Created By Universal Everything, and referencing the work of 1960s architectural avant garde group Archigram, Walking City is a mesmeric motion graphic video sculpture featuring a walking figure whose shape adapts ‘in response to the architecture she encounters’.
A festival favourite since 2012 and the Dutch entry for Best Animated Oscar Short in 2013, Hisko Hulsing’s powerful multi award-winning tale of adolescent friendship and life decisions will tend to change your mood somewhat.
2D and 3D animation on backgrounds rendered with oil on canvas.
Fullscreen viewing with volume up highly recommended
Plastic Infinite is an illustrated picture disk by UK electronica duo Sculpture which animates as it plays the track of the same name under a strobe light or when filmed (as above) at 25 frames per second.
You can name your price when buying one here but, perhaps understandably, it’s currently sold out.
An eyeball-teasing compation of clips from every animation made for the #365rounds project – a daily animation/sketch/photograph challenge started early in 2013 by Mexican motion graphics artist Carlos ‘Yimbo’ Escárrega.
Music: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Tame Impala
Written and directed by David Bokser & Matt Berenty:
An animated musical love story about a young man who lives inside a billboard and is charged with updating the advertisements. When he falls in love with a beautiful lady living across the highway, he has to use the only method he knows to get his message across – advertising.
A nifty little short about the sensory experience of ‘being lost’ by Spanish animator Nicolai Troshinsky, who sez:
A boy, having lost his glasses, can only see one thing in focus at a time. His sight gets attracted by the sounds that surround him. He will have to explore a blurry world of unknown places and strange characters.”
A nifty ‘homemade’ CG short by French director Simon Mesnard: a ‘spiritual sequel’ to his 2011 feature A Space Adventure.
https://vimeo.com/81630401
The video for New leaf by Portland band Alameda, directed by Legwork Studio, what sez:
We started the project nearly two years ago as a way to explore new animation techniques, specifically digital rotoscoping over 3D animation. The goal was to combine the hand-made feel of painting with the perfection of 3D camera movement and environments.
Behind the scenes feature here.
