http://showcase.media-freaks.com Animations to Brighten Up Your Day Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An excellent demo reel from student Alexander Lehmann! http://showcase.media-freaks.com/alexander-lehmann-demoreel-2008/ Opener for the program Photographer in Focus, for FTV Latinamerica. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/ftv-photographer-in-focus-opener/ Billboards for the FTV show People Trends. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/ftv-people-trends-billboards/ A group of students from Full Sail University created this. I'm not exactly sure why it's called "Musical Mouse Trap." I can understand the musical part, but the mouse trap part... Produced by: Juan Colon, Ron Monahan, Jared Sanders, Donald Strubler http://showcase.media-freaks.com/musical-mouse-trap/ A commercial for candy brand Haribo. Check out where the candies come out from ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/fausse-pub-haribo/ A 1 minute short film by Bruno O. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/mon-tresor/ What better way is there to explain the credit crunch situation to the laymen than an animation? So that's exactly what ABC News came up with - the simplest explanation for the credit crunch and why the government has been debating a potential bailout in the form of a quirky ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/credit-crunch-animation/ Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great, turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But, when Presto forgets to feed his rabbit one too many times, well, there's really no telling what to expect! This latest comical short film from Pixar Animation Studios follows the escalating high jinx of the amazing ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/presto/ This is a test special visual effect animation done by Mediafreaks to simulate a devastating twister. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/twister/ This is a test special visual effects animation done by Mediafreaks to simulate a nuclear explosion. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/nuclear-explosion/ This beautiful emitter effect was created by the artist rendering particles through a displacement shader and constrained them to a randomly growing 3D-path. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/emitter/ Four abstract designs where developed to reinterpret the MTV logo based around the themes Aggressive, Calm, Lively and Organic. Individual MTV logo animations where then integrated into a range of infamous locations to the MTV audience, that were shot throughout Australia. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/mtv-organic-idents/ This is truly a well-executed animation for a beautiful program for the UN. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/unep/ This is a animated TV commercial for Lego. It is cute in a freakish way if you ask me. Freakish because the kids are depicted in such a funny manner! http://showcase.media-freaks.com/lego-explore/ 7 artists, 1,200 frames, 1 basement, 24 hours, one film. This was an entry in the 3rd 24-Hour animation challenge, completed in the fall of 2005. All done in 24 hours! http://showcase.media-freaks.com/dance-of-the-seasons/ This is a cute and lively animated ident for Nick Junior Channel. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/nick-junior-ident/ This is a pretty interesting community service TV commercial from Hong Kong urging citizens to give up gambling. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/give-up-gambling-tvc-from-hong-kong/ This is an Opening and Closing Animation for the event: Hello Kitty - Black Wonder - http://www.hkblackwonder.com http://showcase.media-freaks.com/hello-kitty-black-wonder/ A guy called Stephane Coedel produced this neat animated Christmas greeting card for Sherbet. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/xmas-frog/ Somebody called Apple Niki created this short animation using a mixture of 3D and 2D animation techniques, inspired from Vincent Van Gogh's art. Although it is a bit dated by today's standards, this is no doubt one of the better examples of early hybrid animation experimentation. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/starry-night/ Sedo is the top dog of the group and he's a pooch on a mission - his evil arch nemesis Bado and her side kick Fatso have escaped justice through a dimensional doorway into Earth. Unfortunately, the dimensional doorway sucked Sedo and his friends through as well. The stunned pups ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/sedo-dog-teaser/ World War was created by talented animator Vincent Chai for his final degree project whilst studying 3D Animation at the University Of Hertfordshire. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/world-war/ Street Fighter IV is the latest installment in Capcom's long-running Street Fighter fighting game series. The long-awaited fourth entry in the Street Fighter series. Street Fighter IV features a mix of returning favorites such as Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li and Guile along with new characters created for this game, such as Crimson ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/street-fighter/ This is the cinematic for the World of Warcraft Expansion Wrath of the Lich King. The Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life on Azeroth. With the armies of the undead and the necromantic power of the plague threatening to sweep ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/wrath-of-the-lich-king/ I'm not sure who did this, but it sure qualifies as 'funny' for me! Five slices of wholesome English toast have a message for the people of New York! http://showcase.media-freaks.com/we-love-new-york/ "Igor" is a playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre. In a world filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a Mad Scientist himself and winning the annual Evil Science Fair. ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/igor/ In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of earth's history and ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/wall-e/ The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meet the rest ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/madagascar-2/ This is the trailer for Disney’s Bolt. The movie - slated for release in November - featuring the vocal stylings of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, follows a dog who stars as the hero of his own TV show. Every day is filled with adventure, danger , intrigue and super powers ... http://showcase.media-freaks.com/bolt/ The Toyota Yaris has been marketed very cleverly using a slate of well-executed 3D animated TV commercials. This particular one shows how the small Yaris actually packs a lot more into its size. http://showcase.media-freaks.com/toyota-yaris-big-small/