Mimic, Unreal Frenetic Experimental Animation

Creative photographers and video producers are just simply inspired by abandoned buildings and spaces, none more so then completely empty ones. Thus Lucio Arese has used a wasted cattle market building as a raw background in his blindingly fast exploding audio visual mayhem and chaos of computer graphic manifolds.

"the film rides the verge between nonsense, random noise and organic, structured audiovisual events, enhancing the plastic clashes of a digital inserted foreground into an old and rusty environment." and is "Humorous, lunatic, cartoonish, nightmarish, Mimic is an attempt to reach a complete unity between music and motion picture in an epoch of violent changes."

The media art video as can be seen after the jump may cause one to think that Lucio has managed to capture some frenetically motivated anti-matter, albeit in the form of computer rendered  motion graphics.

Absorbing Animated Evolution of the Moon

So far as we know for certain, Earth's only natural satellite, is the moon and its a cold, dry orb whose surface is studded with craters and strewn with rocks and dust.

Year in year out, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this.

Kind of like an imaginary planetary firework display, NASA's Goddard Multimedia team, has created an absorbing video animation of the last 4.5 billion years geological history of the moon, courtesy of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Video animation shows 2011 ninth warmest year on record

since modern meteorological records began in 1880, nine of the last 10 years have been the warmest wherein 2010 was the warmest.

"As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s." NASA

Since 1880 the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was approximately 225 parts per million (ppm), but since 1960 the average amount rose to be 315 ppm. Today however it's more than 390 ppm and continues to increase to rise at an accelerating pace.

(See Video after the jump)

Like in a dream II: Conceptual Landscape fractal animation

3D fractals and psychedelic neurones peppered with momentary optical illusions among many abstract and structurally possible conceptual landscapes, appear and fold in bib993's (Jeremie Brunet) 'Like in a dream II' fractal animation.

Jeremie made this gloriously entertaining and peaceful animation with Mandelbulb3D and "originally designed it for Bryan Alvarez from UC Berkeley, for a TEDx talk about his Human Atlas project, to illustrate his initial dream about the beauty of living systems."

This comprehensively profound piece of cool transcendent mathematical volumes is based on a hybrid Julia fractal, where most fractal parameters are simultaneously being animated, as well as the Julia seed, the colors, and the camera position. One can only imagine that in order to achieve this multi level animation complexity all at once might actually require something more than the average off the shelf computer ?

Nevertheless, the exquisite choice of music track, glides and enhances our experience of, Like in a dream II fractal animation. 

For more details about 3D fractals and to download the Mandelbulb3D software, visit the fractal forums website, and or appreciate much more from this fractal artists work, go here.

Amazing continuous motion map of our Solar system

Here's an opportunity to explore the planetary orbital motions of our solar system in a live dynamic way. The interactive motion map can display either the Copernican or the Tychonian systems.

Up until approximately 100 years after Nicolaus Copernicus published his 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres' in 1543, every learned person in Europe knew one thing for absolutely certain: the sun and the planets travelled around the Earth. All astronomy texts said so. Tycho Brahe believed that the Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around the Earth, and the other five planets revolve around the Sun.

Dynamic Diagrams with free data source provided by NASA created an Orrery that illustrates the positions of the planets and moons in our solar system and allows a user to view their alignment at any given date in the past or present.

The default load of this interactive motion map displays the Copernican system and you can set any date, but you need to reload the page to watch the continuous animated motion of the planets and moons. This also applies each time you apply a change to the map.

Preserving Rubber; A Giant Bike Commercial

is a delightfully light and entertaining commercial video animation by Jacob Gilbreath for the Giant Bike Company. Its use of typography and line graphics makes it, all up, educational on the uses of rubber, an interesting marketing ploy and easy to absorb.

The concept focuses on the conservation of rubber. A particularly fresh idea for selling bicycles perhaps ! But the commercial demonstrates that if interurban commuters rode a bicycle to work every day instead of driving, trillions of pounds of rubber could be saved every year.



While fulfilling many conveniences, plastic is undoubtedly one of the most horrific pollutants of our waterways and life world, but is often only used once, rubber on the other hand can be used and reused an almost infinite number of times.

But I wonder, is rubber economically and ecologically sustainable ?

Black Liquid; abstract media art

Dimitry Zakharov is a practicing video producer and designer that creates amazingly entertaining animations and videos by using 3D and 4D Cinema software's. Black Liquid is a fluently evocative abstract stop motion animation that swings forms and shapes around the picture plane, sometimes collapsing and reforming shapes and then ripping them apart with heaps of fluid dexterity.

The animation holds our attention by the synchronized pulses and smoothly tuneful play of the sound design from coresplittaz, which turns this short moment of fluidic joy into a handsome media art package.

The Formula, a fractal math journey

Tom Beddard has created inspiring and entertaining landscape animation from a Mandelbulb, which is a 3D version of the Mandelbrot fractal. He has made it "with a GLSL shader that uses the GPU to raytrace the fractal's mathematical surface - no polygons or models - it exists purely in mathematical space!"

Although Tom refers to this work as a music video collaboration with 'The Formula', I view it as another mighty fine example of media art, that is where and or when audio and moving images work in complete synchronous symphony and harmony.

Breathtaking Media Art Animation: One Rat Short

absolutely stunning and entertaining short story produced and directed by Alex Weil ....

is a very moving mix of visual f/x, music, sound design and story.......

from creative design studio, Charlex.

Ametsub's Repeatedly

Designed, directed and produced in Turin and Milan by Lucio Arese, Repeatedly is the official video of Ametsub's new single released by Mille Plateaux, on the The Nothings of the North album.

Lucio Arese created this entertaining media art film by deploying experimental stop motion animation techniques, in order to create artificial mapping topologies of various 3D and virtual geometric shapes. These forms were used to represent the various glitches in harmonic and rhythmic residua structures of the music, itself giving rise to a neatly formed audio video synchronization.

Interesting to note that almost every frame of the video becomes a digital sculpture blended into the urban landscape, go here to view them.



Ametsub has one of the coolest musician websites I've experienced for some time !

‘The Metamorphosis of Osdorp’

is both a book and a video using the book from which slick computer graphics are infused with live action creating an intriguing video, celebrating the emergence of Amsterdam Nieuw-West, from two nearby urbanized areas of Osdorp.

This short slick  entertaining animation, (produced by PlusOne Studios) combines live-action with digital media, illustrating the architectural highlights of the restructured urbanized areas of Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer into  Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Paper craft animation: The Move by Mandy Smith

is a charming short story animation inspired by moving in Amsterdam, illustrated through paper. It is a subtly sublime piece of entertainment made ever more enjoyable, by the quaint nature of Mandy Smith's delicate paper sculpture constructions and set designs. The  cool music and sound design from Lawrence Horne, Piers Burbrook de Vere and Jeremy Yang, works a jovial treat.

Mandy Smith's, media art is subtle and complex yet seductively simple and cute, visit her website, to view her clever paper craft skills.

Credits
Direction and Art Direction/ Mandy Smith
DOP/ Ties Versteegh
Stunt Co-ordinator/ Lars Siemens
Online Artist/ Daisy Hulsken
Grading/ Rachel Stone
Post Production/ The Ambassadors

Earthquake Viewer demonstration video

Earthquakes like volcanic eruptions, mud slides, avalanches and tornado's are among the most tragic outcomes for people and man made structures globally and locally which usually occur with little or no warning.

Of all those natural disaster occurrences, earthquakes according to scientists are the most frequent, and of the 500,000 earthquakes that occur each year, about 100,000 can actually be felt.

Scientists from the UC Davis KeckCAVE have recently developed an Earthquake Viewer application in order to visualize the outcomes of 70000 earthquakes that occurred from 1899 to 2010.

Here now is a video animation where each dot on the globe equals one earthquake hypocenter. The movie begins by revolving around the earth transitioning between a transparent earth and non-transparent earth. The movie then zooms on the geographies of Tonga Trench - near Fiji; Southern California to Mexico; and the Aleutian Arc - near Alaska.



The soundless aspect to this video perhaps helps us commemorate their impact on our existence but also comments on the haunting devastation that they continuously bring upon our consciousness and planet alike.

Amon Tobin's "Esther"

I have to admit to having been a fan of Amon Tobin's music for about 10 years and "Esther" continues to convey his impressive creative power of at times unnerving tunes !

Charles De Meyer,(aka Chuck Eklectric), an up-and-coming Belgian director, first met Amon Tobin in 2007 just after the release of his Foley Room album, and proposed his idea for a short film for the song. 

This very creepy sci-fi snake robot animation with a dramatized romantic twist is a mind-blowing experiment with narrative live action, with superlative modeling and rendering. All the details in the 3D snake robot and near perfect synchronization with the music makes this a frighteningly entertaining media art experience.



Amon Tobin's website has giveaways and a brand new release to mark the occasion of this, his official videoclip of Esther.

Related post of Amon Tobin, here.

"Toujin Kit" profoundly unreal Japanese animation

is directed by Tatsuyuki Tanaka for Studio 4°C, tells a story of a young girl set in a crumbling sci fi dystopic future filled with grotesque and bizarre creatures, with bodily transformations, man-machine interfaces, and cybernetic monsters.

Well worth the 13 minutes duration, belongs to a series entitled "Genius Party Beyond" released recently as a DVD. Go here to read a thorough review of it.

Loell by Mosaik

is an entertainingly sublime piece of music with an equally mind numbing ray tracing animation, and is one of my favorite chill out tracks by Swedish electronic music composer, Mosiak.

Yes, and the animation (which is not an official video for the music track), could almost seem synchronously relevant, but is playing a game of hit and miss in your relaxed state of mind whilst your attentively listening and watching !

It seems everyone who hears this piece of music is hanging out to understand  what - Loell - means if anything ? But I hesitate a guess, that it's short for low owl !

Say or sing, lowowl .. whilst the track is playing more than a few times and it actually sounds as if its an onomatopoeic transliteration the tone the piece makes!



Should you feel like hearing and or getting more of this cool composers work, then go to Mosaik's official site for downloads and more info.

Last Minute: a captivating animation

Linda Audyová created this entertaining infinitely zooming-in animation for her graduation project at Tomas Bata University, in Zlinin, Czech Republic.

From the ominous silhouettes of the opening scenes Linda takes us on an enigmatic journey of microscopic and cosmic dimensions that stresses the inter-connectivity of everything. Although subtly executed the travel of the whole animation looks to be made by panning and zooming over one large drawing, albeit elevated by the suitably mysterious music of Marek Gabriel Hruška.

Body Code: Unreal molecular movement at the sub-cellular level

Mind boggling abstract surreal computer graphic simulations of cellular activity on the microscopic and molecular scale offers intriguing viewing.

The video here is an edited compilation of complimentary medical science animations of the molecular movements of sub-cellular activity that are happening every second of our lives within our bodies.

This media art show-reel was specifically designed for museum and art gallery presentation with the goal of reaching public audiences who do not usually seek out or are exposed to the details of scientific knowledge.

This profoundly compelling animation was created by Drew Barry, the almost hypnotizing sound design by Francois Tetaz and the time lapse Mitosis by Professor Jeremy Pickett-Heaps.

Michael Cone's blissful Chimera

a clever synchronizing of passion and media carries us into the moment of the emotional meld - where two become one in the moment of the kiss.

Media artist Michael Cone's use of M83's audio piece "By the Kiss". from the Digital Shades Album, transcends the instantaineity of the motion/emotionally  charged moment via the crescendo of mind numbing sound.

Although there are no accompanying notes with this video its production is suggestive of the manipulation of some kind of visual f/x animation generative software, possibly Processing ?

Entertaining Gravity Powered Aircraft Concept

One has to keep in mind when watching this animation in that the idea is a concept. The actual ability of the craft to function is likely two or more steps beyond a feasible reality. Nevertheless an entertaining contribution to drawing board gravity powered flight !



The weird punchline near the end of the video, is the suggestion that the design and function of the aircraft won't attract "terrorist activities". Huh ?