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Hailing from their little tree house in Berlin, the Monkeymen are happy to announce the release of a new Experimental Animation Piece: SKINLINES.

Herr Schobel: A lot of time, effort and love has been put into this shiny little gem. We hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it. Feel free to comment, criticise or just show us some love. If you enjoy what you see, spread it around and help us to extend our monkey empire.

Make sure to turn HD on!

Eric Testroete is a 3d artist that created an extra head for himself. (via)

check out his site, to see how it’s made

Made by the photographer Jean-Yves Lemoigne for Amusement. A magazine dedicted to video games and interactive culture.

how it was made

Trevor Brown aka Babyart made an installation at the Hotel Dare in second life. Mescaline Tammas made an explosive little clip as a document of the SL installation; a tribute to Trevor Brown’s work. Music by Venetian Snares.

Shane Acker holed up and spent nearly five years making his 11-minute animated shortfilm 9 , which snagged him a 2005 Oscar nomination and attracted the backing of fantasy auteur Tim Burton.  Read Review

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Dont forget to check out Dieter VDO’s fantastic comic’s and paintings

Cylinder by Andy Huntington and Drew Allan is an elegant series of data sculpture based on sound analysis. A mapping of the frequency and time domains produces cylindrical forms representing the spatial characteristics of the sound input. Physical versions of the digital 3D models are then 3D printed using stereolithography.

The idea of mapping sound to space is not unfamiliar. The Cylinder project shows similar strategies to those used in the exhibition Frozen, which showed sound represented as a continous space rather than as a one-dimensional signal. However, Cylinder is from 2003, predating Frozen and making it somewhat of an early example of the data sculpture genre.

Read more at generator.x

cgi asteroid impact to the music of pink floyd’s “the great gig in the sky” (dark side of the moon)

A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Director: Joaquin Baldwin

Ryan (2005) is based on the life of Ryan Larkin, a Canadian animator who, 30 years ago, produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. In the film, we hear the voices of prominent animators and artists discussing Ryan’s work, and from waitresses, mission-house caretakers and homeless people who make up Ryan’s life.

Walking 1968 by Ryan Larkin

Coraline is a fantasy/horror novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002. It has been compared to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and has been adapted into a 2009 stop-motion film directed by Henry Selick.

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Find more info about the movie, plus Trailer, Making of and Outtakes at CoralineTheMovie’s youtube channel

Winter Days (冬の日 Fuyu no Hi) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based upon the renga of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō.

The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material — the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute. (via)

Winter Days won the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003.

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Peripetics is a fantastic experimental CG short. The “piece in six acts” was made by London-based Zeitguised for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. (via cartoonbrew, thanks guys!)

It’s always good to give people reminders of what is possible when you don’t stick with just a mouse and keyboard. This is a very nice piece of interface work for 3D drawing. The system is called Rhonda. The drawing is a bit on the abstract art side, but it’s easy to see the level of control he has. (via procrastineering.blogspot.com)

In Radiohead’s 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. Directed by James Frost.
You can play with their data visualization through a 3D viewer on code.google, and download the data to create something new. To see and share results check out the house of cards group on youtube. 60 versions were already made!
(more info at creative/radiohead)

The Making-of House of Cards video

A short film by Flat-e. The project began life as a film to accompany a performance by the London Sinfonietta of Edgard Vareses Ionisation. An inspiring 20th century composer who pioneered works that cross over into the electronic scene of today.

The piece shows what you can achieve when people collaborate in an unventilated environment where superglue fumes outweigh the oxygen 6:1.

music by the new talented uk artist Ultre

candas sisman on vimeo // deviant art

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subcontious 2 d animation film 2005

The new commercial for Philips new CINEMA 21:9 TV by Adam Berg is bound to be one of the most talked about ads of the year.
(Amsterdam 2009 Grand Prix TV Cannes lions advertising)

It’s an impossible time-slice one-shot of the biggest, most destructive cops vs. clowns battle you’ll ever see (this side of the last Batman movie). And it’s called Carousel, because Adam designed it to be watched in an endless loop.

You might want to refer to the making of the film, and visit it’s micro-site to try to figure out how Adam Berg and his collaborators managed to pull it off. The ad and the web construction were both by Stink Digital, the music by Michael Fakesch. (via)

Making of Philips Carousel

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Check out this amazing blog post on the upcoming Pixar Movie UP. It’s got tons of development art, animated fx tests, and photos.

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