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Nick Cross is apparently animating an entire feature-length film titled Black Sunrise. This is the second trailer he has released. It looks promising.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Drawing, Feature, film, Nick Cross

Apparently this music video uses animation/film all taken from the 1920′s. That must have been a fun decade.

written by Christopher | tags: 1920s, Animation, Music Video, Narrow Sparrow, Spooky Head

This is a way fun little piece of animation produced by the Argentinian duo Ronda + Sonni.

Credits:
estudioronda.com
sonnistudios.com

Credits / Directed by Ronda + Sonni
Original Idea / Art Direction: Sonni
Character Design / Storyboards: Sonni Studios
Animation Director: Ronda
Animation: Fernán Graziano
Sound Design: Dj Fernandez / Ronda
Voice of Bullet: Katie Bel

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, motion design, Ronda and Sonni

Wow. This is beautiful work.

Client: Vorwerk & Co. KG, Wuppertal
Head of Marketing Vorwerk Kobold: Felix Withöft

Agency: Kolle Rebbe, Hamburg
Creatives: Thomas Knüwer, Dennis Krumbe, Stefan Wübbe
Producer: Bey-Bey Chen
Account: Jan Kowalsky, Jessica Gustafsson

Production Company: Sehsucht Berlin GmbH & Co. KG
Director/Creative Director: Mate Steinforth
Design: Mate Steinforth, Christian Zschunke, Ronny Schmidt, Jonas Littke
3D Lead: Hannes Weikert
3D Artists:
- Christian Zschunke (R&D, Environment, VFX)
- Ronny Schmidt (Modeling, Animation)
- Philipp Brömme (Animatic, Look Development, VFX)
- Helge Kiehl (Modeling, Animation, Shading, VFX)
- Chris Hoffmann (Modeling, Animation, Shading)
- Philipp Rudler (Animation)
Compositing: Sebastian Nozon, Christina Agapitou
Producer: Christian Gemeiner

Music: Supreme Music, Hamburg
Audio-Mix: Studio Funk, Hamburg

written by Christopher | tags: Germany, Kolle Rebbe, Mite City, VORWERK

So a few people were involved in the making of this short film. Just a few. You can see all of them below.

WEB SITE: heartburnfilm.tumblr.com/

WRITTEN and DIRECTED by:
Giulia Barelli,
Valentina Branchetti
Benedetta Cariani
Eleonora Gambula
Julie Luchsinger
Laila Sonsino
Alessandra Todaro

STOP MOTION ANIMATION
Valentina Branchetti
Eleonora Gambula
Laila Sonsino

2D ANIMATION
Eleonora Gambula
Alessandra Todaro

ROTOSCOPING
Giulia Barelli
Eleonora Gambula
Alessandra Todaro

MASK ROTOSCOPING
Julie Laure Helene Luchsinger
Benedetta Cariani

CHARACTER DESIGN and DRAWING BACKGROUND
Eleonora Gambula

DIGITAL PAINT 2D ANIMATION
Giulia Barelli

DIRECTION of PHOTOGRAPHY
Valentina Branchetti
Laila Sonsino

EDITING
Valentina Branchetti

COMPOSITING
Julie Laure Helene Luchsinger
Laila Sonsino

PUPPETS, FORNITURE and SCENOGRAPHY CONSTRUCTIONS
Giulia Barelli
Valentina Branchetti
Benedetta Cariani
Eleonora Gambula
Julie Laure Helene Luchsinger
Laila Sonsino
Alessandra Todaro

FOOD PROOPS and DOLL’S MAKE UP
Anja Beschi
Pamela De Lorenzi
Francesca Giovagnoni
Charlyemisterbuffe
Teddy

SOUND DESIGN
Valerio Alessandro Sizzi

VOICE
Eleonora Gambula

MUSIC
“I’m not a doll” by
Valerio Alessandro Sizzi

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Giulia Barelli, Heartburn, Stop Motion

Some sick work from VFX powerhouse Nick Losq. Hella tight, Nick!

written by Mike Slane | tags: Black Swan, losq, rabbit, VFX

This entire video was hand drawn frame by frame with markers on paper. ‘As simple as it looks’ but I would imagine it was anything but simple.

If you wanna learn more about how it was done you can do that here.

written by Christopher | tags: Adamski, Art, Drawing, Music, We Cut Corners

“This Short Film Animation Project has been created by students of The Animation School to gain vital work experience.” Well okay then. This is a pretty amazing piece for student work. It seems like there has been a lot of that going around lately. Stick around at the end to see the credits for all involved.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Character, The Animation School

My Bloody Lad is the work of 4 ‘animateurs’, Cyrille Chauvin, Guillaume Dousse, Thibaud Petitpas and Pierre Rutz who are all students at l’Ecole des Gobelins. To see the full credit list please visit this link.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, My Bloody Lad, Student

Here is a nice little self-initiated project by CRCR about desire titled Vésuves.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, CRCR, Illustration, Vésuves

David O Reilly does his wonderful thing for Tim and Eric who are even more wonderful in their own fantastically weird yet totally hilarious way. And those very adjectives perfectly describe what’s on display here. Awesome.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, David O Reilly, Tim and Eric

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This is the graduation short created for “Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem” by Udi Asoulin & Uriah Naeh.

Credits:
Music: ”Panic Ensemble”
Roy Yarkoni – keys, piano, laptop, compositions
Yael Kraus – vocals
Boris Martzinovsky – accordion
Yuri Alon – double bass
Omer Hershman – guitars
Galia Hai – viola, vocals
Dirk Kunesch – trumpet
Noa Goldanski – drums
Giori Politi – drums, percussion
Karen Alkalay Gut – lyrics
Sound effects and mix: Rafi Chen

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Illuzia, Jerusalem, motion

So a bunch of kids break into a school swimming pool expecting a little above the law yet innocent fun and then…awesomeness ensues.

This is the official video for Dye’s single ‘Fantasy’ directed by animation wunderkind Jérémie Périn.

Directed by Jérémie Périn
Written by Laurent Sarfati & Jérémie Périn
Artistic Direction by Mikael Robert
Produced by Excuse My French / PH & Tigersushi
Executive Producer : Constance Guillou
Production Coordinator : Perrine Schwartz
Commissioner : Jill Caytan
“Fantasy” is taken from the DyE album TAKI 183.
Purchase via Tigersushi: tigersushi.myshopify.com/​products/​taki183
Purchase via itunes: itunes.apple.com/​fr/​album/​fantasy-remixes-special-edition/​id470893928?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Dye, Fantasy, Music Video

I missed this little diddy by MK12 for FITC. It’s pretty amazing if you visit the little micro-site for the piece and watch the making of and realize that they cell animated the piece. I am always impressed and amazed by motion shops that turn the key from 3d and After Effects into full on cell animation. It’s not an easy thing to do and MK12 did it in style.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, FITC, Kansas City, MK12, motion

“After running on over 100 festivals BOB finally reached Vimeo with his little running wheel. We would like to thank everyone who enjoyed the film, voted for us on festivals and gave us a laugh during the screenings. It’s an incredible feeling to make people happy.

This was the first time we created an 3d animated movie during our studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg and we would have never thought that it became that successful.

There are a lot of things we would have done differently nowadays but for a small team, six months and almost no knowledge of the software, we are proud with the result and finally want to share it with everyone.”

Credits:
BOB: Tom Zahner
student producer: Anna Matacz
director: Jacob Frey & Harry Fast
script: Jacob Frey & Stefanie Ren
character design: Harry Fast
lighting & rendering: Michael Lederhuber
music: Karol Obara
sounddesign: Marco Manzo

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Bob, Short Film

“For years we have had an urge to create a character-driven animation piece. For us, the opportunity came knocking in the Fall of 2010 disguised in the form of a pitch for ‘Funcheez’.

We got excited and pulled out all the stops for the pitch. We designed characters and environments, drew up storyboards, colour boards, and boardomatics. The pitch was beautiful and fun, but in the end the client decided to go with another studio for the spot.

But it was too late—we had somehow fallen completely in-love with our strange little alien creatures and rather than relegating them to our salon des refusés to gather dust, decided to take the plunge and build a story around them.

Read more about the project and how it came to life on our site here.”

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Character Art, Studio Tendril

An impressive demented little piece of 3D animation here from Cube Creative titled “Let’s play once upon a time”.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Cube Creative, Short Film

I am a fan of Chairlift and this video for their latest single ‘Amanaemonesia’ doesn’t disappoint in either sound nor image.

Credits:
Directed by Caroline Polachek and Tom Hines
Digital Animation and Editing: Eric Epstein
Animated Watercolor Illustrations: Rebecca Bird
Choreography: Caroline Polachek
Movement Consultant: Juri Onuki
Art Direction and Text Design: Alejandro Cardenas
Color: Michelle Leuking
Styling: Kat Typaldos
Wardrobe Fabrication: Grace Kim
Hair & Makeup: Fernando Haddad
Steadicam: Afton Grant
Assistant Editor: Matthew Chin-Quee
Assistant DP: Chris Parente
Location: Brooklyn Fireproof Studios
Produced by Molly Hawkins, Tom Hines & Caroline Polachek
Copyright Chairlift 2011

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Chairlift, Music, Music Video