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.

Industrial Light & Magic: Creating The Impossible

Everything Is A Remix

Kirby Ferguson has been hard at work putting together this great series on how we use and reuse each others art, in this case music.

Movie Magic Episode 9 - Computer Animation

The Thief Who Never Gave Up - Richard Williams Documentary

Not long ago I posted the entire online version of Richard Williams film; The Thief And The Cobbler. Now we can go behind the scenes with RW and find out how epic the production was to make the film. To say RW has a lot of drive is an understatement.

Chuck Jones: Extremes and Inbetweens

Yesterday I borrowed a book from work for the purpose of researching and watching the films made by various classic animators that the book talks about. To start things off (in the USA of the animation world) here is a really cool documentary about Chuck Jones.

You'll find the who's who in current American animation being interviewed and lots of interviews with Chuck himself...













PART 7



Part 9

Very inspiring!

Disneyland Imagineers

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." - Walt Disney

Here is a great short documentary that takes a peak at what goes on behind the door of Disneyland and the imagineers that make the rides and attractions possible. And it just gets better and better so watch it all!

Wikirebels Documentary

This documentary explains a lot about the currently hot topic of conversation; Wikileaks. It starts at the beginning and ends on what's recently happening. It's an interesting documentary that highlights not Julian Assange's rape charges, not Wikileaks vs USA, but more most importantly, transparency in democracy!









Be warned, you may find the end of part 2 and the beginning of part 3 very upsetting to watch.

Bulwell Academy Documentary Short

I found this on Danny Peachey's Blog and I wanted to share it via my blog because in Virtual Environments we are modeling block A and B of the building. (Renders will be posted this week). I like this documentary; the cuts are pretty good and it gets straight to the point only complaint is that it felt a bit long though.