The fun for me in this super short video segment is not in the video itself, although it is built quite well. Rather, I enjoy it for the irony of the dialog, where the creator talks about trying to build a video using masking and compositing of video source material. Kind of a nice touch in a video that can only exist by using those technologies.
There is a wonderful Fake Geek Girl musical rebuttal called Nothing To Prove by The Doubleclicks that you really ought to watch. Thanks to the folks at Wired for the heads up on this one.
Everyone has already posted the great new videos from Comic Con, but somebody had a lot of fun editing this silly footage together, so I thought I would put this up for your enjoyment instead. It’s been online for a little bit now, but I just found it, so maybe you haven’t seen it either. Enjoy.
If you are into building your own animations, and you are using Anime Studio as part of your toolset, here are a few videos to inspire you. The first is called Ballade by Yaki, the second is TTTest1NS, the final one is Dark Prints. Each of these is pretty amazing in its own right, and all of them were assembled using a single cost effective animation program. So what are you in the process of building, to show the world?
The Blender Foundation is constantly testing and improving the free open source 3D modeling and animation software Blender, and part of that process is to get the funding to allow a talented team of people to do some actual animations with it. This one is called Sintel, it was made back in 2010 and has a lot of heart. Hit their site to download the free open source Blender and start creating your own animations and 3D objects today.
Japanese commercials are even stranger than the ones they build to catch our attention in the west. Having said that, a lot of these would work anywhere around the world, but about 25% of them could only come from Japan. That probably has as much to do with the globalization of culture on Earth as it does with the difference in cultures from different parts of the world. As recently as 40 years ago, only about 15% of them had anything in common at all. These days, they are selling you the same products with a slant that they hope will increase sales within the national borders of a given country. That tends to limit creativity, but there are still a few interesting and unique commercials among the collection.