THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER

Another Gobelins masterpiece: The Lighthouse Keeper (and be sure to check out the creators’ blogs for insight into their process)

This American Life story (Chris Ware animation)

This is an outstanding cartoon (by Chris Ware) depicting a This American Life story about kids who started a fake TV camera craze at their elementary school. As Graham says, "It's so amazing. Why can't there be more of this? I could watch HOURS of this."

Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

Music video for Peter, Bjorn & John's single "Young Folks" featuring Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes.

www.wichita-recordings.com

Fax of Death - Laurel Collective

The winning video for 'The Great Animation Challenge' competition Directed by Joe Lea

AXA_EVOLUTION

For French Insurance company AXA, Tronic conceived, directed and animated this spot to address the desire to remain relevant in a constantly advancing world. The spot highlights the rapid evolution of mankind by showcasing an origami man transforming himself into some of the most important inventions throughout history. Ending with a question mark and a resolve on the AXA logo, the spot informs the public that the future is uncertain – but AXA is present now and through any changes to come.

A Hole in the Place of Heart

A first personal independant sand animation film (frame by frame), made in 2004/2005.> Synopsis:When the violence of individuals generates the birth of a strange collective monster, anything is possible... A surrealist vision of inhumanity. (sand animation film)This film was screened in many festivals: Lille, Aubagne, Neufchâteau, Wissembourg, Vaulx-en-Velin, Norwich, Barcelone (l'Alternativa), Lyon (Les Inattendus), Traverse video Toulouse (France), Festival CurtaCinema Rio 2006, Hiroshima Festival 2006, Norwich Animation Festival 2005...

Sony Ericsson MH907 - magic headphones

We made this for Sony Ericsson's new magic headphones MH907.

Director/Animaton/Clay/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
VFX/Compositing/Animation: Eric Buchholtz
Music/Soundeffects: Douglas Holmquist
Agency: Top Dollar
Campaign AD: Malin Olsson
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: Varelsen
BehindTheScenesFootage: Johan Sundell

varelsen.se
topdollar.se
soundofoo.com
sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol

Glo: Experience the Bible like never before (La Biblia de la era digital)

Available Fall 2009! Glo brings the Bible to life with HD video and documentaries, high- resolution images, zoomable maps, 360-degree virtual tours and much more. And its all easy to find and natural to use with Glos unique browsing lenses. Find what you need when you need it. Thats Glo.

1382 fotos de alta resolución. 7500 artículos enciclopédicos. 463 Tours virtuales. Más de 3,5 horas de video HD. 147 Mapas. 689 obras de arte.

More at http://www.bibleglo.com

Google Street View: The Movie (La Película)

Dos humanoides son contratados por Google para fotografiar todas las calles de Estados Unidos. Este es el plot. Es realmente genial el guión y la muuuy laboriosa realización.

Hershey's - 'Happiness Is...'

Client: Hershey's
Agency: Y&R
Production Company: Nakd / The Ebeling Group

Directors: Christopher Bahry, Alexandre Torres
Music/Sound Design: John Black, Cypheraudio
Illustration: Sebastian Onusfszak
2D Animation: Vini Nascimento, Leo Mateus
3D: Marcin Porebski, Vini Nascimento, Alexandre Torres
Editor and Compositing: Christopher Bahry
Producer: Samara Melanson
Assistant Producer: Valery Gore

The Prospector

A man searches for riches in the desolate, wild landscape of Alaska.

Animation by Paxson Woelber. www.PaxsonWoelber.com

Created in Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe After Effects CS4, and Sony Vegas, with Wacom Intuos3 and Intuos4 tablets. Sound effects courtesy of SoundSnap.com. Completed over the course of one year, in about 350 hours, in Anchorage, Alaska, and New York, New York. Original frame size 800 x 450, 30fps.

Toy Story 3 Official Trailer

http://www.disney.com/toystory

The creators of the beloved Toy Story films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in TOY STORY 3. Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy would grow up someday, but what happens when that day arrives?

In the third installment, Andy is preparing to depart for college, leaving his loyal toys troubled about their uncertain future. Lee Unkrich (co-director of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo) directs this highly anticipated film, and Michael Arndt, the Academy Award®-winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine, brings his unique talents and comedic sensibilities to the proceedings.

Toy Story 3 will be presented in Disney Digital 3D™ in select theaters on June 18th, 2010.

"Wail to God" Music Video

The official music video for Ape School's 'Wail to God'. Animated/ Directed by Anthony F. Schepperd.

Anthony F. Schepperd’s “Wail To God” is a subversion of conventional animation. Suffused with an unorthodox style reminiscent of Bill Plympton, viewers are jolted by constant shifts in perspective, while the uncanny non-narrative plays out with a graceful continuity.

In “Wail To God,” there are none of the usual clichés. The darting changes in scale, color, and motion are freakishly cool, while the loose and frenetic line-work—moving with the ferocity of brush-fire—add another layer of unpolished appeal.

Voltage

For another way to visualize sound, over the summer Brazil’s Bam Studio sent us an animation imagining modular synths connecting to one another in an electrical, energy-filled trance. The animation is fantastic and injects plenty of traditional techniques into the digital work. Co-director William Paiva has added a making-of video showing just how much hand drawing went into the project. It’s actually quite beautiful to see just this layer.

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.

Directed by:
Filippe Lyra e William Paiva

Produced by:
Barros Melo Animation Studio

Director of photography:
Filippe Lyra e William Paiva

Animation:
Filippe Lyra
William Paiva
Marcio Vieira
Felipe Soares
Leo D.
Tony Farias

Design:
Filippe Lyra
Marcio Vieira
Felipe Soares
William Paiva
Natalia Franca

Illustration:
Filippe Lyra
Marcio Vieira
Felipe Soares
William Paiva
Natalia Franca

Editor(s):
William Paiva
Leo D.
Filippe Lyra

Sound:
William Paiva e Leo D

Music:
William Paiva e Leo D

Executive Producer:
Izabella Barros Melo

JESUS2000

A hip short created by another crop of brilliant students at Gobelins by the names of Rémi Bastie, Jean-Baptiste Cumont, Clément Desnos, Jonathan and Nicolas Djob Nkondo Pegon. A cute idea that is carried along by energetic Flash animation, which seems to be a focus that is growing in popularity at Gobelins. Maybe we can look forward to a rise in flash animation quality for film and television in the coming years if this trend continues.

The Hyde Tube Festival

Directed by Albert & Mr. Hyde,
Designed by Mr. Cizo, and
Sound by Dîner Au Motel.
mrhyde.fr

The Hyde Tube Festival c’est 40 films courts de 1 à 10 minutes à voir durant la nuit du 15 Octobre 2009 de 20h à l'aube au cinéma :

La Pagode,
57 rue de Babylone
dans le 7ème arrondissement à Paris.

Il faudra nous confirmer votre présence au moins 2 jours avant l’événement.

The Hyde Tube Festival is 40 short films from 1 to 10 minutes to see during the night of October 15, 2009 from 8pm to dawn at the cinema:

La Pagode,
57 rue de Babylone
in the 7th quarter in Paris.

You must confirm your attendance at least 2 days before the event.

Choose A Different Ending: start (Video Interactivo: Seleccioná diferentes finales)

Choose A Different Ending is an interactive film that allows you to decide what happens next. You can interact with it, choose what to do and decide how it ends. In Choose A Different Ending you decide whether to live or die.

Logrado ejemplo de video interactivo donde el espectador selecciona alternativas. El uso de cámara “Point of View” colabora con el dramatismo.

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage

Designed by a team at the National University of Singapore, PhotoSketch is the latest and greatest in image creation systems. The full description of how it works can be found here, but the basic process is this:

Draw a basic object, name it and repeat this for any other objects you want in your picture, then name the background. PhotoSketch then searches the Internet for images that match the descriptions given, and after a bit of sorting out, you have all the elements necessary for seamless stitching. The possibilities seem endless. Check out the video!

We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and text labels; these are found by searching the Internet. Although online image search generates many inappropriate results, our system is able to automatically select suitable photographs to generate a high quality composition, using a filtering scheme to exclude undesirable images. We also provide a novel image blending algorithm to allow seamless image composition.

Each blending result is given a numeric score, allowing us to find an optimal combination of discovered images. Experimental results show the method is very successful; we also evaluate our system using the results from two user studies.

Via: Gizmodo.

What is a browser?

Google has a pretty cool animated video clip explaining just what a web browser is, now I know what you might be thinking and I thought the very same thing, how can anyone in this day and age not know what a web browser is....you'd be surprised. After you get this basic reminder of what exactly the browser is, be sure to watch the second video below of Google employee Scott, who asks New Yorkers what the difference between a search engine and web browser is.



Back in April Scott, a Google employee took to the streets of Times Square in New York and asked the question, What is a browser? The responses people came up with are priceless. You might be shocked to know that less than 8% of the people asked on this day actually knew what a browser was.



Basic explanation of the web browser. Learn more at http://whatbrowser.org

Via: What Is A Browser | Google Creates a Cool Video Demonstration (http://great-ads.blogspot.com/)

The FRAY - Heartless

Music video for The FRAY covering Kanye West's Heartless
My role on this was VFX direction and compositing.

director - Hiro Murai
editor - Isaac Hagy
cinematography - IBIS (Clay Jeter & Will Basanta)
producer - Ross Girard
production - Partizan

Animation/VFX - Titmouse Inc

Animation Director - Allison Craig
VFX Director - Keith Kin Yan
Animator - Ryan Deluca
Animator - Tony Andrade
Animator - Dave Gerhard
Animator - Dave Vandervoort

Sweet Dreams

"Sweet Dreams" just received a Special Jury Award at SXSW 2009!
Sweet Dreams" by Kirsten Lepore
Music by Kirsten, Chelsea, and Megan Lepore

Kinetic Wave Sculptures

Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reuben’s artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future.

Beethoven 5th Symphony (No. 5, graphical score animation, allegro)

Beethoven 5th Symphony 5 (graphical score animation)

FAQ

Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing. Here's a chart:
http://www.musanim.com/pdf/Instruments_B5.pdf

Q: Please tell me more about the composer.
A: You can read about Beethoven here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven

Q: Who is playing this?
A: I licensed this recording from
http://www.royalty-free-classical-music.org/
It is performed by the Royalty Free Classical Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Keith J. Salmon. I don't know anything beyond that about the recording (like, whether it is a real orchestra or synthetic, who are its members, when and where was the recording made, etc.)

Q: Is there a way I could make bar-graph scores like this myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
http://www.musanim.com/player/
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
http://www.classicalarchives.com/

Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: First, check my "to do" list:
http://www.musanim.com/all/MAMToDoLis... ...
If the piece isn't listed, read the "Could you please do a MAM video of _________?" item on my main FAQ:
http://www.musanim.com/mam/mamfaq.htm... ...
and if you think I'd consider doing it, email me (stephen at musanim dot com).
.

SUPER MONKEY BALL: Google Chrome

速い + SUPER MONKEY BALL: Google Chrome アーティストテーマ

高速でシンプルな Google Chrome: アーティストテーマでスタイリッシュにカスタマイズしよう。

http://google.com/chrome/artists

http://www.supermonkeyball.com/

Graphic Designer vs client

Graphic designer comedy adventures

New York Times Turkish Edition with Sabah Commercial (ad)

A 60 seconds ad for the Turkish edition of The New York Times. A brilliant commercial and a state of the art animation.