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An explainer video for Mindjet. A typical infographic script, but a character centred twist and clever transitions give it a different feel.
For this year’s US Open Tennis tournament, IBM and Ogilvy & Mather invited ‘Buck’ out to Arthur Ashe Stadium to create live video animations using data from the tournament, delivered via Instagram. Using live data meant designing and deploying a custom toolkit and workflow that could shift with the on-court action, delivering responsive data-based animations, rendered and uploaded in minutes.
Short sting for the “Havana” section, using flat colours in 3D with wonderful camera movement to transition.
Film about the medical condition of Cystic Fibrosis. Using just yellow, black and white in a a hand-drawn way the film transitions throughout different scenarios people and text to describe how the condition affects it’s sufferers.
Animated sequence which is a very stripped down and almost abstract infographic, with echoes of Apple’s “Designed in California” animation. Other versions available to view on Vimeo.
Sebas & Clim create an informative film for Hackney council. The infographic is simple and uncluttered, but with subtle careful animation create a visually appealing video.
Flat coloured 2D animation but cleverly animated to give a 3D feel. A warm colour scheme and soft shapes give it a welcoming feel.
Hand drawn cartoon elements tracked on to nicely shot footage of Paris, gives a friendly upbeat feeling to an urban landscape.
Title design for Pixar’s Up by Janice Ahn. Colourful and playful with quantised colouring to give it a modern graphic feel.
An isometric style animated short film with glossy plastic texturing which has character moments and infographic moments. Lovely colours and lighting.
Model mock ups by Rural Lee for a film for IKEA. The film would have revealed a mini world inside each area of storage.
A Big mixture of CGI, stop motion, animation and live action seemless mix in this crafted advert for the Sun.
An infrographic about Live video animations delivered via instagram. The colour palette and condensed font give a very modern look with slick animation.
Retro style graphics in a 2D graphic style contributes a swinging soundtrack. A fifties style animation similar to Catch Me if You Can.
Rainbow colours in 3D forms characterise this animation by Production Studio: Ars Thanea, Director: Karol Kolodzinski & 3D Artist: Patryk Habryn.
A short animation made for Penguin Books to help promote ‘Is That A Fish In Your Ear?’ by David Bellos. Animation by Matthew Young.
Very much has the feeling of an old 50’s animation. Concept and Animation: Andrea Stinga, Federico Gonzalez.
A Short Animation Inspired by the Works of İlhan Koman with video and sound design by Candas Sisman. Its quite hypnotic once it gets going.
To This Day is a project based on a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan called “To This Day”, to further explore the profound and lasting impact that bullying can have on an individual. Animators and motion artists brought their unique styles to 20 second segments that will thread into one fluid voice.
A charming film by Grant Orchard using papier mache and lo-fi props to make this hand-made cardboard video on recycling.
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.
A great little promotional video from Binalogue, relating the pleasures of Planet IFE an inflight entertainment & advertising company.
Branding idents for the tv channel with a high female demographic. Shiny things, lipsticks, handbags, all that stuff girls like.
Mixing simple live action with animation to create 10 small colourful numerical idents.
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.
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.
Animation based on Vahram Muratyan’s stunning book of illustrations, very flat simple and graphic and colourful.
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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.
My weakspot, flat coloured isometric graphics. A couple nice transitions and I’m sold. Graphics, people, graphics.
Manvsmachine created these 10 abstract collisions for Toyota sponsorship for C4 programming.
Production company:Nexus & Audio: Echolab
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.
Mixture of stop-motion and CGI to create a 3D children’s diorama as a playful setting for the car.
Slick use of simple 3D use lights and heavy reflections to creative colourful graphic visuals.
I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.
This is just a great, heart warming advert combining kids drawings by means of camera tracking and clever compositing.
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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Cartoon Network ident using retro stylings and parallax manipulation of photographs.
Film title sequence using flat colouring with subtle 3D to create a retro graphic feel
Beautiful camera work, interesting fashion and left-field additions to the landscape.
Illustrator Eduardo Recife’s commercial works, a collage feast for the eyes.
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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.
Colourful mix of live action and flat shaded 3D animation in a faux-educational style.
eBooks are introduced by using CGI to look like stop frame animation in a colourful and playful way.
Shot through oil and water to create reflections and simple refraction in a live action experiment.
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Music video using dominos to create the animation, in a kind of modern day pointilism.
Music video mixing live action children with composited cartoon animation for a fun and playful outcome.
