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animation

CGBot

In animation, design, visual effects on 9 February 2007 tagged animation, design, visual effects with Comments Off

My friend Sergio Rosas sent me an email regarding his new venture CGbot.
Hey everyone, as some of you know, I’ve left my very safe and fun job … to open my own art outsourcing company in Mexico.
I have spent the last two and a half years finding and training the best Latin-American talent […]

Nictitating Rabbit–Lunar Lander

In animation on 28 September 2006 tagged animation with Comments Off

Nictitating Rabbit does a cool stop-motion version of the old school vector game “Lunar Lander”.
Other links to stop-motion goodies can be found here.

elsewhere

In animation on 16 May 2005 tagged animation with Comments Off

i’ve been out of it lately, busy at work and with a move. meanwhile, nice work from…
Brian Castleforte
loyalkaspar
monodot:projects
nice animated short at awake your consciousness

low poly video

In animation on 7 August 2003 tagged animation with 2 comments

this radiohead video is brilliant.
once again, am inspired and jealous.
(thanks billy b!)

looney or just mad

In animation on 6 June 2003 tagged animation with Comments Off

trailer for looney tunes: back in action
acceptance speech better than michael moore’s at the oscars. gollum’s acceptance speech for mtv’s ‘best virtual performance. hysterical

wonderful days

In animation on 24 February 2003 tagged animation with Comments Off

animated feature from korea.

nemo and a gnome

In animation on 4 November 2002 tagged animation with 1 comment

disney/pixar’s ‘Finding Nemo’ trailer is up. a nice spot from a studio called pluto.

graphical

In animation on 1 November 2002 tagged animation, artist, film with Comments Off

the weather this week was stellar. the only depressing part of it was that christmas songs and imagery is starting to appear everywhere.
some stuff for ya…
concept/3D artist brian sum has some great stuff in his gallery.
spider is an all cg short film. very cool.
rokysopp’s “remind me” music video features nice animation with an isometric infographic […]

too bad the car is hella ug-ug

In animation on 11 July 2002 tagged animation with Comments Off

while i was in singapore last month, i was at the cinema and a commercial for the toyota matrix was shown before the movie. as i was watching it, i thought:
- wow, the quality of this animation is great.
- the music is pretty damn good.
- i’m surprised that this is a car commercial and that […]

interview with pixar people

In animation on 10 July 2002 tagged animation with Comments Off

an interview with Alex Orrelle and Victor Navone, two animators from pixar. not an amazing Q&A but interesting to people who aren’t familar with how CGI houses work.