This sparkly music video for an Obamafied Daft Punk “Aerodynamic” mashup by Adam Freeland, is a fine one to shake celebratory booty to on this hope-and-change-fuelled day for humankind. Directed by the elusive duo at GOLD, the stop motion clip features an army of customized designer toys by the likes of Dalek, Bill McMullen and … Continued
It’s always gratifying when a graphic super-whizz gets his or her work animated by some kindly motion talent. Steven Harrington, known and loved for his Cali-flavored rock album-cover surrealism, teamed up with Karla Carnewal to bring us “A Two Part Invention of the Universe”. Screening at Sundance 09, the stop motion piece features rotating teepees … Continued
An online premiere at SubmarineChannel: The short films of Sietske Tjallingii (that’s Miss T to you – you’re welcome) celebrate home-made glue-and-sticky tape special effects, combining a sharp wit with subversive commentary on everything from religious fundamentalism to military supremacy to female stereotyping (in a vampy catsuit, no less). Since graduating from the audiovisual department … Continued
The movie St. Trinian’s is the most recent film adaptation of the cartoon series St Trinian’s School created by Ronald Searles, about an English boarding school for girls. The London-based Emmy-nominated animation studio VooDooDog was approached to do the (very cartoonesque) title sequence.
This 13-and-a-half minutes animated labor of love by Norwegian-Italian cross-media artist Niko Stumpo, is a sinister yet spell-binding voyage laced with death, failure, and monsters… It’s a hoot, honestly! We had a little chat with Mr. Stumpo (a.k.a Abnormal Behaviour Child) to see if his mind is as twisted as this masterpiece would have you … Continued
We updated Forget the Film, Watch the Titles with 3 main titles (4, if you include Kung Fu Panda) by Shine Studio‘s art director Michael Riley. Watch the suspenseful opening credits for Along Came a Spider (2001); Gattaca (1997), created at Imaginary Forces with “nothing digital other than Illustrator to set some type,” as Riley … Continued
If the words “data visualization” make you feel sleepy, congratulations: you’re a certified human. But what if those same words described the technique for Radiohead’s most innovative, interactive music videos? Following up from the spectacular House of Cards clip by standalone tech-creative Aaron Koblin, Japanese TV station WOWOW are running a feature on their site … Continued
In 2004, Jamie Caliri directed the beautiful animated end credits for Lemony Snicket’s – A Series of Unfortunate Events. “One of the most impressive credit sequences of 2004”, we wrote. The animated end credits for DreamWorks’ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are not as epic or as elaborate, nor do they share the same richness of … Continued
Before cinema there was the zoetrope, an ungainly peephole-pocked cylinder that (sort of) creates the illusion of motion. Luckily for us technology happened, allowing London-based studio Troika to create a live, multi-sensory, digital zoetrope; a state-of-the-art cylindrical output tower from which abstract patterns magically transform into words when lit with the right frquency. Commissioned by … Continued
This tasty clip for Beck’s new ditty “Gamma Ray”, features downtown darling Chloë Sevigny as a tattooed ringmistress run amok, shimmying her twisted lil’ heart out against an animated collage of neon-hued, psychadelic steampunk. Directed by fashion designer/collage artiste Jess Holzworth – who, notably, cites Keith Richards as her inspiration for just about everything – … Continued
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