For those of you who couldn’t make it to this years Siggraph Computer Animation Festival, I’ve got some good news for you. Lucas Martell’s animated film, “Pigeon: Impossible”, has finally been released for all to see on YouTube!
It’s a really charming short, expertly done, and is honestly just as good as anything Pixar has to [...]

Check out this amazing animation done for the BBC called ‘Tree of Life’. It aired during the ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ special in Feburary and it has a really awesome ‘Jurassic Park’ vibe to it. Mostly because the narrator sounds spot on to John Hammond.
But besides the awesome narration, the concept they [...]

Alright everyone, drop what you’re doing and check out the new and REAL trailer for James Cameron’s “Avatar”! Fans have crashed the Apple Movies site for the 1080i HD trailer, but traileraddict.com is up and running. So check it out below and let me know what you think in the comments below! Looks like we’re [...]

Check out “District 9” Director Neil Bloomkamp’s 1998 VFS student reel. It has a big time Michael Bay, a’la “Armageddon” vibe to it. But you can really see this Director’s love and, more importantly, understanding of a strong visual language and cinematography.
I really can’t help but wonder what student reels from my graduating class at [...]

Check out this amazing music video using old school Praxinoscopes that production company Blinkink did for musician Moray McLaren. 2D Animation done by director David Wilson.

Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see [...]

The stunning 3D building projects you just sawwere made by a company called NuFormer in the Netherlands. The process of how they create such amazing animations isn’t widely known for obvious reasons. But if I had to guess they start out by talking a series of photogrammetric images, allowing them to them model a fairly [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days folks. Been pretty busy. But I have a few minutes free so I’m spending them with you. And to tell you, I like these videos from Japanese artist Makoto Yabuki…

LINK: Makoto Yabuki

Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo ,Japan.
He started his [...]

I came across these really beautiful car commercials today that the New York based VFX studio Stardust turned out for Shell. I really love the organic feel of these spots, and also the simplicity. But you really have to marvel at the technical skill that went into this too, because ink blot effects are surprisingly [...]

This gave my Thursday a reason to exist. It’s a looping video mural called ‘Civilzation’ and was created by artist Marco Brambilla for the new Standard hotel in New York.
The coolest thing about this piece? It was made with 400 pieces of found footage.

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LINK: Marco Brambilla

Brambilla’s work has been exhibited internationally at such institutions [...]

This week I’ve been watching a great podcast from a very talented 3D artist/Compositor named Lucas Martell. In it he takes you through the entire 5 year process, from concept to final dvd, of creating his animated CG short film, ‘Pigeon: Impossible’.
Now that alone would be really cool, but the short he did also looks [...]