Agency KesselsKramer commissioned Johnny Kelly and artist Jethro Haynes to create the title sequence for Dutch TV programme Het Klokhuis (The Apple Core). They achieved the final sequence using 3D printing, essentially printing the sequential tranisitionary imagery and then shooting it. You can just imagine how labor intensive and time consuming the process must have been. Creative Review has more about the creation of the sequence along with several photos and credits.
This is one fine little piece of brain candy produced by Takuya Hosogane. You can see the full credits at the Vimeo page for the video and learn more about some of Hosogane’s other projects at Bonsajo.
“Light and dark, noise and calm, beauty, decay, pain and hope–these are the shattering contrasts that propel our lives ahead in the boundless, throbbing river of existence. None of us knows what the next moment will bring, the raptures and terrifying discoveries born with every choice. And yet, in the alternation of day and night, in the ebb and tide of the oceans, in the constant expansion and quiet contraction of our lungs in and out with each breath–we know our journey is not random chaos but a journey where every shouting supernova, every trembling cell, returns to the one perfect mystery from which we all come and go.Instead, in the rotation of the stars, planets, seasons, increase, loss, sadness, joy, struggle, surrender– there is a cosmic beauty, a unity and purpose.”
Credits: Ayhan Cebe
S. Asli Cebe
Ben Lukas Boysen (Hecq)
Hicabi Gulgen
Khaliff Watkins
Archana Mahalingam
Buenos Aires based motion agency PepperMelon has updated with a new reel and new work for twentyten. The best part of their recent site is that they delve deep into the process involved in crafting their animations including some really nice images detailing character development from sketches through completion. It’s a nice thing to browse through and gives some insight into just how much work goes into creating a minute or less of animation.
Dress Code is a New York based design and motion graphics studio that has recently relaunched it’s website. There are some super fun background images loading randomly on the site including the one above.
Robert Hodgin AKA Flight 404 has launched a new personal website exhibiting his experimental and now often commissioned work with Processing from the last few years. His work continues to amaze and grow into something that begs to be seen.
‘The Third and the Seventh‘ is a full-CG animated piece that aims to illustrate the art of architecture from a photographic point of view. After watching the beautiful short film above you can watch a compositing breakdown created by the film’s very talented director/producer/animator Alex Roman.
Credits:
CG:
|Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman
POST:
|Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman
MUSIC:
Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)
Sound Design by Alex Roman
Based on original scores by:
Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)
Directed by Alex Roman
Produced with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.
Vimeo, everyone’s (at least mine anyway) favorite video portal has released their top 25 videos of 2009. As you can imagine there are some real gems in the collection including the video above (which I had never seen until browsing the collection) for Cinnamon Chasers single ‘Luv Deluxe’. If you have a few minutes to spare there is inspiration overflowing within the collection. Consider me a Vimeo fan.
I am really digging this little experimental motion piece titled, ‘Metempsychosis’ from motionographer Alain Lores. I would love to see something like this utilizing typography. You can see more of Alain’s work here.
“For the first time in HD on Christmas 2009: … _grau is a personal reflection on memories coming up during a car accident, where past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources where distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds …
Media critic Matt Hanson, author of The End of Celluloid and founder of onedotzero festival says: “_grau appeals to me because it is organo-tech. it does not deliberately ape the abstract pioneers of abstract cinema, and it is worlds away from the motion graphic masturbation of many of those enamoured by digital animation. seidel’s work is impressionistic, melding biological and emotional currents. out of amorphous shapes we make out bones, heads, a hand. a spirit leaving the body. at least, this is what i sense out of the chaos of galactic reconfigurations, neurological connections, and biological forms. this is a powerful piece of digital animation precisely because it does not feel like such, it feels emotional, epic. and once you release the background to the animation–communicating a ‘coming to terms’ with the aftermath of a car accident–you realise why. ”
Moscow-based graphic and motion designer Serge Zavyalov has a lot of work on his website executed in various styles. His imagery often harbors the ready-to-burst kinetic energy that helps it translate directly into motion.
Berliner Timo Boese A.K.A. Lowerground, got in touch to let us know that he has been busy creating new motion graphics for the likes of Nike, Lamborghini and A-Ha.
