Major Mouse starts his campaign // Ad

One of my favourite ads this time

You May Now // Animated Short

A short animated piece about the wonders of stereoscopic 3D in cinemas.

Created by Daniel Keeble and Dane Winn

“Hezarfen” Animated Short

Four recent graduates (Tolga Ari, Romain Blanchet, Chung-Yu Huang, Rémy Hurlinfrom) of Supinfocom Arles share their final project with us, Hezarfen.   


Hezarfen is a Turkish historical character. The story takes place in 1632 in Turkey where he attempts the first human flight. The legend goes as far as to say that he flew through the Bosphorus, to almost 3 miles away from the tower from which he started.    




The movie is much more about how he jumps from this tower. We have created the script together to get another vision of the story. We wanted to make some fresh and bright pictures and let the audience discover the beauty of this legend in our own way.

"The Pig Farmer" by Nick Cross

The Pig Farmer is a short animated cartoon by Nick Cross. A simple tale of a wayward soul, awash in an ocean of tragedy and regret.

Animated using Flash CS3 and a Cintiq 21UX tablet.
Backgrounds done in Photoshop CS4
Composited using After Effects CS5 and Final Cut Pro 5.

For more information, visit pyatyletka.blogspot.com

Eatliz - Lose This Child (HD Version)

The new stop motion animation music video from art rock group Eatliz, directed by the Grammy nominated directors Yuval & Merav Nathan ("Her Morning Elegance").

RooDoudou

Pen Pals - An Amazing Illustrative Animation by Art Curry

ps. for some reason Art Curry's website is not working properly but here is his Twitter

The Good Little Bunny with the Big Bad Teeth

An animated short by Jessica Borutski. The story of a good little bunny with some really big bad teeth. 

don’t forget to visit Jessie’s new website: Foolish Kingdom!

“Tous des Monstres” is a Student Film

Here is a freaking Weird animation I found.. I may not like it but I still want to share it because it's a very well stylised animation.

Official film website

Tous des Monstres (All of the Monsters) is a student film from Supinfocom directed by Nicolas Deprez, Laurent Jaffier, Pierre Lippens and Gabrielle Lissot. It’s NSFW, but more than that, the imagery is just plain disturbing. The tight little story they constructed around the visuals, with Pinocchio-esque undertones, is impressive for a student CG short, and shows the value of focusing on story and character as well as technique and animation.

article by CartoonBrew

The Truth is - Animated Short

This is a short I made for a module for my University called "Facial Modeling and Animation". If there is any comment you would like to share I would really appreciate it.

Shop Vac // Kinetic Typography

Ok this starts to feel a little like the amazing week since I found so many absolutely Fantastic shorts and animations! This is the second kinematic typography I found since yesterday and I really don't have any words to describe it. Here is the description from the creator:

" A kinetic typography music video for Jonathan Coulton's Shop Vac. This was created using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Toon Boom Animate.

I worked on this sporadically, so it's difficult to estimate how much time went into it. Somewhere between 500-1000 hours, but it was a labor of love."

Mad As Hell! Kinetic Typography

The best Kinetic Typography I've seen so far..
Congratulations to Aaron Leming


450 words individually synced and animated to the famous monologue from the 1976 movie "Network".

Blind Spot

Blind Spot by Cécile Dubois-Herry





blindspotthemovie.com/​intro.html
Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image, Paris, 2007


Co-Directors: Johanna Bessière, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cécile Dubois-Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby

Award-winning of "La Bourse Lagardere", E Magiciens 2007 Festival for Student Film.

Also Selected in:
• "Official Selection Cinefondation" Cannes Festival 2008
• "Best Student Piece Award" SIGGRAPH 2008
• "School" FICCI Baf 2008
• "Student Competition" ANIMAFEST Zagreb 2008
• "Student Competition" Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2008
• Best Student Film Anima Mundi 2008
• Official Selection Imagina 2008
• Official Selection Ottawa 2008
• Official Selection Art Futura 2007




Making Of






Personal Making of the Student Short Film 'Blind Spot', Gobelins, l’Ecole de l’Image, Paris, 2007

On the whole short:
- Storyboard, design and color code researches
- Supervision of an entire character, the cashier lady: modeling, setup & rigging, texturing, some animations, and some dynamics tests. 
- The whole rendering (planning, scene preparation, render follow up, problem solving)
- Compositing of 3 shots I animated

Oceansize

Oceansize is a short 3D movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008, Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau.


You can check the official site for more stuffs and informations: oceansize-lefilm.com

Contacts:

Romain Jouandeau: 
saikon@free.fr
ro-mainart.blogspot.com/​

Adrien Chartie:
adrien_chartie@hotmail.fr

Gilles Mazières:
gilmazieres@hotmail.fr

Fabien Thareau:
russianwarrior@caramail.com

Son: Mario Sogno
myspace.com/​nummer123

Webmaster: Jeremy Gallemard
jgallemard@gmail.com

SalesMan Pete and Meet Buck by TeamCerf

This post is about two shorts I recently found by TeamCerf at their website: salesmanbuck.com







Now if I may be excused I'll quote cgSociety's post that I found about one of them:


"Buck is an ordinary guy. Well...if you except the "deer head" thing. And today, Buck is gonna spend this cool Sunday afternoon with his girlfriend who's so happy to see him (she's pretty much always happy). But when Buck find out that her father is not the sympathic and tolerant guy he excpected, the Sunday afternoon turns really bad. Baaaaaad. Bad."

Directed By :

Denis Bouyer
rigamix@gmail.com

Yann De Preval
yann_de_preval@hotmail.com

Vincent E Sousa
vinz.esousa@gmail.com
(Rigging reel : vimeo.com/​13957690)

Laurent Monneron
laurent.monneron@gmail.com

Sound Design: Julien Begault
julien.begault@gmail.com

Music : Yannis Dumoutiers and Mickaël Védrine
www.yannisdumoutiers.com

Softwares : Photoshop, 3Ds Max, Fusion, Premiere Pro.

Gobelins (( Animated Shorts ))

The only thing that I know about gobelins is that they make some GREAT animation and they are located somewhere in France.. here are some shorts that I found on Youtube: (at the end I have the link to their channel on utube for more)

M. Eustache

Chaman

Jean-Luc

Le Royaume

Smoke my Christmas

Monstera Deliciosa

Le lac gelé

Fenrir

Pandore

Le ruban - 红发带

Jelly Sunday

Un tour de manège

and MANY more!!! go check their channel on YouTube

Jean-Luc ( Animated Short )

Le Royaume (( Animated Short ))

Maya tips - Hypershade //Tutorial by JDT

Here is a tutorial about Hypershade in Maya by James Thompson

“Todor and Petru”

 One more post from CartoonBrew is about the short "Todor & Petru". Find the original post from Cartoon Brew at the end of the post.

Todor & Petru is an unofficial music video for The Thunderclaps’ “Judgment Day” made by Gobelins students Remi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Nicolas Pegon and Jérémy Pires during an internship at Paris-based WIZZ.




I’ll admit that I dismissed the piece as nothing special the first time I watched it, but I was quite impressed the second time around when I paid closer attention and realized what they were actually doing. The combination of drawn animation (Flash?) and pixilated live-action is mixed together very smartly. It’s done in such a way so that the piece has the cinematic bravado of a computer animated film while retaining the organic and expressive design qualities of drawn animation. It’s a worthwhile experiment that merits further exploration, and pushes Todor & Petru beyond the typical combo of 2D animation over live elements.
Their Vimeo account also features this earlier piece that appears to be a test or development for Todor & Petru:



(Thanks, DVO and Rohit Iyer)

Thanks, CartoonBrew!

Here is the link to the original post from CartoonBrew