Barclay Coaster

by The Mill, Saturday 06 February

Strap in and enjoy the Barclay Coaster ride. VFX by The Mill (http://www.the-mill.com/)

BBC Winter Olympics 2010 Inuit trailer

by Marc Craste - Studio AKA, Thursday 04 February

BAFTA winning director Marc Craste along with co-designer Jon Klassen have re-worked the origin of the Winter Olympics into this stylized tale of an Inuit hero. The :40 second trailer for the BBC coverage of the 16 day event was commissioned by BBC and Red Bee Media, with the agency RKCR/Y&R. All production completed at Studio AKA.

Salty returns

Salty Brace, Thursday 04 February

The sad little CG fellow known as Salty makes his pitiful return to a world now low in sodium in this TVC for Knorr. Directed by David Hicks of Sons and Daughters, agency DDB Canada, and vfx by AXYZ.

Nike Wyang

by Simon Casse;s, Thursday 04 February

Gives a bit of an unfinnished fealing but still worth watching this `Nike Wyang` spot by Simon Cassels and Justin Blampied, a story based on Indonesian shadow puppet theatre.Interesting to watch in comparison is the beginning of Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), which is said to be the oldest animated short.

Muro

Spain, Wednesday 03 February

Barcelona based graffiti artist Muro created this animal. Cute right? 

Into Time

by Rafael Rozendaal, Wednesday 03 February

Rozendaal created  yet another online interactive artwork, which allows you to make your own gradient composition: http://www.intotime.com/ 

Klokhuis titles

3D printing in animation, Monday 01 February

Animator Johnny Kelly has created the opening and end titles for the popular Dutch children television programme 'Het Klokhuis' (The Apple Core). You'll probably know Kelly from the beautiful stopmotion paperart animation The Seed. Klokhuis is a programme for 7-12 year olds about the world around them; how things actually work (science, nature, behaviour, arts and more) and what does that all mean?Very interesting about this animation is that the objects used to make this stopmotion are made by 3D printing. More info at http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/january/3d-printing-in-animation

SoleilNoir

showreel, Monday 01 February

SoleilNoir, a Paris based creative team, has released their 2009-2010 showreel. SN worked for Samsung, Disney, Nespresso and more. Nice guys, who already whished the world a happy 2010 in an especially constructed stopmotion. Watch these, and a making off of the latter on the next page.

Deepmix Moscow Radio

online radio, Saturday 30 January

One of the currently best minimal techno online radiostations: Deepmix Moscow Radio. Tune in at http://www.deepmix.ru/

Minimmo

papertoy travels around the world, Saturday 30 January

'Minimmo in Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia'

The papertoy Minimmo is travelling around the globe, and starts to get commercial. Minimmo is also popular as a DIY. More info and a pdf to download your own at http://www.minimimmo.com/.