Animation, graphic effects and emotive video are used every day to engage and enrich people in an endless variety of contexts: boardrooms, induction programs, YouTube channels and across just about every device.
We were approached by Network BBDO to create animated inserts of a 30 second TV commercial for Virgin Money Insurance.
Our Challenge: a collage-type look that gave the feeling of information collected from different sources. This meant designing and animating in 6 different styles. Our favourite, the eight-bit video style designed on a grid and animated with traditional cell animation.
At the end of the project, all the styles and filmed footage were composited seamlessly.
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Our friends at Blue Moon invited us to work with them on bringing the Telkom Story to life. We had some fun taking a regular 2D car and making it 3D. Watch the video below to see how we tackled the project.
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Alexandra Zutto is an illustrator, print and character designer from Russia. Zutto creates outrageous worlds filled with vivid colours, fantastical shapes and beautiful characters. He invites his viewers into an energetic, playful phantasmagoria. We love Zutto!
To This Day is an animation based on the poem by Shane Koyczan’s spoken word poem of the same title. It is a poem about childhood bullying. The animation contains a 20 second animation collaboration from 87 different animators. It is absolutely stunning and it addresses many of the traumas that occur during childhood. It concludes by deeming the strength of the victim as beauty. The design is elegant complimented with an extremely well written piece of poetry; I tear up every time I watch it.
For the Style Frames Design Conference held last November in New York, Tel Aviv-based artist and animator Eran Hilleli was asked to create an opening titles sequence that would set the tone for the event and list the names of various speakers. The result is this short three-minute video of converging characters that’s almost too wonderful to describe. I’ve watched this at least 5 times over the last two months and every time it gives me chills. I wish this was a full-length movie, or more likely a video game, something more immersive to learn more about all the different creatures that appear so briefly. Music by Disasterpiece. (via Vimeo Staff Picks)
Style Frames Opening Titles from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.
Prague-based Amanita Design, creators of the award-winning Mechinarium, recently released what may be their best game yet: Samorost 3. This deeply immersive puzzle game spans the ecosystems of 9 unusual planets as you encounter strange inhabitants and unlock increasingly complex secrets to advance to the next level. Amanita Design’s approach to creating completely non-verbal/non-textual games relies heavily on intuition, sound design, and symbolism to create environments that are practically interactive artworks. Samorost 3 is a long-awaited sequel in a series of first released in 2003 and 2005.
The music and sound design specifically are fantastic, and Amita provides all kinds of behind-the-scenes videos showing how they developed the quirky voices for each character and composed the accompanying soundtrack. I’ve only been playing for about two hours or so, but this game is truly wonderful. You can get it from the Apple App Store or download it from their website for your desktops.
Friction is a distorted geometric typeface that intentionally puts emphasis on it’s graphic appearance. The minimalistic core of the typeface is built around geometric shapes. Two secondary layers of graphic elements create more abstract letterforms. The many small moving parts create a fluttering, organic feeling.
We love interacting not only socially but on the web too, Nick Buturishvili,
shows us simple animated micro interactions for Web and Mobile Apps.
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An inspired animation created by Slack showing ‘just how loco work life is… and just how not loco it could feel.’
Watch the full video here.
If you’re into strange but delightful ideas you’ll love the short film Noodles.
Its a film by Gentlemen Films and is about, an anxious and penniless woman who discovers a bizarre way to get herself out of financial trouble. However, the solution that leads her to success soon becomes her dark burden.
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