Slipmat Animation from Designer Elliot Schultz for Lecaudé’s Circles

Designer Elliot Schultz goes into great detail for what makes a slipmat animation so magically work. Here, for Lecaudé’s Circles, he creates a series of animations for the music video. Mesmerizing.

Cloned Animated GIFs from Monrovia, Liberia by François Beaurain.

Paris artist François Beaurain created these Monrovian animations as part of the 2015 exhibition Making Africa by Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Bilbao.
 

 

Animation of the Big Bang Projected on a Water Fountain

Beginning, an animation by Grzegorz Nowiński from Novina Studio sought to visualize the history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the rise of humankind and project it out of doors on a massive water fountain. 

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Loving Vincent — Full-length Oil Painting Animated Movie

More than 100 painters worked together to create the 12 oil paintings per-second animation for this full-length movie on the last days of Vincent Van Gogh directed by Poland-based Dorota Kobiela.

“Loving Vincent is an investigation delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world’s most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.”

lovingvincent.com

Join our Kickstarter campaign: planned launch - February 17th! Concept trailer for the new production from Oscar-winning studio Breakthru films, a feature-length painted animation. A murder mystery about the life and death of Vincent van Gogh told through revealing interviews with the characters from van Gogh's own paintings.

Giraffe Diving in "5M80"

I think all 3D animation films should be centered around giraffes diving like "5M80" by Nicolas Deveaux. 

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The Yoga Skeleton - 3D Animations of the Human Body

In close conjunction with medical experts, these animators have created this awesome 3D visual study of the human skeleton. 

Pleiades: Dance and Light Animations by Enra

Japanese troupe Enra combines dance, music, light animations, and technology in this astounding routine directed by Nobuyuki Hanabusa, performed and choreographed by Saya Watatani and Maki Yokoyama, with the animation was done by Seiya Ishii.

Tiny World Animations

The CG team at Rushes  animates ‘Tiny Worlds’,  three short films of the hidden worlds under our gaze.

See also Miniature Foodscapes by photographers Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida »

The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in "Tiny Worlds", a trilogy of short films with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking. Executive Producer: Norra Abdul Rahim Producer: Caroline Laing Production Assistant: Alexina Davidson Head of CG: Andy Nicholas Lead CG: Andy Hargreaves Director: Chris Hutchison CG Artists: Chris Hutchison, Craig Travis, David Drese, Liam Hoflay, Andrea Scibetta, Nimesh Patel Nuke: Noel Harmes Flame: Martin Goodwin Sound Design: Tom Martin @ Mcasso www.rushes.co.uk mcasso.com

The CG team at Rushes brought to life the everyday urban world around our feet in "Tiny Worlds", a trilogy of short films with a humorous take on what might happen to the litter and rubbish on London's streets when we're not looking. Executive Producer: Norra Abdul Rahim Producer: Caroline Laing Production Assistant: Alexina Davidson Head of CG: Andy Nicholas Lead CG: Andy Hargreaves Director: Chris Hutchison CG Artists: Chris Hutchison, Craig Travis, David Drese, Liam Hoflay, Andrea Scibetta, Nimesh Patel Nuke: Noel Harmes Flame: Martin Goodwin Sound Design: Tom Martin @ Mcasso www.rushes.co.uk mcasso.com

Beautiful Wooden Stop-Motion Music Video - Colourblind

Australian animation firm Oh Yeah Wow (we've seen their work before for Gotye's Easy Way Out) working with geometric pieces of wood gorgeously illustrate the music video for the single Colourblind by Elliot the Bull.

Guest Post - Devereau Chumrau - Silent: Animation from Dolby and Moonbot Studios

Devereau Chumrau 

This guest post is from actor Devereau Chumrau.

Devereau may be a native of Los Angeles, but it is also the time she spent in Ghana, in Europe and the UK, and largely as a student of the Asolo Conservatory in Florida, that has shaped her vision as an actor and as an artist. She has, all along the way, worked to develop her interest and experience in acting for the stage and for the screen.

Catch her show LOVECRAFT: Nightmare Suite closing March 2 at the Visceral Company in Hollywood.

Devereau:

Dolby in collaboration with Academy Award® winning Moonbot Studios created this short animation highlighting the wonder of cinema.

The story follows two street performers who dream of bringing their "Picture and Sound Show" to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound to find the audience they always wanted. The sound was created by Oscar® nominated sound designer Steve Boeddeker. "Silent" debuted at the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards on February 15, 2014.

Handcrafted Stop-Motion - Move Mountain

Just lovely.

Kirsten Lapore:

"A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape, but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself. A story about illness, perseverance, and our connection to everything around us."

Walking City - Mesmerizing Morphing Forms

“The language of materials and patterns seen in radical architecture transform as the nomadic city walks endlessly, adapting to the environments she encounters.”

The video, Walking City, by Matt Pyke of the animation studio universaleverything.com.

Architecture + Evolution + Movement Referencing the utopian visions of 1960’s architecture practice Archigram, Walking City is a slowly evolving video sculpture. The language of materials and patterns seen in radical architecture transform as the nomadic city walks endlessly, adapting to the environments she encounters. http://www.universaleverything.com/projects/walking-city/

Experimental Pottery Animation

Commissioned by the Crafts Council in collaboration with animator Jim Le Fevre, film maker Mike Paterson, and Roops and Al Johnstone of RAMP Ceramics. 

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The Deep: Stop-Motion Animation of Ordinary Things

We've seen PES and his stop motion animations before (Guacamole for example). And here is his stop-motion animation of the deep ocean featuring ordinary household items such as tools, chains, and keys.

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Paintings of Van Gogh Animated

 An Italian designer and animator, Luca Agnani has created a short film, Van Gogh’s Shadow, with more that a dozen Van Gogh paintings with a touch of animation and movement. 

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Animated Light Video in Tokyo

I am not sure of much about Night Stroll, except i love it. 

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Virtual Motion Sculptures of Street Fighter 2 Movements

From the video page: 

"I did it in order to teach myself Cinema 4D and Vray in my spare time, the renders aren't perfect but the best I could get out of my machine. While I setup up most of the geometry using tracers, Xpresso and Thinking Particles, I had some help along the way from the following great resources..."

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The Sugar Cube Mission

Georgios Papaioannou took a cup of coffee and made it an occasion for a miniature cinematic adventure.

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The Adjustable Cosmos

I am just in love with this animated short that imagines an early space program.

From the video description:

"In the fifteenth century, three worthies come together to tackle the Emperor's disastrous horoscope. They lift themselves to space in their medieval vessel, braving the terrors and wonders of the of the Ptolemaic universe, to reach for the stars..."

Based on a short story by Adam Browne

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The Animated History of the Tulip

From the Himalayan mountain range through the Turkish Court to the Netherlands, the story of how tulips got to be the Dutch symbol that they are.

See also Tulip Fields in Bloom

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