Ya see – I read the Kosovo article that mentions that they were declaring their independence. They did – this weekend. That’s very interesting in itself.

But also mentioned amongst those links is the fact that the EU chose for it’s “National Anthem” Beethoven’s Ode To Joy segment of his 9th Symphony.

So I went searching for that segment to give it a listen (haven’t listened to the 9th in years!) – and to listen to a bit of Bach, too.

That’s how I found the video I posted.

Video. EU. Independence. Anthem. Politics.

Never mind.

The animator (or the software) got the physics right.

And – it simply must be said – youngsters today have no clue as to how hard all of this used to be.

I had hoped to do some animations this year, but damn that stuff is time consuming. Even with Flash and all the modern dinguses. (It took me, like, all thanksgiving weekend to do Damien’s Jaunty Balls, and it ended up about half as long and a third as cool as I originally intended).

That said, it’s wonderful to live in a time where one person CAN do animation alone. Traditional cell animation takes hundreds of people and is about as much fun as being on the School Committee.

Either that or a Rambo interpretation via animation.

Rabbits are inherently violent critters, but the gun nut rabbits are the worst of them all and they take great joy in the mass slaughter of their fellow critters and so they should be shot in the face with an RPG.

How’s that?

C’mon – it’ll only sting for a minute.

I’m sorry, but the animation technique right then really pleases the crap out of me.

Sitting there with headphones on and giggling my ass off, hoping to see the whole thing before my kids come in and want to watch the cartoon (carrotoon?).

That’s one kick-ass rabbit.

- LK