"As amazing as it was to find the disk, the file was corrupt and couldn’t be read; all attempts to view the now 20 year old animation failed. It was part one of a science fiction saga titled “Porth” that our friend Cory had made by stretching the animation tool to the absolute limits. To say the least it was worth putting some effort into saving this file." Data archaeology.

"But to my eye, GIF is the most popular animation and short film format that's ever existed. It works on smartphones in millions of people's pockets, on giant displays in museums, in web browsers on a newspaper website. It finds liberation in constraints, in the same way that fewer characters in our tweets and texts freed us to communicate more liberally with one another. And it invites participation, in a medium that's both fun and accessible, as the pop music of moving images, giving us animations that are totally disposable and completely timeless."

"The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more." It's efficient and well-documented, too. Thumbs up.

Lovely.

"I’m basically the James Cameron of PowerPoint 97." Making short films in Powerpoint because it's the only tool you've got. Brilliant.

"When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got... A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker." Linked everywhere, but - utterly charming.

Wonderful, wonderful interview with Eggleston. So much care and attention in the work and the way he describes it; so many lovely illustrations. The "color scripts" alone are great, but really, it's all worth your time.

"The commercial worked on Lucas but a few years later, the computer graphics group at ILM was sold by Lucas to Steve Jobs for $5 million and became Pixar. Loren Carpenter is still at Pixar today; he's the company's Chief Scientist." Marvellous.

Art of the Title interview the chaps behind Wall-E's end credits, which knocked me out the first time I saw them, and still give me the loveliest buzz to this day.

"There was once a world of living robots. But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator. The world fell into a deep sleep. Bring life back to the world!" Wonderful animation and art design, and a charming little game. It'll take you about 10-20 minutes. It's brilliant.

"...when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline." Lovely stop-motion, involving pixel-art made of post-it-notes. Made me smile this afternoon.

Seriously, Harmonix' character design is just amazing, and this movie - just the _intro_ movie to Beatles Rockband - is making me care more about that band than anything in my life has. Harmonix are gods.

"This is my dedication to the creative team behind Pixar's movie The Incredibles. I loved the depth of the world, the buildings, the gadgets and most of all I loved the chairs. Enjoy!" Collecting things is important. This is lovely.

"No. That would be your mother." Valve drop the next "Meet The..." video, and it's perhaps the best yet - certainly in terms of editing and choreography. And I love how the other characters - especially the Soldier - are still being developed in this.

Lovely: Creature Comforts meets "Hey There Little Fella". Totally charming.

Beautiful. And: insanely time-consuming; it's not just stop-motion, but two separate pieces of stop motion put together. I love it when they go swimming.

"With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way." Oh. Now that looks interesting.

Cordell Barker's 1988 cartoon. I didn't even think this might be on Youtube.

After yesterday's stop-motion, this is perhaps even more remarkable and strange. Seriously, it's jaw-droppingly clever; daren't think how long it took.

"Commissioned by the advertising agency Nordpol+ Hamburg I designed the origami models and consulted the stopmotion as well as the computer animators of this world wide corporate movie that tells the story of the japanese sports brand ASICS. The movie won a Grand Prix at the Eurobest, gold at the New York festival, gold at the London International Awarts, silver at the Clio in Miami and two times bronze at ADC Germany." And it deserves all those awards; a beautiful piece of animation and paper-folding.

"Not to be outdone (well, maybe a little outdone), we've combed through hours of imaginary data here at Consumerist HQ and put together a similar animation that illustrates Starbucks' explosive growth over the past 20 years. Enjoy." I did.

Daft, lovely, and hypnotic to watch.

Gosh, this is beautiful. I watched it, and the world stopped for a moment.

A "museum" of Flash site loading screens. Not sure what to say, really.

Wonderful, wonderful, stop-motion trailer for a Megaman 9 built out of the real world. Hypnotic, and lovely.

"Japan-o-glitch + Interactive Flash graphics = D.V.D. (x OMG)." Wow.

Jordan Mechner is serialising - and backdating - his journals from making the original Prince Of Persia. This post is a corker, if only for one of the early videos of Mechner's brother running and jumping. If you've played the original game, you'll understand what I mean the second you see the video.

Jason Kottke republishes the supposed rules that Chuck Jones and other Road Runner animators stuck to whilst making their cartoons. Perhaps a little apocraphyl, but I like the idea of rules for things that aren't games.

"This is it. The highly anticipated premiere of Get Your War On, the new animated series from 23/6, based on the popular comic by David Rees." Not what you're expecting - some quite clever rotoscoping, and it captures the tone well.

Remarkable, oscar-winning short; real interviews, and some incredible CGI character design. At the heart of it: a very sad story. Beautiful soundtrack, too.

Radiohead's new video was created using 3D scanning data and animated in software. The video has its own Google Code page. You can download the original data. Squee.

"Your bewilderment suggests you are not be familiar with the new vi assistant."

"When I listen to music I see colors and shapes and when I watch visual art I hear sounds. I wanted to express my sensing of shapes, colors and music in this short animation." Delightful animatino from Michal Levy. Made me grin a lot.

'"Paths are made by walking"
In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days.'

An animation painted on a many walls, and interacting with the space around it. Hypnotic, grotesque, beautiful.

Gosh. I really can't wait for that. There's just something about tiny robots that gets me every time...

Awesome - animated Mignola to watch.

Gorgeously gorgeously fun animation. In short: stick man versus creator, inside the Flash 8 interface. Delightful.