Yar-e Dabestani-e Man

This is an animation made by an artist named Simon Ampel who is one of the cofounders of Aquifer Films, based in Brooklyn. Their website is one of the coolest, cleanest flash sites I've ever seen. Its pretty awesome. Check out the show reel.

The above animation is pretty cool too. Its based on the growing student movement in Iran against authoritarian regime. I thought it was real pretty and somewhat hopeful considering Iran's new "nuclear statehood".

From what I understand the animation was done in a program called TVpaint which may be a paperless studio and then it was colored in Animo. I've heard of Animo being pretty cool but this is the first I've heard of Tvpaint. Ok strike that, TVpaint is sort of a sister program to Mirage which is a french made program that I hear is really good about imitating a paper system. For example they have a series of papers that you can choose from and when you use a wacom tablet the pen strokes will react to the grain of the paper template you've chosen. So, pretty cool.