Back in 2007, Creative Director Dilly Gent was in charge of commissioning environmental short films for Al Gore’s Live Earth project. Wind was among the 60 chosen from more than 500 film concepts. Recently Dilly mentioned a few of the films for that project, including mine, in Videophiles, a curated collection of video clips on the NYT Culture blog.

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UPDATE (March 4, 2010): See Rob’s interview on the Channel Frederator Blog.

Channel Frederator is what happens when one of the guys who came up with Comedy Central creates an internet channel dedicated to edgy new animation. (It also goes by Cartoon Central.)

Frederator’s a regularly updated, no holds barred, indie animation nerd fest and we love it. The “channel” works half like a TV station, four shows with distinct subject ranges, and half like Youtube, with all site’s shows available for streaming and sharing.

This week Frederator Show features Rob Shaw’s “Machine”.

We recommend checking out the whole site. The aptly named — and not worksafe – Cartoon Hangover show  is great for giggle…

Rob Shaw’s short is nestled in among the Kayne’s picks in music, fashion, architecture and design.

Have a look: Rob Shaw’s “The Machine” on Kayne’s blog.

I’ve had the pleasure to work with Brazilian Concept Artist Joao Ruas a couple of times in the past years and have increasingly become a bigger fan of his work. He was just featured on booooooom which is a really great art related blog. Check both out!

Introducing the immaculately crafted paper sculptures of Ms. Prokopowicz. A collection that defies headaches, limitations, and most papercuts. The orginal cut n’ paste is back and it takes this talented female animator-by-day to brings us here.

Jen doesn’t just make bears, robots, and plants out of paper, she makes the THE BEST bears, robots, and plants out of paper. When she is not helping BENT make video magic, Jen is minaturizing the natural world into natural paper. See for yourself.

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