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The trailer of a short animated movie based on the performance Tim Minchin, directed by DC Turner and animated by Fraser Davidson of Mainframe. Check out their production blog here.

“Pyrats” is an animated short film made by 5 french students from the animation school “Gobelins l’école de l’image” in Paris, FRANCE. It was made as an opening short done for the Annecy 2006 international animation festival.

The movie was completed in 7 months (including screenplay, storyboard and designs). The technique is basically 2D traditionnal animation with some scenes helped by 3D and flash.

Name : PYRATS
Type : student short movie
Lenght : 1min35s
Production : Gobelins, Paris FRANCE (www.gobelins.fr)
Year of production: 2006
Directors : Yves Bigerel , Bruno Dequier, Ben Fiquet, Nicolas Gueroux, Julien Le Rolland
Music : Yves Bigerel performed by Bruno Dequier
Sound design : Gerard Labady
Format : DV PAL
Techniques : traditionnal 2D and 3D
Softwares : Alias MAYA 6.5, Photoshop CS, After effects 6.5, Crater Software CTP, Flash, Logic Audio

“Onward” + Nike = Good stuff

Here’s a great animation done for Nike by James Jarvis. Simple, engaging and a great story-telling example.

A beautiful music video directed by the young director Saman Keshavarz, who uses the POV-style technic with the camera Canon 5D Mark II. The video clip is created for the musical project Cinnamon Chasers and for the track “Luv Deluxe”.

The storyline(s) is very interesting : it’s different possibilities of a same story.

“We’re told we all need to be leaders, but that would be really ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow. When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in.”

An insightful observation about leadership from Derek Sivers delivers an inspiring message about the way we live our lives.

Yesterday was the annual Oscar awards and the winner of short animation was Logorama, a short 3D movie made entirely out of logos. The concept is pretty interesting, because that is is close to the truth: everything around us is branded. Unfortunately, the story is weak, making the logos more like a gimmick, no matter how cool it looks like.

Ignore the preview video above and just go here to see the full Logorama.

It’s made by the French collective H5, who is known to make awesome animated music videos like Royskopp’s Remind Me and Goldfrapp’s Twist.

Here’s another music video they made, At The End Of The Sky from Darkel.

Impressive music video for OK Go’s new single “This Too Shall Pass” from their album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. A crazy amount of preperation and thought must have gone into constructing this contraption, with some really neat tricks between the stages.

Strangely enough, the song has two official music videos for it, you can see the other one below:

Pretty self-explanatory, this impressive stop motion by Jamie Bell was done entirely with biro pens and a few flipbooks.

This has certainly got to be one of the most impressive stop-motion videos I’ve ever watched, both creative and heart-warming in its depiction of the events that unfold.

Just when you thought you’d seen it all. A short animated clip by Weebl.