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Sean Pecknold's Multiplane Animation Invokes A Mystical Journey For Fleet Foxes

Pecknold walks us through his latest video, "The Shrine/An Argument," which draws on an animation technique from the 1970s.READ»

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The Cyriak Method: How To Turn Madness Into Millions Of YouTube Views

The British animator Cyriak Harris has translated his surreal creature creations into YouTube stardom.READ»

The "World's Largest" Stop Motion Animation Was Created With A Nokia N8

Using three N8s and a lot of sand, Sumo Science and Aardman land a Guinness Record for largest stop motion set, and a great looking spot.READ»

Adobe's Edge HTML5 Web Tool Blazes A Trail To The Post-Flash Internet

Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash. Adobe tells Fast Company why it's the tip of the iceberg.READ»

Apple Roundup: Speech Controls, Air-Powered Keyboards, Animated iPods As Jewelry

Apple has filed a number of stunningly promising patents this week--here's a peek at the sweet new features that'll make your current device look lame. READ»

Gollum Shmollum: Kinect Hack Does CGI Animation on the Cheap

A team of animators has hacked Microsoft's Kinect sensor suite to create a motion-replication system that powers CGI characters. Remember Gollum in Lord of The Rings? Yup--kinda like that. (But way cheaper.)READ»

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Inside Xtranormal's Budding Do-It-Yourself Movie Empire

Writers are flocking to Xtranormal, a company whose free text-to-movie technology lets users convert their words into animated video.READ»

Flash Defeats HTML5 in Round One by a Knockout

This video shows an unscientific but intriguing battle between Adobe Flash and HTML5 on mobile devices. For all the talk about HTML5 being the savior of Web video, you might expect it to not get trounced so thoroughly.READ»

How DreamWorks Animation Creates New Technology and Markets It to the Masses

"There is this insatiable appetite to invent cool and interesting ways of storytelling," says Ed Leonard, CTO of DreamWorks Animation. But the technology behind these new forms of storytelling is evolving more rapidly than the audiences.READ»

You're Overstimulated, and "Kapitaal" Proves It in Plain Black and White

A clever visualization reveals just how much information we deal with every day.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Walmart's Stunning Growth, from 1962 to Now

To compare Walmart to a wildfire actually gives too much credit to wildfires.READ»

Infographic of the Day: Japan, the Strange Country [UPDATED]

A beautiful animation about the quirks of Japanese life and culture.READ»

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Infographic of the Day: All Music Should Look Like This

A French animator's soundtrack visualization brings to mind the Kaossilator.READ»

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Stop! Motion Time: PES's Washington State Lottery Commercial

The new, animated ad is the only lottery commercial we can bear to watch.READ»