IBM is one of the largest firms in the world in terms of both market capitalization and number of employees. It has held the record for most patents generated by a company for twenty consecutive years. A lot of time and effort was required to bring this company to the point is is today, but don’t let that fool you. Even the hard-working employees at IBM need to take some time off work and have a little fun. On Tuesday, IBM released a video on their YouTube channel called “A Boy and His Atom”. It’s a short, stop-motion movie created by a small team of nanophysicists as a part of a side project. It isn’t…

I repeatedly harp on the iPad for its lack of ability for truly professional content creation. Well, I take it all back. This is one of the most ingenious things I’ve seen in days. Combining long-exposure photography and stop-motion animation, I can guarantee you that this will be one of the most creatively-produced animated shorts you’ve ever seen, iPad or not….

Andreas Hykade, the director of short films such as The Runt and Ring of Fire, has another film slated to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The film entitled Love & Theft marks a new direction for Hykade, this is a pure experimentation in animation and design as images loop and distort fluidly into each other. The whole film is set to a thumping, grinding soundtrack almost as hypnotic as the visuals. The film never stops moving as we are taken on a psychedelic journey through animation references and even other filmmakers make an appearance in the loops. It is one film that art and design…

In the event you’re suffering from Star Wars Day withdrawal, here’s a cute segue back into real life – the Star Wars trilogy (no, not that Star Wars trilogy) summed up in two minutes, narrated by a child, presented in stop-motion Lego. I was skeptical at the film’s ability to sum up three films inside of 120 seconds, but it actually manages to hit on every major plot point, several minor ones, and even tosses in a few SW geek in-jokes. Masterful pacing. Masterful, indeed. [Via CrunchGear]…