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Sculpture for HAIM‘S My Song 5 ||||| Symbiosis for The Dismemberment Plan‘s Daddy Was a Real Good Dancer

From Blacklist‘s directing collective Dvein: Two entries into the New Music Weekly compaign on Rdio, the three-year-old challenger brand that has been outpacing longstanding leaders in the category such as Spotify, Pandora, MOG and Grooveshark. The innovative New Music Weekly campaign, launched last July, brings together the best in independent art and music with a series of original video pieces from visual artists around the world inspired by new music.

“We don’t see these as music videos but instead something more personal for our visual artists, creating art inspired by music, rather than literal interpretations,” said Nada Antoun, Global PR Director of Rdio, which is owned by Skype. “This campaign has shown that new art inspired by new music promotes discovery.”

“Music has a lot to do with an emotional connection with your past and future,” said collective Dvein. “We wanted to create experiences that express that in some way, the nostalgia of what you’ve heard and the excitement for new music, and Rdio gives us both.”

This is a personal project by Omar Meradi, started 3 years ago when he was a student at ATI (Arts et Technologie de l’Image, université Paris 8), he finally found the time to finish the work, and it’s a really beautiful achievement. Music by Doug Kaufman.

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Scotland-based Axis Animation has collaborated with director Ben Hibon and developer ChAIR on a special short film for Infinity Blade III.

Called Infinity Blade: Origins, the visually striking two minute video will also act as the introduction for Epic’s latest entry into its popular action RPG series on mobile. Axis built the 3D characters and used a blend of texturing and shading to add a 2D feel to the video, which was then layered with both 3D and 2D animated visual effects. The short film depicts the forging of the Infinity Blade and the weapon’s subsequent history waging terror and defeating enemies.

Sebastian Strasser from Radical Media has directed this great advertising for Vodafone, entitled “Add Power to your life”.

The project was shot over 8 days in Iceland, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania. During the shoot the team had to navigating some of Europe’s worst flooding in decades, making some of the locations highly treacherous, including the diner, which was left half submerged after a flood had hit the area. The film was shot almost completely using hand held cameras, enabling the team to capture more fluid, natural movements, which were then composited together by Time Based Arts, who did an exceptional job blending the 3D, CGI and live action.

Song by Woodkid – Run Boy Run.

Credits:
Director: Sebastian Strasser
VFX: Time Based Arts
Agency: Jung Von Matt
Producer: Christoph Petzenhauser
Editor: Paul Hardcastle

Fun personal project from Dubai based motion designer Nico Bolacha: PTEROIS. See the Making-of below: