Mothership: “Tron Evolution” Game Trailer

Mothership dishes out a hot new game trailer for Tron Evolution.

Guy Harlap for Thom Yorke’s Black Swan

Lots of great animation in this experimental and unofficial music video by Guy Harlap for Thom Yorke’s Black Swan

Phosphene

Another killer experiment in mixed media from Benjamin Ducroz: Phosphene.  Also, check out his latest reel and other recent work at ducroz.com.

blu “BIG BANG BIG BOOM”

Upgraded by popular internal and external demand! Check out blu‘s latest short film — BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life… and how it could probably end.

It revisits the stop-motion wall-painting of COMBO and MUTO, but takes it to the next level, both in terms of technique and narrative. Who doesn’t love clever hermit crabs, flying jellyfish, dino-sharpeners, katamari, and literal bullet-time?

Props to Andrea Martignoni on the nicely integrated soundtrack and ARTSH.it for production/distribution. and, of course, blu for the mind-blowing vision.

The Story of GOOD Oil

Big Animal Studio for GOOD Oil

“Lion in a Coma” by Israeli Ori Toor

A psychedelic, fluid, frame-by-frame “stream of consciousness” animation for Animal Collective’s “Lion in a Coma” by Israeli fresh graduate Ori Toor

Psyop: “Whole New World”

In Whole New World, Psyop takes a deep sea plunge into a water world full of unusual and exotic inhabitants for AT&T’s “Rethink Possible” campaign. In many ways, the piece is less stylized and more cinematic, in terms of narrative and musical score, but from a visual standpoint, exhibits many of the CG hallmarks that stay true to the Psyop playbook. While the piece begins on a dark and moody note, the visuals evolve into something more beautiful: a vista of tropical inspired colors that glow like the fluorescence of coral reefs.

As a footnote, this spot, unlike many that the studio has created, is not only for commercial output, but instead, will have a cinematic release at select, stereoscopic movie screens next week and shown before The Last Airbender and Despicable Me. It will also air on ESPN 3d.