Saul Bass is known for his stylized title designs on such films as Vertigo, The Man with The Golden Arm, It's a Mad Mad World, Psycho and others.

This one was posted to the AE-List and I thought it was cute and interesting take on Saul Bass's style. This homage was done by Bhilmers, a student.



Here is an authentic Saul Bass title sequence for the film Anatomy of a Murder.



And here's one for the film Seconds.

Labels: Humor, Retro, Student Work, Titles

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 ;-)

Labels: 2D, Documentary, Film Short, Humor, Student Work

I thought you all would appreciate this. It's a short documentary on the difference between professional video standards for television and standardless anarchy known as the web. This was done for the Independent Film Channel and is pretty funny.

Labels: Documentary, Humor

This is a really well done video showing a UFO landing on a guy's desk (hence the title) and morphing into a cell phone ala Transformers. The tracking is spot on and the autofocus effect works really well with it.

Labels: 3D, Humor

It's original, funny and creative. JibJab is genius.

Labels: Bizarre, Character Animation, Film Short, Flash, Humor

Really bad rapping but this is just riveting. Check out those swell effects! I can't get past the bad rap.

Labels: Humor

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.

Labels: 2D, Bizarre, Experimental, Humor, Music Video

This one aired again on Saturday Night Live tonight. It's so funny and a lot of us use stock footage, so I figure it might be appropriate for this crowd. Enjoy.

Labels: Humor