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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR ROBOT from Platige Image on Vimeo.

This film was done by students of Animation and VFX Course organised by Platige Image and CD Projekt RED.
More information at: platigeacademy.com/en.html
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Watch making of video at vimeo.com/67711137

Exit from Rebel Banana on Vimeo.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while Mike, the ever grumpy debt collector, left work weak and weary. He then finds himself in a dark basement car park where silence sleeps. All that could be heard is the echo of his footsteps hitting against the cold, hard concrete floor, and the autopay machine, rumbling. No he is not alone. Not at all.

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“Exit” is an action comedy done by a team of 6 fresh graduates from The One Academy, Malaysia.
We are called the Rebel Banana.
It took approximately 1 year for us to complete this film from pre-production to production and final.

Phua Cardin
phuacardin@hotmail.com
vimeo.com/itscardin

Andrea Goh
andreagoh_av@hotmail.com
vimeo.com/andreagoh

Yap Wee Lim
willybudds@hotmail.com
vimeo.com/weebasaurus

Victor Tan
watyouwan_huh@hotmail.com
vimeo.com/user12249583

Chua Pei Gin
peigin123@hotmail.com
vimeo.com/user12676134

Chua Pei San
teddysan333@yahoo.com
vimeo.com/user12676899

Music by Patrick Woo [soundcloud.com/patrickwoo] and Khye Mun [facebook.com/theway1am]

JOHN MAYER - SUBMARINE TEST JANUARY 1967, VIDEOCLIP by VIRGILIO VILLORESI from Virgilio Villoresi on Vimeo.

This is the music video to the song “Submarine Test January 1967” by John Mayer. I used a pre-cinema technique called ombro cinema to animate the drawings made by Virginia Mori. Everything was filmed in live-action, no post production effects were employed.

Director: Virgilio Villoresi
illustration: Virginia Mori
dop: Marcello Dapporto
producer: Davide Ferazza
camera assistant: Edoardo Mari
assistant: Carlo Cossignani & Elisa Ghiretti
color grading: Claudio @Band
Prod. Co.: Withstand

Everest -A time lapse short film from Elia Saikaly on Vimeo.

eliasaikaly.com
Experience the beauty of Mt. Everest at night in time-lapse.

While most climbers slept, I attempted to capture some of the magic that the Himalayan skies have to offer while climbing to the top of the world.

Here’s a bit of what I endured at the end to make this possible: eliasaikaly.com/2013/05/into-the-death-zone/

One of the most rewarding parts of the journey was being able to share it with thousands of students on epals.com/everest

This time lapse video is comprised of thousands of photographs, processed and assembled on Mt. Everest.

Shot on a Canon 5D Mark II
-Canon 2.8 16-35mm
-Canon 2.8 24-70mm
-Canon 2.8 70-200mm (which was way to heavy to carry beyond 6400M)
-TL Remote was purchased off eBay

Edited in Final Cut Pro
Processed in Adobe LightRoom
Movies compiled in Quicktime

Music: A Heartbeat away purchased on goo.gl/AJZcM

I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

My stock footage, professional and charitable work can be see on my website at eliasaikaly.com
And on FB: facebook.com/elia.saikaly.adventurer

A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

Find more of my work here: mikeolbinski.com

Also follow me on Instragram for storm photos and whatnot - instagram.com/mikeolbinski

Still print of this storm can be found here if interested: gallery.mikeolbinski.com/stormchasing/h6015e87e#h6015e87e

Technical deets: Canon 5D2, Rokinon 14mm 2.8…first three clips were at 1-second intervals = 880ish photos, the last sequence was around 90, 5-second exposures

Music by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com/
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It took four years but I finally got it.

A rotating supercell. And not just a rotating supercell, but one with insane structure and amazing movement.

I’ve been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it’s just for a day, or three, or two…but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I’d been looking for. And boy did we find it.

No, there was no tornado. But that’s not really what I was after. I’m from Arizona. We don’t get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth.

We chased this storm from the wrong side (north) and it took us going through hail and torrential rains to burst through on the south side. And when we did…this monster cloud was hanging over Texas and rotating like something out of Close Encounters.

The timelapse was shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens. It’s broken up into four parts. The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could.

One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing.

A few miles south is where part two picks up. And I didn’t realize how fast it was moving south, so part three is just me panning the camera to the left. During that third part you can see dust along the cornfield being pulled into the storm as well…part of the strong inflow.

The final part is when the storm had started dying out and we shot lightning as it passed over us.

Between the third and fourth portions we drove through Booker, Texas where tornado sirens were going off…it was creepy as all heck. And intense.

I hope you enjoy this. Once thing I’ve learned about timelapsing is that I always wish it would be longer or wouldn’t end. I wish I had been south and been able to record this storm come at me for 45 minutes.

But I love it the way it is. I wasn’t ever certain I’d see structure like this even though it’s been such a goal of mine. But we did it.

And by we, I mean myself and my buddy Andy Hoeland, who knows his crap and got us into position so we could chase this storm. Without him along I don’t know if I get this timelapse.

Garbage from pavel on Vimeo.

From idea to publication came out 2,5 years. Originally, it was supposed to be a static picture and it included only the first scene (that`s why it is shot with a single camera angle and too tighten). Later I realized that the idea deserves continued. All content, except for some sounds - did it myself.

Paper City from Maciek Janicki on Vimeo.

The streets are paved with paper. This delicate animation follows the charming rise and fold of a fragile metropolis.
Captured by an unseen helicopter, the narrative unfolds through winding roads, erupting forests and emerging mountains.
Paper City grows in one fluid take, with skyscrapers rising from the page – only to crumble, wrinkle and gently crease back into the ground.

Direction, Animation, Scultping, Camera, Architecture:
Maciek Janicki ( facebook.com/janickimaciek / maciekjanicki.com )

Music: Misophone ( facebook.com/pages/Misophone/193901480651932 / new album: kningdisk.com/index_kd110.htm )

Sound Design: Ithaca Audio ( ithacaaudio.com )

The best Render Farm on the planet: renderfarm.pl/

Big Thanks to Nexus London and IMI !

Dipshit*London ( dipshitcrew.tumblr.com )

This is Shanghai from Rob Whitworth on Vimeo.

In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline.

Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban identity expert JT Singh joined forces combining deep city exploration and pioneering filmmaking. ‘This is Shanghai’ is a roller coaster ride seamlessly weaving between the iconic, sparkling and mismatched buildings of the financial district travelling by boat and taxi touring Shanghai’s impressive infrastructure whilst glimpsing some of the lesser-known aspects of Shanghai life such as the lower stratum areas or the stunning graffiti of Moganshan road. And of course there is the opportunity to try some of the vast variety of street food and Shanghai’s most popular homegrown delicacy, the pan-fried pork dumplings, the shengjian bao.

Wherever you travel in Shanghai the cities skyline is always present. The looming silhouette of the almost constructed Shanghai Tower now dominates and perfectly encapsulates the new heights this city is yet to reach. Once completed, in 2014, it will be the tallest building in China and the second tallest in the world after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

To understand the city, the team carried out rigorous urban exploration. In the words of JT “we walked, walked and walked, the Jane Jacobs way”. Weibo, China’s main social media platform was used to ask local Shanghainese people to share ideas of different vantage points and what they thought were the over-riding characteristics of the city. Stealth and curiosity were required to find and gain access to rooftops and locations. It became addictive for the team discovering breath-taking vantage points of the city. There was always an adrenaline rush upon reaching the top of a different building to see the vast urban jungle of Shanghai.

Rob Whitworth (robwhitworth.co.uk/) is a creative time lapse photographer from the UK based in Asia. His previous videos, ‘Traffic in Frenetic HCMC’ and ‘Kuala Lumpur DAY-NIGHT’ have received international attention including being short listed for 7 film festivals, and have had received well over 2 million online views.

JT Singh (jtsingh.com/) has explored hundreds of emerging cities around the world and is a next generation thinker about the value and impact of 21st century cities. Having grown up in Toronto JT is now based in China. He explains:

“The over-riding reason we made this video was to creatively show the world visually how China is rising, in particular Chinese cities. Just as New York City exemplified the strengths and ambitions of emerging America in the 20th century, Shanghai, perhaps more than any old or emerging rival, will personify the power and dreams of rising Asia in the 21st century.”

A ThrillingCities Production - thrillingcities.com
Engineering cutting-edge Identities for Cities on the Rise

JT Singh
Website: jtsingh.com/
Facebook: facebook.com/jtssingh
Twitter; twitter.com/jtssingh

Rob Whitworth
Website: robwhitworth.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/RobWhitworthPhotography
Twitter: twitter.com/kwhi02

Copyright all images Rob Whitworth 2013 - robwhitworth.co.uk | Soundtrack used under license Artist ‘Subscape’ Track ‘Shanghai’ © submergedmusic

Urban Hippie from Damien Krisl on Vimeo.

The fashion-short movie depicts a young girl’s journey to the realms of her deepest imagination. In the first act we experience her feelings of loneliness. She is longing for love, light, the unknown, a world yet to be discovered behind the web that entangles the tender bird of her existence - her desire for freedom is symbolized by the delicate beauty of wings and feathers.

When she receives a letter, her day-dreaming is ignited by the anticipation of his love in the form of elements and motions representing thoughts, images of freedom, flying, love, colors, energy, strength - intensifying and finally exploding. This image slowly fades back to a dull surreal scene where she finally awakes.

Director: Damien Krisl
Director of Photography: Daniel Kunz
AD & Styling: Lea Küng
Motion Designer & Compositer: Florian Baumann
co-director: Joel Cartier
Cineflex Operator: Martin Bäbler
Weisscam Operator: Christian Witschi
Drone Operator: Raimond Stüssi (Pilot)
Drone: Caspar Brog
Steadycam Operator: Sebastian Geret
Unit Manager: Klemens Trenkle
Grip: Oliver Muff
Light: Fabio Gloor & Torvioll Jashari
AC: André Guadagno
2nd AC: Michael Mühlemann
Pyrotechnician: Simon Andy Voegelin
Pyrotechnician Assistent: Maurice Steinmann
Makeup & Hair: Christian Merz
Editor: Damien Krisl
Colorist: Thibaut Petillon
2nd Editor: Kim Culetto
Set Design Assistent: Sarah Schneider

Producers: Eclumes Studios in collaboration with LaPac, Cheese & Chocolate Film SA, Kamerawerk, Swisshelicam.com, BSV Productions, Fotogen, Creative Docks.

My Happy End from Talking Animals on Vimeo.

All dogs chase their own tails. One dog succeeds in catching his tail. This changes his whole life.
An animated film in 2½D.

my-happy-end.com/

AWARDS:
Annecy 2008 - Jury’s special award for Graduation Films
Animafest 2008, Zagreb Croatia - Best film for children
KLIK! International Animation Festival 2008, Amsterdam Holland Best student film
Flip International Animation Festival 2008, Chile Special Mention
GOLDEN TOOF AWARD for Best Animated Short, Toofy Film Fest, USA
Golden Knight Film Festival 2008, Moscow, Russia - Best student film
San Joaquin Film Festival 2008, USA - Best Animated Short Film
Sprockets Toronto Int.Film Festival For Children 2008, Canada - Honourable Mention
European Youth Film Festival in Antwerp and Bruges 2008, Belgium - Best Short
Holland Animation Film Festival 2008, Utrecht - MovieSquad Junior Award
Formula Mundi 2007, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany - Best Animation 2th
Barcelona International TV Festival 2007, Spain - «Creative Prize»
Animago 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany - The Jury Prize
«2D OR NOT 2D» Int. Animation Festival 2007, Everet USA - «Golden Pencil Award»
Chicago Int. Children’s Festival 2007, USA - Children Jury Prize, 2th Best Short Animated Film
Tricky Animation Film Festival 2007, Flensburg, Germany - Audience Award
Animatu Int. Digital Animation Festival 2008, Beja Spain Best 2D Short 2’nd Prize
Student Film Festival «Beginning» 2007, Sankt Petersburg, Russia - Award «For Kindness and Positivism»
Cartoon Club 2007, Rimini, Italy - First Prize
Anima Mundi 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia - Best Debut
Hamburg Animation Award 2007, Germany - First Prize and the Audience Award
Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth 2007, Czech Republic - The Hermina Tyrlova Award
Cartoon on the Bay 2007, Italy - Official Selection Pulcinella Award
AniFest Trebon 2007, Czech Republic - Special Jury Mention