Originally created for the Darklight Festival’s ‘4 Day Movie’ project, Avatar Days is a portrait of four online gamers in Dublin whose daily lives contrast with their virtual identities.
Short documentary about pixelart made by Simon Cottee. The documentary only features 3 interviews which is a bit on the low side and even though I don’t sometimes agree, it’s still interesting to see the viewpoints of pixelart.
Studio JOHO are a Brisbane based animation production company with a commitment to creating high quality, innovative and catchy work.
Warning : Mature content
This is the debut shortfilm of Paul Robertson which was released in march of 2006 and first shown at the Trigger Happy art exhibition. It was sponsored by the City of Melbourne (which is quite remakable, considering the content).
Credits:
Created by Paul Robertson : http://probertson.livejournal.com/
Music by Cornel Wilczek : quamusic.com/
Kings of Power 4 Billion Percent is Paul’s latest work which takes 3 years till release it (2008). Music by Cornel Wilczek. Additional art by Jonathan Kim aka Persona and Mariel Cartwright aka Kinuko.
Michel Gagne and Joe Olson, CEO of Fuelcell Games, met in 2007 in Seattle’s Fremont district where they discussed the possibility of bringing feature quality 2d animation to the gaming world in a classic side-scrolling adventure. Shortly after, a production team was assembled and Fuelcell Games was born. Their mission: bring the vision of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet to life.
Quite the visual treat, with a stunning combination of both 2D and 3D animation. From Passion Pictures Studio, Directed by Pete Candeland of Gorillaz music video fame.
A small & funny commercial for the Wario Land: Shake It! game for the Nintendo Wii. Directed by Jeff Goodby of Goodby Silverstein & Partners.
Now we for something different: cracktros! These are intros made by release groups, dating back to C64 games (maybe earlier?). It’s mostly programmed (correct me if I’m wrong) graphics and these coupled with chip tune music or old school MOD-type music these bring back the good old times! They sure are charming! The video above is made by Dream Design/SAC, not really sure for what game though.
This is the Razor 1911 Cracktro #11 by Hetero/SAC made in 1997 for the “release” of Quake 2. Apparently Superior Art Creations (SAC) have their own site where you can check more of their cracktros ans Flickr pages where you can check their ASCII-art. Just check out their page for a full list – good stuff!
The intro for the British comedy series IT Crowd. I’m not really sure who made the intro, but the pixelartstyle is done really nicely, as well as the “error”-effect.
The DVD has awesome extras in its menus. This is the first Season DVD extra, which resemble those old isometric adventure games. Love the remix chiptune intro!
The second season has some parodies of games we all know. This one is done by the British Studio CHASE.
Lego meets videogames in this impressive display of stop motion animation.