London directing and design duo Yum Yum (Beth Algieri and Jonny Plummer) just brightened our day with this submission about the sport of contact parking and the very real possibility of death by meat. Love the use of roadkill as foreshadowing.
UK director/animator/writer Ian Robertson takes song lyric animation to a whole new level of low tech complexity using “2295 photos, 438 printed labels, 4 days, 2 crumpets, and 1 tub of Lyrical Spread.” The track is “The Batter, The Rapper, and The Mad Hatter” by The Chameleon.
Jack Portman / Not Actual Size has released a plague of death upon the animal kingdom in his latest short “Of Life & Death”. Based on the illustrations and characters of Craig “Wotto” Watkins, with audio and sound design by Braincloud.
Watch “Of Life & Death”
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.
Watch “TELEPHONEME” and download the font here
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Well styled and perfectly scripted is this student film by Frank Robnik on the dangers of Graboids, the subterranean beasts best known for their starring role in Tremors. The work was created as Robnik’s graduating thesis from the University of Applied Sciences in Ausburg, Germany.
Watch “Monstrous Wildlife”
Stash 71 delivers another 30 stunning animation and VFX projects PLUS the incredible bonus film “Descendants” and a must-see selection of Behind the Scenes extras PLUS nine more bonus MP3 tracks courtesy of the fine people at Difrnt/Spitfire Music in Australia.Sign up for a free 3-day trial to Stash and watch Stash 71 now.
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Here’s the :47 second trailer for the striking B&W origami-styled short from director Michael Please. For now, you will have to settle for this trailer since the full version of “The Eagleman Stag” is making the rounds on the festival circuit.
Watch the trailer for “The Eagleman Stag”
Olivier at Paris design/direction/motion graphics studio Moustache just sent us this powerful CG data visualization demonstrating the size of the 2010 US military budget, and promises this is the first in a series. Music and sound design by David Kamp
An arcane land, massive machines, a creature awoken from its slumber; like a rock album cover come to life this is the “Fright of the Orkonnon” created for Shots 20th anniversary issue by PepperMelon, directed by Fernando Sarmiento.
Watch Fright of the Orkonnon
With this hand-animated short film, director Stephen Ong offers a little insight into the human machine and it’s consumption addiction.
“Electric Counterpoint” might look like it was animated using Processing, but it was actually lovingly crafted with minimal automation. The work was created as a pro-bono visual accompaniment piece to the music of Steve Reich. Production: WeAreSBK.
Watch “Electric Counterpoint”
Once again using HP printers as their canvas directing duo Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson have created a stop-motion master work.
From Wrigglesworth: “It all started around a year ago when we created a video for Hewlett Packard in response to a student competition. HP have since approached us about the film that we made, and they have commisioned us to make a sequel to the original film. It was filmed over a week, using HP Photosmart printers to feed the paper in real time. We then sped up the footage until the pages began to animate.” Music: missdavinalee
Watch “Hit Print”
Cours Toujours is a darling tale from artists Elise Garcette and Olivier Barré of La Station Animation. In their spare time between paying gigs, the duo decided to get back to their animating roots and create just for the fun of it. Music by Pilöt.
Watch “Cours Toujours”
