Hasta La Motion!

The winners of the 2011 animago AWARDS have been chosen. The eminent international prize for 3D, visual effects (VFX) and interact…

Dan Sayers of Iotic has created Avería — The Average Font. A new typeface generated by averaging all the fonts installed on his computer. A very interesting experiment on generative typography, the font is released under the SIL Open Font License and you can download it for free.

Saam is back with “Machine” for Belgian electronic pioneers Soulwax, creating a truly unique interpretation of the ethos behind the audio-visual-obsessional-onslaught that is the Radio Soulwax App. This is a definite NSFW.

Definitely very sexy, and extraordinarily well executed. It’s admirable to see a director that’s pushing the personal work and promos harder and harder. Whether the full “journey” of the melted vinyl is taking the limits of taste a bit too far is really down to personal discretion, but when artists jump on projects like this, and work without boundaries, it’s great to see someone bold enough to create films at this level that test the limits.

PRODUCER: James Waters

PREVISUALISATION AND VFX : The House of Curves
VFX SUPERVISOR : Andrew Daffy
COMPOSITOR : Mikkel Hansen
3D ARTIST : Dan Prince

LIGHTING CAMERA: Franklin Dow

ART DIRECTOR: Georgia Shelton
MODEL MAKER: Jack Kirby

MODEL: Marilyn Rose
MAKE-UP ARTIST: Dorita Nissen

FOCUS PULLER: Leon Hoser
MOTION CONTROL: Justin Pentecost
RUNNER: Abigail Alvarez

THANKS TO: Shoreditch Studios, Render Nation, Shiny, Richard Payne

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