Bendito Machine

May 27, 2006 10:39 AM

Bendito Machine - An excellent animated short exploring societal conflict. [flash]
posted by icosahedral (21 comments total)

Loved it! Thnx!
posted by ao4047 at 11:11 AM on May 27, 2006

Neat.
posted by Pseudoephedrine at 11:32 AM on May 27, 2006

Ditto.
posted by Toecutter at 11:35 AM on May 27, 2006

nice
posted by davidnin at 11:42 AM on May 27, 2006

Loved it! Thnx!
posted by parallax7d at 11:43 AM on May 27, 2006

Great post. Dunno what to make of "The Message" tho. I'm sure someone will enlighten me soon.
posted by brautigan at 11:46 AM on May 27, 2006

This is good. The creators of this animation are Zumbakamera.
posted by ericb at 12:14 PM on May 27, 2006

Dunno what to make of "The Message" tho.

The message is "don't get greedy with hairy eyeballs," and its a timeless one.
posted by StickyCarpet at 12:17 PM on May 27, 2006

The message is stay on guard for robots with pointy hats.
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:27 PM on May 27, 2006

sticky carpet wins.

vcool.
posted by lalochezia at 12:45 PM on May 27, 2006

The internet is stuck, can somebody mirror this?
posted by bigmusic at 12:46 PM on May 27, 2006

Cool visual look, but otherwise not that interesting or enlightening. It explores societal conflict about as deeply as the armies of stick men that do battle in the margins of my notebooks.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:48 PM on May 27, 2006

Very cute, and definitely artistically appealing. I kept trying to figure out where they lifted all the sound effects from, though.
posted by blacklite at 12:57 PM on May 27, 2006

Thank icosahedral, loved the futuristic Peruvian tribal look. It reminded me of Indonesian shadow puppets.

Didn't think it was that deep but enjoyed it all the same. The other strange little movies on the Zumbakamera site are also interesting.
posted by nickyskye at 12:58 PM on May 27, 2006

14
30
51
64
96

These are the different percentages it got stuck at before i had to reload and try again.

i suspect these numbers mean something.

But in order to be sure i will have to construct some kind of giant machine. Any hairy eyeballs produced will be purely a side effect. i swear.
posted by quin at 3:26 PM on May 27, 2006

very nice. beautifully animated, thanks for that!
posted by kolophon at 3:56 PM on May 27, 2006

hot tub plo chops!
posted by roboto at 4:33 PM on May 27, 2006

One interesting thing about this is that silhouette animation similar to this, but far lower-tech, was used in a film that many consider to be the first animated movie: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or "The Adventures of Prince Achmed."
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 7:23 PM on May 27, 2006

That was truly beautiful. I'll be watching this several times.
posted by edlundart at 10:13 PM on May 27, 2006

It reminds me of the Tales Of The Beanworld comix. I like it.
posted by BoringPostcards at 11:24 PM on May 27, 2006

Ahh... Bandito, not Bandido..

Regardless, awesome!
posted by Chuckles at 1:39 AM on May 28, 2006