Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy the new photoshop art I created to celebrate the holidays. I love it!
Special Effects 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.
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)
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/
Move Your Feet
I 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.
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.
Trick-Or-Treat Animated Vector Art
Here is the Trick-Or-Treat vector art I made, in 13 lucky steps of progression.
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.
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)
A quoi ça sert l’amour?
Check out this beautifully animated love story. It’s great to see how a wonderful story and quality animation eliminate the need for anything more complicated than stick figures.