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A nicely shot and animated homage to the individuals who have produced landmark titles for features in the past.
Quirky German animation with George Melieres overtones. Direction and animation: Jeroen Houben & Jurjen Versteeg.
Simple, in style and colour animation but with clever technicalities and expertly executed.
Idents and branding for the French History channel. Very subtle but with some very nice clever features to it, especially with the show times towards the end.
Another use of 3D unfolding card, getting more and more complex. A small world is unraveled in a small fresh colour scheme with wonderful camera movements.
Telling the story of a Toyota, the “open book” idea is used again, but with ink and more of a travel guide. The apply a variety of techniques on a standard theme as the video progresses.
A great little promotional video from Binalogue, relating the pleasures of Planet IFE an inflight entertainment & advertising company.
Nice mix of 2D animation with 3D to give a flawless subtle look. Simple and subdued it warns of the health issues with certain fizzy drinks.
Quintessentially British film from the Royal College, animating line drawn illustrations.
Branding idents for the tv channel with a high female demographic. Shiny things, lipsticks, handbags, all that stuff girls like.
Quirky puppet style animation added a comical twist to the outrageous expenses scandal. Illustrative styling and cut out photos allowed a mix real people without being too liable for Channel 4.
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A find by Mr. Rob Edmonds about rail saftey using quirky block coloured 3D animation to give a graphic flat traditional styling.
This is an amazing piece of work. The camera movement, depth of field, modelling and explosions work really well.
Not sure you really need weather forecasting for the Arabian Gulf, but if you did this is the one.
End titles for the film. Referencing early 1960’s title sequences as inspiration, simple shapes are used to graphically represent scientific data including DNA sequencing, mitosis, meiosis, and gene technology.
Another video looking like a 70s instructional manual, but nicely packaged and expertly done. I always like anything isometric.
Infographic about the risk of AIDS/HIV in the third world. The film uses typography and simple graphics to tell the story.
Infographic about environmentalism. Stylized CGI and clever transitional animation create a clear yet lovely backdrop for the information by Uli Henrik Streckenbach.
Animation based on Vahram Muratyan’s stunning book of illustrations, very flat simple and graphic and colourful.
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The new 2012 trailer for Wimbledon from Red Bee Media. Still trying to work out whether this this could have been achieved without painstaking attention to detail.
‘High School’ doodles animate in to provide a young naive feel to the hand-drawn titles.
Simple animated lego characters sit on an environment of an animated moleskin background. Fun and quirky with simple but sophisticated animation.
Demo reel for Sander can Dijk. Involves some nice kaleidoscopic 2D graphics and some 3D. Also a nice photo rip idea half way through.
Nice short film about the expansion to Oslo Airport. The film was made using small models of wood and cardboard to give it that handmade finish which is an interesting combination for a film about an airport expansion.
Great little animated piece especially if you denote all the ways the water icon is used
My weakspot, flat coloured isometric graphics. A couple nice transitions and I’m sold. Graphics, people, graphics.
Student Film (applause) by a Mike Ko. Mocking up and tracking a 3D diorama on an iPhone. Very nice on the close up with the textures.
Nice simple animation for a Nokia video by Punga. Using bold colours and simple flat isometric animation, allow plenty of space for text.
Manvsmachine created these 10 abstract collisions for Toyota sponsorship for C4 programming.
Production company:Nexus & Audio: Echolab
Quayola (aka ‘dQ’) and Memo Akten through digital production outfit Nexus Interactive Arts, have created ‘Forms’, a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme.
A lot of work has gone into this intel commercial Smith & Foulkes (nexus productions).
A fine piece of work by agency ‘plus one’ using a collection of techniques to attempt to get under the paint of these collection of works, in this case on the story of Amsterdam, Holland.
I was more impressed with this when I watched it mute but it’s still an impressive piece by Colin Rozee with the soundtrack.
John Kelly’s film advertising for Chipotle. Using simple character animation and flat colouring turns a narrative quite graphic look for a stop-frame film.
Very clever and atmospheric short film with very high production values directed by Carl E. Rinsch.
A montage here of lots of clips, useful for a bit of inspiration. Starting with adapting photos and moving in to all sorts of idents and motion graphics. Useful credit list of all the featured films at the end too.
Commercial animating with a CGI card texture to create origami style movement, folding into/from the box packaging.
3D animation matted on to a flat black texture to give a 2D imprinted look Continue Reading →
Title animation using purely motion graphics and clever transitions with a small colour pallete to great effect. Lots of documents.
I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.
A study in high speed photography or clever morphing of stills using twixter plugin for After Effects.
3D schematics are layouts of the cruise ships give an investigative look to the Dispatches look at Cruise ship employment
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This is just a great, heart warming advert combining kids drawings by means of camera tracking and clever compositing.
Test into a simple pen line which can then be rotated into three dimensions.
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Animation morphing CG oil to create shapes and settings for animation and archive footage.
Playful surreal advert using 3D to follow a family’s journey through the sky and into the building of car.
Cinema 4D CGI test into global illumination. Lighting the shapes from within to create colour and light within the composition.
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Car Commercial using pencil sketching mapped on to a 3D service to create a graphical feel and advertise craftmanship
Animated pitch using a form of parallaxing to create an extreme slow-motion effect of a horse mid-jump.
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CGI animation documenting the creation of the earth in a scientific way, yet narratively based around religion.
Discovery channel ident using 3D composited over blue-print backgrounds to create a diagramatic data look.
Advert using film frames and alot of 3D to create a fast-paced adventure through their TV programming.
Live action is tracked in certain points, and medical 3D animation is overlayed to look like X-Rays.
Commericial using trapcodes (I think) to create medical style 3D animations for Momentum Health.
A nicely designed graphic presentation using a mixture of flat shaded 3D and 2D animation.
Inventive use of overlaying an animation of stiched together Google maps images.
Great use of a prop to contain the battlefield graphics in this series presented by the Snows. This programme features the ‘Battle of Newbury’ and the ‘Battle of Nazeby’ during the English Civil War. First battle about 9.00 in.
Technical graphics and kaleidoscopic animation provide a data heavy car commercial.
Cartoon Network ident using retro stylings and parallax manipulation of photographs.
Static titles using close-ups of paper and documents with subtle animation to create a coded typographical sequence.
Old diagrams are animated in 2D and 3D to create a vintage looking title sequence with a graphic feel.
This sequence block shades the live action and adds it together with animation to create a very bold graphicly styled sequence.
Graphical sequence using buzzing numbers to convey telephone hacking and voicemail decoding for Channel 4’s Dispatches.
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Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel
Titles for Robin hood mixing traditional painterly techniques with a modern twist.
End credits rotoscoping frames in a hand-drawn ink style over video footage.
Medical CGI sequences explaining the effects on drugs within the body.
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A complex mixing of styles and worth a view for the design if not the message. Watch on motiongraphics.
Series of quick and simple videos using cut out animation on a plain background to convey a message by Digital Kitchen.
Yes everyone has gone gaming made in the UK since they relaxed the rules but this promo from ‘The Mill’ is a quite a good use of the video being tracked and added overlays to increase the tension.
Superb use of the pop up book to animate this tale.
Directed by Psyop.
Titles for american sitcom using text from a book to animate the characters and type throughout.
Text and animation added together to form the speech without any photos or footage.
Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.
Clever and subtle use of repeated computer animation in to synchronise to a rhythm.
