Repetition and Rhythm in Animation- Bla Bla Bla

This is an animation for the music video Bla Bla Bla by Gigi D'Agostino--Its a relatively simple animation but it demonstrates well, how sound/music enhances an animation (or maybe the other way around). The animation wouldn't be that great without the music. Another thing to point out is the video's heavy use of repetition--we're only seeing about 2-4 animated elements or characters but the creator still delivers a linear storyline with a beginning, middle, and end.



Here's another animation by the same artist using the similar characters and style as "Bla Bla Bla" but it uses color. The song is kind of annoying--but same effect: The Riddle

Kinetic Type Inspiration

Web Designer Depot lists "18 Creative Examples of Typography is Motion." Some use video and imagery and others are pure type. Most seem to be created in After Effects. The one below pertains directly to typography--giving an animated description of the typeface, Rockwell (Jordan Clarke):



Rockwell from Jordan Clarke on Vimeo.

Here's a handful of Flash websites picked by Graphic Mania

Help Children Be Children- The National Children's Study Queens Vanguard...

Meet Dot, the World’s Tiniest Stop-Motion Animation Heroine

Meet Dot, the World’s Tiniest Stop-Motion Animation Heroine
"the smallest stop-motion animation ever produced — was made with a Nokia N8 smartphone and a CellScope" Vulture

SOUND PROVIDERS - WHO AM I (SOULO INSTRUMENTAL)

Going  to use this track for my project...

Art of the Title has a lot of good stuff on storyboards and layout from various title sequences features in movies and television programs.

Amiga - Disney Animation Studio (1990)

Amiga is one of the first animation programs developed and used by Disney. Above is a clip from 1990 (20 years ago!) showing how the program works but it seems relatively advanced for back then.

Think Pit WOW

THINGPIT_HD from taras hrabowsky on Vimeo.

Diesel: The Brave New Commercial

Although this doesn't involve animation, this video for Diesel is crazy. It combines 3 movies that, in the beginning, seem to have nothing to so with one another, but about halfway through they sort of merge or rather interact to create one piece. This shows perhaps, the more time you spend on concept development and planning, how outstanding a piece of work can be.

Motiongrapher says this about the film:
The three films in this triptych deal with themes of heart, mind and nerve. The centerpiece of mind narrates the other more abstract, non-linear pieces. Legs managed to mash-up a wide range of film vernacular in the process
 



I also think its interesting that the semi-avant garde, low-budget film was commissioned by Diesel.

Prologue Animation for MTV VMAs (2009)

I was trying to find out who did the motion design for the 2010 MTV VMAs because I really liked it although my Art Director/boss at work said it was way too busy and gave him a headache. I did, however, find out who did the animation for the last 3 years. Prologue, a LA-based live action and graphic design firm seems like they've done the opening design for the majority of Hollywood movies out right now. Their website is nice--and worth checking out. The nomination sequences for the 2009 VMAs below: 




Going to keep looking for who did the digital design for the VMAs a few nights ago. (Also, loved Kanye's performance!)

Future Music Video

 



The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive film/music video that filmmaker, Chis Milk put together w/Arcade Fire. It was built to run in Google Chrome and uses HTML 5. The video has been getting alot of media attention, ABC's website says,
"'The Wilderness Downtown' relies on HTML5 technology, a new web development standard that allows programmers to use web browsers in a whole new way. Windows pop open and closed in a choreographed fashion, and video, graphics, and text can be combined in real-time."

Technologic - Daft Punk - kinetic typography motion graphics

harlem

I'm going to do harlem for my neighborhood and I have so many feelings, perceptions and experiences with the neighborhood that I'm sort of finding it difficult to hone in on just one aspect of the area. I've worked there, interned there, looked for apartments there, shopped there, hung out there, drank there, gone to shows there and the list goes on. I think I'm going to take the project away from my own experiences and focus on general perceptions of the neighborhood mixed with my own.