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See the original Evolution of Dance after the jump.

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Latest video by Grickle creator Graham Annable. If you haven’t seen his series of animated shorts yet, check out the grickle channel on youtube.

New animated film in the works by the folks at Laika

Nominated for the 2008 Academy Awards Best Animated Short.

“A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po (Voiced by Jack Black), who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything”

The youtube vid is posted here for your convenience, but you can also find the HD version over at apple trailers.

Fond memories from my childhood: Fong Songs blog ran a post about the Pinball Number Count song with some great info on the song and links to covers of the song and a whole bunch of other info. Good stuff! And here’s link to original Pointer Sister’s song.

Persepolis is an animated movie adaptation of a graphic novel. Check out the trailer here and read an interview with the woman behind Persepolis here.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — The subtitle for Marjane Satrapi’s highly personal animated film “Persepolis” might as well be “Iranians: They’re Just Like Us.” They lose their keys, dance to “Eye of the Tiger,” endure rocky relationships.

Check out the video at the Australian Center for Visual Tech’s website. Pretty impressive.

VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video—models that might be inserted into a video game, a simulation environment, or another video sequence. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or more frames of the video. By interpreting the sketch drawn by the user in light of 3D information obtained from computer vision techniques, a small number of simple 2D interactions can be used to generate a realistic 3D model. Each of the sketching operations in VideoTrace provides an intuitive and powerful means of modelling shape from video, and executes quickly enough to be used interactively. Immediate feedback allows the user to model rapidly those parts of the scene which are of interest and to the level of detail required. The combination of automated and manual reconstruction allows VideoTrace to model parts of the scene not visible, and to succeed in cases where purely automated approaches would fail.

…I give you this. via straightfrommybrain.com.

Mario animated on paper, that is. Via crunchgear

This video opens with a “making of” that shows how it was done, so if you want to see the final product first, skip ahead to 1:38.

There’s a fresh WALL-E trailer up over at myspaceTV that has a lot of cool shots that we haven’t already seen in the previous teasers.

The turtle is a spaz.

It’s a cell phone commercial, but still cute.