Well they are at it again! Almost 2 years later they have finally come out with a sequel. Way back in 2011, the strange and somewhat disturbing Muppet video Don't Hug Me I'm Scared went viral with over 13 million views. Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling are now back at it again from This Is It Collective with Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2.
In this squeal it introduces a lanky character name Tony the Talking Clock that teaches the puppets about the concept of time. This video does have its creepy parts, but I'm still a fan of the first one but don't take my word for it. Watch the video below and let me know what you think.
Fleet Foxes, The Shrine/An Argument created by Sean Pecknold and his team is met with the vocal sounds of Robert Pecknold's brother. It's a wondering and amazing journey that can only be breathtaking. It's a crazy and wild story of a wondering antelope and his journey of losing life and being part of nature and the struggle of life and death. The video pulls you in with its beautiful color treatments and visual splendor.
My only advice would be what Sean and his team advised and that is to watch it in HD with headphones or speakers and in "full screen if you really want to get crazy". Enjoy!
The Carpenter is just the beginning for this series of short films regarding the art & science of professionals working with their hands. The way in which this video was shot was excellent with its use of motion tracking to point out different tools and unseen plans of the carpenter. It may be only a 1:41 but I'm impressed with his work. I took shop class and all but I couldn't do that. The most I could do was make a clock lamp.
The Flow looks at the supervening layers of reality that we can observe, from quarks to nucleons to atoms and beyond. The deeper we go into the foundations of reality the more it loses its form, eventually becoming a pure mathematical conception. Layer upon layer the flow builds new codes that create new codes, each version computing a new, more complex state based on the previous one. This short 20 second video by MRK is not based on actual scientific data, but are visual representations of scientific theory. It gives you a look into a mathematical concept of what these layers may look like. If you want to read more about this project, they have a in-depth breakdown on Behance.
If you found this video interesting, then you might be interested in these posters that were designed for this project as well. You can purchase these prints or others on MRK's inPrint store.
I'm not going to lie this is a freaking weird video. It was created by This Is It Collective, which is a site of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London. Their latest creation Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is one part children's programming while the other is just plan dark and creepy. I got to give it to them though, the song is kinda of catchy, but regardless their choice of characters was pretty interesting. Check out the video below and check out more of their work.
Shyscapes is a beautiful and surreal short art movie that was created for Misha Shyukin graduation project. It's a stunningly dark, mysterious but mesmerizing and entrancing video. Misha recommends you don’t view it in full screen and asks you to please watch it with your eyes half closed. Either way you watch you may come to the same conclusion that it's a beautiful short video.
Computer virus are known by many to be a big pain in the you know what. They cause people nothing but headaches and time, however in this video Hungry Beast talks about the Stuxnet virus the first every weapons virus. It's more of an infographic type video that captivates your interest with visual information. The actual visual information in this video is really well develop, but the story being told is just as fascinating and true.
If you have some time check out some of the other Hungry Beast episodes. They have new episodes every week.
Ryan Kothe explores the rapid decay of everyday objects in his short stop motion animation video. It's quite an interesting concept to think about. Who really thinks about the how something decays. It's a long process but when shown in this video it is quite amazing and mesmerizing. If you want to check out more of Ryan's work. You can find it on Vimeo.
This is a pretty interesting use of sticky notes. It was created by Bang-yao Liu for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. The idea for this video was based around that: "every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my work, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadlines". He continued with this idea and the sticky notes stop motion develop to outdoors, and travels in 11 cities around the world in 40 days by 2 people. Check out more of his work on his site.
This is a short film opener for the short film competition "kurzundschön" (Short & Nice). The competition is for young creatives for commercial spots, motion design, short films and mobile miniatures. This competition was designed to promote and advocate up-and-coming talent. The featured short film for the competition was made by feedmee. The creators of this short opener wanted to show the short and nice moment when felicity and serenity came together. This is a beautiful short film with the feeling of letting go of life and floating to peace.
Floating in air! Client: WDR Concept & Design: FEEDMEE Design (Susanne Lüchtrath, Sabine Dully, Benjamin Zurek, Anton Riedel) Production: FEEDMEE Design Animation & Post: FEEDMEE Design Cut: FEEDMEE Design Camera: Timm Lange Sound & Music: Loy production
Vimeo has some great talent and interesting videos amongst their large collection. I came across this video "Crossover" while checking out the blog, The Fox is Black. This short film was directed by Fabian Grodde who had some amazing 3D artists. It took me a minute to realize that those bug weren't real. It looks really real though. I'm still not sure the meaning of the video but I will go with what Bobby from TFIB said. He said that it’s about the spread of Christianity in the world, specifically in less civilized areas. Of course this is all told through tiny stink bugs and a giant spider, but I’m sure you’ll see what he was talking about.
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: Fabian Grodde 3D ARTISTS: Alexander Schumann, Christian Brinkmann, Stephan Hempel COMPOSITING: Fabian Grodde DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Rafael Köhler SOUND: Johann Niegl, Alexander Binder
In the spirit of Thanksgiving NBC has hooked up with illustrator/director Nathan Love. In these 30 second promos to the viewers of NBC wishing them a Happy Thanksgiving. He does this with none other than the friendly and wildly goofy peacock.
Each of these commercials have a comedic edge to them. Especially the second one. I also wonder if he got his color palette choices from the old 1962 NBC Laramie Peacock animation. Either way I enjoyed each of these promo's. So Happy Thanksgiving from Damion DJ & Producer Blog. If you want to check out more of Nathans work than head on over to his site. I'm sure you will recognize a lot of his other works.
I guess this must be animal week. First with the Ant Thriller and now Between Bears video. This video was made by Eran Hilleli as his graduation film at Bezale Academy of Art and Design. This video won the best animation award at the first vimeo's film festival. The vision for film was a debt to his childhood and other lives he hoped he lived. It was inspired by words of songs that he admires. This video is moving and the choice in color palettes was done nicely. If you want to check out more of his work. Then check out his site.
A friend of mine on Facebook brought this video to my attention over the weekend. So I thought I would pass it along. Fallen is a video that was realized by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert. It's about a little meteor named Schorch who learns the biggest lesson of his life on his way down to earth. The video is only 3:50 minutes but they were able to invoke such emotion within such a small amount of time. It makes you take in the idea of being alive and enjoying your life in the moment because life is short.
Compositing by Sebastian Nozon. Music and sound design by David Christiansen.
Produced by Stina McNicholas at Filmakademie Baden Württemberg.
I came across Alex Schulz on Vimeo this week and I wanted to share his video called "view". It's an animated short film about "human" perspective. I really enjoyed this video because of the meaning of the film and the concept in which he used to portray his meaning.
Alex who is from Pforzheim, Germany is a very creative artist who not only works with animation but also photography, graphic design, illustrations and producing music. From both videos that he has on Vimeo he has produced the music for each of them. I think their great little tracks that go well with the concepts. So check out his Behance and Vimeo sites and enjoy. Let me know what you think about the video?
Since I have been on a 3D art kick I thought I would pick another one that I thought was interesting. This commercial below was made in 2008 for Royal Bank of Canada. The concept was very simple, a man wakes up one morning with endless legs and decides to take advantage of the situation by easily traveling the world with his kids. This video caught my attention due to the style and design of the 3D characters and the textures and color patterns used in the video. Plus it has the Shins "New Slang" song playing in the background. You can't go wrong with the Shins. If your interested in checking out more video's by fxandmatt then check them out on Vimeo.
Director: Fx&Mat Production: Mr Hyde Agency: BBDO Toronto
Aiko Studio is a company that specializes in 3D modeling, texturing, animation, rendering, and effects. In their latest video they generated a 3D computer model of a simple classroom. They did a flythrough of the classroom to get you focused on some details you might not usually focus on in a classroom. What caught my attention to this video is the realism that this video shows. The detail of this video is also spot on with its close up's and its use of different lighting. Aiko studio also has a making of the video that shows the different lighting patterns and the sequences in which the video was designed. It took Aiko Studio about 6 months to complete this video but they stated that this was an in between project and was not a full time job. They used 3D Max + V-Ray to complete this project. So go ahead and have a look at the video and check out more of their works on Vimeo.
This video below was a video that Olympus made to celebrate their 50th anniversary of the PEN camera. Olympus created a stop motion video which I'm sure you have seen a lot of them but I think that they did a great job in creating theirs.
The video is accompanied by some impressive numbers. For the PEN Story Olympus shot 60,000 pictures, developed 9.600 of them and then reshot 1,800 pics. In the video, there are 20 different locations. Another nice detail: there was no post production done on this video! So check out and let me know what you think.
Here is another stop motion video that I also think deserves a watch. It was very well done and the song I think goes with the video. The song Her Morning Elegance was done by Oren Lavie.
I enjoy coming across short film movies. They seem to have an ambiance to them. The short 3D film Descendants fits this description. This film is a 14 minute animated short about the wish of attaining the unattainable and about the fact that something good can evolve from something evil. This film is definitely a aspirational piece of art and it even goes deep with it's philosophical core. An interesting fact about this film is that one of the characters voice over was done by Whoopi Goldberg which it's nice to see that she was interested in something like this. If your interesting in learning about the making of the film. Then check out Binary Alchemy where you can read all the details of this project. Leave a comment about the film. I would like to hear about what you think about the film.
