Round 6 shows an excerpt from the personal story of Snap, a Fragball gamer, as he plays out his last round of the game. The short film has been directed by Dave Levy and produced at Snowball Studios.
Tagged american football, butterfly, countdown, diving, guns, monster, videogamesMaking of Edit for the short film Round 6 by Snowball Studios.
Tagged american football, diving, drawings, guns, monsterRauch (Smoke) is a surreal dream, the metaphor of a dreary, dead world composed from pictures of fantasy and reality. An experimental short film by Jan Goldfuss, made while studying at the Weimar University.
Tagged skull, smoke, statues, surrealismThe clip is a trailer for the 13th edition of the Flying Broom Women Film Festival, an event devoted to women’s cinema which will be held in May 2010 in Turkey.
The video has been designed and directed by Deniz Kader and Candaş Şişman. Sound design: Alican Okan.
Tagged Candas Sisman, lens flare, Motion graphics, typographyShort and sweet, Distraxion is a short film directed and animated by Mike Stern, made during his final terms at Animation Mentor.
Mike Stern works as an animator at Dreamworks Animation and has contributed to their last feature films: Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters Vs. Aliens and How to Train Your Dragon.
Tagged guitars, office, sax, tapeModule (born Jeremiah Ross) is a musician and producer from New Zealand. Amethyst Caverns is a soundtrack composed for a level of the videogame Shatter. The music video has been edited, filmed and directed by Shatter’s lead artist Corie Geerders.
Tagged birds, grass, guitars, newspaper, OSD, parachute, percussions, Robots, tape, waterHaunted Girl is a fantastic music video and/or short movie based on the song performed by Stéphanie Cabdevila.
Directed by Antoine Arditti, the film uses photographs as raw material to create animation: like in Wolf and Pig, but also in a very different way.
Tagged candle, eyeglasses, fire, fluid, French, maps, photomation, photos, piano, pixilation, stop motionIn the land of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, the same old story goes on, but with a different kind of magic. The music video was directed by Team D.A.D.D.Y. and produced at Red Jam. Original footage from Ray Harryhausen’s films.
Tagged airplane, alice, birds, eggs, explosion, fire, hair, Little Red Riding Hood, rabbits, Ray Harryhausen, skeleton, stop motion, tank, treesA science expedition propels two children toward an enigmatic encounter at the edge of their known world. Arriving on an isolated beach, they stumble upon the shipwreck of a robotic squid submarine.
The Anachronism is a steampunk science-fiction short set in the late nineteenth century written and directed by Matthew Long.
Tagged bathtub, book, bugs, Creative Commons, fire, kids, leaf, mecha, science fiction, squid, steampunk, time travel, trees, umbrella, waterMunlet is a Spanish punk rock band. Cañón is featured on their latest album of the same name. The music video has been directed and animated by Pablo Fermin.
Tagged birds, blood, brain, buildings, cannon, chains, chase, dogs, explosion, music performance, percussions, playgroundHudson Mohawke (born Ross Birchard) is an electronic music producer and DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective.
Joy Fantastic, featuring Olivier Daysoul is a track from his first album, entitled Butter and released for Warp in 2009.
The music video has been directed and animated and produced by Tom Scholefield at Konx-om-Pax.
Tagged dance, hip hopCorazon en Fuego (Heart on fire) is a short film animated in stop motion by Yoriko Murakami.
The short leaps from mood to mood, from corny drama to happy comedy, in a punctuated rather than gradual fashion.
The music has been composed by Patrick Kirst. Singer: Sara Leib. Guitar: Kayta Matsuno.
Tagged candle, combat, explosion, fire, flashback, guns, hammer, nails, phone, photos, shoes, sleeping, stop motion, tears, teddy bear, window, Yoriko MurakamiTalkdemonic is an avant-instrumental folktronic duo based in Portland, Oregon. The band consists of Kevin O’Connor and Lisa Molinaro.
Duality of Deathening is a track from their 2008 album entitled Eyes at Half Mast and released for Arena Rock Recording.
The music video is the work of Orie Weeks III. The middle part is inspired to the famous Der Mensch als Industriepalast by Fritz Kahn.
Tagged angel, book, clouds, devil, fire, Fritz Kahn, God, heaven, hell, internal organs, light bulb, machinery, mask, Robots, skeleton, sleeping, thunderLa Main des Maîtres (The hand of the masters) takes its graphical direction from the early 20th century’s Art Nouveau and Victorian styles. Beneath the graphics is the society of the working class during the industrial revolution as it relates to class struggle. The major artistic influence on the overall animation style is the painter Alfons Mucha. From this inspiration, everything went to Steampunk.
The short film is the work of three students of the Georges Méliès School (formerly EESA): Vivien Chauvet, Adrien Toupet and Clément Delatre.
Tagged blood, book, drawings, EESA, explosion, French, guns, machinery, Olivier Michelot, steampunk, tearsThe short film has been directed by Rob Shaw and produced by Jenny Grayson at Bent Director of Photography: Dan Ackerman. Lead Animator: Jeff Riley. Art Director: Rebecca Stillman.
The song is Dirty Laundry by Bitter:Sweet. Creative agency: 72 and Sunny.
Tagged 72andSunny, Bent, bike, birds, buildings, car, Chel White, chicken, copter, dance, kids, meat, missile, motorcycle, pigs, rainbow, Ray Di Carlo, Rob Shaw, Robots, Solomon Burbridge, tank, The End title, thunder, toys, trees, Tsui Ling Toomer, vinyl record, Zune, Zune ArtsIn the dark interstices between our memories and our feelings, obscure fantasies and fears creep and grow, parasites of our wild imagination.
Between is a short film by Tim Bollinger. Director of photography: Daniel Meinl. Sound Design: Michael Fakesch. Cast: Robert Schwartz, Ulla Stotz, Leo Stotz, Linus Lomenick.
Tagged birds, eyes, feather, garbage bag, gas mask, grass, kids, machinery, peep, slow motion, spacetime loop, stand still, trees, waterThe music video for Rolling Stones‘ Plundered my Soul. The broadcast spot Mr.Burton’s Rabbit Hole from Spanish studio UnitedFakes. The music videos for I can Hardly Wait and Islands. Bonus link: Selfportraits by Francesco Sambo.
Tagged Ticklebooth, VentilateChris Black (Victor Lopez) possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him. The chase is on as Chris runs for his life in this sci-fi thriller set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles.
The Raven is a short film by Ricardo de Montreuil. Director of Photography: Andres Sanchez.
Tagged Andres Sanchez, bugs, car, CCTV, chase, explosion, eyes, Robots, science fiction, shoes, shoot out, televisionThe concept is simple: bringing a community to life through the visual works of one muralist. Doing it, that’s another story.
The spot for the 2010 US Census aimed at the Latin community is the work of Digital Kitchen. Creative agency: Global Hue.
Tagged apple, blackboard, classroom, dance, Digital Kitchen, Draft FCB, Globalhue, maths, motion painting, painting, US Census 2010Case study for Living Mural spot by Digital Kitchen.
Tagged Digital Kitchen, drawings, Globalhue, Kid Cudi, Martin Ahlgren, motion painting, painting, pencil, US Census 2010The Wizard of Dogz is a story that unfolds in a magical dog-inspired World of Oz, where the yellow brick road is paved with dog biscuits. Follow our canine friends as they embark on their journey to the Emerald City.
The short film is a viral video for Over the Rainbow, a talent show to cast the role of Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s new musical based on The Wizard of Oz.
The film has been directed by Cassiano Prado and Liam O’ Connor and produced at Agile Films.
Tagged Agile Films, bats, BBC, Cassiano Prado, cats, dogs, eyeglasses, Liam O'Connor, magician, tornado, trees, water, Wizard of OzThe viral video for the Rolling Stone Magazine has been directed by Marco Gentile and produced at Diaviva.
Directors of Photography: Mauro Chiarello, Luca Esposito. Editor: Stuart Greenwald. Post Production: EDI. Creative agency: DaLV BBDO.
Tagged bed, Italia, snake, voice overFlogging Molly is a seven-piece American Celtic punk band currently signed to Side One Dummy Records. Float is the title of their 2008 album as well as a song featured on that album.
The music video has been directed by Karni & Saul and produced at Flynn. Animators: Karni and Saul, Kostas Koutsoliotas, Steve Brown.
Tagged airplane, battery, clouds, coins, door, hat, horse, Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, sky, smoke, stop motion, timelapse, trees, waterThree ninjas unbox the new cellphone from Google the way they know better. Reminds me somewhat of International Karate +.
The spot has been directed and animated by Patrick Boivin. Sound and Music: Eric Pfalzgraf.
Tagged blade, headphones, martial arts, ninja, Patrick Boivin, phone, plug, puppets, stop motionA nice animated trailer for the 2008 edition of Cartoon Forum, held in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The film was directed by Max Lang and Regina Welker.
Tagged Filmakademie, treesSide are most the same than they are different, and in the end they must share the same fate. A raid in 2 parts.
A short film by Adam Witten, produced at Re:Birth Films, which uses the structure of the fugue to build a parallel into two story lines.
Written by: Martin Leicht. Producer: Justin Havlik. Director of Photography: Derek McKane. Editor: Justin Quagliata.
Tagged Adam Witten, Derek McKane, drugs, guns, Justin Quagliata, middle finger, policemen, Robert Miller, spacetime loop, stairs, vanA doctor performs an experimental procedure designed to remotely enhance a woman’s breast size… when an unfortunate surge of electricity brings her boob to life!
After watching this film, you will never look at boobs the way you did before. Unless you’re a man.
Written and directed by Honest. Director of photography: Martin Ahlgren. Editor: Craig Holzer.
Tagged blade, blood, boobs, exploitation film, Honest, horror, hospital, Martin Ahlgren, policemen, risque, shout, slow motion, snow, splatterHey there! I noticed there’s a bunch of stuff I’ve posted last week but haven’t reported in my previous convergence posts, so…
The third installment in Bryce Wymer’s project Flat Earth: David sold the giant’s body to six eager scientists for a healthy bounty. The teaser trailer for Max Hattler’s Spin.
The short film Lightheaded by Mike Dacko.
Also, bobafettich posted the new music video by Floria Sigismondi for the song Die by the Drop.
Tagged Ticklebooth, VentilateGyratory System is effects trumpet player and producer Andrew Blick. Yowser Yowser Yowser is his latest single released for Angular Recording.
The music video, produced with a ridiculous 600$ budget, has been directed by Alex de Campi. Editing and post production: Alan Capriles.
Tagged Alan Capriles, alarm clock, Alex de Campi, bed, buildings, explosion, eyes, Robots, smoke, windowSimple machines work together to make music in this fantastic and dynamic video by Mike Winkelmann AKA Beeple.
Tagged beeple, machinery, percussionsThis is the best part after the first.
Mormor: granny.
Moonboy: sky is the limit.
Machine Gun: self destruction.
Orgy: not what you might think.
Measured Sacrifice: haunted past and uncertain future.
Radiorace: VHS-Scope.
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything: pretty much.
Biathlon: fuck yeah!
Spirit of Summer: Beach, Sausage Party and Celebration.
405: the internet video.
Eat Crap: junk food.
Pinkman: a new hero.
Tungijuq: an Inuit meditation.
I Say Fever: monkeys!
Burn and Rise: Beautiful and yet so fragile.
Mon(s)tre: monster clock.
Tagged two part postHey, howdy! You’re here, now, while I don’t, so keep the place clean…
Nuit Blanche: wowzer.
Fast Relief: living cities.
Embrace Life: Always wear your seatbelt.
Eat Up Brain: eighty percent of this post will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
A.D. Trailer: Zombies + The Unkle.
Les Sushis: an adventure of Roberto.
Her Morning Elegance: The Opposite Side [...]
An interesting exquisite corpse project, this one started by Christen Bach. An animator gets 4 weeks to make at least 5 seconds of film. Then, the scene is posted online, and a new animator continues the film.
The clip posted has the first four scenes, respectively made by Christen Bach, Mads Juul, Andreas Normand Grøntved and Ned Wenlock. The fifth scene is being made by Oren Mashkovski.
Tagged birds, blood, Christen Bach, exquisite corpse, glass shards, guns, umbrellaLast converging post for this week. I’ll be mostly offline this weekend, so there will hardly be any update until Sunday night at least. Will schedule a best of post, as usual.
A lot of interesting music video were released this week. Among them: Yowser Yowser Yowser and Gently Gently share more than having a six [...]
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, joined by a mix of Finnish and Danish musicians, breathed life into his new album, Dark Eyes, on which Grand Central is included.
The music video has been directed and animated by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski. One kilometer of yarn was shaken and illuminated in different ways and shot in stop motion.
Tagged bridge, buildings, jazz, Katarzyna Kijek, Przemyslaw Adamski, stop motion, textileNokta (Dot) is an abstract film project which is an improvisation of organic pieces while considering themes like power, chance and luck. A short movie by Onur Senturk with sound design by Gavin Little at EchoLab.
Tagged abstract, fluid, Gavin Little, making of, Onur SenturkThe Making of Nokta, short film by Onur Senturk.
Tagged fluid, Gavin Little, Onur SenturkLooks like this week ain’t gonna hit too hard on my blogging. So, here’s the things I’ve posted (or thought about posting) yesterday around the web.
It’s probably everywhere, but I should mention The 3D Truth in Old Masters, since it will probably not appear here soon. The music video for Wail to God is not [...]
The short animated film has been made with the technique of the découpage, and is perhaps inspired by a scene from The Prestige, even tho’ the similarities are not very strong.
The authors are two students of the Supinfocom: Julien Hazebroucq and Monica Beramendi.
Tagged birds, blood, hat, paper cuts, supinfocomA team of explorers embark on a mission in deep space, travelling through areas no man has been before. The music video is the work of director and animator Eric Power at Clear Productions.
The Fictionist is a band from Salt Lake City, USA. Blue Eyed Universe is a song from their second album, entitled Lasting Echo.
Tagged astronauts, diving, Eric Power, eyeglasses, micro, red alert, red button, skeleton, treesA list of external posts from my network, in case you might have missed something.
On cpluv, the trailer for Dark Ride, an interactive online film for Lexus. On antville, the music video for Road Regrets. On Ventilate, the portfolio of Lola Dupré, amazing crafty stuff. On Ticklebooth, Ajit posted the short film The Last 3 Minutes.
Tagged Ticklebooth, VentilateA song and a music video about hope, dedicated to Lida Koning, a mother who lost her own child.
Elly Nieman is best known as part of the Dutch duo Elly en Rikkert. Gebroken Wit is a track from her solo album Circusprinces. The music video, shot in Super 8, has been directed by Jonathan Sterkenburg of Muziektelevisie.
Tagged analog noise, animals, birds, Jonathan Sterkenburg, kids, slow motion, snow, sun, treesThe video documents the journey of the band’s boots up to the peak of the mythical Mount Olympus in search of the Greek God of the sky, Zeus.
Zeus was born from the musical friendship of Toronto based musicians Mike O’Brien and Carlin Nicholson. Marching Through Your Head is the first single from their first full length album, Say Us.
The music video has been directed by Alan Poon and Adam Makarenko and produced by Jared Lorenz at Humble.
Tagged Adam Makarenko, Alan Poon, animals, clouds, fisherman, fishes, growing plant, guitars, guns, Humble, mountain, music performance, mustache, pixilation, shoes, sky, stop motion, trees, waterDirectors Adam Makarenko and Alan Poon discuss the making of the video for Marching Through Your Head.
Tagged Adam Makarenko, Alan Poon, animals, fisherman, fishes, growing plant, Humble, music performance, mustache, shoes, stop motion, water, wirePretty intense day for posting, yesterday, so I thought I could make a recap for your convenience and as a reminder to myself. Maybe I should do this everyday?
Posted the music video for the song Beauty through Order by The Slayer. Posted the short film Another Story Without Words. Also posted the new iamamiwhoami video on antville. And finally posted the music video for I Own You.
Tagged Ticklebooth, VentilateMoray McLaren is a Scottish singer-songwriter, now living in London. We Got Time is his first single.
All the animations were created, drawn and coloured by the director David Wilson. Production company: Blink.
Tagged acorns, animals, Blink, confetti, David Wilson, making of, trees, vinyl record, wolfAll the animations seen in the music video were created in camera. No stopframe techniques, or computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera.
The animations in the side-on views were produced by the camera capturing the moving reflections from the mirrored carousels, and the animations in the top-down views were created by matching the cameras frame rate to that of spinning record.
The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.
The music video is the work of David Wilson. Behind the scenes video by Tom Kingsley and Tim Keeling.
Tagged Blink, David Wilson, filmmaking, flag, optical illusion, vinyl record, zoetropeThe spot has been directed by Jesse Warn and produced by Jack St. Rose at Film Construction.
Creatives: Mike O’Sullivan, Jay Benjamin, Andy DiLallo, Cameron Harris, Tom Hazeldine and Toby Talbot at Saatchi and Saatchi.
Tagged animals, beer, birds, bugs, car accident, cats, China, Film Construction, fishes, Jesse Warn, panda, pov, Saatchi et Saatchi, suicide, underwaterJohn Frum returns as an astronaut and businessman to the postindustrial wasteland of the financial service economy. Together with a native, he sets out for a conquest of the useless; then things get confused, and what begins as a journey turns into a trip far off the boundaries of logic and meaning.
This amazing short film, which would make an animation studio proud of their work, has actually been designed, directed and animated by one person, German student of design Christian Schlaeffer.
Tagged car, Christian Schlaeffer, cigs, Creative Commons, falling, inflatable, internal organs, mountain, rain, sun, windHealth is a dance music band from Los Angeles, California. We are Water is featured on their album Get Color, released for Lovepump United.
The music video has been directed by Eric Wareheim and produced at Funk Factory. Director of Photography: Matt Lloyd. Edited by: Luke Lynch.
Tagged blade, blood, chase, Eric Wareheim, exploitation film, gloves, shout, slow motion, splatter, treesA fully animated spot taking the viewer through the runaway expansion of a muffin making business from a small stall to big company.
The spot was directed by Tom Perrett and Mark Perrett and produced by Melody Sylvester at Nexus.
Music and sound design: Brains & Hunch. Creative direction: Ian MacKellar, Carlos Moreno, Peter Ignazi at BBDO Toronto.
Tagged bank, BBDO, Brains+Hunch, cake, fountain, growing buildings, Nexus Productions, policemen, train, truckOne of the videos in the series made as fillers for the Sundance Channel and based on the poetry of Billy Collins.
Directed and animated by Eun-Ha Paek at Milky Elephant. Creative agency: JWT, New York.
Tagged Billy Collins, birds, boat, China, hands, JWT, Motion graphics, mountain, poetry, Sundance, trees, truck, waterI stand accused, just like you,
of being born without a silver spoon…
Copyright © 2002 University of Southern California
There are not a lot of biographic films here, but it turns out somebody did a film about the story of my file, so I felt obliged to post it…
The short movie is the work of Yoriko Murakami, [...]
At the dawn of time, when the universe was dark, an element arose over millions of years under extreme pressure: carbon. Exceptional, highly complex, present in all known life forms, and the foundation for a perfect material: carbon fiber.
Created at Sehsucht and directed by Hans Schultheiss and Ole Peters. Creative agency: Philipp & Keuntje.
Tagged air flotsam, Axel Brötje, car, countdown, Italia, Lamborghini, leaf, Mate Steinforth, prehistory, Sehsucht, trees, voice over, windThe touching story of a sad-eyed little robot who gradually transforms into a real living, breathing and playing boy as he kicks up the dry leaves, feels the grass under his feet, picks up a worm, catches raindrops on his tongue and sloshes about in a very muddy puddle.
The spot was directed by Philippe Andre and produced at Bikini Films. Creative agency: BBH.
Post produced at The Mill. Editor: Richard Orrick at Work.
Tagged Aidan Gibbons, Bikini Films, dogs, Douglas Lassance, eyes, kids, leaf, Mario Ucci, rain, Richard Orrick, Robots, The Mill, Work PostThe Head is an animated phantasmagoria that reminds the golden era of hand drawn animation without being a direct homage to that style, but rather pursuing a style of its own.
The film is the work of Matias Vigliano AKA Parquerama and Dante Zaballa AKA Podoboo. Sound design: Ariel Gandolfo AKA Nicholas van Orton.
Tagged airplane, barber, buildings, car, machinery, monster, public transport, snake, spacetime loop, trumpetWhitestone Motion Pictures‘ film Off the Shelf is now available as a Full HD download.
Tagged enhancements, HDA short film that will be loved by all those who can remember the days of the 8 bit computers: Tetris, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, the Commodore 64, Bomberman and probably more…
The movie has been directed by Patrick Jean and produced at One More Prod. Director of Photography: Matias Boucard.
Tagged 8bit, Breakout, bridge, buildings, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Pac-Man, public transport, semaphore, Space Invaders, taxi, television, tetris, videogamesIndustrial landscapes, bird flocks, sparkling tires. This short animated film is fast as hell and choke full of exquisite details. Try not to miss any!
All elements in the film, including the music, are the work of Shunsuke Saito.
Tagged airplane, birds, buildings, car, crane, drawings, eyes, faces, fire, hands, japan, monster, sun, treesThe movie has been written and directed by PES. Animation by PES and Javan Ivey. Editor: Sam Welch. Produced by: Sarah Phelps.
Tagged blade, candle, dices, fire, Javan Ivey, kitchen, money, PES, post it, Rubik's cube, sauce, stop motion, textile, waterThe new book by Alessandro Amaducci (Not with a Bang, Flesh Paths) has been released for Kaplan. The title translates to Computer Graphics: Synthetic Worlds and Designed Realities.
The book “relies about creative computer graphics which are creating a brand new aesthetic of the audio visual media, suspended between art drawings and photo-realism.”
Along with the work [...]
The Paper Melody is Jill Sullivan, Dan Vallier, Sean Martin and Anthony Reeder. Incandescent is a song from their debut album, Conducting the Motion.
The music video is the work of Raul Gonzo. Cinematographer was Dean Tokuno.
Tagged car, cardboard, door, kids, light bulb, music sheet, Raul Gonzo, smoke, treesAnimatic of Raul Gonzo’s music video for the song Incandescent by The Paper Melody.
Tagged Raul GonzoYou can now found some posts of yours truly as part of that cool website called Ventilate. As I do an Ticklebooth, Qblog and Antville, some content will be taken from here, some content will be just for Ventilate.
Tagged VentilateBluebrain is Hays Holladay and Ryan Holladay, an indies duo from Washington DC.
The music video is the work of Gabe Askew who directed and animated. Additional 3D graphics by Austin Hernandez and James Atilano.
Tagged acorns, arrows, bubbles, clockworks, couch, cuckoo, eyes, Gabe Askew, hourglass, letter, machinery, money, rain, ship, sky, underwater, waterThe short film was made at Buck for as an entry in the F5 Re:Play Film Festival held in New York City last year.
Creative Director: Ryan Honey. Art Director: Christopher Lee. Music and Sound Design: David Kamp.
Tagged blade, Buck, bugs, chainsaw, David Kamp, eyes, hydrant, mustache, pee, rain, smoke, trees, truck, unicornThe following was performed live. No post production has taken place. What you see is what the audience saw.
Tagged Chris Cairns, dj, music performance, Star Wars, Will ClarkeVital is indie singer and songwriter Duranta D. Cook. Airport is song from his first release for Black Sky Records, entitled Vital EP, currently available for free on his website.
The music video has been directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya AKA TakCom.
Tagged abstract, Takafumi TsuchiyaDead Man’s Suit is the first single and the name of the debut album by Jon Allen, a folk rock singer-songwriter born in Winchester, currently living in London.
Music video directed by: Tactful Cactus. Directors of Photography: Ben Todd and Ossie Bacon.
Tagged faces, gloves, graveyard, guitars, lantern, moon, suit, Tactful Cactus, treesThe spot has been directed by Naomi Nishimura and Jonathan Garin, and produced at Panda Panther. Creative agency: Leo Burnett.
Director of Photography: Carolyn Taylor. Music: Joel Corelitz at Waveplant. Sound design by Steven Vandeven at Static Studios.
Tagged birds, buildings, fireworks, junk food, kids, Leo Burnett, Miles Southan, miniature, PandaPanther, treesA short and funny montage of images from behind the scenes of the spot produced at Panda Panther.
Tagged dance, miniature, PandaPanther, stop motion, timelapseThe music video for The Cinematic Orchestra — starring Peter Mullan and Julia Ward — is the work of Up the Resolution (Andrew Griffin, Merlin Nation and Dominic Thompson-Talbot) and it’s the first of two the parts comprising the film To Build a Home.
Tagged eutanasia, love, Peter Mullan, Up the ResolutionThe Replacement is a short film by Dylan Ralke who is a student of the DMT at the Red River College.
Tagged birds, eyeglasses, moon, nude, office, planet Earth, Red River College, satellite, snow, snowman, tears, trees, waterLost Below is a short animation by Mato Atom from some years ago, whose fascination resides partly in its undetermination: even though the matter of the film it’s not apparent, one seems to grasp it in an almost unconscious way.
The music is Lost Below by Clinton Francis AKA ISol. The album, All the Pretty Things, has been released under a Creative Commons license.
Tagged abstract, Mato Atom, Motion graphics, treesGonna get strange eggs this Easter. At least it what you’d argue by this strange video directed by Valerie Pirson at Partizan. Music by the non existent Disco Chicken Project (actually The Seebach Band).
Tagged animals, chicken, dance, hula hoop, Partizan, psychedelia, puppets, risque, Valerie Pirson, video mirroringWhen a thief enters a store for a robbery, nobody seems to notice him. Still, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Blind Spot is a short film by six students of Gobelins: Johanna Bessière, Cécile Dubois-Herry, Simon Rouby, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Yvon Jardel.
Tagged blood, Cécile Dubois-Herry, CCTV, Gobelins, guns, headphones, old age, policemen, Supermarket, television, thief, umbrella, vending machinehere are actually five featurettes for Blind Spot, one for each of the author, except one. This one focuses on the work of Cécile Dubois-Herry.
Tagged Cécile Dubois-Herry, drawings, Gobelins, guns, headphones, Supermarket, vending machinePardon me while I take some rest after the posting marathon tha took a good share of this week to prepare. Haven’t posted a best of in ages, by the way.
Dead Hearts: Machine with Wishbone.
This Must Be It: bang on the drum all day.
I don’t Wanna Work: Is this as far as you can take [...]
Beakus, the new animation studio founded by Steve Smith, previously at Trunk Production.
Featuring the works of Bluna, Leigh Hodgkinson, Matthias Hoegg and Steve Smith himself, here is a huge amount of good content and a sweet anticipation of what should we expect from Beakus in the future.
Tagged Beakus, cross bloggingMatthias Hoegg’s graduation film from Kingston University is an elegant and atmospheric nocturnal encounter between garden wildlife and a biology book. It was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and plugged in Aardman’s Talent Showcase 2006.
Tagged animals, Beakus, birds, book, bugs, Matthias Hoegg, rabbits, trees, typography, waterA love affair between some cutlery and a faceless aproned girl.
The music video has been directed and animated by Leigh Hodgkinson and produced by Steve Smith.
Tagged Beakus, bees, butterfly, cats, ceramic, chicken, coffee, eyes, flower, gloves, grass, heart, kiss, Leigh Hodgkinson, lips, phone, pixilation, Psapp, snail, Steve Smith, stop motion, tea, textile, trees, video mirroring, water, wineJust posted a series of three IDs directed and produced by Bluna for MTV Argentina and starring the characters from Nickelodeon’s animated series Ni Hao, Kai-Lan.
They each take us from a dull regular cartoon world in to the souped-up, high-octane world of MTV.
Bluna is a collective comprised of Patricio Yamus, Ariel Yamus and Emilio Peillat.
Tagged Beakus, Kai-lan
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Milk and Cookies
