No Quarter - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

No, this video has nothing to do with the Led Zeppelin song "No Quarter". Rather, VFS has produced a humorous computer-generated animation, set presumably in the 1920's, with well-done visuals and music appropriate to that time period. It reminded me somewhat of a Laurel and Hardy film:

"Clay Clayman for President!"

Not happy with any of the three leading presidential candidates? I've created an alternative for you, although in addition to the difficulties facing any third party candidate, he does have to overcome the problem of being a fictional character :)

The Last Monster?

It was with a touch of sadness that I read that the video of Daily Monster 200 was the last in the series. For those of us who will miss the daily monster videos, however, there are some nuggets of hope - On his blog (http://344design.typepad.com/), Mr. Bucher writes of "new things brewing" and of the monsters eventually returning "in a new format". It will be interesting to see what he has in store for us. For now, (with some great animation at the end) here's "344 DAILY MONSTER 200 (of 200)" :

An Intricate Claymation

It's fun to watch, but I don't think I would want to work there :) Office life gets a little wild in this music video/animation from Revver member ruanga entitled "ELISAVA I'm not an artist":

"Cat Jumping in Chair"

It was pretty easy for me to tempt this cat into some pretty decent leaps. He really wanted that toy:

"Fabulas:El Sol y el Viento"

Here, from Revver member widam, is a cute animation of the classic contest between the sun and the wind to see who can get the man to take off his hat or jacket. The dialogue is in Spanish (which I don't speak), but it's not too hard to get the gist of what's happening:

Table Kid Kirby (claymation)

Here are the first two installments in the classic "Table Kid Kirby" series created some time ago by Revver member Carrotkid (aka Canadian filmmaker Paul Whittington). The stopmotion animation is very well done. Having spent hours creating some much shorter clay animations myself, I would imagine it must have taken Carrotkid a long time indeed to create this series. In addition to the visual appeal, there's a bit of mystery as well as some parody (intentional I think) of the Phantasm movies, especially in the second video:

part 1 (Magic Mirror):



Part 2 (Realm of the Spiral Sky):