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Music

Flickr Video

A folk/rock singer named Jonathan Coulton has created a really cool music video using Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos. It’ll put a smile on your face.

Jonathan Coulton’s Flickr.mov

Update: here is the big 17mb version Flickr.mov

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Art

Holiday Art

Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy the new photoshop art I created to celebrate the holidays. I love it!

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video

Special Effects Montage

Riotmanhattan Compositing Montage

Check out this amazing special effects montage from the design company R!OT Manhatten.

I love this sort of thing! I should have taken a compositing class in University when I had the chance.

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Music

Jean Baudin Plays Mario Theme on an 11 String Base

It’s impressive that he can play anything on such a huge instrument.

jeanbaudin_mario11.mov (21 MB)

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Art technology

Youtube Video About the I/O Brush

I’ve heard a little bit about a new video streaming service called YouTube. Apparently you can host your files there and link to them via your blog. Check out this popular video that I have embedded on my page from youtube.com: (you will need the flash player plugin to see the video)

I first saw the I/O brush featured on a rocketboom clip a few weeks ago. Here is some extra information about it:

“[The] I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment.”

More information here: http://web.media.mit.edu/~kimiko/iobrush/

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animation

Move Your Feet

Move Your Feet Music VideoI love the retro pixilated feel of the music video Move Your Feet.

There is a lot to admire in here including the great squash and stretch and excellent easing in and out.

It’s just another example showing that the complexity of the artwork is independent of the quality of the animation.

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animation

An Eye for Annai

Beautiful little hand drawn animation I came across today, An Eye for Annai (23.8 MB QT):

From Jonathan Klassen’s site:

This film, [An Eye for an Annai], was done by me and Dan Rodrigues in our third year at Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program. Everything is hand drawn and animated. We coloured the animation digitally, and the backgrounds are a mix of traditional and digital. I played the recorder for the soundtrack, and the jazz music near the middle is from Louis Armstrong’s “Jeepers Creepers”. The whole film comes in at just under 5 minutes long, and we’re pretty darn proud of it. Tell your friends.

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Art

Trick-Or-Treat Animated Vector Art

Here is the Trick-Or-Treat vector art I made, in 13 lucky steps of progression.

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Photography

Flickr Adds Photo Printing

Now (if you live in the United States anyway) you can just take pictures, upload them to flickr, order your favorites for printing and have them delivered right to your door. I heart flickr. This will be awesome for me once it’s available in Canada.

Flickr offers photo printing.

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animation

King Kong Armature Reanimated

Of course now all the animation for the new King Kong will be done on computer, but just for fun here is some behind the scenes video at the new King Kong shooting including the original armature used in the classic 1933 King Kong (reanimated by the folks at Weta).

Behind the scenes of Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (20.2mb Quicktime)