People are strange from Denis Fongue on Vimeo.

Curiosity Group

- Alberto Cs...

Nike ad by David Fischer ... the guy who directed Fight Club.

Chris Milk

Really liking the work of Director Chris Milk. He's done work with Nike, Gnarls Barkley and Kanye West.

Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?"
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Maccas Billboard

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Exhibition Site Inspiration

Really amazing navigation... need (yes, its a NEED not a want) to find out how to do it. Could be a cool incorporation into my website:


Nice slick photo gallery with unique loading bar :

Alice in Wonderland Remixed

Absolutely addictive:



The site that's displaying the video, isnt actually the real video. This yoooouuutuube site gets any youtube video and displays it in however many columns and rows you want and sort of cannons the video giving you this cool effect.

The original video is on youtube made by this guy who has remixed other songs in a similar way.

"The music video for my song 'Alice', an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'."

What do you see?

beate-ushe erotic tv from joseyyo on Vimeo.

360 Video

Immersive Media does some cool videos where you can pan around anyway you want. So it looks like you're right there... it's abit like google maps street view.. but video form.

Ladyhawke

Really beautiful illustrations by Sarah Larnach. Directed by Frater.

Nike Men vs. Women

Love it! Love the concept!!

Nike +

Men vs Women

New Math

Elements of life put into maths equations by Craig Damrauer, doing his bit to make life easier for us/find its meaning: 

The Lost Tribes of NYC

Simple yet effective animation techniques that make these interviews stand out. 

Blog Redesign

Background I created for my blog.  Used Illustrator to create the shapes. To create the seamless pattern i just offset the background. It seems simple but took me about 1 hours to remember how to get the background looking right! 

Scintillation

An experimental film by Xavier Chassaing. It's made up of over 35,000 photographs combing stop-motion and projection mapping techniques. He shows us the amazing quality you can get without spending hundreds and thousands of dollars on equipment just as long as you have the patience. 

Motion Graphics Collection

The Ronin

London based motion designer Rob Chiu has worked for clients such as BBC, Nokia and Channel 4. He's got some really slick stuff, here's his 2007 showreel, but you can see his '09 one if you head over to his site.

Felix & Paul

Canadians Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael consider themselves to be film, advertising and music video directors. Going through some motion graphics sites I came across their work for the Nuclear Forum of Belgium. It combines real-life video with some really beautiful 2D animation. The do a lot of cinematic work which photographic quality shots so have a look at their site if you're interested. 

So Me

Music video by the one and only So Me who also did Justices' video D.A.N.C.E.

Hornet Inc

A production company based at NYC, they work with a range of different media; from live action, animation, mixed media, stop-motion, 2D, 3D and film. This really shows in this spot for the Ronald McDonald House Charity. I really like the way that all these different mediums are combined and all the different styles still come together to make this really nice ad.

Royksopp

Really amazing informatics style video for Royksopp's song "Remind Me".

It says its been disabled by request so here's the URL: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

Which then inspired this person do a similar video

hellovon

Hellovon

Really good pencil drawings for some big names like Nike, Ogilvy and Mather, American Express and Playboy 

Funny Stuff

Adverts for a backpackers in Amsterdam. Maybe should have been put up in our backpackers in Sydney... 

Themed website : Headcase Designs

A fun way to approach advertising. Large scale video that would've been amazing to be apart of... (Behind the scenes or on camera!)

Typography

Jeremy Pettis' animal inspired typography:

Cool little site where you just use your keyboard to trigger words from the Daft Punk song..




Also, the Litmus application which allows you to take screenshots of what your website/email will look like in other browsers. Not sure how useful it would be if you don't pay for it...

Music Videos

and this music video thats like the modern version of Whitney's permutations...



Cool mix of found footage:

Puppets + Type

Coldplay's Life in Technicolour II Video.
It's something similar to what I wanted to do for my Beatles song concept.



Just a cool typography site Words are Pictures.

D.A.N.C.E.

All time favourite video:

American studio Stardust's 2008 Showreel, has a lot of cool motion graphics in it. It's someplace that I'd definately want to work at when I graduate.


This one especially ... i like the cut-out effect, which would be good for my Sgt. Pepper concept. I like the way it travels through the animation and how everything connects.


I like the use of repetition for long notes in the song and sharp cuts/zooms for drumbeats Futureheads video for "Decent Days and Nights"



"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."

Bright Colours!

MTV-One from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

T-Shirt Art

More electro lo-fi from Studio Mopa

Pop-Up Book

The Eco Zoo


PopUpTV from Awork on Vimeo.


pop-up Moldova from nicolas Ermakoff on Vimeo.


Livro Pop-up - parte 02 from Fábio Lux e Carol Simonetti on Vimeo.


Alice Pop-Up from Jonathan Henry on Vimeo.

Animatic #3

It started by a jay jays shirt, of which i can hopefully find a photo. If not, there seems to be this type of ... 'lo-fi' 'vintage' style that im interested in. You can see in Jeffrey Bowman's work.



A more modern interpretation, well, something that i think relates is well is this idea of geometric graffiti by Sick Systems.






Also, this flickr set with what the photography terms is 'vintage' and lo-fi'

Simple.. vibrating circles... could be developed further in terms of synching it with audio

Animatic #2 - Cut-outs

Looking through my music, I was interested in using one of The Beatles songs. I cropped their song 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' to make it fit a minute and went researching a style that could work well with the music.

It started of with one of The Beatles videos:


Then the idea of stage, cut-outs, puppets, old black and white detailed drawings...
Red Interactive

and Cirque du Soleil


One of the more quirky and strange scenes from the movie Across the Universe:


Also thinking about traditional sources of inspiration like Alice in Wonderland, the Disney classic and even the Jan Svankmajer version (The scenes where she's being chased by the queen/chasing after the rabbit):





Interesting demo reel by Adam Amaral:

Adam Amaral Febuary 2009 Demo Reel from adam amaral on Vimeo.

Animatic #1 - Typography

Typography is an area that I'd really like to explore, since we haven't really touched on it much in the last 2 years but for Vis Com students is a norm.

Gavin Strange Bristol-based designer has his own personal portfolio site Jam Factory said something in Issue 119 of Computer Arts Projects :

"I think typography is going to continue to be a strong element in the design world in the future, especially the art of making a spoken statement look beautiful. With the current social, economical and political climate everyone has an opinion, and with the aid of well crafted typography and info-graphics messages are going to be seen and heard."

Looking more into the typography explorations on youtube, I really like the Wedding Crashers


And Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...


The Dexter tribute is a little different from the rest, where the series' theme of blood splatter is replicated with a kind of smoking misty/mysterious effect...

Week 1

I was looking at the Psypop studio website and the Dante's Inferno trailer was really impressive. I was going to use it as part of my post but its already on the Studio blog...

London agency TBWA (which stands for Tragos, Bonnange, Wiesendanger and Ajroldi: the founding partners) created this TV campaign for E.ON.. it's a quick ..less than a minute clip. But is just minimalist eye candy.
http://www.tbwa-london.com/play_movie.php?movie=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tbwa-london.com%2Fassets%2Fmovies%2Fwork%2FEON_See_it_and_Save%2FTGS-ENBR032-010_beam.mov&TB_iframe=true&height=300&width=500

something quirky ... Folio of London-based designer Andy Martin...
What stands out for me though is his work for Nike...
http://www.andymartin.info/motion/index-motion18.html
I really like that detailed black and white effect.
Similar to this 2D still advert
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/alkaseltzer_you_are_here_2?size=_original

... and his E4 Stings/ idents
http://www.andymartin.info/motion/index-motion8.html


PIXELBASED art? ...
there's lots of stuff out there, and things like habbohotel.com that use pixel art. Could be an interesting concept to followthrough.
http://www.wildemedia.co.uk/ has still shots of a pixel town called Dullsville.

From John Whitney's geometric responses to audio, it got me thinking about the connections to abstract art and using art/motion graphics as a response to something. Shapes --> splatter like Jackson Pollock...

Those moving shapes in Whitney's work played an integral role in the synchronisation of the whole thing but what do does shapes mean ... I could change them, use symbols? Look in to aboriginal art work... LACE? .. Renaissance clothing and fashions. Looking back to the ACMI exhibition in 2007. Lace is quite intricate and could be developed further.