David O’Reilly just produced this new music video for U2’s new single “I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight”. Huge congratulations to him. What an awesome project to be a part of for one of the world’s biggest bands.
Credits:
Written & Directed by David OReilly
Designed by Jon Klassen
Links:
davidoreilly.com – burstofbeaden.com – u2.com
Graphic Artist, Siggi Eggertsson puts his hip little muted color pixelated blobs into motion and they still look cool as all get out. Crossover talent.
Motionographer and graphic designer Mark Kulakoff has updated his site with some really slick board and design work. I am always a sucker for space suits.
Brazilian motion designer Rafael Morinaga has some really nice work happening in his recently released motion reel.
These three darkly cynical viral films were created in collaboration by Ministry of Sound’s MSHK, illustrator Neal Murren (of Breed London) and brought to life by Mainframe to promote Tomas, the new book by Ministry of Sound co-founder James Palumbo.
Motionographer has a great Q&A about the work.
This is radical. It starts off slow but give it a chance because once it gets going you have to find something to hold onto. Awesome. Be sure to click the link at the end of the details below to check out more of Musclebeaver’s work. They rock.
Details:
This animation we did was planned and animated for the prologue of a documentary.
(That explains the absurd, unfinished seeming, ending.That is where the actual documentary starts…. )
The briefing was to show an evolution of computer games.
The documentary itself is about different people, based here in germany, showing their everyday life, and their addiction to the same specific, famous MMORPG (massive multiplayer online role playing game):”Wo..”
Every game character in this prologue was reinterpreted, redrawn (…one pixel at a time), and animated frame by frame.
Animation: musclebeaver.com
Sound by: nichtvonpappe-platten.de
Wow. Really struck by this one. Beautifully psychedelic from Makoto Yabuki.
Advanced Beauty is “an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects” that was developed by the bright minds of Universal Everything. The project isn’t new. It started last year but you can now watch all of the results at Universal Everything’s Vimeo account. There are 18 there I believe and some of them are really stunning. I have posted the first seven but be sure to click-through to watch more here.
Here’s a nice and eerily psychedelic bit of motion/3D experimentation.
Really interesting but quick little diddy from the mad minds behind Universal Everything. I am not entirely sure what this is for but the title says something about ’42 Below Vodka / China’. Radical nonetheless.
The effects in this video are very choice. I must admit to not being much of a fan for the song but the video merits a watch just for the VFX alone.
Credits:
Original music by The 4500:
myspace.com/4500myspace
Directed by Simon Kennedy
myspace.com/simon_kennedy
Starring Kristian Jenkins and Jenny Evans
jenniferevans.co.uk/
Live action Director of Photography, green screening Trevor Speed:
trevorspeed.co.uk/
Make-up Irene Ferraro
Editing. production, post-production, effects, animation by Simon Kennedy.
Assistance from Marianna Germanos and Stefan Schultz-Rittich.
Mtv Networks International tasked a talented group of animators and motionographers (Tronic, Universal Everything, Zeiguised and Zhestkov) to create a series of bumpers. The results are pretty stunning and a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
You can watch the videos above and read a little more about the project here.
Here is a very strange but fascinating little piece of art from the mind of Zhivko Dimitrov. I am not entirely sure what to make of it other than the fact that it is uniquely psychedelic and beautiful to watch.
Motion Designer, Raffi Simonian has launched a new web presence featuring some really beautiful and sleek motion/animation work. I really like his website as well. It is very simple and highly functional, utilizing animated gifs as thumbmails, which is really clever in terms of fast load time and quick preview playback. It’s a smart idea featuring some smart work.
Motherland emailed to let me know about their recent video for Black Tide’s single ‘Warriors of Time’. The entire video was produced digitally. The illustrations were produced on a Cintiq, compositing was done in After Effects and 3D was completed in Maya. You can read a little more about the project, as well as get the full credits here.
Motion/animation house, Capacity has updated with a new website and a really great new reel for 2009.
The might motion powerhouse Stardust has updated with a new website and reel for 2009. They remain one of the best in the business.
Ken Edge has launched a new website full of really great examples of motion graphics and animation. Apparently, he ‘really likes television’. Don’t we all?
