Round 6 is a made up video game trailer for a nonexistent game created by Snowball Studios. It’s a highly effective exercise and self-promotional piece to be sure. The attention to detail is staggering and it’s an impressive bit of 3D animation accomplished in a highly cinematic style.
Here is a 3D exploration of Picasso’s famous painting, Guernica. 3D by Lena Gieseke with music by Manuel de Falla, Christopher Johns and Matthew Anderson. Beautiful little video.
3d illustrator Teodoru Badiu has an interesting childlike style that looks like it is ready-made for a trippy animated kids show.
German illustrator Mark Gmehling has some very unusual and terribly fun 3D illustrations in his Behance portfolio. They are very well rendered and look like they would make for nice vinyl toys.
Andreas Köberle AKA Eskimo Blood has some interesting 3D experiments happening throughout his Flickr-folio. There is some nice use of color happening.
From The Dark Past, is the title of the current animation by Rafaël Rozendaal. There is a definite physical quality to the animation that almost tricks the eye into believing a camera is panning across a dimensional landscape. Be sure to click and play as well.
Via the amazingly curated and always interesting Today and Tomorrow.
3D illustrator Justin Wood has updated his site with more of his unique signature-styled work.
Martin Fuchs and Philip Whitfield are both students at Hyperwerk in Basel. Undef is their collaborative experimental efforts in 3D and Processing. Equally interesting and unique.
Eskimo Square is the showcase ’sophisticated 3D visualization’ from Graham Harvey. He is responsible for the recent SYFY 3D logo that has been floating around the design blogosphere this past week. You can see more in his Flickr-folio as well.
“Machu Picchu Post is a short 3D film made at Supinfocom Arles in 2008 by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali.
This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young peruvian boy living with his lama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy’s house.”
The style and animation in this short film is really expertly executed. You can learn a little more about the project here.
Hugo Arcier was trained in 3D graphic arts at the Supinfocom school (Valenciennes). His work is just bizarre but really interesting.
“A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.”
Beautiful. From Joaquin Baldwin.
There are some trippy and strange bio-geomorphic structures in the Flickr-folio of Daniel Widrig.
From the Hoop is a 3D Short directed by 3 students from Supinfocom Arles.
The story was inspired by the life of Earl Manigault, a basketball player who lost everything in drugs. Near the end of his life he dedicated his time to helping children of Harlem avoid the same fate. It was during this time that he started the “Walk Away From Drugs” tournament for kids. He died in 1998 from a heart failure.
The storyline in the actual film very non-linear and I think it is meant to be more of an abstract subjective interpretation of Manigault’s personal struggle with his inner-demons. It’s a beautiful little short though and the color and animation are really great for a student film. Impressive work. You can learn a little more about the project at the official website as well.
Sebastien LABAN emailed me today to let me know about a 3D animated short-film project he and his wife, Virginie GOYONS (why the capitalized last names [I don’t know]) have been working on in their spare time entitled, ‘Meet Meline’. They have released a trailer for the film that you can view above and in my opinion it looks amazing.
Art direction by Aritz Aizpurua
CG composition by Avelino Lombardero
CG art by Juan M. Puerta and Mikel Arroyo
Concept art by Patxi Pelaez
Music/sound effects by Rafeal Touron.
Really cool little short film. Expertly done.
“CG Work inspired by the images of the electronic microscopes.
3ds Max animation with Scanline Render and After Effects for the composition.
CG Work & composition by Leandro Salerno”
3d artist, John Cherniack has updated his reel with some awe-inspiring new work. He has worked for some of the biggest names in the business and its easy to see why when you take a look at his work.
