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"Thought of You" is a project of Ryan Woodward, animator/designer and storyboard artist, where in very creative way he mixes figure drawings in with animation. According to him self inspiration to the project stems from years of teaching creative gesture drawing:
"The birth of this animation came from a desire to unite several of my passions into one art piece. Figurative works, 2d animation, EFX animation, and contemporary dance. Put all three of these forms together to support a theme centered around the complexities of intimate relationships...and whalaa!"
The background story, the animation and the behind the scenes documentation is available on Ryan Woodward's project blog: Conté Animated.
Ryans website: www.ryanwoodwardart.com (don't miss his storyboards to the"Where the wild things are")
Dance animation by Ryan Woodward
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Via YouTube/theRSAorg Channel: "This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award."
Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation
Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8. See Dot. The movie and Dot. The making of
3D, realtime, multiplayer engine for Flash
During the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles on the 25th of October a new possibilities of new Flash player were shown. Showcase called MAX Racer created by AlternativaPlatform presented technology for multiplayer browser games with possibility to draw more than 3 millions of polygons with high performance. Alternativa3D is Flash 3D engine for realtime, multiplayer games, virtual words, demos and promotional projects....and is now for free to download. Info via: flashflex.com . For more information about the project see the video.
Toy Photography and Photo Tips and trix
Photo by Zelevol
Great collection of toy photography and plenty of Photography Tips and Trix you wiill find on hongkiat.com/blog. Read more on: Bokeh Photography 
Action Sequence Photography
Tilt-Shift Photography and High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography. The site provide plenty of information on "How to" in different areas, more on photography you will find in: Five Photography Tips for Amateur Photographers, Five tips to better Group Photography and in Five Vital Black & White Photography Tips
From 2D Mandelbrot to 3D Mandelbulb
The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbulb, Great story and examples of 2D Mandelbrot to 3D Mandelbulb by Daniel White.
The Empathic Civilisation
RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation. Jeremy Rifkin's brilliant talk and animation on "mirror neuron" and empathy.
YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video
"YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP
Top 25 Videos Announced
On view at the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice from October 22 to 24, 2010, the top 25 videos comprise the ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years. The videos and artists were celebrated at an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, which was streamed live to a worldwide audience at youtube.com/play." Via: www.guggenheim.org/
Evolution of 3D Technology
3 interesting articles on Evolution of 3D Technology by Mark Hixenbaugh
Part 1. Break on Through (To the Other Side)
Part 2. Ghosts, Gorillaz, and a Guy named Wolf
Part 3. Trailblazing In 3D: Does Practicality Match Potential?
Via: Brave New Media
Nature by Numbers
Nature by Numbers is a video created by Cristóbal Vila from Etérea. This grate CGI work is describing geometry in nature trough the mathematical sequences such as; Fibonacci numbers, Golden Angle and Ratio and Delaunay triangulation. Documentation along with mathematical explanations you will found here.
Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth – Displays the carbon dioxide emission levels of every country in the world, as well as birth and death rates.
Polar Panorama Effect
Dirk’s Photo Blog present a helpfull tutorial on haw to create your own planets using the “Polar Panorama Effect” with help of the Polar Coordinates filter of Photoshop or the Gimp. Some nice examples are published at webdesignerdepot.com and at hongkiat.com
Gaming the Classroom!
Lee Sheldon assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University format his multiplayer-game design course as a multiplayer-game, which increased significantly students level of engagement. According to Sheldon his students are "the gamer generation, they are the social-networking generation, so this class is couched in the terms that they understand." Lee Sheldon’s grading scheme is based on game scoring system; Experience Points, as in the World of Warcraft. I love the idea!
More info via: Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
I have recently found an interesting contribution from Worcraft community regarding educational aspects of gaming on line: Gettin' Good Gear: Play, Pedagogy, and Engagement in World of Warcraft
Gaming Can Make a Better World
Jane McGonigal on TED: “Instead of providing gamers with better and more immersive alternatives to reality, I want all of us to be become responsible for providing the world with a better and more immersive reality.” via: turbulence.org
Free sound tracks from Moby
Moby share sound tracks, with the ‘independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short‘. His explanation to this nice gesture you will find here and the ‘film music‘ at mobygratis.com
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages
"Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936" via The New York Times
Concept Art from CreatureBox
Concept Artists Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin from CreatureBox speaking about their workflow in the interview via photoshopcafe.com.
Colour mood
Four interesting web-projects : Cymbolism from Suffolk Software at cymbolism.com, which aims to quantify the association between colours and words with the help of the visitors. As a feedback participating public can see statistics with colours attached to specific word.
Another project is We Feel Fine by Kamvar and Harris at : www.wefeelfine.org . It is a database of human feelings collected over three years from personal blogs on Internet. With the interactive application’s help I was able to get valuable statistics on most expressed feelings according to gender, geography and time. The project is very well documented in the book form: We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion,, which I highly recommend.
I also find interesting tool from cssprism.com, which aloud to view and modify the color spectrum from any website or CSS file. Another useful application is: Adobes Kuler: and by them recommend links to color theory.
Creative alphabets and letters
You'll find plenty of inspiration at: davidairey.com, sharesomecandy.com and letterplayground.com
Pikmin Project as Lego creations
Norwegian Filip Felberg has been building with Lego blocks characters of his favorite video game Nintendo's Pikmin. Characters gallery on Flickr
Info Via: gamesetwatch.com ,
Tilt-Shift Photography (miniature faking )
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial via: tiltshiftphotography.net
Oldest Animation
A 5,200-year-old bowl discovered in Iran seems to be the oldest animation. More info via: animationmagazine.net