The Ruffled Crow

Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things

Tag Archives: Animation

Backwater – Hammer Animation

D.A.D. Digital Amusement Device

Ice Creams – Sketchy

Ballad of Poisonberry Pete

Metachaos – Alessandro Bavari

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.

The evolution of PC games – Reverse Enginears

Nest – Michael J. Ruocco

Resonance

Theros – ch3

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.

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?