Nina Paley, the ridiculously-talented artist, cartoonist, and animator, has just posted her latest video, God-Mother, and it's another jaw-dropper. Nina is known for intense, highly arresting animations, like This Land is Mine, my vote for one of the greatest visual indictments of war, cycles of violence, and the horrors of human conquest. She's also done the feature-length trip through the Ramayana, Sita Sings the Blues, Death of the First Born Egyptians, and Copying is not Theft. Nina is also a free culture activist.

God-Mother is Nina's ode to Mother Earth and goddess religions. Her haunting, mesmerizing animation is perfectly paired with the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir, singing the Bulgarian folk song, Godmother Denkou. The life-affirming spirit of the video ends with a sad and snarky grace note that is pure Paley. God-Mother is part of Seder-Masochism, an eventual animated feature for which Nina has been amassing content.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Qzrc7AWNzWk/nina-paleys-haunting-mesmer.html

Tattoo artist Phil Berge's handiwork is old school, yes, but some of his tats more than that. They are animated!

How does he do it?

At the Tattoo Shack in Quebec where he works, he inks multiple people with one frame of an animation.

For instance, to create that Bart Simpson "tattoo flipbook" (above), he had to ink 19 different people.

This one was inspired by a 1950s Gallo wine commercial and took 11 inked people to animate:

https://youtu.be/qWRcoWI6e_Y

"Bad Mickey" took 13 (naturally):

https://youtu.be/2IHdh0oyfn4

This one was inspired by a Popeye cartoon short called, "Sock-a-Bye, Baby" and took 17 individual tattoos to complete:

https://youtu.be/jckexfMgUyY

Pretty cool, isn't it? You can check out more of his (mostly non-animated) work at his Instagram.

(Geekologie)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mwKt2wowb54/tattoo-artist-makes-animated.html

Cut & Shut is the latest work by illustrator Chris Labrooy, showing whimsical imaginings of icon VW Beetles and other models come to life. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vaFd6ZqDazo/delightful-animations-of-color.html