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The guy who made this, Tim Smit, a Dutch physics student, released this short movie called “What’s in the Box?”, which is a POV, Cloverfield-inspired short. The motion tracking is really impressive and I and I like the HUD designs, but the story doesn’t really seem that impressive to me and the atmosphere of the effects and environment seem to clash (that’s what you get for shooting in your Dutch hometown). The amazing thing is this though:

It seems like some Hollywood studios called him up asking how he had done the video and were amazed at that. I’m not really sure if he got job offers. Even though this is not likely to happen to most of us, even if we made cool shit, it seems that it does and can happen if you’re able to generate some good hype around it.

A very impressive short of animation designed to be a logo for Richard Williams’ “The Animator’s Survival Kit”.

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.

Short-movie by Robert Valley (2003). Not sure about the music but it sounds like a Massive Attack song.

Robert Valley is an american artist who worked on Aeon FLux (direction), Dark Fury (story-boarding), but he’s the main animator on Gorillaz music videos.

A great artist.

Often it’s the most simple message in its most basic form that reaches an audience effectively. This is just one of the many videos created by the group who go under the name “Common Craft”, be sure to check out their other videos too!

SSSEEN! is now at 69 posts and already been up for a bit more than 4 months. We have some statistics on how many visitors we have, but a hunch is that about 80% of the average 30 visitors are not human. As in spiders. But not the animal.

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An abstract music video for Yoshinori Sunahara’s “Lovebeat” which has geometric shapes visualize the song. Directed by Junji Kojima, who is experienced in the field of commercials and music videos and has founded the studio “Teevee Graphics“.

He has also done a few short films as well, like this hilarious short tutorial about sushi (and some of the Japanese absurt traditions).

Another Google commercial one! This one about the different ways to use Google to reach your goal is simple and very cute and apparently it has played during the Superbowl so you Americans might have seen this one then. Not sure who made it though.

Google has a few of these videos called “Search Stories” and this is another one. They have a whole YouTube channel dedicated to it, so check it out!

A stop motion video where there’s animation on shirts! Over 222 shirts have been used in this Rhett & Link music video directed by Joe Penna. Here’s some info from YouTube:

We changed shirts over 100 times each, taking individual pictures of each unique shirt. The designs on the shirts are not photoshopped. They are real shirts for each frame of animation. The video was exported at 30fps, while the T-shirt animation moves at 6fps (with a few exceptions where it moves faster) So, for each shirt, we took 5 pictures, so the animation of us (Rhett&Link) moves at 30fps, but the T-shirt animations move a bit slower. There are a few places where the motion seems so smooth that it looks like video. That’s because, in those parts, there was no changing in T-shirts, and Joe used burst mode to capture the frames, making it look very smooth.

It’s smart how this doesn’t only meant to sell their music, but shirts as well!

Still a sucker for Google promo & demo videos. This one is really simple, but I like the flow and motions of the video. Not really sure who made it. Not really sure if I would use it either.