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Just stunning really. The blend between real world shots and CGI is smooth as a baby’s behind.

Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.

Directed by: Arev Manoukian
Produced by: Stephanie Swedlove & Arev Manoukian
VFX by: Marc-Andre Gray
Music by: Samuel Bisson
Starring: Michael Coughlan & Megan Lindley
Cinematographer: Arev Manoukian
Casting: Jeff Marshall
Assistant Director: Andrew Cividino
Production Designer: Arev Manoukian & Marc-Andre Gray
Art Director / Costumes – Dan Levy
Camera Operator: Jay Pavao
Camera Assistant: Max Armstrong
Gaffer: Alan Poon
Editor: Arev Manoukian
Compositor / Animator: Marc-Andre Gray
Effects Supervisors: Marc-Andre Gray & Arev Manoukian
Additional Compositing: Arev Manoukian
Matte Painter: Pat Lau
Colourist: Andre Chlebak

the making of Nuit Blanche

A short film by Flat-e. The project began life as a film to accompany a performance by the London Sinfonietta of Edgard Vareses Ionisation. An inspiring 20th century composer who pioneered works that cross over into the electronic scene of today.

Sound: Ultre (ultre.co.uk).

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

Produced by Jp Frenay, this 3 minute promo video has gathered a lot of attention (selected for ONEDOTZERO festival in the WOW+FLUTTER 09 category, the Autodesk 2009 Siggraph Show Reel, Stash Issue 61, and a Realflow Case Study). Stunning stuff.

This was a pleasant surprise in my regular Youtube subscription email. A very simple idea that with a lot of dedication and commitment on the part Takeuchi Taijin just looks great. Better known for the awesome Stop Motion with Pig & Wolf that Range Rover (or was it Land Rover) decided to “use” for their recent TV ad.

So the Skywave Systems video loop is complete. A friend of mine who I have known for many years is embarking on a new musical project (having previously run the awesome, but sadly now defunct music label Virus B-23). He currently pushing fantastic freely available high quality net audio through his current label: Myuzyk. In addition to that he’s returning to producing music and producing it as Skywave Systems. It has a great lo-fi electronica feel to it and I’m really looking forward to hearing more of his original productions.

So, back to the video loop. Skywave asked me to come up with a looping video based around a certain colour theme, featuring UFOs or unexplained sky based phenomena, to have his text logo on the end, to be around 10 seconds long. I collected some open source and creative commons footage from Archive.org and using the Creative Commons search function and set about my task. The actual video loop itself was composed with Apple Motion, having used Adobe Photoshop for some of the still based layers. Oh yea he wanted something about triangles in there. So the Penrose triangle is included.

Countless tweaks and a few revisions later and we both arrived at a video we liked.

And the looping animated GIF as Skywave is using the loop on his Myspace:

Following on from the last post on here, this is the Main Titles of the awesome looking OFFF 2009 festival.

36 logos/titles in this fantastic film produced by OneSize for the 2009 OFFF sponsor titles. Click the first image for the big version of the 8 minute film.

This a school project from Tomas Nilsson. It’s an interpretation of the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood with music by Slagsmålsklubben. Tomas says he was inspired by the music video for Röyksopp’s Remind Me.

For further info and pieces by Tomas, check out his website, tomas-nilsson.se

Just how good does this film look? The animation is just spot on. 46 seconds of awesomeness. Check out the production photos after the drop.

MEET MELINE : The Trailer

After two years of intense work on an independent 3D animated short film called “Meet Meline”, Virginie GOYONS and Sebastien LABAN made the teaser/trailer to show you a little bit more of the short film. We’re proud to present you the 46-seconds-video with the official music of “Meet Meline”, composed by Guillaume ROUSSEL!

More information on the website : meetmeline.com

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This short film reminds me of the intro sequence to the VHS copy I had as a child of Rupert the Bear and the Frog Song, you know the one with Paul McCarthy in it.

From the artist himself Mark Andrew Webber:

This printed linomation (hand carved animation using Linoleum prints), was done using 296 individual pieces of carved linoleum which are 10 cm square each. This is a project for The Art of Lost Words. It’s all about words in the English language and artists’ interpretations of words that are not used so much anymore, and there are some pretty strange ones. I chose the word dehisce from a list of .ost words. ‘Dehisce’ means ‘release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound.’ It’s made to a loop so it can go on forever! For YouTube I decided to loop it three times to show the gist of the looping. My friend Adam Dedman created the sound for the linomation.

Found at Boing Boing