Changethethought™

This 10th anniversary self promotional animation for Record Makers is straight up bootylicious. It’s an adjective that so rarely applies but in this case it is positively apropos.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Drawing, Music, Record Makers

There are some beautiful bits happening in this experimental short film by Sean Vicary.

Description:
“The coastal landscape of West Wales provides the setting for this short film. Animation,music and photography are juxtaposed in order to explore the liminal space between land and sea.

The film has evolved from an original piece produced as part of an audio-visual performance with the composer Tom Middleton at the National Film Theatre, London.”

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Sean Vicary, Short Film, Tom Middleton

Motion and interactive designer Johannes Timpernagel has kept him self busy, flexing his creative muscles in the last few months by generating some great experimental animations. You can view them all via his Vimeo page.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Interactive, Johannes Timpernagel, Motion Graphics

Prepare to be blown away.

written by Justin Blyth | tags: Animation, Motion Graphics, Music Video, Stop Motion

Sorry for the copy and pasting but sometimes it just doesn’t make sense to rewrite something that the creative author obviously spent so much time putting together. Better left to their own words on this one. Amazing little video:

“1923 is one of two new animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. 1923 is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1923.

The second loop, 1925, is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1925. It will be available soon.

The films were created during 5 days in February 2010 with animators and CG artists at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark.”
Credits:
Director: Max Hattler
Technical Director: David René Christensen
Sound: Blake Overgaard
Previz/Layout: Thorvaldur Gunnarsson
Modelling: Thorvaldur Gunnarsson, Arnold Bagasha, Blake Overgaard
Animation: Casper Michelsen, Mikkel Vedel, Thorvaldur Gunnarsson, Blake Overgaard, Arnold Bagasha
Produced by maxhattler.com & The Animation Workshop
More here:
animwork.dk
maxhattler.com

written by Christopher | tags: 1923, Animation, Max Hattler, Motion Graphics

The music for this short film was made entirely from sounds recorded from a collection of antique cameras. The imagery is comprised of over six thousand still photos shot and edited together via stop motion animation.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Digital Analogue, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion

Here is a very well executed short film (very short) featuring some equally well executed storytelling from the mind of Lucas Zanotto.

Credit:
Music & Sound Design: David Kamp - davidkamp.de
Thanks for story input to Arno Dejaco - arinoteles.com
Thanks for support to dyrdee & Gios

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Lucas Zanotto, Motion Graphics, The Ostrich

This little video by Tapebox, a London-based animation duo comprised of Dan Hayhurst (audio) and Reuben Sutherland (visual) kind of tripped me out. I love the throwback reference to the zoetrope. I had to make one of those in college. Cool work indeed.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Experimental, London, Motion Graphics, Tapebox

Holke79 has updated with a new reel that is serving as a temporary holder until he launches a new site. Site or not the reel is worth watching and jam packed with some great motion work.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Holke79, Motion Graphics

This is from Madder Mortem’s forthcoming release ‘Where Dream & Day Collide’, coming May 10th, 2010. There is some amazing 3D animation going on here not to mention some artfully crafted matte painting.

Directed by Christian Ruud & Kim Holm
Produced by Toxic™
Concept Art & Matte Painting: Christian Ruud & Kim Holm
Animators: Frode Ekeberg, 
Morten Homleid,
 Kim Holm, Christian Lundvall, 
Christian Ruud
3D/Modeling/Texuring/Rendering:
 Frode Ekeberg, Morten Homleid, Christian Lundvall, Christian Ruud, Lars Hauge Hoel
Compositing: Frode Ekeberg,
 Morten Homleid,
 Kim Holm,
 Christian Ruud
Editing, Online & Grading: Knut A. Helgeland
Offline Editor:
 Helge Tjelta
Music: Madder Mortem
Label: Peaceville Records
toxic.no

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Madder Mortem, Music, Music Videos

“Light and dark, noise and calm, beauty, decay, pain and hope–these are the shattering contrasts that propel our lives ahead in the boundless, throbbing river of existence. None of us knows what the next moment will bring, the raptures and terrifying discoveries born with every choice. And yet, in the alternation of day and night, in the ebb and tide of the oceans, in the constant expansion and quiet contraction of our lungs in and out with each breath–we know our journey is not random chaos but a journey where every shouting supernova, every trembling cell, returns to the one perfect mystery from which we all come and go.Instead, in the rotation of the stars, planets, seasons, increase, loss, sadness, joy, struggle, surrender– there is a cosmic beauty, a unity and purpose.”

Credits:
Ayhan Cebe
S. Asli Cebe
Ben Lukas Boysen (Hecq)
Hicabi Gulgen
Khaliff Watkins
Archana Mahalingam

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Ayhan Cebe, Motion Graphics, Suveyda

“I drift, half awake, half asleep. Moving through the city I recall but have never been to.”

This short film was made by Mustard Cuffins using a digital stills to create stop motion animation.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Drift, film, Mustard Cuffins, Stop Motion

This is beautiful.

“A creation from MIE. Commissioned by Twenty120″

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, MIE, Twenty120

I really liked this cynical little animated short film ‘about a (uni-browed) boy who wishes for better things‘ by More Frames animation studio.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Drawing, Moonboy, More Frames

I am really digging this little experimental motion piece titled, ‘Metempsychosis’ from motionographer Alain Lores. I would love to see something like this utilizing typography. You can see more of Alain’s work here.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Alain Lores, Animation, Miami, Motion Graphics

“An experimental typographic work (from Murat Pak); trying to go beyond the limits of our well known garamond.”

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Garamond, Motion Graphics, Murat Pak, Typography

“For the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …

Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: “_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel’s work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation–communicating a ‘coming to terms’ with the aftermath of a car accident–you realise why. ”

More about Robert Seidel here: 2minds.de

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Motion Graphics, Robert Seidel, _grau

Look at this horse. This horse is amazing. Don’t make me show you where the lemonade is made. The sweet sweet lemonade. Shut up and get on the horse.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Flash Animation, Music, Weebl