100 Frames is ‘The home of stupid 4 second animated films’. A collaborative project between Animator and Director – Fraser Davidson, Actor and Writer – Dan Jones and Producer – Matthew Harvey.
Applying the moniker – ’100 frames’, there are only a few simple rules to what the content on our site can be. Firstly, each creation must be no more than 100 frames of animation. Secondly, it must be funny. Thirdly and most importantly, it must be artistic and beautiful.
I’ve posted two of my favourites from their current “The A-Z of London” project. See more on their website.
Short viral vid for LRG from BankShot with music by DJ Nick Castle featuring food plus Biggie Smalls, Guru, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Action Bronson, Method Man… Yeah.
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100 IDs is a self-promo project by Silvio Teixeira. The 500x700mm poster features many versions of the designers coat of arms IDs and can be cut down to form 100 business cards (and flip book/video). Check out more of Silvio’s excellent work on his website. Via The Strange Attractor.
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Another little animated video from Anthony Burrill and Paul Plowman, with music by Malcolm Goldie.
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Hello Mr. Stella is an animated film by London-based designer Anthony Burrill and Paul Plowan in response to ‘Takht-i-Sulayman Variation I‘ by Frank Stella. Music by Acid Washed.
Cute little French video by Thibault de Fournas on the history, form and usage of everyone’s favourite typeface, Futura.
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I do like a good gif, especially if it’s done as well as these examples from dvdp, simply memorising. I would post more of them but it’ll probably kill the blog. You can see the rest of the set on the dvdp tumblr.
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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!
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.
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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.
Wow. Great viral for drinks company drench. Seriously good visual effects, grading and colour. Simple concept supremely well executed. Can’t stop watching it.
The latest little motion piece by Bonsaj for Wired. Bonsaj is the same guy who did the epic Vanishing Point animation.
