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LA’s Royale crew re-team with Fuel TV to kick out this brand video which contrasts a razor-fine cut with super-loose graphics and comping. Visceral and invigorating.
Cee-Lo takes a lyrical cue from Lily Allen with his new solo single “Fuck You,” from the upcoming album “The Ladykiller”. No word who animated this version but Cee-Lo’s YouTube channel indicates another video will be another video soon.
This music video-esque bit of geometric surrealism from London illustrator/animator Neal Coghlan started life as a single illustration which soon became three animated loops which then became 20 VJ loops after the original three won a €1000 commission in the Resolume competiton. Music by Dutch trio Kraak & Smaak.
Motion legends MK12 take the educational film parody to a fresh new level of design tastiness with this short called “TELEPHONEME.”
The Kansas City studio were inspired by a film from the late 50’s called “The Alphabet Conspiracy” funneling the tone and aesthetics of the period through their singular sense of cool absurdity. Then for bonus marks, MK12 also cooked up the “theoretically perfect and balanced” typeface to accompany the film, complete with a set of arcane rules for it’s use.
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We posted Patrick Clair’s “Yes We Canberra!” infographic last week and after a little more digging we found more worthy work from the prolific Sydney motion designer. Our two faves are the energized titles for an Australian TV show called “HungryBeast” and a cheeky conspiracy infographic called “Google: Trying not to be evil”.
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This new video for Robyn’s “Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do” is billed as “the first ever interactive, 3D video with Twitter integration.”
The anaglyphic video was generated procedurally, with some of the content cued by fans who tweet what is killing them using the Twitter hash tag, #killingme. Thus each viewing is unique and the piece “has the potential to become the infinite video as users can continue to add on to the endless stream of #killingme comments.”
For Blip Boutique: Mary Fagot - CD For Stopp Web: Thomas Björk - Project Manager & Creative, Carl Calderon - Developer & Creative, Jakob Nylund - Design
The new integrated design and animation team at The Mill NY has actually been beavering away quietly on commercial projects for several months but with the premiere of this title sequence for the 2010 OFFF conference they are now officially on everyone’s radar.
For the Mill: Design director: Jeff Stevens, designer: Kim Dulaney, CG lead: Rob Petrie, sr. producer Boo Wong, editor: Moss Levenson, music: Fall on Your Sword, sound design: Henryboy
Smarty pants short from Mark Borgions and HandMade Monsters in Antwerp, Belgium “explaining the philosophy of the new TBWA agency in Paris, called Being.”
Keeping it simple with this delightful minimalism from London based animator / illustrator Jack Cunninghman with his University thesis project “Stuff & Things”.
Buck puts the mesmerizing power of infographics to powerful effect in this trailer urging viewers to pledge to watch “Waiting for Superman”, the feature documentary that doubles as an alarm call about the state of public education in the US.
