Where things come from

My weakspot, flat coloured isometric graphics. A couple nice transitions and I’m sold. Graphics, people, graphics.

iPhone Diorama

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.

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Total

Advertising using tracking and compositing of motion graphics and text to recreate science, music, mathematics and space.

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The carpenter

Nice bit of tracking and great cinematography but still slightly tomgue in cheek – I think?

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Rubicon Titles

Opening titles to the show Rubicon, produced by Imaginary Forces.

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Toyota IQ collisions

Manvsmachine created these 10 abstract collisions for Toyota sponsorship for C4 programming.

Production company:Nexus & Audio: Echolab

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Olympic Forms

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.

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Intel’s chase

A lot of work has gone into this intel commercial Smith & Foulkes (nexus productions).

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Green-screen presenter

Very good use of presenter in a studio cut with very stylised graphics. Design & Animation: Oz Smith
Creative Director: Greg Millar for BBC sport.

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Amsterdam Paintings

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.

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Dancing wireframe

I was more impressed with this when I watched it mute but it’s still an impressive piece by Colin Rozee with the soundtrack.

Helicopter Panorama

Rotor Panorama

Attaching a camera to a helicopter blade,  with surprisingly interesting effects.

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Christmas Card

An animated sequence, made to look like paper origami stop-frame animation.

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Chipotle: Back to the start

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.

Hyper Geography

Hyper Geography

A short film compositing footage, tracking photography and including 3D elements across a variety of landscapes.

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The gift – CGI stylish short film

Very clever and atmospheric short film with very high production values directed by Carl E. Rinsch.

Pinterest

Pinterest personal virtual pinboard

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the cool things you find on the web. Like things your find on sketchpad…

Start here.

Amalgamation

Amalgamation

Winner of the best use of displacement map/compound blur ever – Micaël Reynaud, with portraits by Michael Jang. Stay with it, kids.

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Kerala advert

Very slow pensive advert but some of the photographic shots are superb.

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Montage: What is Motion Design

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.

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Bausch & Lomb – BioTrue

Commercial animating with a CGI card texture to create origami style movement, folding into/from the box packaging.

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Toyota: Diorama

Mixture of stop-motion and CGI to create a 3D children’s diorama as a playful setting for the car.

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Jack Daniel’s Label Story

3D animation matted on to a flat black texture to give a 2D imprinted look Continue Reading →

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The Kingdom

Graphic titles combined with sand tinted archive to produce a brief history of Saudi Arabia.

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Movida Corona

Simple camera movements on a well-lit 3D model provide slick visuals.

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Channel 4 Ident

Classic series of idents using a moving camera to reveal a logo in 3D space.

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Heart of rebel

Conceptual trailer for female missionary who left American Civil war ravaged Virginia for China. Well crafted trailer.

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The Boy with the Incredible Brain

Graphics from the documentary, focusing on light and refraction.