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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.
Prologue piece together a clever device shooting close-ups with a muted palette and short depth of field. The series is a modern take on Sherlock Holmes by CBS starring Lucy Liu as Watson. I know, right.
Another video looking like a 70s instructional manual, but nicely packaged and expertly done. I always like anything isometric.
Nice combination of 2D and 3D to create a hi-tech styled commercial for a magazine app.
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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As far as i can make out most of this promo was achieved in camera with very little apparent past-production.
Clever use of super-imposing and tracking for this advert. Using boxes to separate action and have elements interact between them in a rustic setting.
A cardboard diorama. Always nice. A simple model, with the softness of cardboard makes a industrial production process seem friendly.
Nice title sequence using interesting motion on hockey notation and jump cut editing
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.
“The Forty story” is a short film which documents the work of Pentagram. Its carried by a clever audio track to accompany their history of print.
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.
We used quirky animation and a mixed paper layout to roam across individuals and details in for Dispatches’ investigation into HMRC. Elements are drawn appear with marker pens to direct the viewer to different areas.
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Advertising using tracking and compositing of motion graphics and text to recreate science, music, mathematics and space.
Nice bit of tracking and great cinematography but still slightly tongue in cheek – I think?
directed / edited / vfx – Dimitris Ladopoulos, Spiros Rasidakis
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).
Very good use of presenter in a studio cut with very stylised graphics. Design & Animation: Oz Smith
Creative Director: Greg Millar for BBC sport.
A simple technique to use on photographs, some with poorer resolution to add a little more mystery to a rostrum move.
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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.
Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever – Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Stay with it, kids.
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.
Mixture of stop-motion and CGI to create a 3D children’s diorama as a playful setting for the car.
3D animation matted on to a flat black texture to give a 2D imprinted look Continue Reading →
Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.
Conceptual trailer for female missionary who left American Civil war ravaged Virginia for China. Well crafted trailer.
These documents have been treated in a 3D program to suggest they have been shot with short depth of field and textured and graded to give that warm elegantly lit appearance.
Slick use of simple 3D use lights and heavy reflections to creative colourful graphic visuals.
Titles incoporating archive stills by placing them against a plane of breaking glass. Not for the very squeamish…
Video installations at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum.
Tests using the Visible Human Project data – see original video here. And creating a 3D model with the CAT scan.
Title animation using purely motion graphics and clever transitions with a small colour pallete to great effect. Lots of documents.
Mapping Test, creating a 3D model of Mr. Churchill and wrapping his image around it, to create an extreme parallaxed dimension on to an ordinary archive still.
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Some serious time-freeze action going on here. My guess is a mixture of parallax, 3D mapping, plenty of wire and mannequins. (..too many people in masks..)
I guess these guys got in before airmiles added their fees & taxes. Great little sequence which must have been months in the planning.
What appears to be a great piece of motion capture was actually created using stills which were then applied to 3D models of human heads to create the idea of cameras moving around frozen action.
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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Highlights from big series by Nutopia. Good example of use of drama reconstruction which surprisingly was all shot in S. Africa.
Just lovely simple advert with actor, one camera and the sunlight. Like the brashness of the jump cuts.
Animation morphing CG oil to create shapes and settings for animation and archive footage.
We’ve experimenting with techniques to bleed through images, either from one to another to fade in an image, giving it a natural, organic introduction.
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Sculpted steel tubes shape the car body and details as the 3D camera traverses through the space.
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
Tracking data graphics over satellite imagery to get a sci-fi technological feel.
Very simple move on stills, replicating a rostrum move, but we’ve added a more complex 3D virtual camera, a tighter depth of field, a table setting with lighting and a glossy reflection to the photographs.
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Flat maps displaced in using cgi for American West series.
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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.
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.
