David Prosser: Matter Fisher

David Prosser‘s short film, Matter Fisher, makes it’s online debut this week as the winner of Short of the Week‘s Great Film Competition. It’s a lovely mix of high-contrast frame animation and cg, in which a lone fisherman encounters an initially unassuming, hungry ball of matter.

Matter Fisher is the second film we’ve featured of the three Royal College of Art grad films that were honored with a 2011 BAFTA nomination in the Short Animation category (the other two being Matthias Hoegg‘s Thursday and Mikey Please‘s The Eagleman Stag). For more on these three talented dudes, check out the interviews at The Dope Sheet.

David was kind enough to share production images and answer some questions about the film. Check them out here.

People for Bikes

Guerilla projections, playful illustrations and an interesting concept make this People for Bikes film (and its making-of film) an entertaining, thoughtful watch. (Team included GMUNK, Matt Winkel, Nick Losq and Brian Gossett. Full credits forthcoming on Black Swan’s site.)

Buck: Google Chromebook

Buck teams up with Google again to playfully and accessibly convey a game-changing idea… your future computer won’t be a computer… it will be a window onto your identity and content that lives on a data cloud. Music by Antfood perfectly drives the visuals and adds personality to the Chromebook via pizzicato strings.

Naomie Ross: Letterpress

A love letter to the letterpress by Naomie Ross. Made at SVA.

Gobelins at Annecy 2010: Junk Space & Red River Bay

Annecy 2011 is just around the corner. Here’s two fantastic signal films from last year, created by (at the time) second-year students at Gobelins:

Junk Space. Directed by Marion Delannoy, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Paul Lacolley, Kevin Manach, and Nicolas Pegon.

Red River Bay. Directed by Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Rachid Guendouze, Maxime Mary and Jeremy Pires.

Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, Mirada, North Kingdom, Google: 3 Dreams of Black

Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin, who brought you The Johnny Cash Project and The Wilderness Downtown, are back with a lovely new dynamic music video for Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s Spaghetti Western-inspired concept album ROME. With help from Mirada, North Kingdom, and the folks at Google, the music video for 3 Dreams of Black further tests the realtime dynamic abilities of the web to give unique, artfully directed experiences.

Personally, I’m excited that Milk and Koblin are emphasizing how the open-source nature of these tools can help grow a community that will create even more experiments in the future. On the tech end, it does require Google Chrome and not all graphics cards are supported, including the desktop I first tried this out on :(. There’s still a lot of goodies and documentation on the website, so go explore.

HTML5 “experiences” seem to be popping up more and more, for example the new desktop version of Smith & Foulkes’ The Chase. As we move forward, will learning how to work with dynamic systems, rather than locked thirty or sixty second films become a necessary part of our workflow? Also- what does it say about us when the first thing someone does, after finding out that they can contribute to a landscape, is create a 1-up mushroom?

Jen Stark: Believer

Believer: a new animation from paper sculptress Jen Stark (via Vimeo Staff Picks)