Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
Think of A Fistful of Dollars and pie.
A film by Adam Campbell, Elizabeth McMahill and Uri Lotan. Via Cartoon Brew’s Student Animation Festival.
h/t Laughing Squid
The “shaky camera” technique comes to animation in this disturbing short. Clearly created on some seriously powerful hardware, Metachaos uses lighting, textures, and repetitive movement (among other things) to create a reflection of madness and despair. The soundtrack, by Jeff Ensign (aka Evolution Noise Slave), grinds in the unsettling imagery even further.
In fact the bodies represented in Metachaos even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, an hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress, in perpetual movement, dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension. In its destructive instinct of violating the dimensional limbo, the mutant horde penetrates the intimacy of the fortress, laying siege like a virus. Similar to the balance of a philological continuum in human species, bringing the status of things back to the primordial broth.
From the earliest text-based adventures to the latest modern shooters, Reverse Enginears has created a stunning musical composition featuring only sounds and music from PC games.
I can name almost all of ’em. Quite the trip down memory lane.
h/t Miss Cellania
What’s that saying? Oh yeah: Location, Location, Location.
Resonance is a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways.
Abstracted, repetitive animation moves rhythmically to a violent score in this computer animated critique of modern society. ranks of faceless workers hammer the unyielding earth as a mechanized apocalypse seems to strike. although theros means harvesting in ancient Greek, there is nothing organic here.
From ch3
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten, what is he searching for?
A rather simple 3D animation, but it does have an interesting visual premise and a good tracklist; both on my ‘shiny things’ list.
This animation visually demonstrates how the bass [track] is being transformed and reacts from each certain genre-oriented dubstep track to another.
A contemporary reinterpretation of JMW Turner‘s painting “Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway“. This short animation examines the concept of the Technological Singularity, the point in human progress after which predictions become increasingly difficult to formulate. Industrialization and computational innovation are re-imagined in a minimalist environment, drawing from video game and runtime aesthetics.
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