Caught in the Crowd

Here's a lovely example of a locally produced music clip that's live action, but cleverly combines some Flash animation and motion graphics. It's a song by Kate Miller-Heidke called Caught in the Crowd. The animated bits are by Brisbane-based animator Steve Baker. I love this clip and I love this song, and not because I'm a friend of Steve's, but because (A) I'm a big softie and (B) I think that Kate Miller-Heidke is ridiculously talented.

Oh, and by the way... if you like it, vote for it in the IF Awards, where it's a contender for Best Music Video!

Amadou et Mariam Feat. M - Masitéladi

Newsround on Knives

Animation as documentary. Powerful

A Short History of Marketing

Not long ago I posted a Motion Graphics piece about the history of computer games, now we have a short history of marketing. Those motion graphics folk are quite educational aren't they.

Xmas Frog

The seasons greetings are a little late, but this is a beautiful piece of 2.5D.

A Short Visual History of Videogames

Check out this cool motion graphics piece from Melbourne's RMIT student Kyle Downes.

This Is Agostina

So far 3D doesn't seem to have featured much in experimental animation, but really there isn't any reason why that should be the case. Perhaps its because 3D animation surged to global notoriety through Pixar where it was being used in a more mainstream storytelling way. So its interesting to see some 3D featuring in this piece animated by Michael Paul Young and Lee Suetorsak that I found on Motionographer.

The Fable Of Annabell Lee

A yee oldie tale of swash buckling adventure.

Liesje

Obama

I'm posting this under the very flimsy pretext that it is a piece of motion graphics, but I'm not going to try and hide my bias, if they come out with a fancy McCain clip I won't be posting it. For any US based readers, I'll tell you that the rest of the world is watching with baited breath, can something amazing be about to happen? PLEASE! We could do with some good news from America.

Polaris

A slick motion graphics piece from the Vancouver Film School.