Monthly Archives: June 2012

[Call for Entries] CutOut Fest

In its fourth edition, the International Animation Festival CutOut Fest announces its call for entrees 2012, from May 1st to July 31st.

Cisma & Laurent Barthelemy: Xerox “A World Made Simpler…by Xerox”

An epic Xerox story by Cisma & Laurent Barthelemy.

Gerard Dunleavy: VFX Reel

Check out Gerard Dunleavy’s sexy new student VFX reel!

Reactions in Time and Space by Santa Maria

Wonderful experimental piece by Santa Maria – love the intersection between installation art, fashion, and the mystical.

Framestore new website

Framestore new website.

Team Fortress 2: Meet the Pyro

Valve’s latest promo for Team Fortress 2 proves that sometimes you just need to shift your perspective and voila! — the world is a magical… Read more

Animation Sequence Project

Some fun experiments over at the Animation Sequence Project, including Diego F., Ariel Costa, Byron Slaybaugh, Steffen Knoesgaard, Sebas & Clim, and Daniela Uribe.

Marshmallow Laser Feast: Typography from Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2011

Keyframe-less type for the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2011. Created by Marshmallow Laser Feast.

Daniel Sousa: Drift

Loving Daniel Sousa‘s flight through a constantly changing landscape. Drift and the also impressive, The Windmill, are short films that arose while working on Sousa’s… Read more

Elise Fachon: I Am X

Check out I Am X, a beautiful Senior Thesis film made by RISD student Elise Fachon.

Marco Bagni: Getting Lost

Sweet motion graphics can be found in Marco Bagni’s Getting Lost, described as an “Infographic essay on the meaning of life.”

Hohokum Gameplay

Hohokum is a collaborative video game project between Honeyslug and Richard Hogg.

Gobelin’s Annecy 2012 Shorts

Excellence in motion. Check out the latest Gobelin shorts (five in all) made for Annecy 2012!

Sara Gunnarsdottir: Kira Kira

Sara Gunnarsdottir created these trippy, beautiful concert visuals for Kira Kira, as well as a music video for the track Cutthroat Roundabout.

Maxim Zhestkov / Reel 2012

Maxim Zhestkov has just released reel 2012.

The Frogs’ Bollocks

Staying in touch with your juvenile side courtesy to director / animator Stephen Ong.

The Mill: Snow White and the Huntsman’s “Mirror Man”

Go Behind the Scenes of Snow White and the Huntsman (now in theaters). In the above interview, The Mill’s Will Cohen describes the process used… Read more

Jeff Gabor: Horton Hears a Who Comparison Reel

Jeff Gabor has an amazing resource for aspiring character animators. Here’s his Horton Hears a Who Comparison Reel.

Classic Quickie: Chris Casady’s FX for TRON (1982)

Motionographer Classic Quickie: Chris Casady’s effects animation for TRON (1982). Read more about Chris’s amazing work in this short retrospective.

Motionographer Classics: Chris Landreth

In the early days of the internet, downloading videos often meant painstakingly collecting sequential 1.44mb .rar files, hoping none of them were corrupted, and finally… Read more

Michael Hansen: Vinyl Animation

Michael Hansen creates some lovely animation on vinyl.

Emil Sellström: MTV Night Video 2012

Don’t try to put language on it. Just enjoy.

The Material Group: Happy Halloween

Superhero halloween fun from The Material Group. Credits on vimeo.

Gentleman Scholar: Coke “Parks”

In this well-executed spot for client Coca Cola, Gentleman Scholar has “created a playful illustrated landscape to prove that some contests are definitely worth entering.”… Read more