I think you’ll enjoy “the tale of a crochet quadropus, who journeys throughout the land turning things blue… All stop motion animation, painstakingly made by Oh Yeah Wow.” You can check out some behind-the-scenes photos on Flickr. [Via]
Check out Dustin McLean’s painstaking handiwork: According to PetaPixel: McLean used an entry-level Canon DSLR and an iPhone to capture the 67 shots in the trailer (some of which only appear on screen for half a second). Here’s the original alongside the remake:
Here is an admirably simple (and free) way host static Web sites via simple Dropbox folders: I found it incredibly simple to set up, though for my team there’s a major drawback in that we can’t share the Dropbox folder used to host the content. That’s not the end of the world, …
This one time, at math camp… [Via Marc Pawliger]
New paper-based cleverness: Holy crap: ?akir Gökçeba? turns toilet paper into elegant sculptures (really!). Lucas Simões creates rich, intricately layered paper cut portraits. Philippe Pétremant “collages together paper money from all around the world to form the faces of different …
C’mon, haven’t you always wanted to use rock fingers to control your stereo? I’m kinda skeptical about the MYO armband getting widespread, but the video does suggest a series of fun mishaps (chicken-slicing gone wrong; army robot flailing; and “You have died of …
Begone, hands! New technology out of Hong Kong promises to: allow animators to perform and capture motions continuously instead of breaking them into small increments… More importantly, it permits direct hand manipulation without resorting to rigs, achieving more natural object control for …
Did you know you can put multiple strokes on a layer in CS6? Julieanne Kost provides a quick tour of the neat things you can do with layer groups these days.
In this brief but interesting video, 42-year-old Canadian industrial designer Karim Antoine Habib pays homage to design history & talks about what inspires him. Details: I love that he drives a vintage 2002, though in his shoes I’d try for a 3.0 CS. For a guy who cares so much about …
Via Sally Cox: Join us at the San Jose Tech Museum and Adobe San Jose for CreateNOW, an Adobe Camp full of hands-on and lecture-style sessions. This event is geared toward photography, video, graphic design. Featured speakers are Colin Smith, Jeff Foster, Chana Messer, and Sally Cox. Our keynote …