Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
On the way home, an astronaut encounters an unusual problem.
Beautifully animated and great story. Animated by Omry Fisher from the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design.
A wooden doll watches as her world changes slightly each time she passes by until the mechanism breaks and sends her on a new path.
Beautiful animation style and well executed. The tune flows along with the video and sets a perfect tone for this parable on life. Music is by the Jane Bordeaux Band and they describe their style as Americana Hebrew Folk Country music.
Animated by Yoav Shtibelman, Toby Pedersen and Ron Polischuk. Directed by Uri Lotan.
We have made it to Friday! Congratulations everyone! I did my part and am glad to have made it here with you. In celebration I bring (back) to you one of the coolest music videos ever made.
Yes, this is kind of a re-post (with better resolution). I’ve been thinking of resurrecting and re-editing a select few of the old posts on this blog – videos from up to 2012 or so, maybe expand an article or two. There are a few early videos that are so good that they well deserve a reprise. This is one of them.
I love this video and when I first posted it in 2011 I’d had it kicking around my computers for at least six or seven years already. I still have a copy. It doesn’t seem all that special now, but when it was made, 2001 to 2003 I figure, computer motion capture hadn’t gotten hold in Hollywood quite yet, animators were still struggling with hair, and animated/cgi character movement was a Big Thing in both films and MMORPGs.
The computer animation itself is excellent – especially for when it was made – but what really stands out is the direction; throughout the video you’ll see signature dance moves you’ll recognize immediately.
Playgroup is a British Electroclash band and the tune Number One was released in 2001.
I love the style of this film. It reminds me a little of Giger‘s art, a bit of Druillet, and a tad from The Mind’s Eye. The story puts a twist on the idea of exogenesis or panspermia in a very well done animation. The almost-continuous evolution of the mechanical bio-analogues through its life-cycle of adapting local materials and spreading that bio-actual over the planet is quite stunning and beautiful in its fluid complexity.
Animated by Richard Mans.
Sometimes life steps in to take the wind out of self-important sails, and sometimes it’s the domotics.
A fun animation that packs in a good bunch of classic and new music clips. A snippet of Caravan Palace’s Suzy really starts the current flowing in this short.
Directed by Hugo Cierzniak and produced at Delapost Paris.
I have to admit, I’m a bit of a grump when I wake up, too.
The film relates how the temple of Zeus at Olympia was destroyed.
Directed by Félix Hazeaux, Thomas Nitsche, Kilian Olmos, Simon Popot, Aurélien Revelli, and Caroline Tarrago.
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.
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.
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.
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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