Crabsalad: Skate Matra.

We’re making our way north to the Ottawa Animation Festival. Look for more coverage in the coming days. For those who can’t make it, the National Film Board of Canada has some wonderful past Ottawa films streaming online.

The future is near. Kyle McDonalds uses openFrameworks for too-smooth face substitution. See also Arturo Castro’s results.

Body architect Lucy McRae and her directorial debut for Rat vs. Possum.

FOTB2011 — main titles by GMUNK and Black Swan.

Frictions by Steven Briand.

You know much of Ash Thorp’s stunning design and illustration work from his time at Prologue. Take a spin through his recently launched portfolio.

JESS3 goes old school for ESPN in TV Ratings 101. Check out their process here.

Johan Rijpma’s “Tape Generations,” an installation/video art project starring, you guessed it, tape. Via Antena.

Tuesday October 4th See No Evil presents an evening with the exceptionally amazing Proud Creative. Free entry, prizes to be won and music provided by Hear No Evil!

S/M/L is proof that hard work for a failed pitch can still lead to amazing results. Kudos to Tendril for going for it even if the client didn’t. Via Bran DJ.

Oct 9 – 14: Two events joined at the hip — motion, 2.5 days of TED talk-like session specifically for our industry, and the Adobe Post Show, 2.5 days of intermediate-advance post session.

Encyclopedia Britannica’s Animated Guide to Drugs: An excerpt from Drug Addiction, an anti-drug film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1951. View the full movie on archive.org.

Dan Cassaro, a recent ADC Young Guns 9 winner, may be young, but I am not sure if he is a jerk. Seems like a nice guy to me.

DAf relaunches with two beautiful new projects, “Noble Vines” and “Tour de France.”

A graceful and action-packed high-speed paintball music video game called SPITFIRE from Porter Robinson. Directed by Saman Keshavarz.

Congrats to Angus Wall and team at Elastic for taking home the Emmy for the Game of Thrones title sequence.

James Wignall of Mutanthands updates!

Beautiful spot for Bank Coop by Sehsucht.

Double dose of Robert Seidel documentation: scrape looms over Seoul Square, an abstract change of pace from the usual building projection, and black mirror explores projection mapping onto paper sculptures.

A wonderful behind-the-scenes featurette has been released for Johnny Kelly’s Back to the Start. I love the precise pig mover and magnet-powered wobblehead. So clever! Full credits listing here.
 

ADC announces the Young Guns 9 winners.

A killer concept and smooth camera moves come together in the latest offering from Daniels. Plus, Gary Numan gets a massage! Win-win.

The Elements as Seen by BIF

Another great writeup from Jessica Hische, this one roughly detailing freelancers’ guidelines for pricing.  Although geared mainly toward those in the static arts, there are some seeds of motion content in the comments.