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Apparently this is a teaser for a full length animated feature. It looks pretty amazing and is being released by Blacklight Movies and is being produced by Guillaume Ivernel. Wow.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, film, motion design

This is PepperMelon’s contribution to this year’s F5 Festival which we are definitely not missing next year. So much amazing work came out of this festival. Seriously mind blowing stuff by some of the best talent in the biz.

CREDITS
Directed and Produced by PepperMelon
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Music/Sounds Design by David Kamp
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F5 RE:PLAY TITLES
Directed and Produced by Upper First
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written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, F5, Peppermelon

The OFFF On Tour Madrid 2011 titles have hit the net and they are long, strong and down to get some friction on. There was a large cast of people on this one and it shows through a long and highly developed animation. Credits: Direction & Creation: Cocoe Animation Direction: Rubén García Art Direction: Duprez 3D & Compositing: Antonia Salas Compositing: Microbians, Duprez, Miguel Márquez and Dolores Escamilla VFX: Microbians Additional Animation: Rubén Fernández and Sergiopop Additional 3D: Sergio de la Varga Music & Sound Design: Omar Tenani

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Madrid, motion design, OFFF

‘A Love Story in Milk’ was made by Catsnake on commission from Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth.

Written and produced by Stephen Follows (stephenfollows.com)
Directed and edited by Danann Breathnach (vimeo.com/​danannbreathnach)
Music composed by Michael Csanyi Wills

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Catsnake, Love Story, Short Film

Amazing cut paper sculptor Jen Stark has her work brought to life in this stop motion video with music by Dan Deacon.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Jen Stark, Paper Sculpture

“‘Plum Flower Deer’ began in 2009. Originally intended as a piece for F5, a design festival in New York, but was never competed and was not screened there. The film grew and became a rumination about love, hope, the natural world and rebirth.

Crush art director, Yoho Hang Yue, and his wife Queenie, also an art director, developed the story about a pair of Plum Flower Deer, (native to parts of China), who are separated by an act of man but are rejoined in spirit. The Plum Flower Deer is one of the most auspicious, divine animals in Chinese culture. The Plum Flower Tree itself has been the subject of innumerable paintings and poems, representing courage and elegance. The film drew on Chinese tradition, and art. The film’s closing poem, by 12th century Southern Song Dynasty Chinese poet Lu You, tells of the rebirth of spring and the courage of the plum flower through winter.

‘We wanted to bring this story to life using modern tools, but we wanted to keep the timelessness of the poem intact,’ says Yoho Yang Yue. ‘It is an ageless story that draws on the rich legacy of Chinese culture.’

The film took two years to complete and to create it Yoho used After Effects, Cinema 4D and shot elements to create this moving painting. Crush contacted Didier Tovel at Apollo Studios in Toronto to create a score and sound design that captured the mood of the visuals. The score takes its cues from traditional Chinese music without falling becoming a shallow pastiche, and still maintains a contemporary feel.”

Story, Design & Animation: Yoho Hang Yue
Production Company: Crush
Additional Story & Art Direction: Queenie Zhu
3D Modelling: Jacques Dell, Yoho Hang Yue
Sound & Music: Apollo Studios
Special Thanks: Gary Thomas, Crush

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Apollo Studios, Crush

Our friends at ‘Friends of Mine‘ who we have collaborated and worked with in the past have updated their website and rebranded themselves. We have always enjoyed working with them, and even though we are all running different studios here in Denver we maintain close relationships with our brothers in arms here and consider them good friends. So we were super excited to see they have been cranking out some great work lately and their new website looks wonderful. Congratulations guys and we look forward to working with you more in the future.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Adam Espinoza, Animation, Motion Graphics

Chris Harmon was remembering all the way back to what seemed like forever ago last year when a massive oil spill drenched the sea with an absolutely unforgivable amount of sludge. How quickly we forget. After uncovering a bit of data fueled by that memory (pun intended) Harmon decided to create this animation to help detail just how addicted to oil we really are.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, motion design, Oil, Politics

Will Sweeney directed this animated romp (Heavy Metal style) for Das Pop’s single ‘The Game’.

Director: Will Sweeney
Lead Animators: Daniel Britt, Joseph Pelling
Animators: Andy Baker, Tom Bunker, Nicos Livesey
Character Design, Background Illustration: Will Sweeney
Background Illustration: Susumu Mukai

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Big Active, Das Pop, Will Sweeney

Kate Spade asked Mike Perry to generate motion visual piece on the color green for the Live Colorfully project and the wonderful result can be viewed above.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Green, Kate Spade, Mike Perry

“I shot a photo roughly every two miles between take-off in San Francisco and landing in Paris CDG to make this airplane time lapse.”

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Paris, San Francisco, Stop Motion

Lifelongfriendshipsociety, whom I’ve worked with in the past and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, have updated both with a new website and reel to reflect their efforts in 2010 and 2011. From all appearances it seems they are still totally kicking ass, having a damn good time doing it and still being the quirky, fun and genuinely creative people that they are.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Lifelong, motion design, TLFS

Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don’t worry. It’s perfectly safe.

Written & Directed by Ruairi Robinson
Starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”.
Cinematography by Macgregor
Music by Ólafur Arnalds, courtesy of Erased Tapes
Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / Irish film Board

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Blinky, Max Records, Motion Graphics

At first I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this low-fi animation titled ‘Orpheus’ Pony’ by Michael Fragstein but then it sunk in just how much is actually going on in it and how truly psychedelic it really is, then I was hooked. Bizarre but good.

Direction: Michael Fragstein
Music : Lisa Tuyala, Marc Fragstein
Production : Büro Achter April

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Michael Fragstein, Motion Graphics, Psychedlia

‘Manifesto Fragments’ is a projects spearheaded by Tendril Design and Animation that was originally conceived in order to find and channel new inspiration as to what attracted Tendril to the motion and animation industry in the first place. The project is playing out as bits of a visual manifesto with each part being able to stand on it’s own while also working as a part of the manifesto whole. The first in the series is above and is entitled ‘Seed’.

Production Company: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Concept and Direction: Vini Nascimento
Title Design: Chris Bahry
Executive Producer: Kate Bate
Producer: Anne Deslauriers
Music & Sound Design: John Black of CypherAudio
3D Animation: Alexandre Torres, Vini Nascimento
Particles and FX Animation: Chris Bahry
Lighting & Render: Alexandre Torres
Compositing: Chris Bahry

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, CypgerAudio, Motion Graphics, Tendril

David O’Reilly has inspired a lot of creatives over a long period of time and he recently has his first world premiere of his short film ‘The External World’ at the 67th Venice Film Festival and had his U.S. premiere at Sundance 2011.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, David O Reilly, Direction, Motion Graphics, Short Film

Very nice video directed by Chris Alender and produced by Kris Eber for Soapbox Films ‘Eye of the Storm’ is from the upcoming Lovett album Highway Collection, available March 15, 2011.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Eye of the Storm, Lovett, Motion Graphics

French 3D illustrator, photographer and animator Andreas Shabelnikov has updated with some beautiful and often apocalyptic new imagery. It’s an unusual body of work and looks like a powerful niche to be currently occupying.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Andreas Shabelnikov, Animation, France