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January 31, 2014

Friday Favorites

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Happy Friday! We’ve got some great Favorites for you this week. Feeling like you need to brush up on the rules of football before the Super Bowl this Sunday? Check out Fraser Davidson’s beautiful and informative “Guide to American Football”. We’re also featuring a short about people who live in extreme wind conditions, a great ad for Hive Active Heating, and information about a Boston screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated film, “The Wind Rises”.

“WIND” by Robert Loebel

“WIND” is an “animated short about the daily life of people living in a windy area who seem helplessly exposed
to the weather.”

“A Guide to American Football” by Fraser Davidson

Just in time for the Super Bowl, this video explains football in a visually unique and interesting way.

“Hive Active Heating” by Buck

This is definitely one of the best advertisements we’ve seen in a long time.

The Wind Rises Boston screening – Oscar-nominated film The Wind Rises is Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s most recent work, about a man who designed fighter planes during WWII. It is being screened for one day only at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square.

 


January 24, 2014

Friday Favorites

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Happy Friday, everyone! This week’s Favorites are a beautiful short by Charles Huettner, a Cartoon Brew article about Pixar’s new CG techniques, a monthly animation challenge, and a link to Daniel Sousa‘s Oscar-nominated short “Feral”.

“The Jump”

“The Jump” is Charles Huettner‘s contribution to Late Night Work Club, a collective of indie animators. You can watch the rest of the Late Night Work Club videos here.

“Pixar Makes Painterly CG: New Research Could Change The Look of Their Films” – An interesting article by Cartoon Brew about how animators at Pixar are exploring ways to “achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.”

Chris Pianka’s “Light”-themed contribution to LoopdeLoop.

LoopdeLoop – “LoopdeLoop is an animation challenge. Each month, animators from around the world create looping animations based on a given topic.”

“Feral” by Daniel Sousa – “Feral” is Daniel Sousa’s Oscar-nominated short about ” a wild boy who is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization.” It is currently available to stream online for $1, or to purchase for $2.

 

 

 


January 17, 2014

Friday Favorites

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Happy Friday! Our Favorites this week are a beautiful video that combines 3D animation with a handmade look, a nonprofit with a wonderful mission, information about a great event happening here in Boston at the ICA, and (best of all) aliens!

 

Alameda, “New Leaf” by Legwork Studio – “The goal was to combine the hand-made feel of painting with the perfection of 3D camera movement and environments.”

 

Animation for a Cause is a nonprofit that creates short explanatory motion graphics projects for social causes that need a voice. Check out their introductory video:

 

Best of the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival 2013 – If you’re located here in Boston, you’ll want to check out this screening of a selection of audience favorites and award winners from the 2013 Ottawa International Animation Festival, happening this Saturday and Sunday at the ICA.

 

By Andy Martin

By Andy Martin

Illustrated Aliens – Animator, illustrator, and musician Andy Martin created a year’s worth of alien illustrations and animations. You can also watch his work on his Vimeo channel, The Planets.


January 10, 2014

Friday Favorites

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Happy Friday and happy New Year, everyone! We hope everyone’s holidays were great. We’re back in the studio, and we’ve got some wonderful links for you this week: a couple of videos, Cartoon Brew’s animation book guide for 2014, and a neat event happening here in Boston.

A beautiful video by Oliver Sin, featuring music by Jim Guthrie.

 

“Weekly Walks” – Conor Whelan created a walk cycle every week for 4 months! You can also check them out in gif form.

Animation Books to Watch for in 2014 – Cartoon Brew always posts helpful guides, and this one is no exception!

Doodle at the Nave Gallery – This is an event that Boston folks won’t want to miss. Doodle is an art show featuring cartooning in many different forms. The opening reception is today (January 10) from 6-8, and the show runs until January 26th.

“Hey Cowboy” by Craig Bostick

 


January 10, 2014

Announcing 3 New Videos!

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We’re happy to announce the release of 3 new videos! Check them out, and keep an eye out for the skateboarding cat:

 

QNAP in a Nutshell – We created this video for QNAP, a leader in data storage solutions for business.

 

Linkify in a Nutshell – Linkify is an API that lets developers place lovely keyword links in their app’s content, keyword links that are highly relevant and interesting to users.

 

HeyWatch in a Nutshell – HeyWatch is a powerful cloud video encoding service that reduces a lot of headaches for developers. Now, app developers can focus on what they do best and let HeyWatch handle all their video encoding needs.


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