Here we go with the video of the week section where I bring to you a great inspirational video found on internet throughout the work week, it could be a motion graphics or an animation, 2d or 3d, even a trailer or music video with some great design or animation techniques.

I try to bring a wide variety of outstanding shorts to your attention on this section, this impressive short “Alive in Joburg” a 2005 project where real video is mixed to some 3d effects to create a little documentary about aliens and how they are living on the earth since 1990. I know you may think this is a copy of the film District 9 but not, is the opposite.

The director of this short film, Neil Blomkamp is really talented as we can appreciate on this video and some others like Citroen C4, Nike or tembot, and thanks to the success of this mock documentary, he become the director of the film release on 2009 by Tri Start pictures, based on the same scenario and includin some actors from the short like Sharlto Copley.

Directed by: Neil Blomkamp

Have you seen a god short animated film lately?

I already showed you other Blu animation that was made on Brazilian streets, well, this one is made by this talented and unique artist using the same graffiti technique but with the collaboration of David Ellis on the Fame festival on Italy, just one week for this beautiful result and this great mix of techniques and imaginary from two great artist of the motion world.

This time lapse video is a loop so the film can be played again and again seamlessly, you can watch the film below and enjoy of these artist doing what they do better.

If you can’t see the video click here

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis
year 2009
http://www.blublu.org
http://www.davidellis.org
produced by studio cromie
music by Roberto Lange
made at Fame festival 2009

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.

If you can’t see the video click here

Created by Seth Brau

Music by Savoir Adore – “Farewell My Love”

Courtesy of Cantora Records

What you can do?

Go to the Blog Action Day and learn more about the idea behind, register your blog, twit this post and others  you find around the subject, talk about it, the idea is just spread this event all over your network and the 15th October write an article about climate change (this year topic) in the context of how it relates to your blog or your field, if you may think you have nothing related they even have some examples of what you could write about depending of the type of blog you have.

Don’t forget to follow their blog to be informed about it.

So get involved and help make the event as big as possible. We all have something to do.

Here we go with the video of the week section where I bring to you a great inspirational video found on internet throughout the work week, it could be a motion graphics or an animation, 2d or 3d, even a trailer or music video with some great design or animation techniques.

For this week I bring you a video recommended by one of my twitter followers (follow me). This is a really funny animation from Sun Haipeng where our hero named “Super Baozi” find himself in the middle of a fight against Sushi man, the leader of a really mean gang of Japanese food guys.

The first video is the funniest thing I’ve seen last days, for that I pick it, and because the characters has such personality that you can completely understand the story and their meanings, thanks to the movement and expressions they have.

For the second video is just a music video but I thinks is The Music Video because this guys are fighters and musicians, that’s better than Superman. Especially recommended the last part with a little behind the scenes.

Just let you see it, enjoy it and laugh.

If you can’t see the video click here.

You can visit the official site of Sun Haipeng to see some other images about the making of, sadly the site is in Chinese, but don’t worry even if you don’t know, you can just scroll down to see it.

Thanks to @morbec for this excellent recommendation.

What do you think?

Did you like this video? Is this good animation or not? share you thoughts on the comments section, or If you have a video to recommend that you’ve seen lately, just drop me a message on twitter.

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Here we go with the video of the week section where I bring to you a great inspirational video found on Internet throughout the work week, it could be a motion graphics or an animation, 2d or 3d, even a trailer or music video with some great design or animation techniques.

For this week I bring you a video recommended by @Guadapadilla she is one of my twitter followers (follow me). Kudan is a beautiful animation about a father and his son and the way they interact, with out notice the importance of the words between each other, and the crucial moments when you can feel a real lack of love and impotence about your family. They are connected by words in his idea.

With a different environment design and a little apocalyptic scene, that make us think a little on the Matrix, this animation is worth it to see it the director Taku Kimura, who is well known for directing short films with a mythological relation.

Let you see it and enjoy.

If you can’t see the video click here.

You can visit Kudan website

Direction：Taku Kimura
Animation：Koichi Yamagishi
Music：Karin Nakano
Sound Design：Makoto Morimoto
Voice Action：Keigo Sena / Rina Koduru
Produce：Takashi Fukumoto
Production：Links DigiWorks Inc.

Thanks to @Guadapadilla for this excellent recommendation.

What do you think about this video? do you think is important communicating with your family even if you are a busy person?

If you want to recommend a video you’ve seen lately, just drop me a message on twitter.

Here we go with the video of the week section where I bring to you a great inspirational video found on internet throughout the work week, it could be a motion graphics or an animation, 2d or 3d, even a trailer or music video with some great design or animation techniques.

For this week I found an excellent animation written, directed and animated by Egtmon Mayer and excellent 3d artist and filmmaker from Germany. He has a good experience in stop motion thanks to  two others short films made in the last years and now he put all of himself in  this 3d animation short called Red Rabbit, for this animation he won the Best student prize Sicaf 08 and he was screened on Annecy 08, where he received really good feedback from the animation industries.

Egmont is currently working freelance on commercials and image films and is founding member of SHAPE-Berlin, a creative collective combining both animation an design.

Red Rabbit

A man who lives alone in a small apartment. The little contact he had with other people has dropped to zero since the rabbit appeared. Every attempt to get the rabbit out of his apartment has failed and since he is not sure whether or not pets are allowed in the building, he does not let anybody enter his apartment.

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-Written, Directed and Animated by Egmont Mayer

-Producer: Flora Grolitsch

-Effects TD: Stefan Habel

-Animation: Michael Schulz, Wolfram Kampffmeyer, Sonja Kumbarji

-Character Modeling: Egmont Mayer

-Modeling: Paul Stoll, Wolfram Kampffmeyer

-Sound design and Mixing: Michael J. Diehl

-Music: Chris Bremus

-Foley Artist: Marcus Neuberger

-Textures: Sonja Kumbarji, Frederik Ring

-Lighting: Rendering and Compositing Egmont Mayer

-Titles: Online Frederik Ring

-Created at: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction

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