Hasta La Motion!

Elastic/A52 presents the opening titles for the 10th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival. If not for its wonderful design and execution alone, this referential journey should have a special place for those of you who grew up geeking out on animated logo sequences, even before the titles.

As an homage, Elastic cleverly deconstructs some of the most classic, animated studio preludes and flips them on their heads. This thing is firing on ALL cylinders.

CREDITS

CLIENT: Newport Beach Film Festival
FOUNDER, HEAD OF MARKETING: Todd Quartararo

AD AGENCY: RPA
CITY/STATE: Santa Monica, CA
SVP/ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Gary Paticoff
CREATIVE DIRECTOR/ART DIRECTOR: Scott McDonald
DESIGN/PRODUCTION COMPANY: Elastic
CITY/STATE: Santa Monica, CA
DIRECTOR: Andy Hall
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Alex Gorodetzki
PRODUCER: Jenny Bright

VFX/ANIMATION/FINISHING COMPANY: a52
CITY/STATE: Santa Monica, CA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Linda Carlson
PRODUCER: Jenny Bright
FILM/DI COLORIST: Patrick Murphy
CG SUPERVISOR: Kirk Shintani & Max Ulichney
3D ARTISTS: Adam Newman, Paulo de Almada, Christopher Janney

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN: Robot Repair
CITY/STATE: Los Angeles, CA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, SOUND DESIGNER: Douglas Darnell
COMPOSER: Kael Alden

FINAL MIX COMPANY: Framework Sound
CITY/STATE: Santa Monica, CA
MIXER: Ken Dahlinger

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Check out the NY Mag interview with Jim Jarmusch about his new movie The Limits of Control, his collaborations with cinematographer Christopher Doyle of Wong Kar Wai fame and production designer Eugenio Caballero of Pan’s Labyrinth, as well as other ruminations on life and filmmaking. Included as a little bonus are images from Eugenio Caballero’s beautiful production notebook. Click HERE for more.

Google has just launched a YouTube page with 11 short films to promote the launch of their new web browser, Chrome. Similar to BNS’s ‘Feature Films’ for VW back in ‘05, these quirky, non-literal films highlight some of the browser’s best features. Google also managed to curate quite a diverse group of films and creators for this project.

Here is a full list of the contributors and their films:
Steve Mottershead: Defenders in Tights
Christoph Nieman: You and Your Browser
Open: Features List
Motion Theory: Google Chrome
Go Robot: Dr. Squirrel’s Lab
Lifelong Friendship Society: Caged Rage 3: Binary Budokan
Hunter Gatherer: Door
Pantograph: The Evolution of Simple
Superfad: Chromance
Jeff & Paul: Collaborate with the Whole Wide World
Default Office: 9-5 8.5×11

To echo a constantly recurring theme in my recent posts; this is yet another example of web-based content allowing director’s play. As the range of creative broadens online, let’s just hope the budgets start to catch up with those of it’s terrestrial siblings.

I’ll update this post as more info comes in…

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AUDI – INJECTION The Mill, London, BBH and STiNK teamed up to create Injection for Audi.

PEPPERMELON New work from the Buenos Aires studio, including their Psst…Pass It On contribution. Check it here