A gentle tale about a bag lady searching a rubbish dump. This is a senior thesis animation produced at Ringling College of Art and Design by Chelsea Bartlett.

Coldplay’s haunting classic ‘The Scientist’ is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of this stop-frame animation entitled, “Back to the Start.” It depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future. It was directed and animated by Johnny Kelly and commissioned by Chipotle Mexican Grill. Johnny, who is from Dublin, Ireland works in London, UK. He is represented by Nexus Productions.

This video traces the development of animated creatures in live action movies. Starting with the puppets of King Kong animated by Willis O’Brien it moves on the computer graphics characters we are familiar with today. The video was produced by Inrd Shelby who points out that it is for educational purposes only and no copyright infringement is intended.

Ed Catmull appeared along with Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton and others for a panel talk on the history of computer animation that was held at The Computer History Museum 6 years ago. It runs for one hour and forty minutes. Ed Catmull was Co-Founder and President, Pixar Animation Studios. Brad Bird was writer/director on The Incredibles at Pixar Animation Studios. Other speakers; Alvy Ray Smith, Co-Founder of four centers of computer graphics excellence (Altamira, Pixar, Lucasfilm, New York Tech) and a Microsoft Fellow, Andrew Stanton, Writer/ Director, Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios, and Michael Rubin, Moderator, Author of Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution.

In 1972 Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar) and his colleagues created the world’s first 3D rendered movie, an animated version of Ed’s left hand. This is the film that they produced. It includes some “making of” footage (around 1:30) and some other early experiments. Read more at nerdplusart.com/​?p=1106.

25 years ago John Lasseter revolutionised the animation industry by creating the worlds first feature-length computer animated film. This video visits John’s house at the start of his day, where we see his collection of 370 Hawaiian shirts, his train library and his luxurious movie theatre. Then he jumps into his chauffeur driven car and is off to the Pixar studio…

Air Mater is the tenth episode in the Cars Toons series. It will be released with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Cars 2. It was written and directed by John Lasseter and Rob Gibbs.

English title A Monster in Paris. It is set in Paris,1910. Emile, a shy movie protectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing citizens. The film is being made by Bibo Bergeron’s French studio, Bibo Films, and will screen in France in October. Bergeron previously directed Shark Tale and The Road to El Dorado.

The life and career of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs compressed into two minutes of computer animation. Jobs resigned his position as Chief Operating Officer at Apple last week (24/08/2011) and was elected chairman of the board. The video was produced by Taiwanese animation studio Next Media.

A man on the ledge of a high-rise building in just his underpants is hiding from a returning husband. Design/concept and animation by Yavuz Üngör with story help from Inan Atalay. This is a graduation project from the University of applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.