"Even the last scene takes place in a grocery store aisle where juice boxes play a key role." The cover of the Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack. [Image: Amazon] Over the weekend I saw Fantastic Mr. Fox, the stop-motion animation by Wes Anderson based on the kiddie-lit classic by Roald Dahl. While the book has some simple pencil sketches by Quentin Blake, the film is filled with lavish food scenes that may actually make you hungry, even if the cakes and roasted meats are made of clay. Without giving too much away, the story's whole premise revolves around Mr. Fox 's obsessive mission to steal from three bad guy farmers—Boggis, Bunce and Bean—each of whom fixates on a single type of...
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A plucky fly straps a pepper shaker to its back and spreads sneezing powers around the world, saving many innocent lives in the process. Argentinian animation studio Tatanka made this short film to promote peace—and maybe pepper. Watch the video after the jump...
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When a real corn kernel likes a candy corn kernel, how does he get her attention? This animation by OddBot Studio gets into the head of a lovesick corn kernel, and shows what happens when he can't control his nerves. Watch the video after the jump....
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Halloween is serious business for kids. They want candy. Lots of candy. And with a few sleazy and not-so-sleazy tactics, they can get enough candy to last until next Halloween. Some simple tips include wearing a great costume and being an enthusiastic trick-or-treater; mildly more complicated is emptying your pail into a larger sack, changing costumes, and going back for seconds to the houses giving out the best candy. Watch the video after the jump....
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Yellow Cake by Canadian animator Nick Cross tells the tale of a small town of happy little bakers driven to terrorism by the greed of their leader and cake-hungry fat cats, resulting in the town's ultimate destruction. In an interview with Slow Decade, Cross explains that he got the idea for the film in 2003 in light of speculation that Iraq was buying uranium powder called yellow cake. Watch the video after the jump....
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Super Baozi is an animated steamed bun internet star created by Sun Haipeng. Here, Super Baozi becomes a rockstar (with steamed bun back-up singers, naturally) and performs before a live audience of glowstick-waving fans. The band is kind of like the California Raisins, except puffier, filled with meat and/or vegetables, and way better at nunchucks. The video, after the jump....
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The theme of stop motion animated recipes continues with this video by Keith Heyward for how to make olive bread, first place winner in Howcast's How-To Video Challenge and probably one of the few tutorials out there narrated by a loaf of bread. Watch the video after the jump....
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This is a cooking show I would watch: recipes demonstrated in one and a half minutes through a combination of stop motion animation and sped up video. Here's a simple apple pie recipe from Animi, after the jump....
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Two adventurous gingerbread men emulate Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's historical first climb up Mount Everest in this animation promoting New Zealand's Bakery of the Year competition. Alas, it was all a dream...sort of. Watch the video after the jump....
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If you like animations and sausage, you'll love this video. It's the classic story of dog and hanging meat products—dog attempts to eat scrappy dog food for about a second before going after nearby sausage ropes. The adorable two-minute animated short, after the jump....
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