Toolfarm Inspirations Archive

Very cool song and video for Flobots song Handlebars. The Video Director is Dirty UK and the Video Producer is Phil Tidy.

Labels: Music Video

This amazing video is a time lapse of painted graffiti on walls in Buenos Aires. Talk about transforming the landscape! More amazing work and sketches are to be found at the artist's website, blublu.org.


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Labels: 2D, Experimental, Stop Motion, Website

Shilo recently animated this visually stunning piece for noneofusarefree.org and MTV Networks in support of the victims of cyclone Nargis. More information about the project can be found at Shilo.tv.



Noneofusarefree.org is a website that brings together creative media & arts for international campaigns. Visit the site to view a high quality version and to join the relief effort in support of the Burmese people.

Labels: 3D, Film Short, Website

A music video with great editing and fun time remap effects. Thanks, Noirette, for the link.

Labels: Music Video

Very cool stop motion piece by Evan Rosenberg for the Anaheim Ballet.

Labels: Stop Motion

The newest iPod commercial featuring Viva la Vida by Coldplay is just gorgeous! Lots of color and eye candy. It almost looks like a big ad for Trapcode plug-ins. Ha ha. I wonder if that is what they used? It was done by Logan.

Labels: Commercial

Amazing way to look at art, don'tcha think?

Thanks to Steve Audette for the link.

Their site is running really slow today. It was posted at Motionographer yesterday too and I think the traffic has broken the site!

Labels: 3D

A beautiful stop motion animation telling the story of Madame Butterfly. This is mindblowingly cool.

Thanks Thom Birks for the link!

Labels: Stop Motion

Yesterday I had a Conversation with David Torno and Brandon Parvini about Flight of the Conchords' 'Ladies of the World' video they just completed.

It's incredibly funny and has a cool 70s style to it. They rotoscoped the faces of The Conchords onto stunt skaters. They talk about the challenges they had with the project and how they used lots of digital tools to make this really impressive video.

Labels: Interview, Music Video

Live action combined with hand drawn stuff. The video was shot in one day. Very nice work!

Labels: Music Video

This video, directed by Wendy Morgan, has some interesting time manipulation on the dancers and a very cool 'Look' (Magic Bullet Looks perhaps?)

The effect in the door was a bit cheesy. Not quite sure about that one. The rest of the video is great, IMHO.

Labels: Music Video

Talk about low budget, but this had to be very time consuming. The song is 'Again and Again' by The Bird and the Bee. I'm not sure if this is the official video, but it's
very clever. Mac geeks will totally appreciate it (and the rest of you geeks as well).



via Signal vs. Noise

Labels: Experimental, Music Video

Imaginary forces creates a whimsical paper cutout style open sequence for Nim's Island.

Labels: 2D, Film Short, Movie Trailer

Excuse me if I gush, but I *LOVE* Liam Finn. Liam is a Kiwi and son to the beloved singer/songwriter Neil Finn, and nephew to Tim Finn. The boy has some musical genius flowing through his veins. (I warned you I would gush).

Liam's video for Second Chance, easily my favorite Liam Finn song, is directed by Angus Sutherland. The video looks as if it was filmed on 8mm and the projected video was video taped, cut up and effected. There are lots of interesting stop motion effects and the video works extremely well for the song, as it crescendos near the end and the speed of the video picks up. I'm very glad to see that the video is as original as the song.



'Gather to the Chapel' video is one continuous shot. This video has gorgeous camera control. Either Liam can run really fast behind the camera and get himself set up for the next shot, or they've really done a great job of matching shots. I'm sure this was programmed camera control, but it's so well done. It's seamless, not like they've made a quick cut on the back of a guys suit as they did in Hitchcock's rope. (Oddly - 'Everyone Gather to the Chapel' and no one is there.)

I had no luck finding any information on the director of this video.

Labels: Music Video, Stop Motion