Thurs 23rd July 2009 - Blur Studios - A Gentleman's Duel
I probably shouldn't post this bit of info up but if you dig hard enough on youtube you'll find the full 8 minute movie and its loaded with awesome! Its also perfect reference for my mech fight with fast snappy fight exchanges between both mechs. Some of the ground fighting is brilliant where the white mech tries to punch the one on the floor and he just gets out the way before retaliating. I should incorporate something like that in my mech fight wip as it really feels like a scuffle. I've included the trailer embedded on my site but if you 'shop' around you'll probably find the full film online. All in all - great work!
Mon 13th July 2009 - Neil Blomkamp
Well I've heard of this chap before as he put together what looked to be a bloody good trailer for an upcoming Halo movie. He's also noted for doing the Citreon Transformers advert where the car skates and dances. However he's also done some more interesting stuff in the past - one of my faves is this advert for Nike where a shoe evolves. What I like about it is the time lapse style photography with its slight twitchy image, noise, grain, light bleed & exposure. I like the way sounds of fabric & material are mixed with the sounds of a growing plant fighting its way through undergrowth...
and here is another video - this was a competition by Adidas where you had to create a short film based on an emotional and creative response to a given colour - in Blomkamps case - Yellow. The visual fx are amazing...
Wed 8th July 2009 - Ratatouille - behind the scenes of the washing machine
good youtube movie showing the basic steps taken to editing this short sequence in Pixars Ratatouille. Starting out with storyboards and animating them to audio to get a feel for whats happening, then working through the various stages till the final rendered shot with special fx is ready to go in. Great video!
Monday 6th July 2009 - Movie Opening Titles Galore!
Interesting article below... some good examples and why they work and lots of links at the side to other interviews on all kinds of titles from movies - Old and new and you can view most of them as quicktime movies too! The coolest most awesome page I've found in ages! Click on the banner to go to the site :)
Monday 6th July 2009 - Bicentennial Man Titles
I really loved these titles first time I saw them - the text interacting with the background imagery and emulating the mechanical machinery nature in most of the sequence is really cool :)
Unfortunately the user disabled the video embedding on youtube so I can only put a link up instead...
Bicentennial Man Titles
Monday 6th July 2009 - Voyager Titles
I was watching this the other day on telly (big Voyager fan) and I've always liked the titles so thought I'd stick them up on my page. Would love to do something like this in the future.
Monday 8th June 2009 - Thinking with Portals
Always loved the whole concept behind this game but I do love the way this video is done like some
scientific orientation video for new employees especially where the diagrams just get crazier and crazier!
Monday 8th June 2009 - The blog page starts - here's my first find!
Well I've decided to start a blog page that will display all things I find that I think are rather cool - most of it will
more than likely be on youtube as my primary aim is to find animation & motion graphics that provide a source of inspiration
for me. So with that in mind here's the first thing I've decided to post up - I actually came about it after chasing up the initial
videos for Portal. I accidentally found these kinetic typography experiments and they really make me wanna have a go myself so i'll
probably make it a quick 2 week project very soon if not tonight lol!