Changethethought

LA based motion design studio Royale updates with a new website for the New Year featuring a bevy of new work.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Los Angeles, motion design, Royale

Motion designer Sander van Dijk shares his work from school, freelance projects and personal projects.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, motion design, Reel, Sander van Dijk

Tolga Ari directed this wonderful little animation.

“Hezarfen is a historical Turkish character. The story takes place in 1632 in Istanbul, where he will attempt the first flight of the human being.”

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Hezarfen, Turkey

Here are some folks starting the year with some new projects, new challenges and some new goals and they want you to spread the word.

Created by:
Climent Canal (Idea & design)
climentcanal.com

Sebastián Baptista (Animation)
sebastianbap.com

Audio by:
Aimar Molero
aimar-molero.com

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Climent Canal, motion design

Motion and film studio Motherland has been keeping busy lately and has recently posted a fresh new spot for DC Comics new game DC Universe Online.

Credits
Director: Lance Sells
Animators: Yoshi Sodeoka, Matt Andrews, Cassidy Gearhart
Video Treatment and Coloring: Lance Sells, Paul Daniel
Production Artist: Shamus Beyale
Designers: Matt Andrews, Michael Cina
Illustrators: Robert Atkins, Ryan Benjamin, Shamus Beyale, Matt Broome, Jim Lee, Mark McKenna, Mike Norton, David Ross, Brian Shearer, Craig Yeung
Colorists: Stephen Downer, Michael Komai, Pete Pantazis, Chris Sotomayor, Matthew Wilson
Sound Design and SFX: Michael Madill, Madsound
Client: Sony Online Entertainment

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, DC Comics, Motherland, motion design

Matt & Julie aren’t just creative partners, they are also husband and wife and they run a creative studio called Tiger In A Jar. They recently completed a stop-motion animation music video set to Sufjan Steven’s song “All For Myself”. It’s a fun little romp about a dinosaur set to an excellent track. Time to pick up the new Sufjan album.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Sufjan Stevens, Tiger in a Jar

The Move is a short story inspired by moving in Amsterdam and is illustrated through stop-motion animated paper. The Move was directed and art directed by Mandy Smith

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Stop Motion, The Move

Michiel ten Horn & Maarten J. Berkers directed and concepted this trippy animated romp for the Seymour Bits single ‘Put it back down’. A large cast of folks were involved in the production of this little diddy and you can peruse all of their names and credits here.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Music Video, Seymour Bits

“Buck is an ordinary guy. Well, if you accept the “deer head” thing.
Today, Buck is going to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend who’s so happy to see him (she’s pretty much happy always). But when Buck finds out that her father is not the tolerant and sympathetic guy he expected, the Sunday afternoon turns really bad. Really bad. Like baaaaaaad bad.”

Directed and Produced By :
Denis Bouyer: rigamix@gmail.com
Yann De Preval: yann_de_preval@hotmail.com
Vincent E Sousa: vinz.esousa@gmail.com
Laurent Monneron: laurent.monneron@gmail.com
Sound Design: Julien Begault:  julien.begault@gmail.com
Music : Yannis Dumoutiers and Mickaël Védrine
yannisdumoutiers.com

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Buck, Denis Bouyer, Motion Graphics

Jeff Hamada at Booooooom really wanted to share this short film stop motion video created by Kirsten Lepore. It really is a beautiful little bit of film and it’s so well done that you stop considering the technical difficulty of creating the animation mid-way through because it’s such an emotive piece of work. It’s a simple idea and story but how it’s accomplished really elevates it to the level of art. Beautiful.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Bottle, film, Kirsten Lepore, Stop Motion

Theodore & Rosemary’s Orchard is a short animated film directed by Kadavre Exquis with music by Nancy Adams about an orchard thieving fruit addict named Theodore.
Official website (including making of)
cargocollective.com/​Kadavrexquis/​

Listen to Kadavre Exquis
myspace.com/​worldbelongstous

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Art, Kadavre Exquis, Short Film

One of my favorite motion and animation studios of all time, Buck has managed to keep banging out some extraordinary work for commercial clients and this latest spot is no exception.

Credits:
Director: Buck
Creative Director: Orion Tait
Executive Producer: Anne Skopas
Producer: Kitty Dillard
Design: Gareth O’Brien / Yker Moreno
Lead Animation: Gareth O’Brien
Additional Animation: Chad Colby / Harry Teitelman / Yker Moreno / Claudio Salas /Jacques Khouri
Sound Design & Music: Antfood
VO Talent: Tirtzah Wilson
Agency: Strawberry Frog

written by Christopher | tags: Advertising, Animation, Buck, Smart Car

Beautiful TV is a motion design agency based in London with a love for good humor and a genuine passion for their profession.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Beautiful TV, Motion Graphics

I Love Dust created this psychedelic freakout for MTV’s World Design Studio as a part of their first creative collaboration with 55DSL. I have no idea how you get something like this past the client but sign us up. I am a big huge slobbery fan of I Love Dust and it’s exciting to see where they have gone lately with animation and motion.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, I Love Dust, Motion Graphics, MTV

Field produced the stunning official music video for Stateless’ new single ‘Ariel’. The piece uses a digital dance animated in Houdini that explores the eternal struggle of good and evil. My first question after watching the piece was how they incorporated live action and you can find out by watching the making of the here.

Dance Improvisation by Dominic North.
Commissioned by Oscar & Ewan.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Ariel, Music Video, Stateless

Illustrator and motion designer Jon Noorlander was a 2010 PromaxBDA Design World BRONZE winner for the above ident for BT Vision and was also featured in Stash 64. Noorlander has some fantastic work on his reel.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Jon Noorlander, Motion Graphics, Sweden

‘Skyence’ is an experimental animation and collaboration between Skyence (Hamburg) and Johannes Timpernagel (Berlin). The animation was generated in VVVV and final editing was completed in After Effects.

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Direction, Skyence, VVVV

This Is It Collective created this little video detailing ‘Bad Things That Could Happen’ with nothing more than a few simple cardboard props, some friends and a whole lot of innovation. It looks like it was a lot of fun and it’s a lot of fun to watch too.

Photography – Thomas Bolwell
Sound Design – Andrew Kinnear
Music – Andrew Kinnear & Joseph Pelling
Make Up – Elizabeth Barlow

More at:
This Is It Collective

written by Christopher | tags: Animation, Stop Motion, This Is It Collective, video