Animation, Art, and Other Shiny Things
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.
An absolutely fascinating animation by Mikhail Kalinin & Flakonkishochki. Seriously…
Music by Mumiy Troll
I’ve become a fan of Gotye over the last year or so. His music is pretty good, but for me, it’s all about the animations; various styles, all quality stuff. From the album Making Mirrors.
Animated by Gina Thorstensen and Nacho Rodriguez.
Animator Renata Gąsiorowska uses colors and textures to excellent effect in this music video for Alphabets Heaven.
Directors: Karni and Saul at Aardman Animations
The fun and whimsical animation we’ve come to expect out of the Goldfish videos and this track even adds a 3D fish butt to the mix. Yeah, I’d never seen a fish butt before either.
Apparently not content with a great heavy beat and funky jazzy swingy melodies, the Goldfish have spun a few of their tracks into some fun and trippy animations.
From “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s album Straight outta Lynwood. Animated by Bill Plympton.
Simple shapes, simple movement, simple idea, simply riveting.
Director Renaud Hallee’s first venture into animation, Sonar, has been described as a perfect example of ‘how to listen to music with your eyes’.
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