of Flintstone …
“Tetragram for Enlargement” by Apparati Effimeri
There has been a lot of growth in site-specific animation over the past few years, and artists like Blu and Pablo Valbuena are finding …
