Holy awesomeness!! I want a pet AT-AT!!

Check out this cute little VFX short by Patrick Boivin:

Augmented Shadow, by Joon Y. Moon. Check out this playful and elegant table-top interactive interface which displaces shadows based on tangible objects:

“Friendly banter and the odd over the top cuss, loads of bravado but no false pretense, and all our jokes at no one else’s expense.”

Two powerful short films from UK director/animator Matt Frodsham. Last year, he put out “Blokes” which was the winner of the Shortcuts Film Festival.

This year, he’s back with “Two Inches to the Right”. “Basically, I shot footage of myself for the motion capture then edited and exported to an image sequence and traced away in Photoshop any spare minute I could get with a Wacom tablet doing a black and a white layer… back into After Effects, lots of blending modes and a few keyframes and not a lot to the compositing…”

Beautiful and moving. Check out both shorts below. Absolutely amazing:

Blokes

Two Inches to the Right

After a long hiatus from posting, I’ve returned to post a new music video from the legendary Massive Attack. The song is called Splitting the Atom from their new album Heligoland; and the amazing video is directed by Edouard Salier. Check it out:

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

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Brilliantly crafted interactive Flash website. When Flash started to become popular, there were a lot of people doing some amazing stuff and even more doing a lot of crap. These days, it’s not too often you see something this original on the net. Click the image to check it out!

Conception and Direction: HerraizSoto & Co.
Programming: badabing!
Animation: Jossie Malis

MK12 never ceases to amaze. They recently produced some stunning motion design for the latest Bond film -- Quantum of Solace. Check out their new Spring 2009 show reel:

Created by Stink Digital and Director Adam Berg for Philips’ new CINEMA 21:9 TV. Some awesome visuals and a perfectly looping video. Adam takes us through a frozen in time shootout sequence between police and some freaky looking clowns. Check it out:

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A well executed short film by Laurie Hill and Annex Films, a London based production company. Laurie Hill takes us on a trip through the photo archives. Great animation style and great humor make for a great mix. Getty Images and Short & Sweet short film challenge winner: ‘Photo of Jesus’. Check it out!

Super compositing. My first guess is that they filmed each shot as a static shot, then zoomed in so they could pan around and make it look like a hand-held.

How did they really do it? I have no idea; you tell me…

This little short film has been nominated for an Academy Award, and it’s no surprise. Oktapodi resembles a cross between Pixar and Les Triplettes de Belleville; cute, funny, and brilliant. Check it out!

Check out Oktapodi.com for more cool info.