Dead All Along

Performed by Ceri Frost, cerifrostmusic.com
Film by Giles Timms, gilestimms.com

Enchanted by a pixie, a child called Yorick enters a magical kingdom, but when Yorick returns he finds his world ravaged by time.

The music video is set in a hand drawn pen and ink world inspired by Edward Gorey and animated in a cut-out style. Compositing and animation in After Effects.

Made at the Animation Workshop at UCLA's Department of Theater, Film and Television, 2009

Coca-Cola Zero Happy Kingdom

Agencia: Ogilvy Argentina
Cliente: Coca-Cola
Producto: Coca-Cola Zero
Titulo: Happy Kingdom
Director Gral Creativo: Gastón Bigio
Head of Art: Jonathan Gurvit
Directores Creativos: Javier Mentasti Christian Camean
Redactor: Mariana Peluffo
Director de Arte: Matías Lafalla
Director Reg. de Planning: Bernardo Geoghegan
Director de Planning: Eric Jakubavicius
Directora de Cuentas: Natalia Noya
Supervisora de Cuentas: Mariela Morando
Ejecutiva de Cuentas: Luisa Goldaracena
Jefe de Prod. audiovisual: Marcelo Ramos (Central de Producers)
Producción por la agencia: Laura Passalacqua
Productora: Passion Pictures
Director: Pete Candeland
Asistente de dirección: Giles Dill
Productor General: Debbie Crosscup
Productores Ejecutivos: Hugo Sands/Michael Adamo
Head of CG: Jason Nicolas
VFX Supervisor: Neil Riley
Technical Director: Julian Hodgson
Diseño de personajes: Ron Kurniawan, Pete Candeland, Dan Sumich, Mario Ucci
Animación y composición: Passion Pictures
Matte Painting / Fondos: Kim Frederiksen / Lukasz Pazera
CG Animation Supervisor: Wes Coman
Director de Arte: Mario Ucci
Lead Compositing: Niamh Lines
Editor: Jamie Foord / Dan Greenway
Sound Mix: Toby Griffin at The Jungle Group
Banda: Power Solo
Responsables por el cliente: Luis Gerardín, Javier Meza,
Guido Rosales, Guillermo Giménez y Brotons,
Ignacio Hyland, Pablo Mendonça Paz.

The Killers - Bones [Directed by Tim Burton]

Music video by The Killers performing Bones [Directed by Tim Burton]

The UPS Store "Storm" and "Circus" (Psyop)

For their curtain call at the end of a brilliant four-spot performance for UPS, Psyop conjures a world that’s comparable to the cardboard-carved spectacles from previous spots that we know and love. Watch the other UPS spots: “Gladiator” / “Circus” / “West”.In “Storm”, color and texture become mnemonic devices triggering our emotional sense of UPS. The look, partly in credit to agency Doner, has moxy: It’s adaptable, engaging, and has held strong throughout the duration of the campaign.

The UPS Store "Circus" from PSYOP on Vimeo.

TOKYO

Con la cámara en la mano, con colores supercontrastados, Joan Jimenez muestra Tokio de una manera distinta.

Papiroflexia - Origami

Papiroflexia (Spanish for "Origami") is the animated tale of Fred, a skilful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.

Kuroshio Sea

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona)

The main tank called the "Kuroshio Sea" holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world's second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept amongst many other fish species in the main tank.

This was shot using a Canon 5DMKII with a 28-135mm lens.

The Fable of Annabell Lee

A haunting and beautiful animated tale of love lost at sea. Featuring hand-painted characters and backgrounds by folk artist Evan B Harris. Animated using After Effects and Maya.

C R E D I T S
Design and Animation // Fashionbuddha Studio
Story and Artwork // Evan B. Harris
Original Score // Peter Bowhan

Street tests

Here’s a neat video of what’s possible with the Particular 2 plug-in for After Effects. Very imaginative street test!

Testing out Particular 2, ON THE STREET!
Sound design by skeletonsuit.com
Shot with a little Canon SD960.
Tracked with PFHoe Pro pfhoe.com
Quicktime at the Trapcode Gallery: trapcode.com/gallery.html

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop)

Bologna-based street artist, Blu, has recently collaborated with David Ellis to push the ambitions and [sculptural] dimensions of his last hit, MUTO, with this latest hypnotic piece entitled COMBO.

As an artist who has made an international name for himself with his motion-paintings, this likely match seemed bound to happen between Ellis and his Italian peer. David brings his delicate illustrative sensibilities to Blu’s playful ingenuity, which includes physically breaking through walls to create his cast of characters, in this ten-day creation.

Much like in MUTO, the use of thoughtful, immersive and often unexpected sound-design adds another thick layer of narrative depth.

a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
year 2009
http://www.blublu.org
http://www.davidellis.org
produced by studio cromie
http://www.studiocromie.org
music by Roberto Lange
http://www.robertolange.com
made at Fame festival 2009
http://www.famefestival.it

Fantastic instrument - Selfplaying Music Machine

Fantastic instrument - Selfplaying Music Machine

Muse - Uprising (Official Video)

Muse-Uprising
Album-The Resistance
Label-Warner Bros. Records
Director-Hydra.

The Official Video for the first single Uprising. 2009 © WMG

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

Music video by The Beastie Boys performing Intergalactic. (C) 2009 Capitol Records, LLC

FIFA 2010 "How Big Can Football Get"

New TV campaign by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam asks the question ‘How Big Can Football Get? for the EA Sports FIFA 10.

The new FIFA 10 advert stars football Wayne Rooney, Karim Benzema, Xavi, Theo Walcott, Tim Cahill, and Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Credits:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
Client: EA Sports
Brand: Fifa 10
Executive Creative Director: John Norman
Executive Creative Director: Jeff Kling
Creative Director: Edu Pou
Creative Director: Joakim Borgstrom
Art Director: Barney Hobson
Copywriter: Rick Chant
Producer: Cat Reynolds
Director: Johnny Green
Production Company: Knucklehead
Planner: Jonas Vail
Account Team: Jesse Long
Account Team: Alex Bennet Grant
Account Team: Patrick Garvey
Account Team: Frederic Point
Business Affairs Manager: Barrie Williams

For those of you who can't wait to get their on this, FIFA 10 will be available in stores Europe October 2nd 2009 and in stores North America October 20. It is developed under the EA SPORTS brand by EA Canada in Burnaby, B.C.

Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið (Official Music Video)

Official music video for 'Ljósið' taken from Ólafur Arnalds - 'Found Songs' (2009) available on Limited Edition CD/10" Vinyl and Download here: store.erasedtapes.com

Director: Esteban Diácono
Label: Erased Tapes Records
Year: 2009
Album: Found Songs
Length: 3’30’’
Music written by: Ólafur Arnalds
Publisher: Nettwerk One
Copyright: © 2009 Erased Tapes Records.
Website: foundsongs.erasedtapes.com

An almost perfect example of some deep and subtle work with a flexible tool, creating magical results.

The new msn.ca butterflies

Beautiful butterfly transformations represent the ever-changing content on the new msn.ca. Get more information for all your conversations at www.msn.ca Microsoft joins forces with TAXI to create a national launch campaign for its new portal. The creative idea brings the msn butterfly logo to life through 3D animation, music, collage photography and simple headlines that remind us weve all got a lot to talk about.

Dr Horrible on the Emmys

Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion as Dr Horrible and Captain Hammer in a segment from the Emmy broadcast.

MGMT - Kids

Yes, that really is Joanna Newsom as the Paris Hilton-style World's Worst Mom in MGMT's quite awesome video for "Kids", according to the band's publicist. (Via Rolling Stone.) And she's even got some comedic chops-- who knew?

Music video by MGMT performing Kids. (c) 2009 Sony Music Entertainment

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC.

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

Selected at the ONEDOTZERO festival in the WOW+FLUTTER 09 category onedotzero.com/programme.php?id=373&event=31216

Selected for the Autodesk 2009 Siggraph Show Reel
youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5tLOMxLOU&feature=player_embedded :

Production : Condor
Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay
Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli
3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8

A Growing Pile of Work

This is a video that is made from over 400 images that I created from 2003-2009. Bits and pieces from commercial, rejected and personal projects. I had been collecting all those images to use in a completely different project, but then discovered that they could look great in animation too. After painful days in After Effects, fighting with all those 400 layers (and nearly killing my computer), the video was complete.

Directed by Siggi Eggertsson
Illustrations by Siggi Eggertsson
Music by Johnny Sexual

©2009. Siggi Eggertsson. All rights reserved.

Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others

Sean Pecknold is back with a new music video inspired by Jan Švankmajer, Hospital Brut, 60’s magazines, and Tintin books. I’m loving the joyful harmonizing vocals matched with the retro color palette and signature whimsical stop-motion animation. Style frames courtesy of Pecknold after the jump.

Grizzly Bear – While You Wait for the Others
Director – Sean Pecknold
DP – Michael Ragen
AD – Tristan Seniuk
Illustrations – Toby Liebowitz
Animators – Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Producer – Joy Saez
4 faced mask – Jack Strain
Record label – Warp
Special thanks – Robin, Lisa, Greg, and Aja Pecknold, Jennifer Popochock, Toby Liebowitz, Center Valley Animal Shelter

Boudicca | Fashion and Creativity

Finally a fashion industry campaign I like.

Boudicca, Typhoon CP shot live action sequences using a motion control rig, a unique system with its circular dolly track. The film constructs a ‘dress’ around a bare mannequin, with the dress simply growing and evolving; the folds, strands, creepers and swirls of the ‘dress’ being enhanced with 3D CGI. The final piece of animation turns the screen black allowing for the Boudicca Platform 13 logo and Magpies to emerge white over the black frame. Using a motion control rig enabled each pass to be shot in live action which allowed control of the animation transition in edit and the speed dynamics and duration of the film could be lengthened and shortened, to accommodate the various media platforms Boudicca hope to use the film for.



Once filming was completed, all of the various passes (upwards of 50 separate takes) were composited together at UNIT using The Foundry’s “Nuke” software. Time was taken to embellish the final product, with particular focus on the pace and feel of the dress’ creation. Utilising the 3D departments Maya and Tracking software PFTrack, CG animation was created for the ending, giving the effect of a continuation in the build of the dress. This was then seamlessly integrated and developed into a final, loopable ending. Mannequin seams, set edges and rigging were then removed and finally an overall colour grade applied.

The result, a radically creative film showcasing the expression of couture fashion, Typhoon CP and UNIT created a visually stunning campaign that reflects the brand’s bold image.
Project name:Boudicca’s Tornado
Client: Boudicca
Creative agency: Typhoon CP
Production Company: Typhoon CP
Director: Ben Bannister
Producer: Jonathan Bannister
Art director: Gail Smith
Post production: UNIT
Post Producer: Luke Todd
Exposure: Installation, viral email, website home page, etc

Distraxion

A short film about a tough night at the office.

I love this little animated short by Mike Stern, and I'm delighted to see that he was part of the online school Animation Mentor, which I've reported on before. Watch: Distraxion, more at sternio.com.

History of communication

La telefonia mobile è sempre più presente nella nostra vita, tanto da occuparsi di buona parte delle nostre azioni quotidiane. Ma come ci siamo arrivati a tutto questo? Anche se abbiamo visto un’enorme accelerazione negli ultimi 20 anni, il percorso ha impiegato migliaia di anni.

Questo video racconta tutta la storia. E’ stato prodotto da Carphone Warehouse, un importante distributore di cellulari del Regno Unito.


Agency: CHI
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Director: Kristofer Ström
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Producers: Blink Ink, Nicholas Wakeham, Björn Wahlström, Bart Yates
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Music & SoundFX: Minilogue.com

The Beatles Rock Band - Outro

The Beatles Rock Band - Outro.

More / Vea tambien: The First Promotional Video and The Opening Cinematic of The Beatles.

Rubik's Cube Solving Robot (RDRK)

Lithuanian twelfth grader Andrius Šutas built his own robot for Rubik’s cube solving and does not hesitate to share secrets of the build (i. e. schematics, CAD design, source code). It’s not very fast, but does the job pretty well and the simplicity of the design looks good. The solving algorithm in question is layer-by-layer (same as an average Human would use).

The Killers - Spaceman

Music video by The Killers performing Spaceman. (C) 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group

Michael Jackson's This Is It - Official MTV Video Music Awards HD Trailer [2009]

The Official HD Trailer for "Michael Jackson's This Is It", aired on MTV Video Music Awards (VMA).

Release Date: 28 October 2009 (USA)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) (2009) (USA) (all media)
Director: Kenny Ortega
Producers: Paul Gongaware, Randy Phillips
Cast: Michael Jackson, Orianthi
Genre: Music [IMDB.COM]

Audi A4 2.0 TDI Intelligently Combined

Audi A4 2.0 TDI commercial titled "Intelligently Combined", as is their new TV ad. In typical Audi style the spot is classy and elegant from the start to finish including the music, by Steven Schwalbe, and Tobias Wagner.

Credits:
Agency: Kempertrautmann gmbh
Client: Audi AG
Brand: Audi A4 2.0 TDI
Production: Markenfilm
Director: Carl Erik Rinsch
Music: Steven Schwalbe, Tobias Wagner
Copywriter: Willy Kaussen
Art Director: Frank Bannöhr
Creative Director: Tobias Ahrens
Creative Director: Willy Kaussen
Creative Director: Frank Bannöhr

Ecological Apple

Simple, original ideas are wonderful. The vast majority of videos that “go viral” are based around a single, simple idea. The idea may be “anesthetized kids are funny”, or it may be “time-remapping a rotting apple makes it look magical:”

Ecological apple (experimental short) from Andreas Soderberg on Vimeo.

It´s a regular timelapse that i have edited in after effects. Time remap and some camerashake. (Andreas Soderberg.)

You know the spiel by now. You’re a visualist, you’re more qualified than just about anyone around you to turn a simple idea into a professional, artistic video. Go out and do it. Come back and tell us about it.

The Google Holodeck

The Google Holodeck simulator that Google has at its Mountain View campus. Climb into this, and you get StreetView scenes animated, projected on screens all around you, as if you were inside the camera itself.

More cute videos from Google Japan

Here are more sweet stop-motion videos from Google Japan.

The Tourists

The Tourists (2007) from Animalcolm on Vimeo.

Another transient day at the beach......
In this animated short Malcolm Sutherland lovingly pokes fun at the transient yet timeless life of the beach tourist. Animated ink on paper, made in 2007.

Muzorama

Muzorama from Muzorama Team on Vimeo.

Muzorama is a short surrealistic animation film based on the universe of French illustrator Muzo.

The Origins Of 'FAIL'

'FAIL' is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word 'FAIL' onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expections. The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies investigates the origins of 'FAIL.'

Know Your Meme: FAIL from Rocketboom on Vimeo.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory footage.

Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.

Saab TV Ad Change perspective

The latest TV commercial from Saab, part of the Changing perspective campaign that launch the new Saab 9-3X. Soundtrack is called Time Is Now by the the Swedish singer Asha Ali.

Placebo - The Never Ending Why

In collaboration with random.nu and nexus productions, Champagne Valentine has conceived The Never Ending Why – an elegant and interactive music video for alternative rock band Placebo, which gives users the opportunity to engross themselves in the progression of the story.

Visions of Venice - Assassin's Creed 2 Trailer

A new trailer for the amazing game - Assassin's Creed 2.
The stunningly cinematic "Visions of Venice" trailer for the sequel to the highly acclaimed 2007 game, Assassin's Creed, has been released earlier today.

Because the game takes place in Venice (300 years after the events of Assassin's Creed,) the developers realized that an integral part of creating a living, breathing, Renaissance era Venice, would be to include the famous canals. Ezio, the character you play as, will be able to use these canal systems to his advantage; but whether that means a sneaky entrance or a quick escape is up to the player to decide.

The trailer also shows the flying contraption supposedly built for Ezio by Leonardo Da Vinci himself. Along with Da Vinci's contraptions, Ezio can disarm his enemies and use their weapons against them. A real useful trick when you find yourself unarmed and surrounded. The ability to assassinate two people at once is also being integrated into the game.

This is one beautiful game trailer, for one equally beautiful looking game

This game will be published by UBISOFT on November 17th, 2009.

Need for Speed SHIFT Accolades

Great energy and stunning visuals in the Need for Speed SHIFT Trailer.

Miike Snow - Animal (Anthony Dickenson Director)

Miike Snow - Animal from welovemusique on Vimeo.

Master pop trio Miike Snow were looking for an experimental music video for their new single, ‘Animal’.

Director Anthony Dickenson decided to work with projections and sculptures using a mixture of animation and band performance footage. Although the technique has been seen in art installations, it had never before been combined with camerawork for a music video. The technique for mapping projections was very complicated; the aftereffects had to be co-coordinated through experimentation over a period of 5 weeks.

The result is a unique music video in which graphic, colourful country and city landscapes move and change in time with the music, whilst the band members transform into fantastical animals.

http://www.pulsefilms.co.uk/

Mario Kart: The Movie - Trailer (HD)

The official trailer for the upcoming film based on the hit Mario Kart video games for Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Game Cube, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo Wii.

British Sea Power - Waving Flags

British Sea Power - Waving Flags

Fx and Mat: IOC "All Together Now"

Nexus Productions’ directing duo Fx and Mat put their powers to use for the International Olympic Committee and agency Coler & Weber United in “All Together Now,” a beautifully rendered tale of titanic Olympians literally pulling the earth’s geography together into a neo-Pangea.

Agency: Coler & Weber United
Production: Nexus Productions
Direction: Fx & Mat

Nine Inch Nails: Closer (Censored) (1994)

"Closer" music video. Directed by Mark Romanek. Censored version since YouTube won't allow the uncensored. View the uncensored version on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/3554226

Mass Animation - Live Music Trailer

Back in July, I scribbled out a diatribe against Mass Animation, a Facebook-supported competition to create a CG short film by crowd-sourcing the animation to thousands of animators around the world. (See trailer above.)

While most of the Motionographer regulars agreed with my points against Mass Animation, not everyone felt that spec-work competitions like Mass Animation are a bad thing.

To help flesh out the other side of the story, we got in touch with Alexander Micah Snow, Mass Animation participant and then animation student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. We edited his response for length, but left it otherwise in tact.

More: Mass Animation: A Guest Rebuttal.

MILK [Short film]

MILK [Short film] from www.bastienroger.com on Vimeo.

The pictures still not reserved to posters, screens or magazines, now they are free and take place everywhere. In this chaos, one man, his glance and dream of purity.

More here : milk-film.com.

Leviathan Trailer for Scott Westerfeld's

This official Leviathan trailer is pretty amazing.

Here's the book-trailer for Leviathan, the first volume of YA superstar Scott Westerfeld's kick-ass new steampunk alternate WWI series, featuring chimera-splicing Darwinist Brits fighting the clanking steam-mecha of the German side. Total gilliamfab!

A Record Of Life

A Record Of Life from Owen Gatley on Vimeo.

This is a short animation I made with Luke Jinks. It's loosely based on the scientific recording of life's great species. And how this has given us clues that piece together, for us to discover the secrets of the evolution and diversity of life on Earth.

Rob Zombie's El Superbeasto - Redband Trailer

Worldwide premiere On-Demand and on Pay-Per-View September 7th. Also in theaters September 12th and available on DVD and Blu-ray September 22nd. Visit the official movie website at http://www.elsuperbeasto.com for more information about the movie, clips, photos, and more!

El Superbeasto aka "Beasto" is an unstoppable superhero masked wrestler, Producer/Director/Star of BeastoWorld Enterpirses-and world-famous man of action! In his first full-length animated adventure based on the comic book created by Rob Zombie, Beasto and his super-sexy sister Suzi X must stop the unholy marriage of foul-mouthed stripper Velvet Von Black and diabolical Dr. Satan, or unleash all the sudsy powers of Hell! Welcome to a depraved domain of outrageous comedy, non-stop ultra-violence and bad-ass theme songs! Featuring a horde of Nazi zombie bikers, seven original songs by Hard 'n Phirm and the voice talents of Tom Papa, Sheri Moon Zombie, Rosario Dawson, Brian Posehn and Paul Giamatti as Dr. Satan in THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO! Rob Zombie, Halloween, Halloween II, Michael Meyers, Horror, Zombies, White Zombie, Metal, Heavy Metal, Devils Rejects, Sheri Moon Zombie, Rosario Dawson, Paul Giamatti, Brian Posehn, Tom Papa, Harland Williams, Danny Trejo, Bill Mosely, Sid Haig, Captain Spaulding, Otis Firefly, Baby Firefly, House of 1000 Corpses, Terror, Wrestling, Luchadores, Santos, Mexican, El Superbeasto, Haunted, Frankenstein, Bride, Dracula, The Shining, Dawn of the Dead, Cyclops, Day the Earth Stood Still, Dr. Satan, Sexy, Sex, Strippers, Hookers, Porn Stars, Dee Wallace, Ken Foree, Trailers, Coming Soon, Movies, Animation, Fritz the Cat, Cool World, Ralph Bakshi, Fire and Ice, Scooby Doo, Ren and Stimpy, Film Roman, the Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Dead Space, Stewie Griffin, Peter Griffin, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Hammer Horror, The Fly, Nazi Zombies, Inglorious Bastards, Grindhouse, She Wolves of the SS, Thanksgiving, Dont, Cartoons, Comedy, Film, World, youtube, starz media, anchor bay, pay per view, indemand, tvn, directv, dish, comcast, time warner, cablevision, io digital cable, rcn