Entries tagged with 'animations'
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Wallace and Gromit, our favorite clay-modeled inventor and his beagle, take a break from cheese enthusiasm to become baking entrepreneurs. The thirty-minute short film A Matter of Loaf and Death will debut on BBC ONE in December, and be released on DVD next year. Business is booming at their "Top Bun" bakery—where facilities include robotic kneading arms—until a cereal killer gets loose. Gromit is nervous (but can only make petrified facial expressions since he lacks an actual mouth for talking) while the endearingly absent-minded Wallace is in la-la land, pining for Piella Bakewell, a former Bake-O-Lite bread commercial star. This is the duo's first showing since the Oscar-winning film The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in 2005. [via Kottke]...
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"Today we visit one of the most unhealthy environments in all the world: the wild Formica plains." Watch this entire episode of Junkfood Geographic, a computer-animated short by Jason Tremblay, to learn about this desolate land of barbecue pools and herds of chicken nuggets. Also, get a rare glimpse of the hungry cheeseburger as it chases its processed chicken prey. Where else can you watch a hamburger leap with the agility of a tiger? (If the animation looks a bit unpolished, that's because it's a student project that was made in 1999.) Watch the video after the jump....
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"Who would've guessed it'd be a massive coronary, diabetes, and total organ failure that killed him?" In College Humor's latest video, "McFuneral," the characters of McDonaldland mourn the death of their leader, Ronald McDonald, and Hamburglar unleashes everyone's dark, mostly homicidal secrets. But their secrets are kept safe by a surprise character. Watch the video after the jump....
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "Thank You Girl" as a tribute to the droves of ladies who sent love letters and squealed adoringly in the audience. How do you properly thank a lady fan? By invading her kitchen, washing her dishes, and making her a pot of, presumably, soup. After the jump, watch an animated music video of the guys banging on pots and pans....
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The original Chiquita Banana commercial produced by Disney in the 1940s pretty much sums up everything I know about bananas: they taste best when the skin has brown flecks, they go well in pie, and you shouldn't put them in the refrigerator. New things that I learned are that male bananas are normal sized and naked while female bananas are human sized, wear slinky skirts, and sing catchy educational songs about how to eat their kin. Watch the video after the jump....
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When I went home for July Fourth, my mom welcomed my brother and me with a delicious homemade dumpling feast. How did my mom, who probably hadn't made homemade dumplings in years, suddenly get the inspiration to whip up over 100 little meat-filled dough pouches? By watching Kung Fu Panda. Yes, a computer-animated movie about a hefty panda discovering his inner kung fu prowess drove my mom to dig into her latent memory bank of Chinese recipes. In the most dumpling heavy scene, Po (voiced by Jack Black), whose kung fu skills are provoked by the sight of food, must battle against Master Shifu (voiced by Dustin Hoffman) to get his hands on the last dumpling. Dumplings are awesome—I...
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The Farm of Tomorrow, an animated short directed by famed animator Tex Avery, shares 1954's predictions of the future of farming—mostly involving strange crossbreeding pairs. Has the future delivered chickens crossbred with centipedes (for more drumsticks), cows crossbred with beavers (for built-in fly swatters), or ducks crossbred with bananas (for ease of skin peeling)? Not yet. Those geneticists better get crackin'. Watch the video after the jump....
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Turn up your speaker volume and let the virtual Jello-poking fun begin: it's Jello Time! Mouse over the shiny red mass and you will be rewarded with realistic hypnotic wigglings. It's quite captivating. Almost disturbingly so. For more food-related flash fun/strangeness from Dutch artist Rafaël Rozendaal, check out Popcorn Painting (never-ending popping corn) and Unlike the Rest (never-ending sweating watermelon). Related Photo of the Day: Rainbow Jell-O Homemade Jello-O?...
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PBS's animated television show WordGirl follows the adventures of superheroine WordGirl and her monkey sidekick Captain Huggy Face as they battle evil, word-challenged villains while simultaneously teaching new vocabulary to their young viewers. Two of these evil villains, the Butcher and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy, use arsenals of food products as their weapons. After the jump, watch select episodes of WordGirl where the Butcher shoot mountains of meat out of his hands (with battle cries including "Sausage cyclone!" and "Pot roast attack!") and Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy squirt honey mustard onto his opponents. (And if the prospect of flying pot roast and vocabulary lessons aren't intriguing enough, one of the episodes features a very, brain-meltingly...
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Do you meat sauce? Do you love sauce? Do you love dipping meat in sauce? Then bring your meat to Sauceman's and dip away! They provide the over 1000 dipping sauce combinations—you just need to bring your own meat. Alright, Sauceman's doesn't exist—it's a restaurant portrayed in Adult Swim's completely absurd animated series Tom Goes to the Mayor—but maybe this idea will become a reality someday! And then immediately fail. Watch the meat-dipping action, after the jump....
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