Mickey's Surprise Party

Found this nice short Disney/Mickey film on the A. Film. L.A. Blog. It was made and funded by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) to sell their products.



There are some very cool smears in the film too. Here's one example...

The Human Animal (1994)

The Human Animal is a six part BBC Documentary series covering different aspects of the human evolution.

1. "The Language of the Body"
- Gestures: Greetings, Insults, Signals, Gesticulations
- Facial Expressions: Stares, Smiles, Tells


2. "The Hunting Ape"
- Diet: Fondness for sweets, Culinary variety
- Evolution: Arboreal vegetarianism, Savannah meat-eating, Cooperative hunting with weapons, Food preparation, Aquatic ape hypothesis
- Vestigal hunting behavior: Jobs, Sport Hunting, War


3. "The Human Zoo"
- Urban Tribalism: Familiarity, Theft, Uniforms, Rituals, Conflict, Social status, Territory


4. "Biology of Love"
- Courtship: Finding partners, Gender signals, Dating, Tie signs, Pair bonding, Intercourse


5. "The Immortal Genes"
- Life cycle: Infant-parent interaction, Baby signals, Child behavior, Rites of passage, Cultural indoctrination, Fighting aging, Grandparenting, Afterlives


6. "Beyond Survival"
- Creativity: Body adornment, Architectural embellishments, Vehicles, Art
- Artistic progression: Innate scribbling, Realism
- Play: Childhood experimentation, Adult inventiveness, Sports, Thrill-seeking, Symbolic thinking
- Erratum: Firewalking has been explained.

Harry Rountree

Harry Rountree was a prolific illustrator and here are some examples of his anthropomorphic characters.

Found on Deja View

Twinings Gets You Back To You

Just brilliant! A very unique and warm style of animation. Animation created by Psyop. It's a shame about the music though. Muting it works better!

Fear Reference Images for Halloween

A hidden camera on the show Nightmares Fear Factory caught these incredible images. Brilliant for reference. A few of my favourites are below and you can find the rest of them HERE.

Jumping Spider Reference Video

The Phidippus Putnami is a jumping spider, although unfortunately it doesn't jump here in the video. Just walks around a bit and stares at the camera. Amazing to see how quickly it moves though. I'd like to see this in slow-mo.