Smart videos for curious minds of all ages.
Streamschool (Patakiskola) by Péter Vácz: 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. The version above is in Hungarian with English subtitles, but it’s also available in French: L’école des ruisseaux.
Plus! Notes on how it was made.
via The Curious Brain.
Paper Mario, but with actual paper. Hand-drawn in a notebook and animated with stop-motion, Nintendo fan Kisaragi Hutae 6 recreates a scene from Mario's side-scrolling quest in Super Mario Bros, complete with sound ef...
Discover the imagined insect life buzzing and brewing in landscapes made from wire. What happens when they "play pinball" at night? We find out in Luna Park, an experimental animation by Brussels, Belgium-based collec...
Stop-motion artists spend hours and hours making very short animated scenes look alive, smooth, and rich with detail. This time-lapse by Andy Biddle showcases that intricate work with a sushi-making scene in Wes Ander...
Traveling Through Brush and Ink is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings, transforming himself into animals and plants, and becomes part of the nat...
The city of Toulouse, France "has given itself over to an immersive form of street theater, bringing to life creatures like the giant spider and the Minotaur, the mythical monster from Greek mythology that is half bul...
How might a tiny chef make an apple pie? Perhaps a bottle cap can be of some use. In this delightful stop-motion animation by Rachel Larsen, Adam Reid, and Ozi Oshiro, The Tiny Chef bakes his famous Bottle Cap Apple P...
On this date, September 21, 1967, 51 years ago, Fred Rogers walked into the television studio at WQED in Pittsburgh to tape the very first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which would premiere nationally on PBS...
A cautious eight-year-old Lila struggles to find her balance while riding her bicycle in this endearing, brightly-coloured animation about family love and support. If You Fall was written and directed by Vancouver-...
A boy creates a wooden duck pull toy in a woodworking workshop, but the materials aren't wood. It's all LEGO... even some of the tools and the paint. This new stop-motion animation from Brick Bros Productions riffs of...
Eva Stalinski is a Dutch illustrator and screen printer who sells her shirts, bags, pins and patches online. In this delightful series of how-to videos, she shares how to screen print your own designs onto t-shirts. S...
