An unforgettable experimental animation by Daniel Sierra for his master thesis at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He says that he aims to
“visualise patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerising audiovisual experience in which sight and sound work in unison to capture the viewer’s attention.”
Go full screen and turn up the volume for an experience definitely not to be missed!
Understand Music
This experimental animation is about the attempt to understand all the parts and bits of the complexity of music.
GIF: A short history.
The History of Typography - Animated Short
A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography: 291 paper letters and 2454 photographs. Enjoy.
A Boy and His Atom
To explore the limits of filmmaking, IBM scientists create the world’s smallest movie, made by moving actual atoms frame by frame with IBM’s scanning tunneling microscope.
How far we’ve come in the half-century since Disney’s Our Friend the Atom.
Overcast: merging the world of drawing with the real
Overcast is a short animation feature from the hands of James Lancett. The story about a man being constantly followed by a rain cloud is a beautiful example of animation where the world of drawing merges with the real.
Check out R’ha, an animated short which portrays the rebellion of machines against their rulers, an alien species. The movie is made by a 22-year-old German studying digital film design and it has already attracted the attention of Hollywood producers.
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I, Pencil – lovely little film about how everything is connected. Because, as Charles Eames famously noted, “Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
La Luna - Pixar Short
As is often the case with Pixar’s films, the short film preceding it is an artistic tour-de-force. At the cinema screenings of Brave, this short wowed us in our seats. And had us grab our hankerchiefs too…
Take a moment and enjoy the touching La Luna. You won’t regret it.
** UPDATE **
Film is down from YouTube due to copyright claim (of course). So we’ve posted the trailer now instead. Guess you’ll have to buy the DVD or BluRay now, to get the full show…
Engage: a cloud sourced short film
The cloud is becoming an essential part of our everyday digital lives. How can we put it to new and good use, creating meaningful connections and stories? Well, there’s Cloud Filmmaking, as filmmaker Tiffany Shlain has devised, resulting in a series of videos, ‘Engage’ being the second instalment:
Over the course of six months, we asked people from all over the world to send videos of themselves feeling their heartbeat and thinking about what it means. This is the 2-minute film that unfolded…
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