The Kid Should See This.
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There's just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...
But we don't underestimate kids around here.
Kid-friendly not-made-for-kids videos for all! Collected by Rion Nakaya and her three four year old co-curator.
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Remember those origami examples and how tos? Here’s a simple but illuminating stop motion animation of a car being made out of one sheet of newsprint to help visualize some more complex folding! Also check out a pre-made origami Rhino unfolding. Both pieces feature the work of origami artist, Sipho Mabona, who has an installation of origami locusts (made from sheets of money) at the Japanese American National Museum in LA until August 26, 2012.
via This is Colossal.
Light painting animations using cold cathode case lights, EL wire, lasers and more… all mounted on a turntable! The piece was created by Kim Pimmel:
The video is stop motion, so every frame is an individually shot photograph. Each photograph is a long exposure photo, with exposures reaching up to 20 seconds in some cases.
There are also some long exposure images on flickr, like this one and this one.
via SwissMiss.
Francisco Prieto animates the assembly of a Lego Millennium Falcon, Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series. He writes: “Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modeling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame.”
And of course, because it’s the internet, there are (many) other versions of the Millennium Falcon’s assembly out there…
via reddit.
Made for fashion designer Borre Akkersdijk by animator Niels Hoebers, this video was featured at Akkersdijk’s show at fashion week in Paris as “a visualisation of a creative production process.”
“The Joy of Books” is a wonderful stop-motion animation in which the books in a small bookshop come alive at night. The animation is by Sean Ohlenkamp and quite a large number of volunteer book wranglers. It was shot after hours at Type Books in Toronto.
via Laughing Squid. Thanks, @dougmcarthur.
Protéigon (perhaps polygon + protean?), a short film by Steven Briand.
via This Is Colossal.
Inspired by a Hungarian poem, this beautifully-textured stop motion piece about growing up tells the story of a little girl who travels with a river to the sea. This version is in French, but it’s also in Hungarian, with English subtitles.
Plus! Notes on how it was made.
Via The Curious Brain.
