Archived entries for animation

‘My 2 Dads’ - Cracking new Nike spot with Rooney

Spotted this cracking new Nike TV spot from Wieden + Kennedy London

Thought the Ferdinand/Torres lovechild DJ looked a little unwell:

nike-spot

…then realised it actually is Torres!!! Liverpool really need to let him out in the sun every now and again, maybe even feed him every once in a while!

Great spot tho W+K

The future of Augmented reality?? Scary!

Is this a quick glimpse of the future thanks to augmented reality….be afraid very afraid!!!

Thanks to Moving Brands for sharing

The “oh so” curious case of Benjamin Button!

Just found out this morning from a TED talk that for the first hour of the Brad Pitt film “The curious case of Benjamin Button“, the elderley Benjamin character is completely computer generated from the neck up!

benjamin-button

It’s one thing using CGI in say Transformers, Men in Black, space movies, war epics and the like, where nowadays it is almost expected, but for me the true beauty is making it so effective and using it so the audience don’t know your using it and can’t tell, even if they look closely, where you have and haven’t used it!

The genius’ at Digital Domain are responsible for this master trickery and see Ed Ulbrich reveal the secrets here:

BooneOakley website - GEEEENIUS

Well this is certainly one of those “Now why the hell didn’t i think of that” moments!

BooneOakley an advertising agency from across the pond have created their entire website from within the confines of YouTube as an actual video.
You navigate the website using the timeline button and tags within the video which takes you to another fully funtioning video.

So so clever… this is thier website, embedded in my blog, ha brilliant!

Animated Optical illusions

I’ve always loved any sort of print comms that makes you look twice or capture your imagination so much that you end up fixed on it until you figure out how it is done.

MC Escher was the master of this in my opinion with classics such as Drawing Hands and Waterfall…

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So can you image my amazement when I stumpled across this on YouTube?



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