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Evil Bee Menomena

Directed by Stefan Nadelman

Look at this amazing animation painted on wall created by blu.

Link here, See also Walking, another wall animation by the same artist.

Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen
This guy has certainly more editing skills than drum or piano. For those who can’t play any instrument either… stick to your editing software timelines.. :)

Demo is Justin Fines.

Design / Art Direction / Broadcast Design
Brooklyn, NY 11215 © 1997-2007 Justin Fines

Great Television Ads
a good collection of recent TV Commercials.

Amnesty International (TBWA Paris) (Music by Goran Bregovic)

Aleksandr Petrov (animator) Source:Wikipedia

The Old Man and the Sea (Part 1)

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The Old Man and the Sea, is a story of friendship between a young boy and an aging fisherman tormented by hunger and weeks of ill luck. Santiago, a once strong, proud man is coming to terms with his failing abilities and age.

(Part 2)

Petrov was born in the village of Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in Yaroslavl.

He studied art at VGIK (state institute of cinema and TV). He was a disciple of Yuriy Norshteyn at the Advanced School for screenwriters and directors (Moscow).

After making his first films in Russia, in Canada he adapted the novel The Old Man and the Sea, resulting in a 20-minute animated short — the first large-format animated film ever made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It took Aleksandr Petrov over two years, from March 1997 through April 1999, to paint each of the 29,000 frames. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera. The film was highly acclaimed, receiving the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

After this, Aleksandr Petrov has maintained a close relationship with Pascal Blais Studio in Canada, which helped fund The Old Man and the Sea, where he works on commercials.

He returned to Yaroslavl in Russia to work on his latest film, My Love, which was finished in spring 2006 after three years’ work and had its premiere at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival on August 27, where it won the Audience Prize and the Special International Jury Prize. On March 17, 2007, My Love will be theatrically released at the Cinema Angelika in Shibuya, (Japan) by Studio Ghibli, as the first release of the “Ghibli Museum Library” (theatrical and DVD releases of Western animated films in Japan).

From renaissance to modern art, faces of women in painting get combined with a morph. Captive effect to stare at for a few minutes

Wanna dance?

The Ark Film. Short animated film by Grzegorz Jonkajtys and Marcin Kobylecki.

On Competition at Cannes Festival.

Both very well executed and quite similar. Seems like music is ruling the trends in t-shirts.. or is it the opposite? I like the musics as well.

Newly Out JUSTICE single: “d.a.n.c.e.”

And another one, by X-Wife, “Ping Pong”.

Yuxt is the ultimate and easiest way to bookmark, tag and organize your youtube.com and other video-community sites. Just register (very simple), drag a link to your browser tool bar and you’re done. simple and effective “theater view”. Try it.

UnderscoreANIMATION

This is the result of several experiences with drawing/animation in real time.

photo Self-portrait, in vector and animated

indielisboa
INDIELISBOA is a privileged event to meet the most recent and interesting works of independent cinema from all over the world.
The main aim of the Festival is to discover new films and new directors, in the universe of independent cinema.
Keeping its attention on the author’s creativity and independence, in only three years INDIELISBOA was able to become the second most important Portuguese festival.
In 2006 were screened 300 films from all over the world to an audience of 28.000 people and to 300 professional guests.

As usual, besides the film screenings, IndieLisboa runs many other activities. Between 21 and 27 April will happen the Lisbon Talks, wich are divided in different activities: a Seminar, Panels and round tables and Master Classes.

BLU > started out his artistic career following his passion for drawing, public art, particularly unauthorized, illegal art. Coming from the graffiti culture he started developing his art based on a very personal figurative style. His work lives in two stages and two different spaces. It originates from sketches jotted down in sketchbook, which represent a diary as well as an image database to be used in the second stage: the mural. The actual project starts in front of the building, with size and load bearing elements of the wall, in effort to identify an impossible combination between painting and surrounding architecture. He avail himself of the most traditional and essential painting tools : brushes, paint roller, one colour and black; he often use techniques drawn from scenography as well as long sticks, which act as supports when working on large surfaces.
Via megunica.org.

Blu’s travel is being currently documented n a trip by Lorenzo Fonda, an Italian director who’s fan of his work. (see the progress, pics , documentation and info needed at megunica.org.
Can’t wait to see the final result of this on screen!

Monstra is coming!

Monstra’s – Festival de Cinema de Animação de Lisboa Lisbon’s Animation Film Festival - 6th edition celebrates again this year the world’s best animation, this time with Russia as guest country. This year Monstra will take place at Maria Matos Theatre and King Cinema from the 21st to the 27th May and will be the most ambitious edition to this day.

The guest country is Russia, a country that has given us some of the most unique and creative films in the History of animation. Some of its worldwide awarded cineastes will be in Portugal to present their films and to participate in workshops and master-classes. With its rich as well as turbulent artistic progression, closely related to political convulsions throughout the 20th century, Russia has been throughout History a country occupying a central position as far as author, child, modern and avant-garde animation is concerned. Baring in mind this perspective it wasn’t by chance that “Tale of Tales” (1979) by Yuri Norstein was chosen in 1984 and 2002 as the Best Animation Film of All Times by a group of worldwide experts. Gladly, in this year’s Monstra we will be able to see it.

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Sarah Phelps and her team is making some twisted, hypnotic, hallucinated, weird.. whatever… EXCELLENT animated shorts. Just eat these and get “wowed”!

KaBoom! 1:05
Written, Directed and Animated by PES
Edited by Sam Welch
Produced by Sarah Phelps & PES
Special Thanks: Dave Bell, Kesselskramer, Diesel, Homestead Editorial

Fantasporto 2007 : 19th February to 5th March 2007

The basic idea behind the Oporto Film Festival is to promote films that seek new forms and methods of film making.
The 27th edition has the patronage of the Ministry of Culture through ICAM ? Instituto do Cinema Audiovisual e Multimédia, as well as the Oporto City Hall and the Rivoli Municipal Theatre.
Fantasporto 2007 will be hold between the 19th February and the 4th March at the Rivoli Theatre, the AMC theatres and the Passos Manuel Cinema.
The Sá da Bandeira Theatre will be the ideal setting for the Vampires? Ball, in the closing night.
As side-bars of the festival, open-air events, workshops, exhibitions, presentation of new books and DVDs, etc.

Via Pitchfork: Forkcast

The Knife’s Silent Shout wiped the floor with the competition on 31st January at Sweden’s version of the Grammy Awards, the Grammis. The noir-electro duo took home the Best Artist, Composer, Album, Producer, DVD, and Group of the Year awards– six altogether. But, of course, being the Knife, they couldn’t just show up and thank their mom and first of all God, their creator, who made all of this possible. Instead? They had some friends of theirs send in this bizarre acceptance video. Although they aren’t wearing masks, video and audio effects are used to obscure their appearance, and to make them look pretty horrifying. (And not in a Courtney Love way.)

The video is in Swedish, but according to YouTube user sumsaR2, the band’s friends discuss normal stuff like the Knife having gone on tour, meeting fans from around the world.

This funny video tells you how much your future Iphone can do… a lot more than what you imagine.

Clip by BBC2.

A great video assemblage for U2’s new music video, Windows in the Skies, built by Modernista (Gary Koepke directed) and Mill. Features some of the most memorable music moments of the last decades, synchronized to the slightest details with the song metrics plus some neat cg effects.

Check it out at Beam.tv (QT movie)

Woha! Funny and very well done, made for TheFameGame.com, Might have some sound fx for the beatbox sounds coming out of his mouth, dubious, but still very funny and well done.

Not only is The Fame Game the natural home for all your diverse super-skills
(elbow fart to high-brow art, comedy gurn to karaoke turn…you can also make your unquestionable genius pay-off by snaffling one of our ridiculously brilliant prizes.
Every month, we will announce three lucky winners who will each walk away with prizes

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Ryan Larkin (born July 31, 1943 in Montreal) is a Canadian animator who rose to fame with the psychedelic 1969 Oscar-nominated short Walking and successive follow up, Street Musique (1972). He contributed art work and animation effects to the 1974 feature film Running Time, directed by Mort Ransen, in which Ryan also played three bit parts. Prior to Walking, he had made two other short animated films (Cityscape and Syrinx) and had worked on various public works projects developed at the National Film Board of Canada. His own films won many international awards including an Oscar nomination in 1967.

He attended the Art School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of Fine Art) before working at the National Film Board of Canada from the early 1960s until 1978.

In his early life, Ryan’s father was abusive to the whole family, probably because of his alcoholism. This in turn led to Ryan being quite shy, which was worsened by the death of his older brother.

Read More about Ryan on Wikipedia

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