December 24, 2012

Stunningly good Destiny fan video

Filed under: Animation,film,Video Games — joshua @ 6:21 pm

It’s hard to believe fan videos have reached such an accomplished level.  This guy, who goes by Art in Motion, has made a truly accomplished trailer for Bungie’s Destiny, using nothing more than the few images that got leaked out through IGN recently.

Color me impressed, sir.  If I were you, I’d give Bungie a call.  I hear they’re hiring.

November 24, 2012

Kara

Filed under: Animation,stuff,Video Games — joshua @ 1:12 pm

Okay, this is an incredibly beautiful, surprisingly moving short film — which is actually just a software test.

David Cage, video game auteur and boundarie pusher, is behind this.  It’s a prototype of human simulation software running on the Playstation 3.

Take a breath, and try not to be moved by this.

December 4, 2011

Address Is Approximate

Filed under: Animation — joshua @ 9:24 am

Here’s an incredibly sweet new piece of animation I’ve fallen for:

According to Deadline Hollywood:
The stop-motion animation short, about a lonely office desk toy taking a cross-country trip with the help of Google Street View, has gone viral, amassing 1.7 million viewers since it was posted 12 days ago.

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

December 3, 2010

Seaweed

Filed under: Animation — joshua @ 5:12 pm

Lovely…

February 18, 2009

Really sweet animation/live action interaction

Filed under: Animation — joshua @ 4:41 am

February 16, 2009

Some Cool Animation

Filed under: Animation,film — joshua @ 1:55 pm

Check out some great animated pieces I found online this morning.

This is a music video from an Israeli singer named Oren Lavie, with some lovely uplifting stop-motion. Utterly charming…

There’s a page all about how the video was made: here. It notes: 

* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.

Here’s a trailer for a film called “Sita Sings the Blues,” that was animated by a woman named Nina Paley. 

Here’s the description:

“Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epicRamayana. Set to the 1920′s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

Very excited to see this movie. It plays on WNET PBS in NYC on March 7, then at the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NY), on March 14.

The website’s here.
And here’s a great NY Times article all about it too.