Mr. Citymen is a series of five wonderful short animated pieces by Eric Lerner. It seamlessly combines computer rendered characters inside live action environments.
Coupled with the avant garde soundtracks, these animations work on a variety of levels and evoke various responses from the viewer. Also the combination of live action and animation is incredibly effective.
Last month a company called MOO Print Ltd gave out ten free “moo cards” to any Flickr Pro subscriber. Since I didn’t have anything to lose, I ordered up my ten free cards and was pleased that there really are no strings attached and the cards look great.
I was excited to jump on the “take pictures of my moo cards and post them on flickr” bandwagon, however, at the time I got mine in the mail, my camera happened to be inconveniently getting a free massage by the nice people at Nikon. (They replaced the shutter and aperture, not to mention gave it a nice software upgrade—it fixed the problem so despite the wait I’m happy again).
Anyway now that I have my camera back and without further ado, here are a few of my moo cards:
The thing on the left is a roll of magnetic tape. I’m in the process of turning the cards into magnets moo-gnets.
Why is it easier to make friends than to keep them? Check out this great 3D animated short, Potapych.
A modern day Robin Hood was giving out free money and almost causing riots in New York. They claim it’s all in the name of making people feel good.
From the BBC story:
Three Britons dressed as Robin Hood and his Merry Men caused a small stampede in a park in New York after throwing $4,000 (£2,110) into the air.
The pranksters—from Sheffield in England—said they hoped their stunt would encourage New Yorkers to be more polite and “give something back”.
However, the plan reportedly back-fired after passers-by pushed and pulled at each other to grab the free cash.
The men who called themselves the Modern Day Robin Hoods, threw the $4,000, made up of $1, $5,$10 and $20 notes, into the air, sparking the frenzy. Even children were reportedly stepped on, although no-one was seriously hurt.
I love this short cartoon on YouTube, and I think you’ll like it too.
Watch here:
It’s a Master’s thesis animation by Dony Permedi of The New York School of Visual Arts. He used Maya, After Effects, and rigged it using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. So far it’s had over 2 million views on YouTube, which, as Cartoon Brew points out here, means there is a good market developing for short animations online.
Check out the video of a fourteen year-old king penguin from Japan that likes to go shopping — no joke. For more penguins see Miss Cellania’s Penguin Post.
The city of Lethbridge, Alberta (the place where I live) was featured in a gag on the Simpsons. The Simpson family was watching a show called, “Hunch” and Lethbridge was the “filming location” for the City of New York.
From the episode: 17×22 – Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
Rabbit is a creepy remix of old graphics from 1950s illustrations that have been rendered into animation in Adobe After effects. It’s a beautifully creepy story—just in time for Halloween.
Update: PingMag has an interesting interview with director Run Wrake.
Originally uploaded by bcompetent.
Halloween pysanky by Becky! They’re a little scary looking, but I guess that’s the idea!
Here’s some photoshop artwork that I made today. I was just playing around with the brushes and then decided I would keep the end product.
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