Remember the Pinball Number Count shorts on Sesame Street? They were filled with colorful, frenetic animation and those funky jams! It was the The Pointer Sisters after all, so no wonder we can’t get that song out of our heads. The originals were directed by Jeff Hale, who animated on Heavy Metal, and directed on the original animated Transformers series and Muppet Babies.
Below are a pair of updates on the classic that were created for the Aniboom Sesame Street competition. The first, which won the competition, was produced by Florence Animation and animated by Rita Bozzo, Stefania Demichelli and Martina Prest.
This second one uses music from Perrin Cloutier of the band Beirut, and stop-motion animation by Abbey Luck.
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For her animation degree project, Donatella Esposito created four animated shorts on the them of renewable energy. Here’s one titled Wind Energy.
I can’t take my eyes off these stop-motion puppets in these commercials below. The ads are for two Italian medicinal brands Rinazina and Bronchenolo, and the production company behind the effort was Milan-based Dadomani Studio.
Ryan Spring Dooley (aka Marvin Crushler) is a Wisconsin native living in Italy, where he’s been since 1997. He’s a street artist, a set designer, a writer and a DJ – but he also produces some rather beautiful animation. Here’s his latest work, titled Home. It’s the first part of a series that utilizes traditional 2D, cut-out and sand stop-motion animation.
Giovanni Munari and Dalila Rovazzani have released a short trailer for their upcoming student short, titled Arithmétique. It’s their gradution film from CSC in Italy.
