If you cel­e­brate them, happy hol­i­days! I am cur­rently in Kansas City, Mis­souri cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas with my family. If you are not over­come with the hol­i­day spirit (much like I am), then per­haps you can appre­ci­ate these short ani­ma­tions from Treat Stu­dios. A bit “anti Christ­mas,” with some nice surprises. Check out Treat Stu­dios for ...

I saw Rose Gainsborough’s work on Poolga yes­ter­day, a site where you can down­load artist iPhone, iPad, and iPhone4 back­grounds. It’s my go-to when­ever I want to change up the images on my phone or iPad. Any­ways, I now have this as my phone background: Rosie is an illus­tra­tor whose draw­ings are of objects, peo­ple, ...

This is a few weeks old by now, but recently I saw the newest video for Fleet Foxes off their Help­less­ness Blues album. Stacy Rozich (pre­vi­ously fea­tured here) has cre­ated the char­ac­ter illus­tra­tions for The Shrine/An Argu­ment, an epic song that’s both haunt­ing with a bit of heartbreak. The hazy, dif­fused col­or­ing in the ani­ma­tion ...

Yes­ter­day, Anthony Zinonos tweeted about “smart GIFs”. Intrigued (as I tend to be drawn to the not-so-smart vari­ety), I clicked the link. I was not dis­ap­pointed. Made for the Respub­lica Book­store Reel, the GIFs them­selves are ani­ma­tions of posters, designed by Stas Leon­tev and ani­mated by Pavel Para­tov. Sim­ple, clean, and fluid, these small GIFs ...

So I know that Suf­jan Stevens came out with Age of Adz last year. But, a lis­ten to the album dur­ing a long bus ride reminded me of how much I love this song. Ani­mated by Suf­jan him­self with orig­i­nal art­work by Royal Robert­son. I love the ele­ment of play in this video, and the ref­er­ences ...

Here’s a nice tune and even nicer ani­ma­tion by Les­ley Barnes. Belle and Sebastian’s song, I Didn’t See It Com­ing has been remixed by Richard X, with Les­ley cre­at­ing a music video to accom­pany (see where I have writ­ten about her pre­vi­ously on Brown Paper Bag!). I love the facets of Lesley’s ani­ma­tion — the ...

This is not the first time Jen Stark has appeared on Brown Paper Bag. It’s hard to not want to post about her more often. Her work is com­plex and beau­ti­ful, and since I first saw it in a stu­dent gallery at MICA, it’s only grown in scope and ambitiousness. If you ever have the ...

Many thanks to Claire Tucker for round­ing out my guest posts! And, of course, a big thank you to all (Rebecca, Jor­dan, Anthony, Steph) who wrote over the past week! ———- It’s not often you come across on YouTube which speaks vol­umes despite being so sim­ple. I’ve been mean­ing to share this for a long ...

Both the video and stills of Brenna Murphy’s work cre­ate a dizzy­ing and dis­ori­ent­ing effect when viewed. It is an aspect of her work I really enjoy. There is com­plex­ity to Brenna’s work that is show­cased dif­fer­ent whether in still or motion. With ren­der­ings, I can really under­stand the objects that are given motion in ...

This video from Ryan Mauskopf sat in my inbox for too long. I finally watched it the other day and smiled the whole way through. The con­cept is sim­ple, but the char­ac­ters and music are so delight­ful and work so well together. I couldn’t stop watch­ing the spirit quest jour­ney– a build­ing up to some­thing ...