Hasta La Motion!

Sick new spot from Jon Noorlander who has been tearing it up for Method Design: Nascar Dogfight TVC.

Anthony Scott Burns has released two stark, tense teasers in crisp black and white in anticipation of his inaugural short film entitled Manifold…The film will be released at FantasticFest later this month.

Teaser 1

Teaser 2

Late Night Work Club is Dave Prosser, Charles Huettner, Sean Buckelew, Jake Armstrong & Erin Kilkenny, Caleb Wood, Louise Bagnall, Alex Grigg, Conor Finnegan, Ciaran Duffy, Eamonn O’Neill, and Scott Benson.

Evoking the ghost of art-for-art’s-sake collaborative film-making project PSST! Pass It On, Late Night Work Club brings together many of the most talented indie animators working today and creates a platform their stories. All work was done DIY, between jobs and classes, with no funding, between September ’12 and August ’13.

Weighing in at thirty-eight minutes, LNWC’s first animation anthology, Ghost Stories is now available online and free of charge.

Each of the eleven shorts in the collection are striking, with heavy lifting on both the storytelling and visual fronts by all of the animators. My two favorites are The Jump by Charles Huettner and Phantom Limb by Alex Grigg. Huettner’s film takes a simple idea and executes it beautifully, giving us small windows into varied lives. Grigg’s film exemplifies how animation can convey a story more effectively than other visual mediums – the character’s psychological state and eponymous phantom limb visually distorting the world around it.

Additional props to David Kamp, who created the aural environments to many a ghost story.

Rather than following a Kickstarter model, LNWC created their films first and will offer HD download packs with digital goodies and limited edition Uncanny Mystery Packs as a way to give back to the filmmakers. Follow LNWC’s tumblr and twitter for upcoming film screenings and more info. Those of you in/near London – there’s a screening on Sept. 3 (tonight!)

Update: Nice interviews with LNWC fearless leader Scott Benson over at Cartoon Brew and The Creators Project!

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S2 Games newest title, Strife, is a brand new entry into the world of MOBA Games. Focusing on the archer Rook, Imaginary Forces assembled an incredible group of modelers, animators, and compositors to bring this mysterious character to life, the team worked with zBrush and Cinema 4D.

CREDITS:

Client: S2 Games
Director: Ryan Summers
Producer: Melissa Johnson
Production Coordinator: Joseph Abou-Sakher
Previs: Grant Lau, Ryan Summers
Animation: Rich DeForno, Gary Hebert
Rigging: David Brown
Modeling: Margaret Dost, Aamir Karim, Steve Talkowski
Look Development: Mikey Rogers
Texturing: Ben Skutt, Steve Talkowski
Lighting: Mikey Rogers
VFX: Tom Bittikoffer, Gary Hebert
Matte Painting: Laurent Ben-Mimoun
Character Design: Natalie Hall, Brett Bean
Storyboards: Alejandro Lee
Editing: Michael Radtke, Ryan Summers
Compositing: Tom Bittikoffer, Gary Hebert, John Kim, David Park, Mikey Rogers, Ryan Summers
Titles: John Kim
Audio: Machinehead

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