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2016Jason Galea explains how he made King Gizzard's insane new music video
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2014Cryptocat 2013 logo animated
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2017Animator Frances Haszard’s gender neutral breakup story
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2017Wikipedia logo puzzle globe spins horizontally and vertically, revealing the contents of all of its puzzle pieces
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2019Truba Animation reimagines behind the scenes anecdotes from Game of Thrones
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2026Chris (Simpsons artist) on kissing, art, life and controlling Joe Lycett by the hair (like Ratatouille)
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2024Anyways gathered an international squad of illustrators for these Olympics-inspired YouTube Yoodles
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2023Forget ‘quiet quitting’, Elizabeth Lum’s animation proves hustle culture to be a sham
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2015Wonderfully loopy comic collages from Adult Swim animator Ben Mendelewicz
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2009Jonathan from Spotify
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2014My Favourite Music Video: Up next it's Arctic Monkeys video director David Wilson
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2015Stephen Hawking covers the best Monty Python song animation ever
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2018Ones to Watch 2018: animator Jonathan Djob Nkondo
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2012Snoop Lion is born in this seriously crazy video by Eli Roth!
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2008Nikolay Saveliev
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2012The Weekender – The Jetsons, movie sing-a-longs and the weirdest stag party EVER
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2013Web design: Great interactive site celebrates everyone's favourite plumber
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2012If We Don't, Remember Me
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2014Nicer Tuesdays: Musician Micachu talks us through video-making at January's event
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2016This Is Antwerp commissions animated portraits of the city’s young creatives
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2014Meet Torsten Sherwood in our latest Design Museum video
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2014Animation: Take a train into a seriously trippy fantasy land in this Russian music video
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2013Will Bryant and Eric Trine present their fun-filled new show – Alley-oop
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2012Dumb Ways To Die promotes public safety with wit and charm
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2021Marine Buffard on how becoming a morning person encouraged her creativity
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2008Siggi Eggertsson
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2018Master of plasticine Kate Isobel Scott is back with a new animation
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2016Daniel Savage’s monochrome animation plays with geometry and space
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2013Patator Prod steps up with an ISNANE stopmotion for Professor Kliq
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2015Mesmerising monochrome GIFs from Nicolas Ménard
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2018Self-taught animator Emanuele Kabu references psychedelia, abstract art and minimalism
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2017Barcelona studio Nice Shit animates Interpol’s Daniel Kessler’s music memories in this short
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2011Bryce Wilner
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2017Lalita Lupina animates the inner turmoil and anxiety felt at an indoor swimming pool
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2019Jamie Wolfe's latest animation uses an intuitive process to leave room for surprises
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2013Animation: Weird and wonderful short Wish List is well worth a watch
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2011Moths / Synesthesiae Films
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2014My Favourite Music Video: Anna Ginsburg gushes about The Pharcyde's video for Drop
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2009Yellow Bird Project
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2011Things
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2016Anna Beil defies convention with "trashy" illustrations and animations
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2014Music Video: Spectacular lo-fi music video from Seattle girl band Chastity Belt
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2018Filmmaker Will Hooper's new video humorously visualises being overwhelmed
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2014My Favourite Music Video: Give it up for Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard!
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2007Gerald McBoing-Boing
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2017Seunghyun Lee's dizzyingly disorientating kaleidoscope animations
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2010Tim Key: Poem 432
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2023How do we slow down time? Effie Pappa's stop motion film has some answers
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2017Alex Grigg animates Steve Stoute’s homage to Biggie Smalls
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2016Ones to Watch 2016: Animator and illustrator Julian Glander
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2012Andy Baker's awesome black and white animation for new Society single
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2014Fantastic animations for Harvard's online neuroscience course
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2008The Wonderful Video Contest
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2016Kyle Platts and Andy Baker's animation takes us on a kaleidoscopic trip through the park
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1946United Productions of America Graphic Identity
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2025Does 3D printing have stop motion potential? Eastend Western trials the technique across film genres
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2012A "coming of age animation about a sexually naive elephant" from Rubber House
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2012Worship cult films? Check out Murat Palta's oriental cinematic miniatures
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2017Gabrielle Rosenstein animates a psychedelic Gucci editorial for Novembre Magazine
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2013Amazing masks and trippy animations from Shishi Yamazaki
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2019Animator Genís Rigol believes “mistakes” can open up new ways of seeing
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2019Ben Cullen Williams on investigating how a computer would dance
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2025Julian Glander’s first feature film Boys Go To Jupiter is his goopy, neon magnum opus
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2025This bitter-sweet animation charts a unique kind of grief: the loss of naivety
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2016Fantastically bold new work from animator and illustrator Jack Sachs
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2015John Nolan creates a giant animated robot head to promote new maker space
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2012Aardman and Isobel join forces to recreate Birmingham in lovely animation
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2019Daniel Britt’s hilariously surreal animations makes the nonsensical appear logical
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2012Dead Father Christmas in this hard hitting animation from Beyond
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2014Music Video: Markus Hofko's amazing new music video for Flying Lotus
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2020Love, loss and loneliness: Polly Nor’s heartbreaking new film
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2013Animation: Here's some charming animation by Johnny Kelly for the NY Times
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2017Part of a Bigger Plan’s animation for Amsterdam Zoo celebrates the circle of life
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2016Jonathan Djob Nkondo plays with perspective in his series of revolving animations
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2020Social anxiety manifests on melty plasticine faces in Sam Gainsborough’s Facing It
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2012The Best Blur Music Videos
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2025POV: AI is at its best when combined with traditional processes
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2014Animation: Celyn's super film celebrates Vitra's Barber Osgerby-designed table
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2019Cracking stuff: How Animade helped bring the world’s most famous egg to life
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2016A phantom boyfriend features in Jimmy Simpson’s touching Modern Love animation
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2010Jan Svankmajer
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2020Looney Tunes backgrounds take on a new life when curated by Beñat Iturbe Hualde
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2012Things
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2019Josephine Lohoar Self’s incredibly detailed stop motion animation explores grief
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2025Lysander Wong’s surreal shorts breathe life and action into wool, thread and crumpled paper
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2020If boobs could speak, what would they say? Breast Friends is a hysterical animation on Western beauty standards
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2020Marlies van der Wel’s short animation is a calming look back at Earth from outer space
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2012Animation frames into unique laser-cut business cards by Adam Glucksman
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2016Sardonic short animation Fired on Mars imagines extraterrestrial colonisation as listless corporate dystopia
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2010Things
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2021Lydia Garnett tells stories about characters of all kinds, “especially fearless, fuck you types”
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2021Jenny Mascia says hand-painted animation is the “perfect way to depict emotions”
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2018Kilian Vilim's film Ooze is a psychological exploration of loneliness through animation
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2020Dystopian realities are brought to life in Toberg’s animations
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2013Animation: Nicolas Ménard surpasses himself with incredible new projects
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2021Irene Suosalo on her silly yet utterly transfixing animations
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2017Ones to Watch 2017: director Raine Allen-Miller
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2014Maegan Houang's terrifying and gory new music video for Chastity Belt
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2011Geert Goiris
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2026Painting the worlds of Studio Ghibli with art director and background artist, Yoji Takeshige
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2016Ben Hill and Daniel Oeffinger offer helping hand on Bucks' new animated spot for Cree
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2011Mimi Cave: Bizness
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2019Lazy Susan, the mother of all inventions, comes to life in Terri Timely's short film
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20213D animator Maurice Andresen talks us through the evolution of his art and collaborating with Shygirl
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2017Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies come to life in Sylvia Yang’s animation
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2021Loulou João’s immersive worlds provide a safe space for contemplation about identity, society and representation
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2013Animation: Anete Melece's The Kiosk playfully comments on daily routine
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2016Mattis Dovier’s weird and wonderful 8-bit dot animation for XXX’s music video
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2016Yukai Du creates a new set of dents for animation company Bliink
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2020Ten years in the making, Quentin Vien’s animated film Deadman’s Reach is a technical wonder
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2017Cari Vander Yacht’s vibrant and “over enthusiastic” illustrations and gifs
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2014Film: Krishna Shenoi's alternative Gravity scene is a thing of skill and wit
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2012BAFTA Short Animation: Abuelas
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2014Animation: The makers of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared creators are planning more episodes!
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2018TappyToon logo
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2017Marcie LaCerte’s obscure animation follows the pursuit of some summer love
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2013Jake Fried produces a knockout piece of animation with the aid of coffee (literally)
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2012Things
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2013Stunning piece of sci-fi animation from Adam Wells in The Circle Line
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2013Animation: Mikey Please returns with (maybe) the greatest stop-motion ever
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2019“All I could see was puppets”: Johnny Kelly on his series of sweet shorts for Cheerios
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2017Student animation explores symbolic interpretations of love using clay and 3D software
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2013Introducing: Intensely personal, hilarious animation from Luiz Lafayette Stockler
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2016Take the Jack Sachs animated tour of the Tate Britain, and meet his odd CG characters along the way
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2012Thank you ONIONSKIN - never has watching an animated city being built looked so satisfying
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2015Charming and surreal GIFs from the award-winning it's no biggie blog
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2014Freddy Arenas' beautiful animation for the New York Times tells the story of true love
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2013Sabrina Ratté's eye-bending video for Suuns is a little package of lo-fi joy
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2025Calm’s This is Not a Drill campaign is a masterclass in using humour to deliver a vital message
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2021Gonzalo Menevichian’s short animation Time is a “contemplative and calm” visualisation of a daydream
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2012Lovely making-of video for BAFTA winning animation The Eagleman Stag
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2013Art: Roll up to see Nicolas Sassoon's incredible new GIFs
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2019Alexis Jamet's animations are warm, nostalgic and beautiful in their simplicity
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2012Released this week (finally!) is autonomous creative homage Indie Game: The Movie
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2018Nexus Studios' charming short for Google I/O animates what happens when pixels work together
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2014The much-anticipated new episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
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2012Take that Friday morning! We look at the shapeshifting animations of one-to-watch Rhys Coren
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2012BAFTA Short Animation: Bobby Yeah
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2014Music Video: What'd happen if Olimpia Zagnoli's illustrated characters came to life?
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2011Things
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2017The Igor has landed: Igor Bastidas on our animated cover for Printed Pages AW17
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2019Sacha Beeley transforms Adult Swim's Squidbillies into her own style with new idents
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2019Everyday objects melt before our eyes as Julian Mateus reimagines Adobe Stock assets
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2015Japanese illustrator Nimura Daisuke is back with his charmingly naughty gifs
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2021Jimmy Turrell and Bráulio Amado co-direct a re-release of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
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2014Stunning promo for Jon Hopkins sees Rob Hunter's illustrations in motion
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2014Simon Penochet chooses a Scissor Sisters video by CANADA
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2017Alex Moy’s animation explores where our minds drift off to when we’re distracted
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2016Nostalgia, cloth cats and 60s animation revelations: delving into the worlds of Bagpuss and The Clangers
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2014Music Video: The spooky story behind Sharon van Etten's new video
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2020Bodyform’s new animation-led film Wombstories opens up vital conversations
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2014My Favourite Music Video: This week is from super animation due Becky and Joe
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2013People impersonating animals makes for one of our favourite music videos EVER
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2011Paul Samples
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2022Dance, prance and get a little goofy to Sheetal Thankey’s animated music video for Anjana Vasan
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2015Jiggly puppets slapping bass in new video for Pet Portrait from Joe Bichard
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2009Things
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2014Peace terrorise a family in Ninian Doff's latest music video
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2011Things
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2015Wahhh! An interview with Dan Deacon to celebrate his new music video
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2016Grey London enlists Pencil Bandit to animate quirky branded stings for E4
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2009Green Porno
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2020Gathering over 90 animators from around the world, #FlattenTheCurve is an uplifting compilation of the quarantine experience
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2018Dinner For Few is an allegorical animation depicting our society that benefits a select few
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2012Stunningly simple animation supporting the underdog from Benjamin Renner
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2011Things
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2019For Alice Monvaillier, animation is a "pretty magical process"
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2016Haunting train-simulator-based animation by Jack Featherstone for Occult Orientated Crime
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2021“It made me feel like I’d sneezed my entire brain out”: The story behind Molly Fairhurst’s funny music video for Deerhoof
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2012Great animated promo for YGDMFA, aka Yale Graphic Design MFA exhibition
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2022Through documenting diasporic communities, Elizar Veerman counters the silencing of a former colony community
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2009Things
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2020How Art Camp made a 2,200 hand-painted frame video for Bright Eyes’ return
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2021Watch as prismatic 3D shapes transform into people in Mikey Dowdle’s charming animation
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2017Simeon Kondev creates Peen Zine, a bizarre series of animations (NSFW)
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2013Music Video: Mac Premo and Oliver Jeffers bring U2's lyrics to life
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2018Marianna Simnett’s videos explore fears and phobias surrounding the human body
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2014Here are some mind-boggling GIFs from Erik Söderberg to transfix you
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2021An Oscar-nominated short on a student budget: How Siqi Song made Sister
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2019Egg is an animation about attempting – and failing – to take control of something you are afraid of
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2022Cole Kush takes animation into the uncanny valley
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2015Behind the scenes of the BRAND NEW episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared!
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2015Raphaëlle Martin creates a series of surreally fun Magritte-inspired gifs
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2017“It’s a process of baby-making”: designing the horrific and hilarious multiverse of Rick and Morty
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2020With over 2000 hand painted frames, Cheng-Hsu Chung’s Adorable is “a voice for queer people” (NSFW)
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2022Enter the weirdo world of Ryan D Anderson’s animated orange orb and his baked potato friend
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2007Nth Creative
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2017Foster Huntington’s stop-motion short of an 80s Californian skate off
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2015Ely Dagher’s hypnotic and erotic animated vignettes for Model 86’s EP (NSFW)
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2011Picturebox
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2017Pictoplasma Berlin review: highlights from the character design and animation festival
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2012An excellent, psych-happy animation, Cascade, from Timothy LaPointe
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201214 animation studios take on Monty Python star's autobiography
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2019“I like to make things that are soulful”: Jessy Moussallem on her compelling filmmaking
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2017Hyunmin Lee’s hypnotic animation asks us to change direction and the paths we follow
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2011Gulp: The world's largest stop-motion animation
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2019Animator Matthieu Garcia Marin captures the longing and anxiety of coming out
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2022Illustrator and animator Laura Passalacqua on directing her first commercial film for Chanel
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2019Elena Xausa amplifies the wit of her work with added animation
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2011It's Nice That Granimator™ Collection
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2012A look at Trunk Animation's widely-praised Buckingham Palace projections
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2013Film: This little girl can dance a lot better than you (and she's six)
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2012Moth Collective animate environmental issues with spectacular flair for WWF
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2012The new Cate Le Bon video is an absolute joy thanks to a little girl
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2019Max Colson satirises post-Brexit UK in a 3D-modelled animation
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2012Andrea Galvani
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2012Peepshow Collective
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2014Feixen branches out from bold posters to typographic animations
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2019Animation graduate Esther Cheung on her stunning short film In Passing
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2019Tomek Popakul's short film Acid Rain shows the perils of falling in love with a wrong'un
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2016Joe Bichard animates an exercise in self compassion for The School of Life
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2012Want to brighten up your Monday? Let Pond's brilliant new video do the business...
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2014First look at The Simpsons/Family Guy crossover from Comic-Con
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2017Adam Wells animates Love and Radio’s Dan Deacon interview through obtuse vignettes
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2021Toberg’s new animated film Pile explores the “acute dystopia” the world has drifted into in recent years
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2018Ann Arbor animator and illustrator James Noellert's space age short is out of this world
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2013Film: Shynola's dark and disturbing Dr. Easy is a real must-watch
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2008Aleks Sennwald
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2014The Layzell Bros create an animated ode to 90s slang for i-D
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2017Animator and director James Curran’s amusing 30-day Gifathon project in Tokyo
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2020Natasza Cetner’s latest animation explores an unexpected love story
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2016Lecture in Progress takes a look behind the scenes at animation and production company Goldenwolf
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2013Mac Premo and Oliver Jeffers create brilliant opening film for TED 2013
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2011Jennifer Uman
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2014Sam Lyon's amazing Jelly Gummies GIFs!
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2017Dante Zaballa's smile-cracking animation for Tall Juan
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2021Rodan the flying monster poster
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2017Logo Animax
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2018Logo Los Pitufos
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2014We speak to director Tom Jobbins on his excellent new video for Tune-Yards
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2021The Stroke is a back-to-front music video where the visuals came first and the improvised music second
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2017Yuval Haker tackles sex, intimacy, love and anxiety in this humorous music video
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2026Laika’s 20 years of stop-motion carry lessons aplenty in craft and storytelling
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2018Angela Stempel animates the "harmless mind control" of a chant-heavy yoga class
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2018Duncan Cowles' new film explores the panicky feeling that a creative idea might not be amazing enough
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2019In Charlie Stewart's animation, two AI assistants chat in an abandoned space base
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2017The frustration of crazy golf embodied by student animation collective Megacomputeur
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2020Feel hypnotically relaxed with this beautiful animation, Story of Flowers 2
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2008Sweet Gifs
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2012Beguiling Jake Green film released to mark launch of Dodd Clothing website
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2014Hilarious animation sees a bunch of odd creatures experiment with online dating
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2025Why cult favourite TV show Dr Katz Professional Therapist matters
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2019Laura Jayne Hodkin's new film depicts the tipsy ritual of heading to the chicken shop
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2017Exploring physical and digital binaries with Austin Lee’s exuberantly animated paintings
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2020Animator and designer Gonzalo Menevichian tells us about his “psychedelic, refined, and sophisticated” work
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2012Animated GIFS hacking device Tumbly provides hours of super silly fun
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2024Angela Kirkwood felt “purposeless” – so she made a short film about a bird that can’t fly
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2012Space plus Richard Hogg minus incomprehensible science chat equals killer animation
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2013Art: Neon fabrics, psychedelic animation and strange heads. Tom Sewell rides again!
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2016Benedict Redgrove’s beautifully hypnotic film about how a tennis ball is created
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2018You know that great feeling of popping a spot? You'll get that from Sophie Koko Gate's new animation
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2019Marcus Armitages' animation celebrates Yorkshire's colours and landscapes
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2025Plains of Yonder on creating the easter egg-laden opening sequence for The White Lotus
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2011Adria Petty: Countdown
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2017Animator Daniela Sherer tackles forgiveness for The School of Life
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2009Anamanaguchi
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2009What was your favourite book/album/film of 2009?
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2011Things
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2026Marvel at the animated alchemy behind Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets
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2018In Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s animation Comfort Zone, Uniqlo’s Ultra Light Down takes a trip
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2020Rosa Fisher’s animated documentary tells of her father’s experience at boarding school
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2014Kristina Tzekova recreates scenes from cult films with lo-fi illustration
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2015We check in with awesome 3D illustrator and animator Jack Sachs
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2014Animation: Ambitious 4000 frame animation inspired by Heavy Metal patch embroidery
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2017Alexandre Louvenaz’ animation literally craps on home makeover TV shows
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2022Illustrator and animator Angela Kirkwood leads us through her “weird and wonderful topsy turvy world”
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2011Noel Camardo
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2015Such a cool new music video for Toro Y Moi's new song
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2026Aoife Rhatigan’s whimsical animations have a crayon-esque fuzziness and watercolour smears
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2012Toonami logo - 2003
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2013Miscellaneous: Wes Anderson quotes set to scenes from the Bible
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2019Sawako Kabuki's latest nonsensical animation tells the tale of one girl addicted to octopus balls
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2015New and utterly irresistible animation from filmmaking duo Marc & Emma
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2018Erica Dorn shares the intricate process behind the graphics for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs
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2012Momo and Sprits animate great look at the insane life of soul singer Tim Maia
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2019Haein Kim’s animated comedy Peepin’ comes from a place of honesty
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2018A closer look at Wong Ping’s sexually explicit animations
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2012Sean Pecknold presents an apocalyptic tale of charming animated simplicity
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2011Petra Cortright
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2019Fanélie Muselier's animation made with marker pens presents the spirit of New Orleans
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2023Through fuzzy and textural stop motion, Effie Pappa narrates the trials and tribulations of owning a small business
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2012Alexander Pettersson shows us pure animated perfection in 20 seconds
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2016Animator Jennifer Zheng builds strong, personal narratives through her rich visuals
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2017Matt Bollinger uses hand-painted stop motion animation to create this hypnotic thriller
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2014Nicos Livesey and Tom Bunker create great Radio 1 promo
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2015Simon Roussin's film-focussed comics are a cinephile's delight
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2017Matt Reynolds’ latest animation features ever-growing hot dog hands and grotesque storytelling
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2016Moth collective produces emotive animation exploring the last job on earth for The Guardian
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2011BAFTA: Short Animation
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2013Opinion: Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki is retiring – what are we going to do?
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2017Rosalie Benevello’s charming animation reminds us to appreciate the little things
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2017Dougal Wilson goes behind the scenes of the mischievous Channel 4 idents
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2013Heartbreaking, rare Maurice Sendak interview animated by Christoph Niemann
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2013Fantastic, informative animation "My Face is in Space" by the brilliant Tom Jobbins
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2014Animation: Thomas Slater and Andy Baker's guide to succeeding at art school
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2014My Favourite Music Video: An AMAZING choice from Braulio Amado!
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2024Alex Peake explores girlhood and sisterhood in this touching animated film
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2015New film explores the difficulties designers faced before computers
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2008Peepshow Updates
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2014