Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
The constant re-transformations, in time and consistent with the music, is pretty impressive. It gets a bit over-complex at times, but then doesn’t everybody?
Animation by Equipo
This music video won Reel FX several awards on the festival circuit for its excellent animation. Combining 2d and 3d texturing elements helps create a great gritty, disturbing feel to the video.
See more at Reel FX.
It’s Spring and the woodland animals are getting active, including the ubiquitous Robin. If you’ve ever looked out into the yard and asked yourself “I wonder what it would be like to be a Robin on an acid trip?” then this imaginative short will answer that for you.
From Belgian animator Kristof Luyckx (et al)
(i must warn you, there is some animated suggestive unicorn-on-unicorn action later in the video. i wouldn’t mention it but if i didn’t then someone would be sure to have a hissy fit. i really hate hissy fits that aren’t my own)
Sometimes you just gotta move…
Sweat by U.S.U.R.A.
h/t Liquid TV
(and an extra happy dance for finally finishing a long-form post that will go up tomorrow!)
The mixture of live and animation is striking and well done. It’s also some excellent electronica. Video by Emil Goodman
I love me my electronica and this track from Posthuman is some serious and heavy acid techno. The video, by JimJam Graphics, is as slick and crisp as the beats.
(yes, this is an extra post. it’s saturday and weekends need some massive gravity)
ATTENTION! ROGUE VIDEO ALERT!
I’ve shifted to an every other day posting schedule and what happens? On an ‘off day’ I feel the need to move to some ancient beats, namely Kraftwerk.
This is the second Gotye video I’ve posted and I have a feeling it won’t be the last. They get top-notch animators that create imaginative videos that pair well with their songs. In a variation on the “small world syndrome” this is also the second video I’ve posted from the animators at Oh Yeah Wow. (Darcy Prendergast directing in this video) No doubt we’ll hear from OYW again too.
The last installment in the Beyond the Mind’s Eye series.
Next series up would be the Odyssey Into the Mind’s Eye, and we will get to it eventually, but not just yet. There’s a lot of excellent animation out there now and I’m getting a bit of a backlog of great stuff in the draft queue that needs to be posted.
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