Santiago Navarro

Vancouver Film School student Santiago Navarro hits the ground running with an entertaining and lushly detailed 3D modeling and texturing reel

Challenge Your World 20/20: New Films

I’m very pleased to announce that two news films have been added to the Challenge Your World 20/20 project.

What’s Challenge Your World 20/20?

Each year, 20 video artists create 20 wild, whimsical, and unconventional machines that solve environmental issues. These videos reject the status quo, explore crazy ideas, and blast beyond boundaries.

The latest two additions, “Potato” and “Want|Need” come to us from Paris’ Moustache and Trango Interactive in Pakistan. Check them out on the Challenge Your World page or visit the Challenge Your World website for more information and to learn how you can get involved.

The Veiled Commodity, a film by Vinh Dickson

The Veiled Commodity, a film by Vinh Dickson

AE crash reports

This stuff got us all at HQ laughing for hours…
Nerdvana! Thanks for the tip, Joey Beason!

Prodigo Filmes & F/Nazca, “Pee In The Shower”

According to F/Nazca and Prodigo Filmes, peeing in the shower can save up to 4.380 liters of water a year and help save Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest. Lovely.

Check out the subtitled version here.

Original version here.
(thanks for the tip, Will Barry!)

Chris Saunders Relaunch

Mr. Chris Saunders returns with more certified freshness

Interview: Capacity “Upgrade + Mobilize”

In the words of Capacity’s Ellerey Gave, “Before we became designers and animators and communicators, we were painters and illustrators and dreamers.”

Over the course of the last year and a half, Culver City-based Capacity has been working on an in-house short film while juggling client projects for companies like NBC, Cartoon Network and Toyota.

At long last, “Upgrade + Mobilize” is ready for the masses, and it’s definitely worth the wait. Mixing inspiration from Asian animation and art with their own polished aesthetic, Capacity has created a high energy, two and a half minute preamble to an epic battle of good vs. evil backed by beautiful audio from Plaid.

Motionographer was fortunate to get an advance interview with Ellerey about “Upgrade + Mobilize.” Check it out, along with some process work showing the development of this ambitious short film.

Read on…