Computer Animation Arts

Yep, that pretty much does it.

Wow, these guys are fast!  Check out this witty piss-take, which takes aim at Lucas's reputation for fiddling digitally with this own franchise...

More Death Of The Author fun and games here as the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of Breaking Bad and Frozen are mashed together to comic - and strangely moving - effect.  In a previous post, I suggested how Disney might be 'queered' in terms of the meanings ascribed it by audiences , and here, the original intent of two distinct texts are again re-enscribed for parodic effect.

Saw this - made me smile!

We all enjoyed the original 'Dumb Ways To Die' - indeed, I was singing the song for weeks.  I've just watched this parody featuring notable deaths in cinema - it might make you smile, but I reckon the 'Minas Tirith' bit will make you 'lol' - it did me.  Go on - waste 3 minutes of your life... Enjoy!

Many of you will already be familiar with the 'How It Should Have Ended' animated skits, which lampoon Hollywood movies by poking fun at their plot holes and contrivances of script.   This selection, featuring  Toy Story 3 , Scream , Aliens,  and the Harry Potter franchise, made me 'laugh out loud' at their pitch-perfect appropriations of favourite moments and skewering of narrative absurdities.  You're probably much too busy to watch these...

Prepare yourselves for a new Pingu remake of John Carpenter's masterpiece THE THING (1982) by Lee Hardcastle. This is actually just hilarious and genius at the same time. This looks like a proper home made video even with the sound effects recorded by himself, so it makes this even funnier. Storyboard :))) http://leehardcastle.com/blog/storyboards-pingus-the-thing/

Okay, so, back in 1982, John Carpenter (dir. of horror smash, Halloween ) remade The Thing From Another World (1951), and so unleashed some pretty amazing non-cg special effects set-pieces in which dogs turned inside out and disembodied heads sprouted legs.  This was the film that got the playground buzzing in terms of its extreme gore and 'out there' creature design.  A prequel to the film is due for release very soon, but it appears to this jaded viewer, that The Thing 2011 is just the The Thing '82 all over again - but with cg augmentation probably undoing all that was properly visceral and grisly about Rob Bottin's extraordinary puppets...   Anyway, this postmodernism-themed post could be about the continuing slow death of the avant-garde in terms of film-making as Hollywood stagnates in a perpetual 'nostalgia mode', as it seeks only to remake and revisit its own back-catalogue, as the levers of capitalism demand bums on seats over...

A pitch-perfect parody of boy band pop/pap from some clever/creatively bankrupt ad agency for the Yeo Valley milk & yoghurt company; a manufactured pop group singing a middle-of-the-road ballad with obligatory key-change that is largely indistinguishable from 'real; manufactured pop groups singing middle-of-the-road ballads with obligatory key-changes...

'A "Lynchian" man and woman find a 1950's style educational video that teaches them How To Make A David Lynch Film. While going through Lynch's canon, they learn how to achieve long pauses for no reason, crazy music and sounds, stories with no plot, and how to confuse the shit out of their audience! HOW TO MAKE A DAVID LYNCH FILM is a parody that will bring Lynch lovers and haters together in comical harmonium!' How To Make A David Lynch Film from Red and Tan on Vimeo .