The Brothers McLeod - 365: One Year, One Film, One Second a Day.

You really should watch all of "365 - One Year, One Film, One Second a Day" by @brothersmcleod

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the progress that the Brothers McLeod and it is a fantastic set of animations, great quirky, funny little moment really good sound design. You get to see the year flash before eyes in just over six and a half minutes.


365 - One Year, One Film, One Second a Day - Trailer from The Brothers McLeod on Vimeo.

Cuushe - Airy Me

Haunting, slightly disturbing, yet strangely beautiful hand drawn music video the looks like it's about testing experimental drugs on a child. There is lots of camera movement that allows the imagery to transform from one object or character to another. All the movement add to the rather surreal story that is unfolding.



Cuushe - Airy Me from flau on Vimeo.

New Travis song "Moving" video and the making of..

Okay so it's been a little while since I posted anything but the has been an awful lot going on over the past year but it is my intention to try to return to blogging post haste.

I was shown the new Travis video (I am not a fan) as it has some really interesting process in it.
It's shot in a freezing cold studio and animations are projected onto their breath. The reason I have chosen to look at this is because this could have turned into an uber complex projection mapped video but it appears to be relatively speaking straightforward. Well planned, well executed and some time spent setting up the positions of the video projectors, cameras and band members to project directly onto their breath.





and the making of




Thanks to @mattthehorse for showing me this.

Solipsist - Experimental film

Solipsist is an experimental film by Andrew Huang. 


The first time I watched it my immediate response was wow that there is some amazing CG and post production work going on. It turns out is pretty much all real visual effects using practical problem solving solutions, then composited and cleaned up in post.


All in all a brilliant demonstration of what you can do before post production starts.


Thanks to @ifuhaveto for pointing this one out. 


Solipsist



SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.




The Making of Solipsist


SOLIPSIST - Making Of from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

Tim Burton’s The World of Stainboy: Watch the Complete Animated Series | Open Culture

Tim Burton’s The World of Stainboy: Watch the Complete Animated Series

Via OpenCulture

"In his 1997 book of drawings and verse, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, Tim Burton imagines a bizarre menagerie of misfits with names like Toxic Boy, Junk Girl, the Pin Cushion Queen and the Boy with Nails in his Eyes.

“Inspired by such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl,” writes James Ryan in the New York Times, “Mr. Burton’s slim volume exquisitely conveys the pain of an adolescent outsider. Like his movies, the work manages to be both childlike and sophisticated, blending the innocent with the macabre.”

One of those adolescent outsiders is Stain Boy, a strange kind of superhero:

He can’t fly around tall buildings,
or outrun a speeding train,
the only talent he seems to have
is to leave a nasty stain.

Sometimes I know it bothers him,
that he can’t run or swim or fly,
and because of this one ability,
his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

In 2000, Burton extended Stain Boy’s adventures (and compressed his name into one word) with The World of Stainboy, a series of short animations commissioned for the Internet by Shockwave.com. “For some stories you have to wait for the right medium,” Burton said at the time. “I think (the Internet’s) the perfect forum to tell a sad little story like this one. Stainboy is a character that doesn’t do much. He’s just perfect for four-minute animations.”

Burton created a series of sketches, watercolors and pastel-accented gray-on-gray washes and brought them, along with a script and storyboards, toFlinch Studio for translation into Macromedia Flash animation. Twenty-six episodes were planned, but only six were completed. “Stainboy was an experiment in developing revenue streams for the Web,” writes Alison McMahan in The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Contemporary Hollywood, “but it did not succeed, at least not financially.”

The Stainboy character was resurrected briefly in late 2010, when Burton invited fans to compose a new Stainboy adventure in brief installments via Twitter. Burton pieced together a story using the best tweets. (You can read the final result here.) Meanwhile, the original Web animations have continued to attract a following. You can watch the complete six-part series below in HD. As you will see, some episodes introduce new characters — Stare Girl, Toxic Boy, Bowling Ball Head and the rest:"

Episode 1: Stare Girl


 
It's best to go to OpenCulture or you tube to see the remaining  5 installments as it will bring my blog to a halt as they try to load up.  OpenCulture

Double G Studios

I've never heard of Double G Studios before but the two rebrands below are beautiful, particularly the Tate video content rebrand. It's got some great vfx in it that give the Tate a future facing feel to their brand. The sound design is really well done, creating an excellent soundscape (in my opinion) and it makes effective use of panning and stereo effects.

Double G Studios: Tate Rebranding

Sometimes it just proves that you can't beat real world physical visual effects This time Double G projected onto a glass structure and shot on 35mm. 

More on Vimeo

(via Motionographer)

Invisible VFX - ShadeVFX

Shade VFX were involved in producing some of the VFX for the new The Muppets (2012) film. As is often the case it's not all about explosions and and 3D Robots stomping around town. Sometimes it's much more subtle and about the unseen...

http://www.shadevfx.com/work/feature-films/the-muppets/


The Great Muppet Removal from shade VFX on Vimeo.