Category Archives: Animation

It’s Only a Paper Town

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Paperholm is the brilliant ongoing project by Edinburgh-based artist Charles Young. Each day, he creates a new building or component to add to his city of paper. He then uses stop-motion to animate the new addition to the community. You can … Continue reading →

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Getting Trippy With The Tate

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Animator Jack Sachs spent just three weeks creating this trippy little video tour of the Tate Britain Museum in London. Sachs’ surreal CG characters occupy the staid gallery while guiding us on an engaging tour of the art treasures. I … Continue reading →

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Its Your Story To Tell

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Brian D. Butler
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Going West

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Going West is the first book in a popular trilogy by New Zealand’s beloved author Maurice Gee. The New Zealand Book Council commissioned this wonderful stop-frame animation of the book. Created by Andersen M Studio, the animators used actual copies of … Continue reading →

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Animating Paradise

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Earlier this year, I shared a post on the Prado Museums commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of the painter Hieronymus Bosch and his masterpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Now, the Museum of the Image in Breda, … Continue reading →

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Two Travelers

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Like millions of Leonard Cohen fans around the world I have been mourning the passing of the legendary poet, singer, songwriter, and novelist. We can only console ourselves with the extraordinary body of work that he has left us. The … Continue reading →

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Available in the following formats

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

You can always get the latest from the inimitable Tom Gauld at his website.

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Typewriter Art

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Inspired by the story of aviator Amy Johnson’s flight from London to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane, animator Lizzy Hobbs created this charming film using an old Underwood 315 typewriter.

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I am curious yellow

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

I recently had a scintillating conversation about pencils with two artists. I only wish that I had seen this neat video beforehand so that I could have contributed some pithy pencil trivia.

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How Dickensian

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Brian D. Butler

Tom Gauld created this brilliant print for the London comic book store Gosh!s 30th anniversary celebration. Prints are available on their website.  

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