Here is a beautifully animated and rendered CGI short film about a long-submerged city, and a man is obsessed by the passing of time, by the talented team Jérémi Boutelet, Thibaud Clergue, Gaël Megherbi, Tristan Ménard, Camille Perrin and Lucas Veber at Supinfocom Arles!
Check out this seductive 3D animated motion poem called “She Shakes Chiles From Her Hair”A poem created by the talented Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and adapted by Jeff Stevens for Motionpoems! Motionpoems is a nonprofit poetry film company that broadens the audience for poetry by turning great contemporary poems into short films.
Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.
A man is robbed and stabbed on a metro train. As he lays dying, a friendship from his youth flashes before his eyes. Technique : Oilpaint on canvas, 2D animation, 3D animation.
While collaborating with the insanely mad geniuses at Bot & Dolly in beautiful San Francisco, munkowitz was tasked to Design Direct a truly unique piece called BOX.. The piece was originally supposed to function as a Technology Demo, but munkowitz and the team quickly realized it’s visual potential and transformed it into a Design and Performance Piece. The resulting short film is a one-of-a-kind visual and technological achievement due to the very special combination of talent and gear behind the doors of the B&D facility, and was received throughout the world with unexpected accolades and exposure – all due to the intense amount of love and passion poured into the project.
“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary with infographics explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
Paperman is a 3D comedy short film. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs, the short blends traditional animation and computer animation. It won both the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards. (2012)
Wurtzel is more of a magician than an artists. His art is about “transform(ing) ordinary matter into something extraordinary,” as per the personal statement on his websitesays. His most famous pieces propell aerodynamic materials such as lightweight fabric, flower petals, and Styrofoam using fans and other air devises. In his work Magic Carpet (2011) a red fabric seems to magically float in the center of the room. The cloth is actually held in place by air currents created by eight fans. Music from the film ‘American Beauty – Plastic Bag Theme’ (See Plastic Bag Scene)
In this early silent film the character and world of Little Nemo is created. The artist discusses his drawing with his friends and draws a few while they are present. He then promises to create 4000 pictures to create an animated moving picture by the end of the month. He has a few setbacks when a kid knocks all the pictures over and they have to figure out the order of the pictures again. Eventually he plays the final film for his friends. (1911)
Against the background of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Scherzo” from ‘Piano Concerto, No. 2, Op.16’, various visual games of movement and transformation are presented for the viewer. These visual games include: geometric figures dancing over and within a pool of water; people playing a symmetrical game of catch; building interiors changing shape; walls and hangings in an art gallery moving positions; and an audience watching a symphony orchestra perform (2006)