16 January 2011

“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.









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




14 January 2011

Bouzouki by Night - Awful Greek Restaurant @Manchester

First of all I have never seen a restaurant / CLUB (!) again in my life. Usually it's either restaurant OR club.

I went there with my girlfriend on the 31st of December (New Year's Eve) to enjoy the Greek Hospitality (I laugh now) and some good food (laughing louder). I have to say at this point that I am Greek too!

The only good thing that all Greeks know very well how to sell is their fake friendly attitude. I would so much like to spend a nice evening there and write the best review now but they just didn't try. They told us we could have as much food as we wanted for a price per person and that we would have greek live music. Instead of all that they served us 3 plates with awful tin food and a couple of meats that smelled weird and when  we went for a smoke outside they took the plates with the reason "We thought you were done!" When we asked to order they said the kitchen was closed. So we would have to drink the bottle of whiskey we bought (which was already opened when we got it btw) with no food at all. When I told them they said "Aren't you full yet?" I didn't know to slap them or laugh at them.

The big surprise came a bit later. Right after the new year change, live music (which was a detuned guitar and a bouzouki playing along with iTunes) stopped and they turned down the lights and changed the music to really loud famous american pop songs (the point is that they were not greek) The question is why would anybody go to a greek restaurant to listen to Black Eyed Peas when Manchester is full of great clubs and pubs for that. When I asked them they said that "some customers are not Greek" !

They totally ruined New Year's Eve for us. I left the restaurant swearing that I'll write about that everywhere. Behaviour, food and hospitality were awful.

Now regarding their Unprofessional website, I would really love to share with you and comment on their "funny" website but I don't want to advertise them in ANY way. Also what's with the double card? These too images I share are from the same professional (lol) card.

 Just avoid them and you'll be fine.. This is the first time I feel so disappointed and angry.

Definitely not going there again ever and I'll make sure to spread the word to every Greek and non that I know in UK.

κι επειδή το blog είναι δικό μου και γράφω όπως γουστάρω για την "να'χαμε να λέγαμε" κωλοταβέρνα σας και για να σας το πω και στη γλώσσα σας, πιο "ελληνικά", να το καταλάβετε παλιο ζώα Αντε και γαμηθείτε.

Left Blue

18 December 2010

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.


14 December 2010

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".