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Category: Animation

  • The Train and SINCE… by Cyril Calgaro

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    Two very short animations by Cyril Calgaro. The Train (images above, top two) is devoted to the painter Mondrian’s simplification of forms. SINCE… is a mini essay on the history of communication, told in animated icons. [Via Parka Blogs]

  • Stop PIPA and SOPA

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    If you stopped by Lines and Colors yesterday, January 18, you may have noticed that Lines and Colors had gone dark, along with a significant number of other sites, in protest, and to raise awareness of the “anti-piracy” internet censorship bills looming in the U.S. Congress. If you didn’t happen to stop by yesterday, but…

  • A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol (Kevin Dart)

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    A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol is a beautifully realized animated ad for Persol sunglasses, directed by illustrator Kevin Dart and Stéphane Codëdel, and designed by Dart and illustrator Chris Turnham. At first I thought it might be intended as a web only ad as the richness and variety of the illustrations gives the…

  • TIJI Colour, Akama Studio

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    Colour (Vimeo link) is a beautifully realized short animation (2:30) in which a moving brush brings color to a black and white jungle landscape and its inhabitants — save one. The commercial short was done for TIJI, which I believe is a French children’s channel. It was created by Akama Studio, working with the production…

  • Pythagasaurus

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    Pythagasaurus is a wonderfully realized CGI animated short about “…the Mighty Pythagasaurus, the fabled tyrannosaurus practiced in the skills of trigonometry and long division”. The short is directed by Peter Peake and animated by Pascale Bories, with wonderful voice characterization by Bill Bailey, Martin Trenaman and Simon Greenall. Not exactly what you would expect from…

  • LG Optimus facade mapping

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    I’ve written previously about 3-D animation video projection on the sides of buildings, specifically about those created by NuFormer. I’m uncertain who created this example in Berlin (the only credit line I can find says “Facade Mapping Image Show”, but I can’t find a site for that name), but it’s probably the most striking one…