Onur Senturk – Triangle

There are lots of nice motion experiments with sound. This is one of the impressive kind. Onur Senturk is a freelance designer and director in Istanbul, Turkey.
See more of his work here.  We recently also featured his film Nokta on the blog.

TRI▲NGLE from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

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Tags: Animation, Film, Motion Design, Onur Senturk, Triangle

JULIEN VALLÉE / Danse Dance

“Each day, we are surrounded by seemingly insignificant objects, taking them from one place to the other, or leaving them on a table for weeks, without paying any attention to them. We ignore or forget them, using things only when we need to, making sure they don’t interfere or inhabit our space. But what if they were not so stable and subservient? What if they could swivel, bounce or even fly. And what if they did so all at the same time? We want to imagine a place where objects could live and move, harmoniously, and of their own accord. Without interfering with each other these objects would bounce, roll, turn and cross each other’s paths.

This experiment is about re-discovering our daily surroundings. This is the making of the interactive video that was originally made for If You Could Collaborate exhibition.

This video is the making of the interactive film where each object is assigned to a letter on the keyboard, and can be activated or deactivated at any time. To learn more about our process and to play with this interactive desk, go to dansedance.com”

DanseDance from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.

Tags: Danse Dance, interactive film, Julien Vallée, Motion Design

Youtube Play

YouTube Play is an exhibition that YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC are calling “a Biennial of Creative Video” and which you can submit or nominate your own non-commercial work to (open till the 31st of July). Director Johnny Kelly produced an amazing video for the exhibition. Be sure to check out the making of to see how it was done. Read more about it here..

Making of

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Tags: Animation, Art, Biennal of Creative Video, Google, Guggenheim Museum, Motion Design, Youtube Play

Pixels Invasion by Patrick Jean

PIXELS: Retro Gamers from addwork on Vimeo.

Directed by Patrick Jean and produced by French production company OneMoreProduction this animation film is one of the best seen in a while. Millions of views in the first days..one viral beast for sure.

Tags: Animation, Motion Design, OneMoreProduction, Patrick Jean, Pixel Invasion

Nokta by Onur Senturk

“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.”

‘I see some correspondence between the foundation of universal harmony on elliptical orbit and the predilection for the elliptic forms in Baroque architecture. In both cases harmony is still defined as unity within multiplicity, but it ceased to be static, namely, harmony expressed in one ideal geometrical form, and became so to speak dynamic. What was previously regarded as the deviation from the ideal form, was comprehended for the first time as an integral part of the form, or form of forms, which are capable of endless transitions one into another. ‘ [Amos Funkenstein, The Dialectical Preparation of Scientific Revolutions. On the Role of Hypothetical Reasoning in the Emergence of Copernican Astronomy and Galilean Mechanics.]

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

Tags: Motion Design, Nokta, Onur Senturk

Animation by Zoltán Lányi

For all who like amorphous structures. Which transforme and mutate to the sound of  Amon Tobin feat.Bonobo. Everything in a dark, mechanical and industrial syle. Lean Back and enjoy the visuals.

Amon Tobin feat. Bonobo: I’ll have the waldorf salad – Animation by Zoltán Lányi from Zoltán Lányi on Vimeo.

Tags: Motion Design, Transformers, Zoltán Lányi

Motion Graphics Created with Programming and Music as a Symbiont

In this article I want to summarize an exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, a collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians and animators. Forms, colours, structures and sculptures generated with programming. I show you my 5 favorites, mostly choosen because of my liking of music by Four Tet,  The Flashbulb and Alva Noto.

For more informations about the theme, tools and tutorials and of course more examples visit this blog www.smashingmagazine.com.

Here for now a fast introduction into the topic, a visualization of  abstract micro graphics and mellow forms evolved by a energized idm sound.

Advanced Beauty 13 of 18 / Directed by Maxim Zhestkov from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

This motion graphic was born by the sound of The Flashbulb.

Relentless, The REV from flight404 on Vimeo.

Sunflower from VS* on Vimeo.

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Tags: Motion Design, Processing, Programmed Graphics, Smashing Magazine

Vanishing Point by Takuya Hosogane

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

I really like this great animation film by Takuya Hosogane done with Cinema 4D and After Effects.  The song is by Cubesato with the name of “Meine Meinung” (in eng. “My opinion”) .
Takuya´s Project name is Bonsajo. Find more about it here.

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Tags: After Effects, Animation, Cinema 4D, Motion Design, Takuya Hosogane, Vanishing Point

_grau by Robert Seidel in HD

_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 | HD premiere from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

_grau is a award-winning experimental film by Artist Robert Seidel based in Jena, Germany. Produced in 2004 it is now available in HD on Vimeo (before it was only shown in museums and galleries in this detail and quality). Here is what it is about:

Though there are some impressive effects to be seen here, and one wonders how this was done, Robert comments on Vimeo:

Abstract, organic, emotional! Love it.
Watch it in HD!

More about Roberts work here.

Tags: Animation, Film, HD, Motion Design, Robert Seidel, _grau

Stop Motion Animation Film “Lucia & Luis”

Stop motion video “LUIS” (Part 2 of 2) by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cociña on Vimeo.

This video is wicked. I love the pictures, the dark and eerie atmosphere with these japanese horror elements. The execution of the idea and the the style of the stop motion effects let the whole video become a masterpiece of its own. The commission of the Illustrative thought the same and they decided to exhibit it.  It’s now displayed in Berlin. I was there and it is worth to visit the exhibition, the work is terrific and expressive. The artists are very talented and you can see a whole bunch of styles, which creates the current illustration movements.

Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006 & 2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008). Being a big success right from the start it managed to be the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts.  It’s Taking place from October 16 – November 1 in Berlin. ›› Read the whole Article…

Tags: Animation, creepy, Illustrative, Luis, Motion Design, Photography

Skate & Create Contest 2009 by Transworld Skateboarding

As a former skateboarding addict i couldnt miss to post this. Transworld Skateboarding organized the Skate & Create Contest for the second time this year and the results are quite appealing. I always really enjoyed watching skateboarding videos back in the days and most of them are well edited. One of my favourite and a legendary skateboarding movie is Yeah Right! by Girl Skateboards. It had a part where they had painted their boards green to make a green screen effect and achieve an effect of invisible skateboards. Watch a youtube version here (couldnt find it with the original song). The full Girl video is here (the invisible boards scene starts at 56:43) .

So whats the Skate & Create contest about? Simple in a way: 1 Warehouse, 4 Teams, 1 Set of obstacles. And a lot of creativity to make something unique out of it.

Here are my 2 favourites:

This one is the best one in my opinion – “DVS -Wood” . Asthetics, music and editing are really good and make you want to watch this until the end (plus some amazing tricks).

Directed by Colin Kennedy, Music by Air Castles.

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Tags: DVS, Etnies, Film, Motion, Motion Design, Skate and Create, Skateboarding, Transworld Skateboarding

Air – Sing Sang Sung Music Video

Who didn´t have a time in his Life listening to tracks from Air like “All i need” or “You make it easy“?! I have and i can say that it definitely marked a certain in my Life and brings up good memories of that time. So there´s a new Video of the track “Sing Sang Sung” ( from the new Album Love 2, released tomorrow) that has made its way to the Blogosphere being quite popular these days. I like it a lot as it reflects the colorful spaced out melodies of the track. Still i also like why Air´s band co-pilot Jean-Benoit Dunckel prefers it to stay unnoticed, as he reveals to Online Music Mag Spinner:

AIR MUSIC VIDEO SING SANG SUNG from MATHEMATIC SAS on Vimeo.

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Tags: Air, Animation, Love 2, Motion Design, Music

One Minute Soundsculpture by Daniel Franke

I found the  One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke while checking some stuff on vimeo. Nice one!

Music Ryoji Ikeda “One Minute”
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Tags: Animation, Art, Daniel Franke, Motion Design, Music, One Minute Soundsculpture, Ryoji Ikeda

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis

This might be the most impressive Combination of Street Art and Interactive Media i´ve seen in a long time. Blu is no unknown for who has some interest in street art and David Ellis does some delightful pieces himself. In this cooperation they used an entire building with all aspects and details..brilliant!

Tags: Animation, Art, Blu, Combo, David Ellis, Motion Design, Street Art

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

This is mind-blowing.. See it in high-res on their website – http://www.neurosonicsaudiomedical.com/

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Tags: Animation, Motion Design, Music, Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.