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Cause & Effect: Phenomenal Handclap Band

Elliot Blanchard — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:52:31 +0000

Cause & Effect: Phenomenal Handclap Band “The Right One”

John Whitney: Permutations

Elliot Blanchard — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:36:18 +0000

John Whitney: Permutations Produced in 1966. Written in GRAF and FORTRAN, and recorded in black and white from the monitor of an IBM 360 mainframe. Color was added afterwards using an optical printer.

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Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird: Seed

Michelle Higa — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:16:33 +0000

If you haven’t watched Seed by Daniel Bird and Ben Richardson yet, I recommend setting aside ten minutes to meditate on a surreal superstructure building competition between an egg and an apple (of sorts).

The two directors have been kicking ass since winning Best Animated Short at Slamdance 2010 with Seed. Daniel Bird spent a year creating short films for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. He is now working as a commercial director, repped by Savage.

Ben Richardson just won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for his DoP work on Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. Check out the previous Richardson/Zeitlin collaboration Glory At Sea for some non-motion-graphics, but very magical realism, filmmaking.

More background on the film can be found at Short of the Week’s excellent review.

Thank you to Ben and Daniel for sharing the concept boards below.

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Curtis Baigent updates.

Igor Sordokhonov — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:27:31 +0000

Curtis Baigent updates.

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Joseph Pierce: The Pub

Michelle Higa — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:52:12 +0000

Trailer for Joseph Pierce’s new short The Pub is online. More stills and some photos from the shoot on his Flickr.

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Shilo: Website Update

Brandon Lori — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:36:23 +0000

Shilo revamps their website with some new work and their own Instagram feed.

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Cartoon Brew Investigates: $400 a week in NY, $1055 a week in LA

Justin Cone — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:53:56 +0000

Cartoon Brew uncovers some unsettling news about wage disparity at Titmouse LA and Titmouse NYC. An excerpt:

The question remains, however, about why there is a nearly $700 weekly gap between starting wages for Los Angeles and New York artists working on the same show. New York has the highest cost of living in the United States (Los Angeles, by comparison, is ranked ninth), yet the studio’s starting salary for workers in New York is only $20,800. That figure ranks below New York’s average starting wages for unskilled laborers like doormen ($25,680) and sanitation workers ($27,842).

Read, share and discuss.

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Nearly Normal: “The Wolf I Used To Be…”

Brandon Lori — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:47:27 +0000

London-based production studio Nearly Normal construct a brooding and introspective short film using papercraft models in The Wolf I Used To Be.

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No-Domain: “Lullaby Crocodile”

Brandon Lori — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:31:30 +0000

Audiovisual design studio No-Domain put together this refreshing video piece titled Lullaby Crocodile.

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Novinastudio: The Royal Castle – from Destruction to Reconstruction

Brandon Lori — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:21:16 +0000

For the exhibition at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Novinastudio created this animation to tell the story of the famed castle: The Royal Castle – from Destruction to Reconstruction.

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