Industrial 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.
Also tagged airplane, birds, buildings, car, crane, drawings, eyes, faces, fire, hands, japan, monster, treesThis short animation is a promo for the book 1000 Times No by Tom Warburton, published by Harper and Collins.
It was made by Mr. Warburton and Dave Rasura and produced at Curious Pictures.
Also tagged airplane, Curious Pictures, kids, moai, playground, Robots, russian, surf, tattoo, typographyAnd here’s another spot in the series for Sunrype. Directed by Wade Shotter and Andras Ketzer and produced at Joyrider. Creative agency: DDB Canada.
Colorist: Andras Ketzer and Russell Boyd. The song is Sleepy Tigers by Her Space Holiday.
Also tagged Andras Ketzer, DDB, Joyrider, Marshall Street, swing, vegetables, Wade ShotterComputer Assisted Design is a song from They Might Be Giants‘ new album, entitled Here Comes the Science.
The music video has been directed by Rob Shaw and produced at Bent.
Also tagged Bent, birds, computer, dinosaurs, erik, Ray Di Carlo, Rob Shaw, Robots, Sarah Hulin, Solomon Burbridge, stop motion, TMBG, trees, Tsui Ling ToomerThe Seed is an animated voyage through nature’s life cycle, following the trials and tribulations of a humble apple seed.
“The film was kindly funded by Adobe, produced at Nexus and features a soundtrack by Jape. It was made using a mixture of stop motion papercraft and 2D drawn animation”, as shown in the making of.
Story and direction by Johnny Kelly.
Also tagged Alasdair Brotherston, Anna Benner, apple, birds, butterfly, clouds, feather, flower, Goodby Silverstein, growing plant, Johnny Kelly, maze, Mike Wyeld, Nexus Productions, paper cuts, rain, seed, trees, underwaterThis is a short film about hope and community. It was made for a friend and mentor who was suffering from lung cancer. The film was shown at a benefit to help with his hospital costs. He has since passed away.
The words are by director Jamie Caliri. He animated the film with production designer Alex Juhasz. They shot with a special, home brewed, 4×5 inches view camera rig and Dragon Stop Motion Software .
The music is String Quartet number 5 composed by Philip Glass as performed by the Kronos Quartet.
Also tagged Alex Juhasz, bw, flying, Jamie Caliri, Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass, seed, stop motion, water, wingsAnother finely animated scene by Treat Studios for Protect Our Waves, the surfing film directed by Richard Stewart, commissioned by Surfers against Sewage and released with The Surfer’s Path magazine.
Also tagged crane, kids, megaphone, newspaper, OSD, phone, Protect Our Waves, Richard Stewart, surf, Surfers Against Sewage, The Surfer's Path, Treat Studio, water, waves“Can Hate Be Good?” Why not!
The commercial is from 2004, but I just caught on it again and decided it was time to post it. After all, it never gets old.
The spot was directed by Smith & Foulkes and produced at Nexus. Creative agency: W+K London. Song performed by Garrison Keillor (as Be Nice to the Pigeons).
Also tagged Amber Music, archery, birds, bubbles, butterfly, Charlie Tinson, Charlotte Bavasso, chicken, Chris O’Reilly, fireworks, flower, Garrison Keillor, Honda, John Waddel, Johnny Burn, Julia Parfitt, Kim Papworth, Michael Russoff, Motion graphics, Nexus Productions, penguin, rabbits, rainbow, Richard Russell, Rob Steiner, Sean Thompson, Smith and Foulkes, smoke, Tony Davidson, topiary, typography, underwater, W+K, Wave Studios, Will ParnellDelicious summer fruit, hot summer days on the beach and refreshing underwater wonderlands are the protagonists of this ID for TV1 made at sixty40.
Also tagged beach, bird crap, corkscrew, drink, fishes, sixty40, stop motion, TV1 Summer, underwater, vegetables, waterA man (Sam Azami), painted in white, walks through” the lunar landscape of his senses and “along a giant woman-mountain (Kim Captein) painted in black. They start from different dimensions, but will eventually meet.
A short film by Jean-Julien Pous and Denis Huneau, made for a contest held by Louis Vuitton. Director of Photography: Gregg Telussa. Sound design: Jean-Julien Pous. Body Painting: Ferry Zeeman.
Also tagged Adriaan van de Polder, body painting, bw, Denis Huneau, Dijana Olcay-Hot, Gilles Brinkhuizen, Gregg Telussa, hair, Jean-Julien Pous, Kim Captein, Louis Vuitton, nude, Raymond Van Der Kaaij, Revolver Media, Sam AzamiA trigger happy (and less safe for work) music video, inspired to the Max Fleischer era cartoons.
Team William is a Belgian indie pop band. You Look Familiar is the third single off their eponymous debut album.
The music video has been directed by Michélé De Feudis and Joris Bergmans of Nouvelle Cuisine. Additional artists: Lois Van Baarle, Maxim Vandeputtem, Michèle Vanparys, Koen De Koninck.
Also tagged airplane, alcohol, apple, birds, candies, cards, censorship, clouds, coins, domino, flower, flying, gingerbread man, God, horse, Joris Bergmans, kitchen, knights, Koen De Koninck, Lois Van Baarle, mailbox, Maxim Vandeputtem, Michèle Vanparys, Michele De Feudis, moon, NouvelleCuisine, rabbits, rainbow, risque, sex, tank, Team William, xmasMister Heavy would like to reach for his friends on Happy Island, but he don’t know how to cross the sea. Mister Sun will come and shine some wisdom on the poor fellas.
Happy Land is a 2D animated kids show. Quite creepy, if you ask me, in the way I feel Teletubbies are creepy.
Featured here is the pilot episode created and animated in 2007 by Mike Scott at Bru & Boegie. Voices by Toko Moeketsi and story and music by David Scott.
Also tagged 8bit, boat, Bru Boegie, rainbow, rhymes, waterThe sun mostly shines on TV, even though sometimes it rains. Tears. From heaven.
Olivia Broadfield is an English singer-songwriter from Leicestershire. Her debut album was first released in 2008. The record, entitled Eyes Wide Open, has been re-released in 2009 for Vagrant Records, with Don’t Cry being the first single released.
The music video is the work of Kurt Nishimura.
Also tagged boat, clouds, flower, Kurt Nishimura, moon, Olivia Broadfield, paper cuts, pixilation, stop motion, tears, television, trees, waterMuch has been said about this video, conceived by Heath Ledger but left unfinished, in the preproduction phase, when the actor and director died. What else could I add? Well, a random quote from the Hamlet.
The video has been completed at The Masses, where Ledger was signed as a promo director, by co-director Daniel Auber, lead animator Norris Houk, animator Jade Taglioli and producer Sara Cline.
Also tagged blood, cigs, echolocation, eyes, fisherman, fishes, Heath Ledger, inversion of roles, junk food, machinery, Monty Python, mustache, party, seal, ship, Terry Gilliam, The Masses, water
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