The Head

Animation by Matias Vigliano & Dante Zaballa, Monday 01 March

Funny animation by  two Argentinians. Story is not really interesting, but the visual world that they've created in 'The Head' is nonetheless distinctive. Sounddesign by Ariel Gandolfo.

Better together

commercial for Match.com by Friendswithyou, Thursday 25 February

" "Better Together" is the melancholic tale of a Pea and a Carrot. Welcome to our magical little world where all things that are supposed to be together are. From strawberries and cream, to a fork and knife, to a rabbit and a hat, we watch as these duos make their love connection all over town. The only ones that haven't yet found each other are our main characters, but once they do meet its going to be great. After all, what goes better together than peas and carrots? Enjoy our new spot for Match.Com. Love FWYstudios. "

Koochie Koochie Hota Hai

feature animation, Thursday 25 February

Koochie Koochie Hota Hai is an upcoming Bollywood film that will be released in Summer 2010, and the most expensive Bollywood animation produced so far.Karan Johar, producer of the film, quoted in his blog: "The core love story is between three dogs, and the supporting cast has roosters, bears, pigs, cats, and many others from the barn"

Papierkrieg

by Matthias Bäuerle, Wednesday 17 February

Not much intel about this one yet, but worth watching anyway. Stopmotion and VFX from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Papierkrieg (paper war).

Adobe Photoshop Cook

stopmotion, Wednesday 17 February

A video made in stopmotion for competition AdobeYouGC (http://www.adobeyougc.com/)The simulation of a tutorial which shows how to make cookies with the new Adobe Photoshop Cook! The whole set was made with cardboard and with kitchen utensils. By Lait Noir.

AU - Ida Walked Away

musicvideo, Saturday 13 February

Musicvideo by Takafumi Tsuhiya/Takcom for the band AU, especially the second part and ending are beautiful. Reminds me of Christian Herdeq, a light art artist who created his own unique neon colors.

BBC Winter Olympics 2010 Inuit trailer

by Marc Craste - Studio AKA, Thursday 04 February

BAFTA winning director Marc Craste along with co-designer Jon Klassen have re-worked the origin of the Winter Olympics into this stylized tale of an Inuit hero. The :40 second trailer for the BBC coverage of the 16 day event was commissioned by BBC and Red Bee Media, with the agency RKCR/Y&R. All production completed at Studio AKA.

Klokhuis titles

3D printing in animation, Monday 01 February

Animator Johnny Kelly has created the opening and end titles for the popular Dutch children television programme 'Het Klokhuis' (The Apple Core). You'll probably know Kelly from the beautiful stopmotion paperart animation The Seed. Klokhuis is a programme for 7-12 year olds about the world around them; how things actually work (science, nature, behaviour, arts and more) and what does that all mean?Very interesting about this animation is that the objects used to make this stopmotion are made by 3D printing. More info at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/3d-printing-in-animation

Bad Apple

stopmotion, Saturday 30 January

Japanese stop motion animation, Bad Apple.

Burn-E

Pixar short film, Saturday 23 January

I guess you`ve all seen Wall-E (2008), Disney/Pixar´s feature about our planet´s future if we would stay on the same environmental track. On disc is a short, Burn-E, based on in Wall-E and produced at the same period.