The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

"The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" (short film, 1965) is based on the Victorian novella, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions."

Still photos make warped journey in DRIFT

Check it out:

Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.

A tutorial is here. It is harder to do than it looks.

60 second Thought Experiments

6 Animated Thought Experiments.  Explained and animated.

Example:

Pen and ink-like rotoscope gifs

Fun (and gorgeous) pen and ink gif loops by Matthias Brown.
Rotoscoping.

TED-ED: Time & Space in Animation

Really great explanation about timing in animation:


Norman McLaren, a pioneer of 20th century animation, once said that "what happens between each frame is more important than what exists on each frame." But what the hell did he mean?

This video, by TED Ed, explains how tiny differences in timing and spacing—qualities provided by differences between frames rather than the frames themselves—can turn a an awful mess of an animation into something wonderful. The differences are subtle, barely perceptible frame-to-frame, but add up to have a huge impact—and it's all demonstrated very neatly with an example of a bouncing ball. Well worth watching. [TED Ed]

Rotoscoping examples

Robert Breer's Fuji, 1974.  Gorgeous minimal rotoscoping.