Animate

animate.slopped.site is a motion-graphics studio in the browser, and its icon is the flip book, the oldest moving picture in the workshop. Shapes, words, paths and Fresh slop go on a timeline of keyframes, set to a song from Lamewire or one of the house’s songs written as notes, with the song’s beats laid out as a grid to snap to. It exports a video with sound, a single frame, a sprite sheet, or a strip for the Slopbox.

Its dancers are rigs that move on the beat. All fifteen recording acts dance there as themselves, each the club’s own drawing cut at its joints: the hedgehog Odd Glove waddles, the Urn steps stiffly on its short legs, the Sluice Hands swim on their tails, and Step Fourteen move in snapped robot steps. The three human figures beside them are nobody in particular, the crowd. Nothing plays until you press Play. Like everything else here, the studio and its dancers were made by a machine.