Robert Hodgin AKA Flight 404 was tasked by Wired to create an opening animation for the iPad version of their magazine. The issue number was 18:08 and the number served as the crux of the piece. You can see the final version here but I am actually more a fan of the earlier version which can be seen above. You can’t go wrong with Hodgin’s amazing work. The music was provided by Tim Stutt. You can read more about the process involved in the creation of the animations at Hodgin’s website.
I find it rather ironic that if you really want to see and appreciate the quality and color of these animations, you have to watch them on Vimeo, which in my opinion from a quality standpoint is heads above YouTube but Vimeo isn’t supported by iPad or iPhone.
Eloy Krioka and Blas Lamagni are from Sudamérica, Argentina and have recently updated their studio site and portfolio at Place. It’s bright, slick, colorful and fun work.
Shhive is the experimental portfolio of Los Angeles based motion designer/concept artist Kenneth Robin. He is currently freelancing for Logan and is cranking out some beautiful work.
“35mm« is a shortfilm about cinema itself. We picked 35 of our favorite movies and tried to simplifly them as far as possible. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film.”
This is way awesome for a little fun group project. Art for art’s sake is where it’s at.
Concept / Layout: Sarah Biermann, Torsten Strer, Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Animation: Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco
Sound: Torsten Strer
Sound designer David Kamp has been very busy lately working on some extremely exciting projects with some of the hottest creative talent from across the globe. He just updated his website along with a new reel of his work that you can see above.
Barcelona based motion and interactive studio Dvein has updated with some excellent idents for SyFy along with a host of other new and exceptional projects.
Oh snap, just when you thought Triangle’s were gone, Onur Senturk brings them back in this short film called ‘TRI▲NGLE’ for the book ‘Black Material’ which showcases Robert Knoke’s artwork. Curator Jens Karlson asked Senturk to create a short animation using Robert Knoke’s black and white artwork as the base for animation. Whether you like the recent influence of simple geometry on design, this video is pretty slick.
Ori Toor created this video as his final project for his study in illustration at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design. It is a ‘stream of consciousness animation’ for the song ‘Lion in a Coma’ by Animal collective and was created as a frame by frame animation in Flash.
Konx-om-Pax gets totally trippy with this installation for an Optimo curated event at the Tramway with Nurse with Wound. Konx-om-Pax also created the sound as well as the video. Beautifully strange.
This is Tom Bunker’s graduation film for his studies at Kingston University.
Here is the artist’s description of the project:
“A man finds a Rubiks Cube in a bush and has to battle a giant head and faces a number of tasks to try and win possession of the cube!”
“Coalition of the Willing’ is a collaborative animated film and web-based event about an online war against global warming in a ‘post Copenhagen’ world.
‘Coalition of the Willing’ has been Directed and produced by Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner and crafted by a network of 24 artists from around the world using varied and eclectic film making techniques. Collaborators include some of the world’s top moving image talent, such as Decoy, World Leaders and Parasol Island.
The film offers a response to the major problem of our time: how to galvanize and enlist the global publics in the fight against global warming. This optimistic and principled film explores how we could use new Internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social revolution, ‘Coalition of the Willing’ makes a compelling case for the new online activism and explains how to hand the fight against global warming to the people.”
The Mill produced the titles this year for the OFFF Festival in Paris. Gorgeous work and I would give my right art to attend one of the shows in the future. I am hoping to soon.
Full credits:
The Mill NY:
Jeff Stevens – Design Director
Kim Dulaney – Designer
Rob Petrie – CG Lead
Boo Wong – Senior Producer
Moss Levenson – Editor
Fall on Your Sword – Music
Henryboy – Sound Design
Weston Fonger – Sound Mix
3D
Tom Bardwell, Ian Brauner, Jeffrey Dates, Tony Jung, Christopher Kujawa, Michael Panov, Joshua Merck, Ruben Vanderbroek, James Williams and Stanislav Ilin
2D
Emmett Dzieza, Marco Giampolo, Melissa Graff, Bashir Hamid, Lu Lin, Gigi Ng, Doug Purver, Jeff Robins, Gap Yossanun, Tim Haldeen and Brian Sensebe
Vít Zemčík put the work of Josef Muller Brockmann in motion for an educational project made during the International Typography Workshop in Czieszyn. The task of the project was to put a print design masterpiece into motion.
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Nir Ben Jacob created this amazing video for the Great Lake Swimmers single River’s Edge. Anyone still old enough to remember when you could watch all of the good music videos on MTV? Those days are long long gone. The internet is where it’s at for music videos and damn do they look good on Vimeo.
