Taking Google’s maps and Street View imagery, design firm Teehan+Lax Labs has moulded them into an unofficial time-lapse animation site. While there’s some predetermined (and beautiful) routes offered up on the maker’s site, you can also plug in your…
Disney is finally pulling Mickey Mouse out of the after-school TV ghetto and giving him the treatment he deserves. Croissant de Triomphe (video below) presents the mouse in a high-speed race across Paris, drawn in a classic, 1930s sty…
Tony DeRose wanders between rows at New York’s Museum of Mathematics. In a brightly-colored button-up T-shirt that may be Pixar standard issue, he doesn’t look like the stereotype of a scientist. He greets throngs of squirrely, nerdy …
Google’s Chrome browser might soon be getting an easy way to tell you which open tabs are making noise, or recording it. The new feature is part of the latest Chromium build, and features a throbbing EQ animation over th…
Disney’s Paperman won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film Sunday night, marking a triumph not only for the studio, but for hand-drawn animation — a medium that seemed to be nearing extinction thanks to the rise of Pix…
Facebook is looking to revamp the emoticon. As reported by BuzzFeed, the social network has enlisted Pixar story artist Matt Jones and UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner to try and “crack a universal language” with a set …
Wreck It Ralph was a charming homage to video games and a great film in its own right, but the best thing about it just might be the short film, Paperman, that played before it in theaters. If you didn’t get a chance to see it…
Stop motion is a painstaking animation technique by anyone’s standard, but individually drawing thousands of subjects and cutting them from plastic sounds like a surefire way to increase the workload beyond all reasonable limi…
Looking for a cool new boot animation to apply to your Nexus 7? Why not wake your device up with the Phandroid logo giving you a nice big smile? “AFAinHD” from XDA created the boot animation using our winking little friend you see at the top of our site every day, and I must say [...]
We’ve been getting plenty of videos lately showing off Google’s lineup of Nexus devices, but the latest may be our favorite yet. Less of a commercial than a digital greeting card, the short spot tells the story of a lonely Android yearning for a bit of holiday cheer. Thanks to the Nexus 4, Nexus 7, [...]
