This amazing new EP comes from the Portland duo Impactist. Each track on The Heist EP has an accompanying video/animation piece. Its a crazy juxtaposition of retro and and electro and I love it!
![Terrence Parker - Somethin' Here [Original Mix] (mp3)](http://btglondon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/03-1-150x150.jpg "Terrence Parker - Somethin' Here [Original Mix] (mp3)")
I love the character design from this new animated promo by Buck for Nike. Watch the short promo, its really nicely put together.
I think well thought out 2D animations like this are few and far between at the moment with everyone seeming to only be producing shiny 3D pieces, with the all too popular physics engines in the latest batch of 3D software to arrive. Rant over…for now.
Motion work completed for the book ‘Black Material’ which showcases the artwork of Robert Knoke. I love a nice triangle, especially when the concept is a well executed as this piece from Onur Senturk:
Curator Jens Karlson asked me to make a short animation and get Robert Knoke’s black and white artwork as base for video. I chosed to create tense harmony between geometrical forms and organic movements. Combustion helped me to expand possibilites of Black material with his strong music and sound design.
I am creating a Ten minute Zombie short with a twist. We need 5 people to play our Zombie’s. We need people that are excited about creating good films and love acting. Unfortunately there is no budget for payment but it will have plenty of exposure as it is a competition piece.
Please contact alastair@tinydogfilms.com if you are interested and we will send you the script and shoot information.
Kansas City-based studio MK12 have release a new in-house project, the film short TELEPHONEME. As well as the film there is a single-page site where you can download the font (Chadwick) and digital press release. MK12′s co-founder Ben Radatz kindly shared this on Motionographer:
TELEPHONEME came about after we’d begun writing a short about how the alphabet was actually a “trojan horse” with coded messages and symbols, designed by a shadow group intent on keeping the rest of us down. While writing the piece we came across a Bell Labs-funded educational film called “The Alphabet Conspiracy,” which had pretty much the same content we were writing into our version. So we instead appropriated the voiceover and re-mixed it into a slightly darker version of itself. The voice is that of Frank Baxter, aka Dr. Research, a well-known figure in the educational film world. And, he tweets! We developed a typeface called “Chadwick” which we envisioned as a “root font” of sorts – a theoretically perfect and balanced font that concerned itself more with technical execution than visual aesthetics. This was the font that we used throughout the piece, and we set up a pretty rigid set of guidelines for it’s use. It’s not something that’s likely to be picked up on, but it made a good foundation for the rest of the piece. While voiceover is borrowed from the original film, the sound design was done in-house, borrowing from analog sources and mixing them into a very sight-for-see composition.
A great little package which shows the studios creativity and skills at blending shapes, type and textures with live action in a beautiful mnemonic colour palette.
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Wow. Great viral for drinks company drench. Seriously good visual effects, grading and colour. Simple concept supremely well executed. Can’t stop watching it.
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The latest little motion piece by Bonsaj for Wired. Bonsaj is the same guy who did the epic Vanishing Point animation.
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Probably the most impressive animation I’ve seen yet. Long live BLU!
PS, BTG012 pics coming sooooon.
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Giant-Army from Benedi yann on Vimeo.
Lovely animation that I stumbled across today. I really like the illustration style.
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On tinternet travels I came across this stunning looking title sequence for a Brazilian architecture event.
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This is an amazing idea if they can pull it off! Getting people all round the world to contribute in a massive video piece! If it works it should really show the voice of the world!!
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Amazing bit of motion graphics, film and motion tracking that Ross sent over to me. Love it!
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I just came across these animations describing how satellites work. I think they are great. Kinda Quirky!!
Check them out on This is Real Art
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Short animation to promote our next night. Thanks to Lily Gooding for all her help on grading this. Much love to all. See you Saturday 15th May at The CAMP.
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Head down to Bar Kick on Shoreditch High Street next Tuesday night (from 7) and catch talks from London Motion peddlers Ubik & Man vs Machine for the See No Evil 1st Anniversary event. Adobe are also there previewing CS5.
(above) Some Ubik
(above) Some Man vs Machine
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Short film directed by French collective H5. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 it also opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won the 2010 Academy Award animated short category.
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