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.

original music composed by Ori Avni
performed by Ori Avni and Daniela Spector.
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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.