And now an important message by golego.de. As usual, Steffen and his team did an excellent job with the animation and the message.

Funny, with an unexpected twist is this study project on the topic of suspense by a group of students.

Made by Artillery Design, a british Design and Animation studio, for the Disney PlayHouse Channel, educating about recycling in a way that can be grasped by 1-4year olds.

This time lapse (~90x real-time) video-microscopy shows the interaction between two marine microorganisms, a foraminifer and dinoflagellate algae. The large disc-shaped thing is the foraminifer, it is collecting the dinoflagellates around it. These dinoflagellates are the same algae that live inside corals, and these foraminifera have a similar symbiotic relationship with their algae as do corals. Scientists can use this kind of time-lapse video to compress processes that happen on a longer time scale into a few seconds, increasing our understanding of the dynamic nature of the living world. Scott Fay of the UC Berkeley used a Nikon inverted phase contrast scope and a Nikon D80 camera.

Made by Javan Ivey who has a lot of cool tips for doing stop motion animation. This animation is a very cool technique he calls "stratastencil" where there seems to be an infinite number of layers of cardboard cut outs. Very cool.

Watch a 3-year-old girl make a stop motion animation with iStopMotion, a PowerBook and an iSight. The making of comes just after the main feature.