A 7 minute animated film by Isaac King that uses both stop motion and traditional animation.
“The term ‘second hand’ refers to the ticking hand on a clock; it also describes re-used items. Would you rather save time? Or save stuff? This film examines the imbalance and waste created by these modern obsessions.”
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Music by Jeremy Singer
Audio design/mix by Greg Sextro
This trailer for Resistance 3 references some of the art created for the cover by Olly Moss but it goes way beyond that. The minimal use of color and reference to printed effects make this a showstopping piece of animation completed by Spov Design + Moving Image.
This took 3 long years for Max Hattler to get this video online:
“Max Hattler proposes an unusual stop-motion animation, where objects of abstract shape and unknown function move in a space that bears no relationship to any kind of real experience. The various elements move within this three dimensional space, like parts of a dynamic painting that condenses a whole series of references to contemporary art: from the constructivism of Moholy-Nagy, to the historic abstracts of Mondrian and Klee, and on to the more recent experience of conceptual and kinetic art. Changing shapes, plays of colour and transforming surfaces compose a dynamic universe that is both alienating and fascinating at the same time.” Invideo 2010, Italy
‘An exciting experiment in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger (Komposition in Blau, 1935), Dwinell Grant (Composition No. 1, 1940) and Slavko Vorkapich (Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome, 1950s). Max Hattler presents a well-done interaction between music and moving images. Space is turned upside down and the animated objects become faceless dancers in a constructivist ballet.’ Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, jury statement by Anton Fuxjäger
“Max, AANAATT is one of your most beautiful animations. I often show it as an outstanding example to my students. Above all, the work is NOT just another demonstration of technique or technology, but rather a classic in the field of Visual Music, and a unique example of creative ingenuity and elegant design.” Robert Darroll, media artist, 2011″
Animator Daniel G Moreno thinks this is something you should know and actually it probably is something a real world traveling action hero stud kind of a guy should definitely know. So take notes.
Mexico based Motion Director: Marco Vinicio AKA Kultnation has been one of the best kept secrets of several top motion design studios and it’s easy to see why with his portfolio. He’s got the skills to pay his bills.
I’ll be honest and admit that I don’t entirely know what is being promoted through this piece by Respublika but I do know that I very much enjoyed the animation and the attention to detail with the typographical layouts. The simple descriptor for the piece reads ‘Books. Music. Perspective.’
I was totally consumed by Schwarzenegger as a child. I even competed in bodybuilding as a teen I wanted so much to be like him. So I was pretty jazzed by this animation piece paying homage to the now dethroned king of manliness by Brainbow.
As you may or may not know we have been cranking out a lot of Motion Design work lately at studio Changethethought (hence my lack of blog posts) and we were inspired by this little motion editorial piece for the BBC by Iamrader.
Daniel Oeffinger has a bright fun and illustrative body of motion design work as I am sure you can surmise from his reel.
Hitch is a team graduation project that was created for the program at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. The video is an animated book containing recipes for Alfred Hitchcock classics.
You can see all the people involved with the project here.
Defective Detective is a film by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis that debuted exclusively at the the Cartoon Brew’s 2nd Student Animation Festival. Wow. This is student work? Time to up the game seriously.
Visit the filmmakers’ websites at:
Avner Geller: AvnerGeller.blogspot.com
Stevie Lewis: Chocosweete.blogspot.com
This is the strange, whimsical but fun to watch official music video for Jeez Louise’s single ‘Secret Skwirl’ directed and animated by Maxime Bruneel.
Oh Hello is a Seattle based motion design and animation studio cranking out some solid work and they very recently updated their portfolio with lots of new goodies.
Here is a nice little bit of animation for a good cause. The video was created on behalf of Leo Burnett Iberia to support the cause of Dhondup. Illustrator Emiliano Ponzi worked with animators Oliver Durant, Bruna Guerreiro, Anne Calandre, Matthias Hoegg under the art direction of Bruna Guerreiro and the direction of Oliver Durant to bring this piece to life. You can learn more about supporting Dhonup’s cause here (just check the links).
Stefan Salcher, Martin Lorenz and Markus Wagner created this music video for their friend Matthias Hacksteiner’s new music album entitled ‘Turn’. Hacksteiner’s band name is ‘Amongst Giants’.
Artist Robert Proch creates kinetic loose free-form yet subjective imagery that he is somehow able to translate through the mediums of canvas, paper, walls and into animation.
German animation/motion studio Polynoid, have launched their short film entry entitled Loom as a part of the Resonance project.
They released through the short film through their website at www.polynoid.tv. The film was originally released in 2010 and has so far been the recipient of numerous film festival awards including ‘Best in Show’ at Siggraph 2010, an ‘Honorary Mention’ at ARS Eletronica 2010, and the 2010 VES Award for ‘Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project.’
It’s stunning piece of work.
