WARNING: This post could be considered NSFW if, for example, a homoerotic segway chasing a roller is inappropriate viewing where you work.
Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend is the first video in this, um, genre that I remember seeing. It blew my mind.
Tag Archives: CGI
Ruin
Worth watching large. I love the vehicle design in this. The universe is appealing too. Continue reading
Transformers 3 VFX breakdowns
Aside
So much technology, talent and time in service of something so mediocre.
One Rat Short
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Ratatouille meets The Matrix
“One Rat Short” is a work of love Directed by Alex Weil and created by Charlex Films. From the start we decided not to use anthropomorphic animation. We decided it would take place in two worlds: one so gritty, grimy and dark that the viewer needs to peer into the screen in order to make out the images and the other a sterile white world so brightly lit that you feel the need to turn your head away from the screen. One of the techniques we used was to give a lot of the camera work a hand-held feel and to keep it a little behind the action so that the scenes didn’t seem staged. Lastly and most importantly we kept the story simple and tried to give it heart. The film picked up honors at numerous film festivals, including Best of Show at the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival.
Bob
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A race around the globe.
Bob tells the story of a little hamster that tries to follow his true love around the globe. Can he catch up?
Where no one has gone before…
One final Star Trek render (for this weekend at least)…
View full size (1200 × 675) or in glorious HD (1920 × 1080) on Flickr.
Galaxy class
I’ve just finished watching season 1 of The Next Generation, and I’ve been inspired to get back into LightWave 3D to produce a quick homage (or two).
View full size (1200 × 675) or in glorious HD (1920 × 1080) on Flickr.
This is a faithful reproduction of one of the most widely-used promo shots of the Enterprise D (see below for the originals).
Half-Life: Origins
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Everyone remembers the first time they stepped onto the Black Mesa Transit System and into the shoes of the unexpected hero, Gordon Freeman. Half-Life Origins is a short film that takes you back to where it all began.
Half-Life: Origins by Infectious Designer
Short, but very sweet. If Half Life were to become a television series, this would be the perfect title sequence.
Trivia: In the tram you can spot a poster for another Half Life short film by Infectious Designer: Beyond Black Mesa.
Rosa
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ROSA is an epic sci-fi short film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared. From the destruction awakes Rosa, a cyborg deployed from the Kernel project, mankind’s last attempt to restore the earth’s ecosystem. Rosa will soon learn that she is not the only entity that has awakened and must fight for her survival.
Twinklebox
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The first chapter of the Music Box Chronicles is a glimpse into the timeless life of Twinklebox, a music box caught in an infinite world, set to his own melody.
Twinklebox is a short film about the mechanics and music of time. The third film from Luniere brings yet another lost toy back to life in an animation that plays with scale, sound, and timelessness. The Music Box Chronicles is an ongoing collaboration into the parallel development of image and sound, inspired by a ‘Write Your Own Melody’ Music Box.
Over Time
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When some puppets discover their creator dead in his studio, they celebrate his life the only way they know how.
Over Time by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, Damien Ferrie
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The External World
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A boy learns to play the piano.
8BITS
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An 8bit hero fights in a 16bit universe.
The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus
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The animated shortfilm “The Tale Of Mr. Rêvus” is my (Marius Herzog) graduation (Diploma) film, produced at the Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule – University Of Applied Sciences, Nuremberg.
Mac ‘n’ Cheese
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Mac ‘n’ Cheese is an animated short directed and created by four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. This roughly two minute animation took about five months to make, and about a bajillion peanut butter sandwiches.
Synopsis: When you find yourself running scared and running out of energy, there’s only a few options left to outrun your opponent through the southern desert. Stopping at nothing, watch these two guys wear each other out and rip through boundaries hitherto unbroken. Enjoy the ride!
Defective Detective
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Defective Detective by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis / Cartoon Brew
Film suggested by Matt Creed
Dilla
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An armadillo lives in a perfect world that is threatened when a hunter enters the scene.
Dilla by Mike Klim, Stanley Moore, Dominic Pallotta, Mikey Sauls Continue reading
Rabbitkadabra!
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Little Emily wanders into a hidden part of town and stumbles upon a failing magic shop, where she is given a magical mechanical stuffed Rabbit. She brings him to life, expecting a magic show, but gets more than she bargains for….
Rabbitkadabra! by Dave Chen, Naomi Chen, Michelle Czajkowski and Krzysztof Fus from the School of Visual Arts Computer Art Department in Manhattan. Continue reading
Alma
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almashortfilm.com by Rodrigo Blaas Continue reading
World Builder
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A strange man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves.
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