Hasta La Motion!

Michael Langan’s new short film Heliotropes is fresh off the film fest circuit. Heliotropes documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light. Based on the poem by Brian Christian.

You might remember Langan’s previous film Doxology, which mixed stop-motion and live-action to create an experimental comedy about tennis balls, dancing cars and God.

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It’s not live yet for you Americans (you gotta wait till Tuesday September 6th 2011), but here in Australia, we are already singing along! More info on the video can be found here and here.

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We posted a preview of Newton back in May. The time has arrived — you can head over to Motion Boutique and try or buy the new stand alone app. I haven’t been this excited since Particular 2.0 and seeing the potential that plug-in had to offer!

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Hints of Patrick Daughters in this stream-of-consciousness live action spot from Sony. 2D animation by Not To Scale’s Steve Scott. If anyone can find full credits, please drop us a line.

UPDATE: Mr. Scott has informed us the spot was directed by Johnny Green with an “insane amount of work by Glassworks.”

Director: Johnny Green (Gorgeous)
Producer: Spencer Dodd (Grey London)
Creatives: Matt Waller & Dave Monk
Agency Producer: Rebecca Pople
VFX: Glassworks
Flame: Duncan Horn
3D: James Mann + his crew
Producer: Misha Stanford
2D Animation Directed by Steve Scott (Not To Scale)
Animation: Ed Wilmore
2D Animation Producer: Lisa Hill
E.P. Dan O’Rourke:
Compositing: James Littlemore

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Bronte (official film clip) from Gotye on Vimeo.

One of my favorite musicians, Wally de Backer (more commonly known as Gotye), recently released a fantastic new album Making Mirrors, and along with it, a bunch of great music videos by a number of Australian animators-filmmakers. I’m thrilled to find out that Ari Gibson and Jason Pamment (whom I got to know about through their “Sometimes the Stars” video for another Australian band, The Audreys, and Ari’s co-directed film, The Cat Piano) made one of those. Wally/Gotye is well known for his passion in supporting other Australian artists by collaborating with them. (You might remember Picture Drift’s work for his first hit single, “Heart’s A Mess.”)

The song “Bronte” is about a family saying goodbye to their old dog. Ari and Jason once again created a lush, beautiful backdrop for the story to unfold, as alive and whimsical as the characters that inhabit it. In contrast to “Sometimes the Stars,” the atmosphere is a less stark, but it is just as moving.

Read interview and behind-the-scenes work here…

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