John Buckman from Magnatune announced today a change in their business model: they're moving away from the sales of individual albums, and fully embracing a no-limits subscription model. For one monthly subscription price, users get unlimited access to their music catalog.

The fact that a relatively small player like Magnatune can get away with this at prices competitive with Rhapsody and other music services with millions of popular songs is a powerful affirmation of what today's music consumers really want. And in fact, Buckman states their data conclusively suggested that, when users were presented with a "pay-what-you-will" per-album model vs. a flat rate subscription model, users overwhelmingly went for the subscription.

I found this short by Ian Worrel delightfully unpredictable, hope you enjoy it too! According to him in one of its Vimeo comments:

material used: straight pencil and paper for the man and cat line animation. colored in photoshop, composited in after effects onto backgrounds constructed in photoshop out of various pieces of media (pen/ink, pencil, paint, photos, etc.)

A magnificent bit of storytelling in a beautifully crafted package, directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys. From his description:

An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man ...