Posts Tagged ‘animation’
Viral Animation: Saramago’s A Flor Máis Grande do Mundo
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
José Saramago was a portuguese writer, nobel prize winner, who passed away this Friday at the age of 87.
Amongst his many great novels, some were adapted to a visual medium. Some good examples area Hollywood-adapted “Blindness“, and the following piece of animation which is adapted the only story he ever wrote for children.
It was directed [...]
Tags: animation, saramago, stop motion, viral video
Viral Spoof: The Android Phone is for Porn
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
This videos has started going viral in the past days, and with a great timing: today the iPhone 4 will (most likely) be unveiled.
It’s an animated spoof of the Android vs. iPhone war (particularly over Flash) and it got 140.000 views in 3 days.
With the event coming up later today, expect it to gain a [...]
Tags: android, animation, Apple, iPhone, phone, spoof, steve jobs, viral video
Going Viral: T-shirt War 2
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns
A few months ago there was a viral hit called T-shirt War, a stop-motion with real people (comedians Rhett and Link) and directed and edited by prolific Youtube user and Wooshii member Mystery Guitar Man.
After that hit, they had McDonals and Coke call them asking them to “re-do” the video for a TV commercial. As [...]
Tags: animation, coke, mcdonalds, mystery guitar man, rhett and link, stop motion, viral video
Viral Animation: Food about you
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
This video has been making the rounds for a few weeks now, but only now started to go viral.
On Youtube since the end of April, this stop-motion animation short was made by Alexandre Dubosc for the 50th anniversary of the prestigious animation festival – Festival d’Annecy.
It got 600.000 views so far.
Take a look:
Tags: animation, annecy, viral, viral video
Viral Hit: The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
This video came out on May the 4th, Star Wars day, and it became a viral hit ever since, with 1.2 million views in less than a week.
It’s a lego stop-motion animation that sums up the three first Star War movies, narrated by a kid, both funny and well made.
Besides it, Star Wars has a [...]
Tags: animation, lego, star wars, stop motion, viral hit, viral video
Going Viral: Dan The Man
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
This video has been on Youtube since March 22nd but just started going viral in the last 2 days (being the 6th most shared video in the past 24 hours right now).
It’s a great parody of 8-bit videogames like Super Mario Bros., and very funny at that, having had 770.000 views since it was uploaded [...]
Tags: animation, dan the man, game, going viral, studio joho, videogame, viral video
How Google Street View works in Japan
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns
Not quite that, but it is a video from Google Japan explaining in a a beautiful, child-like way, how the company works in the terms of privacy related to Streetview.
With this goal in mind, what way would be more attention catching than this?
The video is from September of last year and has 650.000 views, but [...]
Tags: animation, google, japan, privacy, stop motion, street view, streetview
Viral videos, Oscar edition
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
Today we’ll have the Oscars. And what better way to celebrate it and wait for them than to show you some Oscar related recent virals?
The first one is by Wooshii members Whirled Creative, who’ve done several viral videos in the past, and now compiled a few oscar speeches into a video that has had 40.000 views [...]
Tags: animation, fine brothers, La dama y la muerte, logorama, oscars, The lady and the reaper, viral video, whirled creative
Viral animation: Lego – The Force Unleashed
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
Going viral since yesterday, this is one of those videos that one is amazed at the effort put into it.
Done by Youtube user xxxfancypantsxxx for an animation challenge for a bricksinmotion.com, the video already got 265.000 views in 5 days and it’s climbing on the top viral video chart (currently at the 6th spot of the [...]
Tags: animation, lego, stop motion, the force unleashed, viral video
A high school student art project goes viral
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
A high school student from the UK – Jamie Bell – made an animation using something like 50 flibooks, about 2100 pages long and the result is the video we’re posting, which is at the top of the viral video charts for today – the most shared video in the past 24 hours.
It tells the [...]
Tags: animation, flipbook, jamie bell, viral video
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