A longer-than-usual animation today, but well worth the extra time! This multi-award winner shows how far we’ve come in computer animation since The Mind’s Eye series of 1990. It’s a fun story too!
Animated by Eric Law Anderson, Sara Smilnak, Shelbi Caudill, and John Sasser
‘2001’ rendered in the style of Picasso using Deep Neural Networks based style transfer. – Bhautik Joshi.
A fun little film, especially for those that have seen the film. I think Mr Joshi probably used software based on the academic paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style by Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, and Matthias Bethge.
Opiuo has been dominating my glitch-hop playlist lately. He has a good mix of swing, jazz and funk going on. So it was most excellent to find that the second glitch-hop animation I found was an official music video of his! From the album Meraki.
Directed and animated by Dropbear, it took 240 audio cassettes, 5,600 feet of video tape, 108 floppy discs and 1 retro walkman to make.
There is something kind of safe and loveable about claymation. When you think about it, even the most grotesque clay monsters can be remolded into Gumby (or Pokey) so what’s to worry about? It also helps that much of the claymation I come across starts out as cute anyway. Like this one by Steve Boot.
A lonely blue alien thinks he has found a new friend to play with when a strange new explorer robot lands on his planet.
An excellent find for a late night unscheduled music video, if I do say so myself.
This video screams the late 70’s to me: A soundtrack reminiscent of Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene album, and a vibrant neon gradient style of animation straight out of the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine.
Animated by Nicolas Pomet, the video makes excellent use of contrasting negative space and generalized detail and does it with incredible style.
Sydney Opera House’s presentation of Lighting the Sails: Songlines is an impressive display of projection mapping. Visual content and animation was done by Artists in Motion with music composed and designed by Rhoda Roberts and Damien Robinson.
Celebrating First Nations’ spirituality and culture through the songlines of our land and sky, this year’s Lighting the Sails is about painting and celebrating country through a pattern of sharing systems, interconnected history lines and trade routes. Lighting the Sails Director and Head of Indigenous Programming at Sydney Opera House Rhoda Roberts has selected six artists of different clans, national estates and territories for an immersive projected artwork that weaves through time and distance. [about the artists]
Lighting the Sails is currently being looped daily until June 13th and is part of the larger Vivid Sydney festival which is going on until June 18th. If I could handle the 18 hours flying from Seattle to Australia I would love to see this live and at a festival that sounds like a great mix of art, tech, and the combination of the two. (And I’d get to finally watch a Footy game live too. I’m an Adelaide (and Geelong) fan, for the record)
Here’s a link to a fantastic bit of projection mapping from the 2012 Vivid Sydney festival I posted a few years ago.
The Ruffled Crow 