Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) is a fantastic film that transports us to a place filled with wonder and magic. Our goal with the opening title sequence was to set the tone for the audience to enter the unique, imaginative world that Sam Raimi created. The black and white, stereo 4×3 sequence was designed to flow seamlessly into the film’s first scenes which are set in Kansas in 1905. We drew inspiration from a pre-cinematic form of 3D entertainment, the Theater of Perspective. These miniature paper theaters contained layered images arranged to create scenes with rich 3D depth. Our cinematic fly-through fuses today’s modern 3D cinema with the wonder and showmanship of Oz’s time. The sequence uses 37 different fonts and carefully designed imagery that matches the movie characters and creative credits.

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It was a masterpiece, in many many ways. It came from a time where 3D animation looked very stiff, uncanny and just awkward in general. Fluid animation existed in 2D for decades by then, and there were multiple techniques and principles of animation that existed for it. Sadly, these principles were never exploited in 3D back then. John Lasseter, the main animator behind this, studied using the animation principles of disney’s nine old men, and put them to great use in this short. It basically proved to the world that 3D could be more than just a bunch of fancy-looking wireframes for sci-fi films. (Pixar 1986)

Luxo Jr (Pencil Test) 

A simple ballet, originally conceived as one act in of an entire evening of machine theatre. The music was composed and performed by Arthur Ganson. (starts at 1:20s low res.)

Arthur Ganson

From January to May 2014, Francois Beaurain wandered the streets of Monrovia and made animated gifs of the people he met and the places he visited.
Monrovia animated is currently part of Making Africa exhibition by Vitra Design Museum and Gugenheim Bilbao.

Monrovia animated

Things start off innocuously, with a kiwi taking a casual stroll down a road, eventually encountering and tasting some golden nuggets. The nuggets are delicious, it turns out, too delicious to resist. (2015)

Andreas Hykade

If all animals became round overnight, would their daily life still run that smoothly?
This was the question we were dealing with whilst working on the concept for the world of “Rollin’ Wild”, which started life as a series of four clips created at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2012.

Visit inflated animals on www.rollin-wild.com

The Skeleton Dance is a Silly Symphony animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks.
For the first time, action was coördinated with a proper musical score. (1929)

Albert says his works “often explore the fragility of the human form, the aesthetic complexity of physical processes, and the relationship between organisms and advanced technologies.”

Albert Omoss

A ‘Free Ride’ on the ‘Hair Raiser’ Roller Coaster. Filmed by Robb Alvey in the Ocean Park, Hong Kong. A mixed-up animation made with ‘Recycled Youtube Material’ (ReYoused) by Wim Goossens © 2016

The one-shot video primarily consists of 4.2 seconds of real-time footage recording over 300 distinct events set in motion by the band members and timed devices, slowed down to be played over the length of the song. (2016)

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More by OK Go
I Won’t Let You Down
The Writing’s On The Wall

The 3-minute animation features an unceasing barrage of seemingly infinite creatures, hybrids of flora and fauna, that swarm and multiply in space like schools of fish or flowers in a field.
Official music video for BEATSOFREEN ­” Slowly Rising”

Work on tumblr

Dance choreography performed in the immersive environment of a moving cube, to explore the fleeting nature of dreams and the fugacity of life. “In Japanese, “Hakanai” means ‘impermanent, fragile, evanescent, transitory, and fleeting’, somewhere between dream and reality.” Claire Bardainne & Adrien Mondot (2013)

Adrien M & Claire B

Monument Valley is a minimalistic award-winning puzzle game developed by Ustwo. (2014) It centers around the player controlling Princess Ida by helping her go through seemingly impossible mazes by interacting with its surroundings. Its visual style was inspired by Japanese prints, minimalist sculpture, and indie games Windosill, Fez, and Sword & Sworcery, and was compared by critics to M. C. Escher drawings and Echochrome.

Behind the Scenes
http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/

Please take a few moments to immerse yourself in this lovely new music video for folk country trio Jane Bordeaux’s ‘Ma’agalim.’ The animated short transports us inside a device inspired by components from an old penny arcade device that contains a perpetually moving landscape where people go about their daily lives. The attention to detail in color and texture of every frame is breathtaking, but isn’t surprising given director Uri Lotan’s previous work at Pixar and Disney.

A chalkboard animation. Video co-directed by Yanni Kronenberg and Lucinda Schreiber. (2009) Music from ‘Firekites’ album ‘The Bowery’, song ‘Autumn Story’.