Stereo Classics
Opto-Scientific by The Designers Republic
A graphic exploration of scientific principles and an ode to artist Victor Vaserely. Originally shown as part of a gallery installation. The Designers Republic are best known for their work with Warp Records and the packaging and graphic interface for the Wipeout video game series.
Farenheit 451 'titles'.
Click on the link to see an film opening credit sequence that contains no typography!
Directed by Francois Truffaut and based on the novel by Ray Bradbury, the film's central premise is that a future totalitarian regime outlaws books in order to suppress subversive ideas and control the populace. The name relates to the temperature at which paper burns.
Therefore all the words in this sequence are spoken, not written down.
Delicatessen Opening Credits
Click on the link to watch the opening titles for 'Delicatessen' by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who later went on to direct The City of Lost Children, Amelie, and MicMacs.
Saul Bass A Brief Visual History
In keeping with the 60's theme, here is a montage of classic Saul Bass film title sequences.
'Money Walks' Midland Bank advert by Robert Brownjohn (fragment)
This was recorded at the Communicate: British Independent Graphic Design exhibition held at the Barbican in 2004. The quality of the video is poor because it is from a phone, but if you can look beyond this there are some fantastic motion graphic concepts here. It dates from the late 1960s as well, so everything here is pre-digital, having been animated by hand. Brownjohn is most famous for designing the opening credits of the early Bond films and also the album cover for Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones.
5th Typophile Film Festival
Handcrafted with love by BYU design students and
faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. A visual typographic feast
about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our
creativity. Everything in the film is real—no CG effects!
Shot with a RED One, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a Canon EOS 40D, and a Nikon D80.Stop motion created with Dragon Stop Motion.
len lye
Swinging the Lambeth Walk, Len Lye, 1940.
Len Lye was also sponsored to make films by the GPO Film Unit (a subdivision of the General Post Office). If you're interested in his exploration of rhythm, have a look at A Colour Box.
Night Mail, 1936.
It's also worth looking at Night Mail produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright. Although filmic, as opposed to animation, it features a fantastic soundtrack with music by Benjamin Britten and poetry by W.H. Auden. It is perhaps easier here to see the link between the fact that the PO was the sponsor and the film concept of 'post'.
kuntzel & deygas
Kuntzel and Deygas's memorable and idiosyncratic title sequence to Steven Spielberg's comedy drama thriller Catch Me if You Can (2002), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, depicting the career of the world's most successful con artist, Frank Abagnale Jr.. The slender Lowreyesque figures run through environments that symbolise key plot points from the film, and are accompanied by John Williams's floaty, 1960s jazz-era score. The title design credit is discreetly featured in the shelf, while the papers blow past the pursuer's face.
(Quoted from YouTube)
nitrocorpz
Established in 2003, Nitrocorpz works in a broad range of communication fields, such as print, illustration, branding, animation and interactive projects. Some of their clients include: Linotype Library, Burton Snowboards, Analog Clothing, Rip Curl, Computer Arts, MTV Brazil.
grant orchard
Park Foot Ball
'Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by regular studio aka animator orchard.'
Dominoes
'Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by regular studio aka animator orchard.'
Dominoes
the hyde tube
The Hyde Tube showcases a variety of animation projects and is worth a look at. Follow the links beneath the images to see each animation in full.
all about prints
All About Prints is a documentary directed by Christopher Noey and produced by Lizzy McGlynn. It tells the history of printmaking in America, from woodblock to digital. The history of each technique is explained and instructional animations are provided.
Graphics produced by Asterisk
To view the whole animation, go to MotionServed.
jarratt moody
Say What Again was created by Jarratt Moody for a class called Time Based Typography taught by Duff Yong at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
conveying information
A Record of Life, Owen Gatley & Luke Jinks.
A short animation based on the scientific recording of life's great species.
The Kiss - Infographic from Marija Vidanovic on Vimeo.
viking eggeling
Born in Sweden to a family of German origin, Viking Eggeling emigrated to Germany at the age of 17, where he became a bookkeeper, and studied art history as well as painting. From 1911 to 1915 he lived in Paris, then moved to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I. In Zurich he became a associated with the Dada movement, became a friend of Hans Richter, Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Marcel Janco. With the end of the Great War he moved to Germany with Richter where both explored the depiction of movement, first in scroll drawings and then on film. In 1922 Eggeling bought a motion picture camera, and working without Richter, sought to create a new kind of cinema. Axel Olson, a young Swedish painter, wrote to his parents in 1922 that Eggeling was working to a musical-cubist style of film - completely divorced from the naturalistic style. In 1923 he showed a now lost, 10 minute film based on an earlier scroll titled Horizontal-vertical Orchestra. In the summer of 1923 he began work on Symphonie Diagonale. Paper cut-outs and then tin-foil figures were photographed a frame at a time. Completed in 1924, the film was shown for the first time (privately) on November 5. On May 3, 1925 it was presented to the public in Germany; sixteen days later Eggeling died in Berlin.
In Diagonal Symphony, the emphasis is on objectively analyzed movement rather than expressiveness on the surface patterning of lines into clearly defined movements, controlled by a mechanical, almost metronomic tempo. The spatial complexities and ambiguities of Richter's film are almost non-existent here. Above all, a sober quality of rhythm articulation remains the most pronounced quality of the film.
ubuweb
snask
Snask, Mike Crozier, 2010.
'Stopmotion film that I created for SNASK while interning with them in Stockholm. I wrote, shot and edited the film myself without the use of special effects or stopmotion software. There are 1846 photos, and it took just under 4 days to shoot.'
For more information go to croz.co.uk
For more information go to croz.co.uk
her morning elegance
This video was shot with all stills: roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie. The entire video was shot in Eyal Landesman's studio in Tel-Aviv.
Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
Actress: Shir Shomron
Credits:
Her Morning EleganceDirected by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan
Photography: Eyal Landesman
Color: Todd Iorio at Resolution
Actress: Shir Shomron
the pen story
"We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us."
storyboarding
Two photo-series by Eadweard Muybridge. British-born Muybridge, who emigrated to the United States in the 1850s, is one of the most influential photographers of all time. He pushed the limits of the camera's possibilities, creating world-famous images of animals and humans in motion.
Also to understand more about what a storyboard is, look here.
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