Hyper Trophies
(Vimeo Direkthyper, via Motionographer)
Nur ein Teil eines Video-Triptychons von Zeitguised namens Hyper Trophies, „Moving still portrait sculptures“.
VJ-Madness from Tokyo
Ich hab’ mich grade in das VJing von Bridge aus Tokyo verknallt und das Video oben drückt einem die Augen einmal durchs Gehirn. Ihren SynchBody-Clip hatte ich schonmal vor einer Weile in den Musikvideos, jetzt haben sie das Ding für Liveperformances aufgebohrt. Hier das Gemeinschaftsblog der Tokyo Max Usergroup, hier Bridges Flickr, hier ihre Videos auf Vimeo und da sind’se auf Facebook. Great Stuff!
Von Creators Project:
The video pairs the VJing of Tokyo-based Daihei Shibata with the music of DUB-Russell and is produced by Japanese A/V label Bridge. Bridge specialize in Japanese IDM and we’ve noted their excellent taste in messed-up visuals and music before.
In this set Shibata pairs his Syncbody (below)—a freaky 3D human visual that dances to sound automatically—with VJing, which makes for a twitching thrill ride of jerking female forms and faces, digital mutations, and a glitchy-electronic meltdown that will certainly jar you from any mid-morning/afternoon slump you may be hitting at work.
Nach dem Klick noch ein paar ihrer Arbeiten.
Wreck-It Ralph: 8Bit-Videogame-Baddy turns to New School-Shooter-World
Youtube Direktralph, via Waxy
X-Posting von den Filmfreunden: Hier der Trailer zum neuesten Disney Animationsfilm „Wreck-It Ralph“, in dem ein Charakter aus einem alten (von Rampage inspirierten) 8-Bit-Game in einen New School Egoshooter flüchtet: „An 8-bit video-game character attempts to shed his bad-guy image by escaping into a popular first-person shooter, but inadvertently wreaks havoc in the video-game universe by freeing a digital villain.“
Ich liebe die ganzen Anspielungen auf Games und Konsolen-Generationen als unterschiedliche „Dimensionen“, ob Ralph auch als Film taugt, werden wir sehen.
Takahiro Kurashimas Scanimation
Vimeo Direktpoe, via Creators Project
Tolles Analog-Animationsprojekt von Takahiro Kurashima: Poemotion. Scanimation ist als Technik nix neues, die Ausführung hier ist allerdings ziemlich fantastisch.
Unlike the scanimations associated with children’s books, Takahiro Kurashima’s Poemotion is a booklet composed of complex geometric forms. It uses the basic concept of persistence of vision by dividing up each frame of a movement into cells. With the help of a transparent piece of paper with black areas, gliding it back and forth across the page will reveal each group of cells to create a moving optical illusion. The result is like GIF art transposed from the digital world onto paper.
Surreal Animation Short-Doc: Traumdeutung
Vimeo Direkttraum, via Motionographer
Surreale, animierte Pseudodoku über Squirreltraumfänger von Fellowland aus Finnland: „Dreams, squirrels and videotapes. A man dreams of a squirrel and then – backed up by battery of machines – mounts an inquiry into the apparition of squirrels in other people’s dreams. Traumdeutung is an animation about the global reserve of dreams while crossing the border between documentary and surreal.“
Tron Uprising Episode 1
Hier die erste Folge der Anfang Juni in den USA startenden Animationsserie Tron Uprising. Die erste Folge hat Disney bereits vor einer Weile online gestellt, aber natürlich nicht hierzulande. Aber Ihr wisst ja: Files finden immer einen Weg.
Hier der Plot von Wikipedia:
Beck is a young program who becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid. His mission is to free his home and friends from the reign of the villainous Clu and his henchman General Tesler. Beck will be trained by Tron – the greatest warrior the Grid has ever come to know. Tron will not only teach Beck the fighting and light cycle skills he needs to challenge this brutal military occupation, but he will be a guide and mentor to him as he grows beyond his youthful, impulsive nature into a courageous, powerful, strong leader. Destined to become the next Tron of the system, Beck adopts Tron’s persona and becomes the archenemy of General Tesler and his oppressive forces
Tim Burton Zoetrope-Cake
Vimeo Direkttim, via io9
This is awesome. It’s a cake, made with chocolate. It has Monsters and Batman. Animated. Made from Chocolate. And it’s a Cake. A Tim Burton Zoetrope-Cake. Made from animated Monster-Batman-Chocolate. This is awesome.
The Forty Story
Eine Art visualisierte Zeitleiste der New Yorker Grafikagentur Pentagram, die sie sich zum vierten Jahrestag schenken. “The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design.”
Colosse – Shortfilm with a living, wooden Robot-Puppet
Vimeo Direktcoloss, via Motionographer
Toller Kurzfilm von Yves Geleyn mit ‘ner lebendigen Holz-Roboter-Marionette: “Meet Colosse, Yves Geleyn’s sweet 30-foot child. Now, Colosse isn’t your ordinary child…he just so happens to be a very tall, wood robot puppet who doesn’t know his own strength, much less what his strings are up to.” Der Roboter und die Kulisse sind echt, der Vogel ist (glaube ich) reinkopiertes CGI (ich kann mir das Making Of wegen eines fehlenden Plugins nicht ansehen).
In this short film, Yves explores his child obsession with puppets and all things robotic. Thoughts from the director:
“I’m a huge fan of Jim Henson’s work. I have always wanted to work with puppets but never had the chance to do so before. I’m also a huge fan of robots; they were in all my childhood movies, cartoons, and comics. The robot from Paul Grimault’s The King And The Mockingbird; Brad Bird’s Iron Giant; and Goldorak, a Japanese cartoon, were inspirations for me. It was these two passions of puppetry and robots that drove me to create this short film, with a bird in it of course (can’t lose my bad habits).”
EULAs for your digital Afterlife
YT Direktlife, via Boing Boing
Schöner Kurzfilm von Tom Scott über die Lizenzbestimmungen, denen man nach dem Tod und für den Eintritt ins digitale Jenseits zustimmen muss. Die Stelle über urheberrechtlich geschützte Erinnerungen finde ich besonders schön.
A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.
Animation-Test: The Woods
Vimeo Direktwoods, via Motionographer
Letztes Jahr bloggte ich Max Winstons Animationsfilm “I live in the Woods“, seit dem hat er an der Cartoon-Serie “The Woods” gearbeitet, die jetzt nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird. Also hat er kurzerhand den Animationstest dafür online gestellt. Ich liebe das Sounddesign!
Animation-Short about the Acceleration of Time: The Eagleman Stag
Vimeo Direkteagle, via Martin
Großartiger Kurzfilm von Mikey Please über die Beschleunigung der Wahrnehmung von Zeit im Verlauf eines ganzen Lebens. Komplett in Monochrom/Weiß und animiertem Schaumstoff gehalten wirkt der Film sehr artyfarty, ist aber auf so ‘ne Art flapsig erzählt, dass er trotz des sperrigen Themas und Kunstanspruchs ganz einfach riesigen Spaß macht. Dafür hat er absolut verdient drei Millionen Preise gewonnen.
Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to obsession and he undertakes progressively extreme measures to control and counter times increasing pace. Peter also discovers that if you repeat the word ‘fly’ for long enough it sounds like you’re saying ‘life’. This is of no real help to him. His answers lie in the brain of a beetle.
The Eagleman Stag is the BAFTA award winning Royal College of Art thesis film of director writer Mikey Please. Animated in monochrome stopmotion, the film consists of 115 separate sets made mostly of a mysterious white material, not previously know to have been used for stopmotion animation, found in the back of a cushion.
The Eagleman Stag, hier ein paar Behind-The-Scenes-Shots, die den Aufwand für diesen Film nur erahnen lassen.
Mateusz Sypiens Death in Motion
Schicke GIFs von Mateusz Sypiens: Death in Motion. (via Who Killed Bambi)
