Infographics and data visualizations are all the rage on social media sites these days.  We’ve seen infographics about everything from the best times to post to Twitter and Facebook to interesting facts about farts (seriously!) and everyone goes crazy for them.  A well-crafted and effective infographic can easily draw hundreds (if not thousands) of tweets and likes.  But what exactly makes a well-crafted and effective infographic?  A new motion graphic from data visualization and design firm Col [...]

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What was your favorite toy from the 1980s?  Was it transformers? Lego?  Toy cars?  Nintendo?  Marbles?  Hot Wheels?  All of these and more make an appearance in ‘The King Of Lego Land’, the latest stop motion masterpiece from French web designer and animator Micaël Reynaud.


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Stop motion animation, once reserved for Christmas specials, has become hugely popular in recent years, especially on the Web.  Stop motion music videos, narrative shorts and clips have taken sites like YouTube and Vimeo by storm, racking in millions of views.  With stop motion practically taking over the Internet, a lot of creative people are being inspired to try this technique out for themselves.  But where do you start?  We had the opportunity to talk to YouTube partner, filmmaker and stop m [...]

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To celebrate the grand opening of a new Melissa shoe store in São Paulo, Brazil, twenty-five animators created the largest Post-it stop motion animation the world has ever seen.  It took the twenty-five animators five months to create the animation, which contains 350,000 Post-it sheets.  The video has been growing in popularity since it hit YouTube on July 18 and today it surpassed 500,000 views.


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Torchwood is a spinoff of BBC's long running Dr. Who TV show. For the past three seasons (or "series" as the BBC calls seasons), it had been shown on BBC America in the U.S. Season 4 (Torchwood: Miracle Day), however, is only available in the U.S. on the Starz subscription cable channel. This means I'll have to wait for it to released on DVD, iTunes or Netflix to see it. However, there is a motion comic that is a parallel story to Miracle Day available as an iPad app.Torc [...]

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