Inspirations is a beautifully realized and wonderfully conceived short CGI animated film by Cristóbal Vila.
It is a homage to the works of artist M.C. Escher, conceived as Vila’s fanciful imagining of the artist’s workspace, filled with objects that refer to aspects of Escher’s work
On his website, Etérea Studios, Vila provides information about the short, including stills and annotation about the sources of objects and concepts used in the film, and a page about the referenced artworks by other masters.
I particularly enjoy the highpoint of the piece, in which one of Escher’s images that suggests three dimensionality emerging from a flat surface, itself emerges from a flat surface.
Vila also created the beautiful short, Nature by Numbers, which I wrote about here.
[Via io9]