Quickies

Bitfilm Festival: Online Voting Has Begun

Cast your votes for the Bitfilm Festival 09 winners

Beyond The Screens: How to Turn Everything Into Interactive Media

Excellent tips and insights in Beyond The Screens: How to Turn Everything Into Interactive Media from Frog Design’s Umyot Boonmarlart

HotSake.tv

HotSake.tv launches a new website, showcasing custom music, sound design and foley work!

Fox Creative Services builds a new main title for Tiempo Final 3.

Fox Creative Services builds a new main title for Tiempo Final 3.

Paul Rayment’s Dance of the Neon Knight

Paul Rayment’s Dance of the Neon Knight (via Drawn)

Visual FX: 100 Years of Inspiration

Visual FX: 100 Years of Inspiration, a survey of 26 films that changed the world of visual effects.

Jackie Lay: Tom Waits “Eggs and Sausage”

For a class assignment at the School of Visual Arts, Jackie Lay created a clever type-driven piece set to Tom Waits’ “Eggs and Sausage”

Jurjen Bosklopper: Streetlight Manifesto “Would You Be Impressed?”

Jurjen Bosklopper’s ironically campy visuals create great contrast for the ultra-violent animal uprising in this music video for Streetlight Manifesto’s “Would You Be Impressed?”

Ziv Arbel: The True Story of Marvin Walvis

Lovely illustration style in “The True Story of Marvin Walvis,” the final project from Ziv Arbel for her time at the Bezalel Academy of Art… Read more

Michael Stevenson: Pigeon Pilfer

Excellent claymation fun in “Pigeon Pilfer,” the senior film of San Francisco State University student Michael Stevenson. (Via Drawn)

Salty

Salty. Directed by David Hicks, Effects by AXYZ.

Noah Harris for Blink Ink: Talk Talk

Joining forces with UK Production Company Blink Ink  and Agency CHI, Noah Harris directs Talk Talk. The light-writing concept is tired, but the spot’s worthy… Read more

[NSFW] Major Lazer “Pon De Floor” Music Video

Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric) directs this music video for Major Lazer, taking dancing to new heights (note the ladder jump).

Danny Yount: New Reel

Superb pacing and inspiring work in the new reel from Prologue creative director Danny Yount.

SFMOGRAPH Meeting: Thursday, August 20th

San Francisco: SFMOGRAPH Meeting: Thursday, August 20th

SPA by DeKo

If you liked the recently posted “Let Yourself Feel,” then you’ll appreciate the SPA Vilnius intro animation by DeKo. (Thanks, Mateusz!)

Imaginary Forces: Herman Miller “This Is You”

This Is You is another lovely environmentally-conscious infographic animation, this time promoting careers at Herman Miller. Created by Fairly Painless Advertising and Imaginary Forces. (Thanks,… Read more

Happycamper Relaunch

Stockholm studio Happycamper relaunches

Micael Klok: Night Out (NSFW)

[NSFW] For his Motion Typography class at Art Center College of Design, Micael Klok puts a live action twist on the now ubiquitous intonation assignment.Music… Read more

Eyeball unleashes a new 2009 reel with an interesting narrative.

Eyeball NYC unleashes a new 2009 reel with an interesting narrative. Having trouble viewing? Try our mirror.

Unitxt Music Video

Unitxt Music Video. Sound by alva noto.

Ian Pfaff

Ian Pfaff’s mutha fuckin demo reel

Video and animation teasers for upcoming books

Is a new trend upon us? New video and animation teasers for upcoming books; One for Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion and Architecture, and the other… Read more

Dino Muhic: No Idea

Created as his final project at University of Applied Sciences in Germany, Dino Muhic’s “No Idea” is a stream of consciousness struggle with writer’s block.