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Extremely well done (and disturbing) animation created by a series of drawings on a wall by Blu.

LINK to the Blu Blog

thanks to Azathothx

A special treat for all you M.O.T.s out there in VFX land. Galacticast has posted a hilarious little web flick called Robojew vs Giant Nazi Woman Of The SS. The title pretty much sez it all.

LINK to the Galacticast webpage

Ever wondered what would happen if one of Battlestar Galactica’s Cylon Centurions raised some serious philosophical questions about the point of his own existence? This short animation staring cute and cuddly versions of everyones favorite re-imagined chrome toasters, answers the tough questions about life as a human hating robotic slave. Besides having more than enough funny lines for fans of the show, Adair’s film also offers a unique take on character design and a snappy animation style that’s a pleasure to watch.

LINK to the We Were Centurions Website

Is that a paramecium in your experimental animation thesis, or are you just glad to see me?

Burton tells the story of an amorphous biped floating aimlessly through the across the lens of microscope from your high school biology class. In all seriousness, this is a nice little piece of animation. I do love that gritty pond scum feel.

LINK to original web page (via Motiongrapher)

Hans Bacher’s blog Animation - Treasures is mostly known for it’s collection of painstakingly recreated backgrounds from the golden era of Hollywood studio animation. There’s lots of great eye-candy for animation buffs here but also more than a few lessons for VFX folks and heck, anyone in the visual storytelling business. Hans covers a plethora of topics from the use of color to composition, using a wide variety of examples. The visuals are just plain splendid so make sure you take the time to browse the site directly and skip the RSS reader.

I’ve run across a few music videos of late that have some pretty well done and creative VFX that might get over looked because of their intentionally low-tech style. Enjoy!

TV on The Radio, Me-I

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpO23hgua7g[/youtube]

A nice mixed bag of comp CG and traditional stuff here. Found this vid at Nathan Love’s website, a shop in NYC that specializes in animation and design heavy work. Very nice looking website BTW.

They Might Be Giants, With the Dark

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rUbs33eboY[/youtube]

Great stop motion-work from Mizushima Hine for TMBG’s new album. You can also see his stop-mo version of Ana Ng in a hi-rez qt HERE.

Grandaddy, Jed’s Other Poem

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxe40xXQKko[/youtube]

Calling this VFX is a stretch even for me. But hey, it was made on a computer (an Apple ][+ to be exact) and it is animated. You can even download an emulator and source code if you want to run the video yourself.

OK, so a big summer animated blockbuster doesn’t really fall into “hack” territory I’ll admit. But, as a fan of the fantastic graphic novel series Flight, I was freaking out at Gagné’s super detailed explanation of how he visualized taste for Brad Bird’s instant classic. All the animations started out hand drawn and then were scanned and comped using a combination of Animo and Photoshop. Michel’s website includes a ton of great media including the soundtrack he used for inspiration and the full frame abstract animations without the CG rat on top.

LINK to Michel Gagné’s web site

and if you haven’t checked out Flight do your eyeballs a favor

LINK to the Flight Blog

Here’s an oldy, looks like it was posted in 2002! Some adventurous soul with a little too much time on there hands reverse engineered the Slit Scans from Kubruick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The result is an approximation of the original flat artwork used in the scanning process. Nice!

Link to original post

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Got this vid from an email that been making the rounds. Hilarious, and an awesome example of “down and dirty” working just fine.

Thanks to JC for the oringinal mail.