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arrowNim's Island Title Sequence
arrowSita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley
arrowBest of BBTV animations
arrowBucktown USA Rubik's Cube Animation
arrowBBC 4 Medieval Trailer
arrowThe Knife: "We Share Our Mother's Health" by Motomichi
arrowMyToolfarm Red Giant NAB Contest Entries
arrowPsyop/Adidas Zheng Zhi
arrowThe New Pornographers "Myriad Harbour"
arrowThe Blue Seeds- Lost and Delirious
arrowGnaritas Monstrum by Seth Kendall
arrowA History of Evil by Ole-Magnus Saxegard
arrowMusic Video "Blackbird" by giraffentoast
arrowMirrormask- a VFX treat
arrowGenki Rockets - Heavenly Star
arrowVitamin Water - There's Something in the Water
arrowTop 10 Most Bizarre Videos
arrowAnimation Procreation Contest Video
arrowThe Work of Cyriak
arrowThe Pangs - Fighterplane
arrow500 Years of Female Faces - Morphing
arrowYet another edit of the retro-futuristic motion logos
arrowBjork - Inocence
arrowLuscious Life - Patrick Watson
arrowOvation TV - Shine Studios
arrowWhat Barry Says
arrowCountry Trouble by Axel and Ellen
arrowLife and Music by Trey Parker
arrowStephanie Dosen - Only Getting Better
arrowGreat Northern - Home
arrowThe Hours - Ali in the Jungle
arrowCrowded House - Don't Stop Now (and short CH video retrospect)
arrowStash, the Monthly DVD
arrowPigloo Pengin
arrowLondon 2012 Olympic Brand Animation
arrowLos Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
arrowMen in Black by Zinzius
arrowApostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere
arrowSin Destroyers - Gifts to the World
arrowIrving - Situation
arrowLyapis Trubetskoy - Capital
arrowTrusted Computing - Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel.
arrowThe Wonder Pets! - A Conversation with Jim Geduldick, Sr. Editor
arrowEl País - Route through the history
arrowLast Best Hope by Erik Lauritzen
arrowTyger by Guilherme Marcondes
arrowCommon - "Go"
arrowMK12: Stranger Than Fiction Opening Sequence
arrowThe Awesome X-Ray Plate Video
arrowCrayola Creativity Central
arrowContribute to Toolfarm Inspirations
arrowDid you create this amazing video?
arrowThe Animation Show presented by Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt
arrowUnsettling Title Design for The Number 23
arrowStunt Junkies Open - Big Machine Design
arrowAsobi Seksu "Goodbye"
arrowHP 'Paulo Coelho' from Motion Theory
arrowGates vs. Jobs
arrowThe Master Plan
arrowMort - Student Animation
arrowSlide Sundays by Kuro
arrowHadouken! - That Boy That Girl Promo Video
arrowThe Bear Who Loved Vodka
arrowHunterGatherer - AMP
arrow"Year of the Fish"
arrowCommon - "A Dream"
arrowAOL - Omnibus
arrowThree Legged Legs - General Electric Samurai
arrowDon't Die Ding! "Carol of the Bells"
arrow2005 Midwest AICP Awards
arrowAndrea Giacobbe's Arte "Tracks"
arrowFreestyle Collective:Jet Blue
arrowA Conversation with Postworks
arrowDJ Yoda - Wheels
arrowUgly Pictures and Man vs. Magnet
arrowFox Classics Sunday Night at the Movies
arrowJerome Olivier's Demo Reel 2006
arrowThree Legged Legs: Humans
arrowPeter, Bjorn & John - 'Young Folks' Music Video
arrowSeed of Change
arrowSpeaking Pictures 'Missing Pages'
arrowThree Legged Legs - "Los Angeles Let's Be Friends"
arrowDream Video
arrowRoyksopp - Eple
arrowBlur - Good Song
arrowAirplane Safety Card
arrow'Blood Sutra' an animated look into myths surrounding blood donation

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Inspirations

Nim's Island Title Sequence

5/06/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Imaginary forces creates a whimsical paper cutout style open sequence for Nim's Island.

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Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley

4/29/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Check out Sita Sings the Blues, a feature length animated film completely done by a single animator in her home. I was reading about this at Wired.com, who describe the film as " two parallel stories: the ancient Hindu epic the Ramayana and the breakup of Paley's 21st-century marriage. It does so through four distinct styles of animation, a 'greek chorus' of Indonesian shadow puppets and wildly imaginative musical interludes that use authentic 1920s blues recordings to link narratives 3,000 years apart." Intrigued?

It was mostly animated in Flash but some was scanned and animated in After Effects. Read the Interview with Nina Paley at Wired.com.

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Best of BBTV animations

4/28/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Watch and enjoy:

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Bucktown USA Rubik's Cube Animation

4/25/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
By Dan Parker Moore. I don't know much about the video, but it's really cool.

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BBC 4 Medieval Trailer

4/09/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Directed by James Price/ Strange Beast for BBC 4's upcoming series on Medieval Britain. Layers, layers, so many layers! The music, by the way, is Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" using all medieval instruments.



Thanx to Dru for passing this one along!

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The Knife: "We Share Our Mother's Health" by Motomichi

4/07/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Motomichi's recent work for the Swedish band "The Knife". Motomichi has a signature style- clean, Flash-based animations in black, white and red (note- often graphic in nature/may be disturbing to some viewers).

Motomichi's work also includes live video/animation mixing along with print, installation and design work. Check out his portfolio at: motomichi.com.

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MyToolfarm Red Giant NAB Contest Entries

3/28/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
The Red Giant/MyToolfarm NAB Contest submission was officially over earlier this week and we had several terrific entries. Because of a problem we had with our uploader, the entries were also collected via another method, so this is not every entry unfortunately. This will give you a good cross-section of what was entered and if the winning entry is not in this bunch, we will put it online. There were about 24 entries in total. There are some super talented designers and motion graphics artists out there. I was blown away by some of the entries.

For a video to qualify, they must use Trapcode Form or Magic Bullet Looks. The first place winner will receive a trip to NAB and present their project at the Red Giant Booth. The first and second runners up will receive software.

The official winners will be announced next week. The list below is in the order they were submitted from newest to oldest and is no indication of the winners.

I should also note that the star ratings are not accurate if you view at MyToolfarm, so please ignore them. I think they work fine, but I wonder if someone has come through and given them all low marks just to be funny. All of these videos deserve higher ratings than they've received. I'm going to look into this.

Symantec NetBackup Product Launch




Veritas Backup Exec 10 Event Opener




Tori Amos Greenscreen Contest Submission 2007




Freedom Fall (Clip)




Ryan Wheat Motion Graphics Demo




Penny and Ashtray




The Field Scene




Mumbai Central




Besuch der Holztiere



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Psyop/Adidas Zheng Zhi

3/21/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
This is the second spot in TBWA China's campaign for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by Psyop. Gorgeous work- I like the pencil drawing/hand drawn look.

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The New Pornographers "Myriad Harbour"

3/20/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Check out "Myriad Harbour" by Directors Johanne St-Marie and Mark Lomond of Fluorescent Hill. Here's an excerpt from an interview at FEED's site:

"Because we had so little time in that shoot, we couldn’t afford the time to have them act out anything. So I shot Jo as the body double for Neko and Kathryn in the band, and shot my friend Richard as the body double for all six guys.

Then I redrew all the bodies in different sizes and clothes, and attached all of the heads I drew. The mouths are stop motion photographs of my mouth and Jo’s, then drawn and in-betweened and composited into the mix. We went completely paperless for the whole process, and drew everything in Photoshop.

I kept the colour to a minimum and played with three or four combination. I had gone further with the colour combos, but it made the faces unreadable in the really short scenes."


You can view more of Fluorescent Hill's portfolio at: www.fluorescenthill.com

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The Blue Seeds- Lost and Delirious

3/06/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
This dreamlike music video features a nice mix of traditional animation and VFX; directed by Stephane Fournier.

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Gnaritas Monstrum by Seth Kendall

2/29/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
Seth Kendall - Gnaritas Monstrum Seth Kendall's Gnaritas Monstrum is an award winning video... awarded in several film festivals around the U.S. It's pretty darn impressive stuff.

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A History of Evil by Ole-Magnus Saxegard

2/28/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
This is "Animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day." It was animated frame by frame in Flash and composited and textured in After Effects. It was designed and animated by Ole-Magnus Saxegard as a student project. It is lots of fun. I really thought it would end with Dick Cheney ;-)

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Music Video "Blackbird" by giraffentoast

2/26/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
This mesmerizing video was created by giraffentoast for Michael Fakesch. They took a simple costumed character and built a mountain of effects and distortions around them- it's a really unique look.

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Mirrormask- a VFX treat

1/21/2008 Permalink 0 Comments
MirrorMask

Designed and directed by Dave McKean, Mirrormask is stunning and chock-full of visual effects. Dave McKean is one of my favorite artists, and I was excited to see the film retained much of the look and feel of his work.

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Genki Rockets - Heavenly Star

12/26/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
The name Genki Rockets serves them well; this has to be the happiest song of 2007. This is a drawn style (could they have used Digital Anarchy's ToonIt?). There are lots of particle effects, which are always great, and lots or rainbows. I want to visit this world.

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Vitamin Water - There's Something in the Water

12/01/2007 Permalink 1 Comments
Another goodie via Jim G. Old school hand-drawn animation combined with the hands drawing them. They interact, it's neato, you buy Vitamin Water. The circle is complete.

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Top 10 Most Bizarre Videos

11/29/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
Here's an interesting site, with some of the more freakish films that messed me up in my college art history and film courses- all in one convenient location!

The List Universe- Top 10 Most Bizarre Videos

Some of the "classics" from the likes of David Lynch and Jorodowsky are here!

One case in point:



Thanks to Kevin Lang for the link.

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Animation Procreation Contest Video

11/28/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
This ad for an animation contest is awesome. The song is catchy and the animation is fun and clever. They give some good advice too.... don't skimp on audio. This really makes me want to enter! The deadline is January 8, 2008.

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The Work of Cyriak

11/07/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
Cyriak sounds like the name of a magician to me, and he is.... a magician with Photoshop and After Effects! Cyriak is a freelance animator in Brighton, UK. His website bio is very funny:" Hello, I am Cyriak from 100 years into the future, where I have been exhumed and sent backwards in time via cyberspace in order to welcome you to the unabridged contents of my brain-damaged imagination." He's unbelivably creative. Jim G. passed his stuff on to me. Jim is in the know.

Check out two of his amazing animations.

Moo!

The cow DNA is mindblowing! A screen shot just doesn't do it justice.




Beggin' - Frankie Valli video re-mix


This is just cleverl The mutant head in the vortex.... wow. This is just disturbing and oh, so fun to watch.




I never thought Frankie Valli sounded like the guy from Maroon 5 until now.

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The Pangs - Fighterplane

10/27/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
FighterplaneFighterplane is a beautiful, complex video with lots of layers and nice lighting effects. I love how they composited the video and flat art layers. Nice camera moves too. The video was directed by zeroh. The song is great, too. All around, it's awesome.

Via Antville

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500 Years of Female Faces - Morphing

9/16/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
Beautiful.

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Yet another edit of the retro-futuristic motion logos

8/29/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
Chris Zwar posted this gem to the AE-List today. It was on the front page of Digg, so you may have seen it. Oh, the interwebs... such a place of sharing.



And Ken Broomfield posted this link to the NBC logo from 1971, which I think is rather beautiful.

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Bjork - Inocence

8/08/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
This video was one of 10 finalists in a contest to make the Innocence video. This one is by Dimitri Stankowicz. I don't really know any thing about the video or artist, but it looks amazing.

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Luscious Life - Patrick Watson

8/01/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
A gorgeous video with lots of texture, paper cutouts and grunged up film effects and a bit of 3D. It was directed by Gabriel Coutu-Dumont, a multi-diciplinary artist from Montreal.

Patrick Watson's voice and style reminds me a bit of Jeff Buckley.

Luscious Life

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Ovation TV - Shine Studios

7/31/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
ovationMy former student, designer/animator Dru Nget, has hit the big time. Shine Studio, where he's working, has recently finished the network branding package for Ovation TV. Dru did a lot of work on this project and it's great! Watch the Ovation TV video.

Here is a press release about the project if you're interested.

Anyway, I'm very proud of Dru and wish him the best with his career. Awwww.

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What Barry Says

7/31/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
This is one that was posted back in 2004, but it's really good. They seem to move this link daily, so let's hope this BBC link is solid!

Note: New Link: What Barry Says, "an unapologetic criticism of US Foreign Policy and the Project for the New American Century."

Swarm Films' Jim Birchenough says that he was recreating the look of a propaganda poster. Very well done, even if you don't agree with the message.

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Country Trouble by Axel and Ellen

7/30/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
country troubleAxel Rossler and his girlfriend, Ellen, are really into country music and they're both from Frankfurt, Germany... not exactly the hotbed of country music that one might think of... maybe Frankfort, Kentucky! When I think of music in Germany (okay, I know I'm totally dating myself here), I think of the Scorpions' power ballad Wind of Change or Madchen by Lucilectric, which was sooo popular when I was in Dusseldorf in 1992. Or, worse, David Hasselhoff! Ahhh, what do I know about music in Germany... not much at all, obviously. I'm so sad.

Okay, back to the reason for this post. Country Trouble is an incredible stop motion piece, created with hundreds of photos and 3D layers in After Effects. They took lots of photos at Axel's house. Axel said, "There must have been 400 layers or so, haha.. but I like the fact that After Effects still works great, even with tons of layers."

After finishing the house, they took photos of themselves in front of a green screen. Axel adds "organizing the horse was a little bit complicated over here". They took the green screen photos into AE, keyed them and made them 3D layers. They used the AE camera with some wiggle added to it and finished with some color correction.

So, yeah, it's all stills! I really thought the dance scene was video and they used a posterize time effect to give it the look. That dance sequence, what can I say? Wow! It's wunderbar.

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Life and Music by Trey Parker

7/26/2007 Permalink 1 Comments
Jim G. IMd this link to me. It's definitely created in the South Park style, but instead of the crude humor we're so used to seeing, this is a Buddhist take on life, with the teachings of Alan Watts.

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Stephanie Dosen - Only Getting Better

7/20/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
Stephanie Dosen as a ghost. There are some 2D animations tract in, but it's the aparitions that I'm enjoying the most. The video was directed by Soy Un Caballo, which if my high school Spanish classes taught me anything, it taught me that Soy Un Caballo means I'm a horse. Someone has some self-esteem issues... or they really are a horse.... a very talented horse who can composite ghosts and hand drawn birds.

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Great Northern - Home

7/20/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
This is a really beautiful music video! It captures the imagination and has adept use of 2D/3D and compositing. I love the dreamlike quality and layering. The zoom in and out is very cool... I like it better than the effect used in the recent Norah Jones video. Directed by Josh Forbes. Animation Directed by Matt Smithson.

I really liike the song as well. I've never heard of this band, but ya know, I'm digging it. I just Hype Machine'd them and found lots of tracks to listen to.


Via if:mv

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The Hours - Ali in the Jungle

6/19/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
the hoursThe Hours Music Video by director Jonas Odell of Nexus Productions is beautifully detailed. It really has a Mexican Day of the Dead feel for me with the skulls and flowers and color scheme. The video is really captivating. Odell has previously directed videos for U2, Goldfrapp, some lady named Madonna and commercials for Pier 1 and BMW, so you've probably seen his work many times. That dude is seriously talented.

Via Motionographer

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Crowded House - Don't Stop Now (and short CH video retrospect)

6/19/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
The A great piece of animation featuring the new single from Crowded House. Lots of 3D layers and green screen work. There are tons and tons of layers and interesting camera angles. The sea monster's innards have that cut out paper look (as featured in the interview with Stephen Watkins.

This is the first single, featuring Johnny Marr on guitar, from their new album Time on Earth, coming out June 25. I am one of Crowded House's biggest fans. I have tickets to see them in Milwaukee in August. Their last studio album was 14 years ago!



Crowded House has a penchant for not only making timeless, beautiful music, but having creative music videos. One of my favorite songs from CH is Four Seasons in One Day from their 1993 album Together Alone. The video is strange and beautiful.



Better Be Home Soon from the 1988 Temple of Low Men album is another great CH video.



Man, is Neil Finn a talented man... easily equal to Paul McCartney in songwriting skills and musicianship.

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Stash, the Monthly DVD

6/18/2007 Permalink 0 Comments
stash mediaStash Media Stash 33 trailer came out earlier this month. Man, this is some seriously cool work. I'm too lazy to re-write the description:

Fun, in all its shades and guises, is the operative word for Stash 33.

For instance: we open the main program with complete bunny-mad chaos from Pleix and MacGuff for Groove Armada, and then trample on through Psyop’s hip-rebel-comedy for Fanta, HSI’s deadpan take on Reyka Vodka, manic pirate/bovine/bicyclist stop motion for Cravendale from Nexus, crazed MTV Asia work from JL Design in Taiwan, Wilfrid Brimo going berserk for V Energy drink, Han Huggebrooge’s unhinged vignettes for Dutch TV, Make’s extremely flammable chipmunks, very curious characters from Curious Pictures for Crunch and we cap it all with a surreal and utterly original bit of action-lunacy about courage, show business and inter-media love created at Supinfocom by Corentin Laplatte, Samuel Deroubaix and Jerome Dernoncourt,,, you get the idea – check below for the full list of contributors.

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