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Omerta

Leave a comment Posted by on July 29, 2016

In the 1930s, mafia gangs clash on the mean streets of New York. Teddy Toad and his band of frogs engage in a battle with the powerful rhino White Coal for the affections of the delicious Horny Lady. Between love and vengeance – music, immerse yourself in the ruthless world of Omerta, and break the Law of Silence.

It’s a fun little story, but where this short film really shines is the music! Swing, jazz, and blues tunes of the time meld together and give the animation a cohesion. The composer took riffs out of a great array of tunes and melded and played with them wonderfully. Look for the scene where the frog is stomping around angrily in mud puddles – you’ll hear a “Singing in the Rain” riff through there and see a bit of Gene Kelly, and that’s not the only spot you’ll recognize a classic.

Animated by Nicolas Loudot, Fabrice Fiteni, Gaspard Roche, and Arnaud Janvier of Rubika School of Design, Animation, Game, in France.

Music composed by Raphael Chambouvet.

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Patchwork

Leave a comment Posted by on July 28, 2016

Adam lost his beloved and his muse. To regain it he sets out to rebuild… First step, speed dating at his local cafe!

Animated by Galaad Alais, Benjamin Bourmier, Stephanie De Fortis, Amelie Gavard, Arnaud Lapeyre, Amelie N’Guekora, and Magali Vidal from Isart Digital.

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Glued

Leave a comment Posted by on July 26, 2016

Since the advent of the PC, and even more so the creation of the game console, parenting has never been the same. This is a story of one parent’s ordeal…

Animated by Alon Tako, Guy Elnathan, Daniel Lichter, and Sivan Kotek, with music by Assaf Shlomi, from the Bezalel Academy of the Arts.

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Speed of Light – Iron Maiden

Leave a comment Posted by on July 23, 2016

A most excellent unscheduled weekend music video for this, a very metal weekend.

There’s quite a few Iron Maiden cartoons out there, but this is the best of the bunch in my opinion. I like Iron Maiden and have always loved their album covers featuring Eddie, so a well done animated music video with him creating mayhem on his way through a string of classic arcade and console games is, like, pretty killer, man.

Speed of Light, from the album A Book of Souls.

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Dust Buddies

Leave a comment Posted by on July 21, 2016

A rollicking little tale of capture, escape, and lint-lined mayhem.

Animated by Beth Tomashek and Sam Wade from Ringling College of Art and Design.

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Sputnik – Maxim Zhestkov

Leave a comment Posted by on July 19, 2016

A simple allegorical tale of a culture’s progression through searching for more light.

The animation and movement is very well done. From Maxim Zhestkov via The CGBros.

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Down to Earth – Celldweller

Leave a comment Posted by on July 16, 2016

An excellent entry in the unscheduled weekend music video, uh, list of music videos that weren’t scheduled but everybody knows I’ll post one anyways list. Yeah, that list.

Celldweller is one of those artists that dominates my entire playlist for days at a time. I’ve only got four of Klayton‘s albums but the album this song comes from is my favorite. End of an Empire is a story album that tells of the fall of a far future civilization and the competition between factions as it tears itself apart. (At least as far as I can discern.)

His music in distinctly electro, but includes aspects of heavy glitch and DnB, as well as metal and even orchestral elements. Klayton puts together some complex soundscapes that lends itself well to story-telling.

Down to Earth is directed and animated by Michi Lange.

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Adult Hair – ESMA

Leave a comment Posted by on July 14, 2016

A hairdresser is tasked with giving the wife of the local gendarme a stylish ‘do while staying on the right side of the straight-laced-and-arrowed law man.

From the talented folks at ESMA. Animation by Florian Boury, Gautier Froehly, Manon Hirat, Matthieu Paugam, Cindy Redon, and David Varsi.

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Too Darn Hot (RAC Mix)

Leave a comment Posted by on July 9, 2016

It’s summertime and today it’s in the upper-60s here in Seattle. Sun breaks, clouds, an occasional shower – in other words, perfect weather.

A lot of other spots aren’t so lucky and are getting some serious heat. This weekend’s unscheduled music video is dedicated to the folks melting in their weather.

Too Darn Hot by Ella Fitzgerald and mixed by RAC. Remix Artist Collective is a now-solo project of André Allen Anjos whose remixed some classics.

Micah Lee of Attic Pictures edited the Mickey Mouse short Stayin’ Cool to match up pretty well.

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Robocoq

Leave a comment Posted by on July 7, 2016

While chicken with teeth sounds like a step forward it may not be the advancement we think it is. Fortunately there are fowl who are willing to cross more than just a road to make things right.

Created at the École Supérieure des Métiers de l’Image – ESMI – Bordeaux

(This is set in the year 2112 so I have to believe the animators are Rush fans)

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