What do you get when: you cross visions of Stonehenge, a demon, a robotic giant, and a supernatural cat? You get Guilt—a Vimeo “staff pick” award-winning film by 21-year-old filmmaker, Tobias Larson. (Warning: Gory scene, NSFW 01:49).
Sidekick Animation sends a strong message for health in America. The product promoted here are supplements by Shaklee.
Sunday, January 6th, 2013 | Comments Off
Haymaker: Showreel 2012
New showreel for Sweden-based VFX studio, Haymaker.
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Gobelins: Loosaur
Escape with your life, in Loosaur (a piece created by five Gobelin’s students).
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Cyril Izarn: Canal Savoir
Cyril Izarn has designed a series of idents for the French-Canadian TV channel, Canal Savoir (“Knowledge Channel”).
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Studio B: Adobe CS6
Check out Studio B Film’s beautiful spot promoting Adobe CS6 and Creative Cloud.
UPDATE: One section used in this promo is a spot created by Autofuss, entitled “Adobe: Eternal Return” (viewable below). Thank you to Colin Trenter and Flip Baber!
UPDATE: Autofuss’s official version of “Eternal Return” is now viewable below. Thanks Quba Michalski!
Boardwalk games are awesome! Duck Shoot is Rebecca Manley’s beautifully executed stop-motion short. And, it’s created almost entirely with recycled cardboard. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure!
Friday, December 28th, 2012 | Comments Off
2 MoGraph Pieces
Check out Tendril’s latest animated info-graphic video for the experts in content management, OpenText.
111Eye, a Malaysian post production house, rebrands the Malaysian video portal, Tonton.
Fun and entertaining is what describe’s Dan Surmich’s short film, The Butterfly Effect. The look and feel of the film derives from the employment of Unity 4.0 3D software. According to Cecile Barou’s submitted Cover Letter:
The Butterfly Effect is a 3 minute CG animated film Passion Pictures has made in partnership with Unity, the games engine developers. Written and directed by Dan Sumich, he describes the film as, “A big dollop of bombastic fun.” An ordinary looking guy wakes up one morning feeling the worse for wear and realises he’s run out of milk. As he drags himself out of the house to go and buy some, an extraordinary sequence of events draws him into a journey of mayhem on the streets of San Francisco.
Greg Gunn has created a series of cute animations which document the adventures of a red circle and blue rectangle. These eleven business principles, called Core Values, are based on Blind’s 11 Core Values.
Is it time to change the Australian flag? This piece by Mike Tosetto is cute, quick, and well researched. (Funny enough, this past Sunday, an Australian preacher visited my church and presented the Australian flag to our pastor. God has good timing.)
June 4th is almost upon us which means it’s nearly time for See No Evil’s! This time we are joined by VFX aficionado’s Analog Studio.
Free entry, prizes & good times!
The speaker lineup and master classes for Collider look pretty interesting. Who’s going? UPDATE: Motionographer’s Michelle Higa Fox will be on the VFX panel. Use promo code COLLMotion for 10% off.
4/26/13: Join a one hour round table discussion from the VFX facilities’ points of view. Streaming online here at 1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern/9pm London/9am New Zealand.
How awesome is it to see amazing simple shapes moving just beautifully? Quite awesome. Adobe CMO Explainer by VeracityColab is a must watch, and it was done in a week!
New stuff from Plenty! With these ID’s for NICK, they have created a nice “handmade look” combining frame-by-frame animation and 3D. You can check out more details of the project right here.
Holy magic toolbelt Batman! When Adobe and Maxon announced a “strategic alliance”, I never dreamed this big. Todd Kopriva announces what’s new in the upcoming version of AE, including importing C4D files directly into AE.
Motionworks has a great video showing off the integration here and Chris & Trish Meyer’s write up is here.