The talented team at The People’s Republic of Animation (PRA) brought this new spot for Bridgestone to life. This new CG spot is titled Bumper Cars.
Australia’s Tui Studios has crafted a new iPhone app that features some stylish character animation. Produced with Anime Studio and After Effects, the animation took about 3 weeks. It’s titled Monster Melody Mash, and it lets users mix melodies with motion to create all sorts of funky rhythms. Here’s a trailer:
Check out the slick animation, and simple, but sweet design, in this TV and online spot entitled ‘Homework,’ directed by Derek Picken via XYZ Studios, Melbourne and againstallodds, Stolkholm, promoting Consumer Affairs advice on building and renovating homes in Australia. The spot was developed at Grey Melbourne, who, by the way, have a neat little bit of animation on their websites intro.
The brand of sober, nation-state introspection that John Perkins suggests that the United States embark on is easy to cast aside as anti-American. But in these tough economic times, perhaps our country is more open to a little navel-gazing. Perkins is the author of Hoodwinked, and before that Confessions Of An Economic Hitman, and below you can see some of his words brought to life. The animation was produced in CelAction 2D but the Brisbane-based Studio Joho.
GooRoo Animation founders Cameron Edser and Michael Richards recently grabbed 2nd place and $3,500 at Tropfest 2010, the largest short film festival in the world. Oscar-nominee Toni Collette handed them their trophy for My Neighbourhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons, a 4-minute, stop-motion music video.
Australian studio The People’s Republic of Animation (PRA) have revealed the first episode of a 10-part, intersticial, musical TV series titled Itty Bitty Ditties. The project was created and directed by PRA’s James Calvert, and features artwork by Chris Edser. The project began airing on the Australian network ABC3, and the 1-minute songs are apparently all as nonsensical as this one, which details which body part love eminates from. If I tell you the title of the song, it’ll ruin the joke.
Director DC Turner has produced a 9-minute short film based on a beat poem by comedian Tim Minchin. Storm will be released soon, and the trailer is below. Fraser Davidson acted as the lead animator, and while some work was produced in Flash, it was primarily an After Effects production.
