Toolfarm Inspirations Archive

Ida Walked Away from takcom™ on Vimeo.

Video for the Portland band AU, from their new release Versions.

Music : AU
myspace.com/peaofthesea
au-au-au.com

Video : Takafumi Tsuhiya /TAKCOM
takafumitsuchiya.com

Labels: 2D, Experimental, Film Short, Music Video, Retro

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Labels: Demo Reel

Oh how I wish I had a bigger video for this one. The story is that Megaforce, a French post house, did this amazing video, but rumor has it Kudi didn't like his performance in the video. I think the video is AMAZING. Kudos to Megaforce. The other video isn't bad but this has some pretty stellar effects. It's all MC Eschery. The song is pretty excellent too, featuring MGMT and Ratatat.

Watch it here

Labels: Music Video

Disco Biscuits "On Time".

Some of you may know David Torno. He's a friend and I interviewed him and Brandon Parvini for their work on Flight of The Conchords' Ladies of the World.

David recently worked on this new Disco Biscuits music video, On Time, which I must say is SUPER catchy song and the video is fantastic! All the post was done by the same core team that did the Linkin Park 'New Divide' video last year, and they are brimming with talent. Every video I've ever seen from them is slick!

The video premiered this week on MTV Networks. David said, "The director is Noah Rappaport, a colleague and very good friend of mine. This is his directorial debut. 'On Time' was a post heavy video that involved animating and compositing a CG robot, aka "Roger", into a real world environment as well as having him interact with live action actors." David worked on the C4D Lighting Rigs, 3D Motion Tracking, Virtual Set Creation.

So what else was involved in the creation? The post was done with Cinema 4D and After Effects. Cinema 4D was used to model, texture, light and animate Roger the robot. The smoke effects were also done with C4D. The color correction, environment lighting enhancement, Roger re-lighting effects, spark effects, handheld motion, DOF matching and virtual set creation were done in After Effects.

Credits:

• Noah Rappaport: Director, C4D Animator, Post Supervisor
• Brandon Parvini: Color Correction, Compositing, Virtual Set Creation
• Jeff Lichtfuss: Compositing
• David Torno: C4D Lighting Rigs, 3D Motion Tracking, Virtual Set Creation
  

Additional artists:

• Anton Moss - modeler
• Rodolfo Roth - texture artist
• Brian Horgan - animator
• Daniel Bacchiocchi - MoCap Clean-up
  

Labels: Interview, Music Video

Just beautiful.

Labels: Commercial

The Can from Carlos Lascano on Vimeo.

Honorable Mention 2D animated film at The Hyde Tube Festival 2009/Paris

Written and Directed by Carlos Lascano More Info

Labels: 2D, 3D, Adobe, After Effects, Character Animation, Film Short

Some really interesting effects. Music video directed by Francois Vogel.

Labels: Music Video

Kind of interesting how it evolved over the years.

Labels: Logos, Retro

It's a bit dark, I'd highly recommend you watch it full screen. Truly amazing- RealFlow used for fluid simulation?

"Nokta (Dot) is an abstract film project which is an improvisation of organic pieces while considering themes like power, chance and luck. I also wanted a perspective that can be subjectified by viewers."

Labels: 3D, Experimental, Film Short

1925 aka Hell (by Max Hattler) from Max Hattler on Vimeo.

Wow, this video is mesmerizing in a creepy way. "The films were created during 5 days in February 2010 with students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark." Directed by Max Hattler.

Labels: 2D, 3D, Bizarre, Film Short

Winner of Best Short Film Category at the 2010 Oscars goes to H5, a collective of directors



"Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city... and even more in LOGORAMA!"

Labels: 2D, 3D, Bizarre, Experimental, Film Short, Oscars

OK so no visual effects here (if there were it would ruin the whole effect!), but this is too fun not to post to inspirations. This insanely huge and complicated Rube Goldberg-esque device was built by the band over the course of several months. One camera take! I wonder how many times they had to go through this to get it to work flawlessly.

Labels: Bizarre, Experimental, Film Short, Music Video

I just find this sort of data really interesting. I'm a bit of a data geek. Also, this makes me feel completely insignificant. I am one of 1.7 billion, and so are you.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Labels: 2D, Documentary, Flash, Infographic, Technology, Typography

Gorillaz have gone full CG and continue to break ground on new video "Stylo"- a compositing and vfx masterpiece. New album "Plastic Beach" will be out March 8/9th US.

Labels: 3D, Bizarre, Character Animation, Experimental, Film Short, Music Video