Click 3X launches a new website complete with a fancy-pants video player (minus a timeline scrubber [sorry, my only beef]). The site isn’t really the hero though, the work is. They have some amazing examples of animation, CGI effects and motion graphics in their ever-growing portfolio. Browsing through their projects is just good fun.
Tyson Ibele has released his reel for 2009 and it is packed with jaw-dropping 3D CGI animation and effects. Every moving image is just gorgeous and artfully crafted down to the very finest detail. Beautiful and imaginative work.
I deliberately waited a while to post this until it wasn’t still on all the other design blogs. The guys at You Work For Them were nice enough to send me a copy of their recent short film release entitled, ‘The Interpretation‘.
I watched the video a week or so ago while sitting in my Eames lounge inside my little reading nook with all the lights off. It was raining hard outside complete with lightening and thunder. I don’t think I could have imagined a better scenario within which to watch The Interpretation. The film is really an exercise in the interplay between sound, color, hints of nature and minimal animation. Some of it drags on a little long, but overall it is interesting to watch and would be a great thing to play in the background of a party.
There is more than one video on the actual disk and the one I was most drawn to was actually an older film where someone is walking almost as though you are seeing through someone’s eyes inside of a dream. That video left the strongest image in my psyche. If you pick it up, be sure to browse the extra videos.
I have been a big fan of Design Grafik/You Work For Them/We Work For Them for a long long time now and they are always worth keeping an eye on.
NASA (North America South America) Project’s latest video “A Volta,” was produced by Santa Monica-based motion/animation/direction house Logan. The video was inspired by the artwork of The Date Farmers and takes place in an ultraviolent upside down world of insanity populated by criminals, prostitutes and drug lords.
Hey wait, that kind of sounds like this world.
NSFW (if people at your work get upset by the ‘F’ word and lego people doing drugs and getting it on).
The video for The Emperor’s Machine – Kananana is a music video come Science Fiction short. Written and directed by Cassiano Prado.
Teenocide opened my mind to an entirely new world of possibilities with animated gifs. I had no idea you could do so much with them. Really amazing and totally trippy. I don’t even know what to file this one under.
Mara Smalley has some beautiful motion board work in her portfolio.
Danish motion studio, Form Troopers come storming out of the gate with a really impressive body of work and equally impressively smooth website.
“Stop motion animation made out of paper, for the public transport system in Montreal. Direction and concept by Karim Zariffa : karimzariffa.com. The ad was created in collaboration with Sid Lee agency, assistant of Karim was Pascal Brousseau, and photography by Simon Duhamel.”
I was emailed this last week and just now got around to posting. Great little piece of animation.
Will Sweeney and Steve Scott co-directed the latest video ‘The Parachute Ending’ for French electro-band, Birdy Nam Nam. The video was created entirely in Flash and After Effects and produced within a month.
The video is reminiscent of La Planète Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) and other vintage sci-fi references (which is oh-so-hot right now [see Prefuse 73’s recent album art].
Via Motionographer.
When considering this entire short film was created by way of stop motion animation created with stills shot from a camera hung from the ceiling pointing straight at the floor, you just have to kind of look at it in awe and be inspired.
Animated by Clem Stamation
Commissioned using radarmusicvideos.com
Links, links and one more link:
waxstag.com
peopleinthesky.com
clemstamation.com
Kristof Luyckx Reel 2009 from Kristof Luyckx on Vimeo.
Kristof Luyckx’s reel made me laugh, and it’s full of good motion work.
Digital Kitchen have revamped their online presence. We have worked with them before at Cactus and the are one of the best out there.
I really dug both this video and the song.
music by: Secta Chameleon
video by: Emil Goodman
Amsterdam-based motion graphics studio Addikt have updated their reel and portfolio for 2009 with some great projects.
Stardust sent me news of this recent campaign for J-Power in Japan. I was really amazed by the animation. Beautiful work.
Wow, there is a lot of credits on this one:
PROJECT NAME: J-POWER “nature”
RUNNING TIME: :30
DATE OF FIRST AIRING: April 15, 2009 (Japan only)
FILM STAGE/LOCATION(S): Japan
CLIENT: Electric Power Development Co., Ltd (“J-POWER”)
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
AD AGENCY: McCann Erickson Japan, Inc.
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
CREATIVE DIRECTOR/COPYWRITER: Isamu Nakamura
ART DIRECTORS: Takehiko Araki, Kenichi Horie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: kirameki, inc. & Stardust Studios
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan & Bicoastal, USA
DIRECTOR: Jake Banks
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Naoki Noda
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Sachiko Tamaru (kirameki)
PRODUCER: Yoshiki Ishii (kirameki)
DESIGN/ANIMATION COMPANY: Stardust Studios
CITY/STATE: Bicoastal, USA
CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Jake Banks
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Paul Abatemarco
DESIGN DIRECTOR: Neil Tsai
PRODUCERS: Jody MacKinnon, Clara Park, Steven Poulsen
DESIGNERS: Neil Tsai, Gretchen Nash, Tosh Kodama, Bill Bak, Ling Feng, Angela Ko, Jenny Ko, Juliet Park
ANIMATORS: Sang Lee, Angie Tien, Brian Broussard, George Longo, Damon Snyder, Ryan Hooks, Marisol Baltierra, Catherine Yoo, Giancarlo Rondani, Maithy Tran, Thomas Horne
2D ARTISTS: Brian Williams, Davina Sanchex, Stephen Edwards, Kristen Swanson
MUSIC ARTIST: Hifana
MUSIC PRODUCER: Masayo Okino
ADDITIONAL POST-PRODUCTION: Sony PCL
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
ONLINE EDITOR: Masashi Hosoda
MIXER: Tsutomu Higa
FINAL MIX COMPANY: Omnibus
CITY/STATE: Tokyo, Japan
MIXER: Norisato Nakauchi
