This week I present few but very delicate eye candies. Enjoy!
Alma A very nice horror short, directed by Rodrigo Blaas and produced independently. This is Blaas’s first attempt at directing a short. It looks really good, and I’m waiting to see some more awesome animation from him and his crew.
For more information check out Alma website: almashortfilm.com.
Adele Blanc-Sec
This upcoming Luc Besson film is based on French comics artist Jacques Tardi. Described by /Film as combination of Indiana Jones, Tin Tin and Hellboy, this film should be a treat for people who love an adventure story taking place in Paris at the turn of the century peppered with some fantasy elements.
You should check out the website. It has a cool Flash interface.
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Mass Effect 2 trailer
Totally awesome! I really enjoyed the first one, and ME2 looks even better. Can’t wait till it’s out!
Ataque de Pánico!
An awesome little clip directed by Federico Alvarez of Murdoc Films and produced by Aparto.
Good Vibrations
A short by French animator Jeremy Claptin (the one who made Skhizein). Great job. Unfortunately I could not embed the video, so you’ll have to click here if you want to watch it.
Alex Roman
Amazingly realistically. This is a montage of some of Roman’s work on 3Dup.com. He uses 3dsmax with vRay to create these stunning images. I really liked his work because, as opposed to other technical demos, this one is really elegant and beautiful. Also check out thirdseventh.com for the rest of his work.
Phil Plait on Gnomedex 9 Phil talks to a bunch of tech nerds at the Gnomedex 9 convention. He gives a nice introduction to the skeptic movement, talks about the key people and organizations (like James Randi, Penn and Teller, JREF…), who’s their adversaries (Sylvia Brown, chiropractors…). A really fun lecture.
Cell size and scale
This one I found on Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog. It’s a nice Flash presentation that lets you zoom and see a lot of tiny items in relation to each other. It starts from a coffee bean and ends with a carbon atom. This thing was made by the Genetic Science Learning Center in the University of Utah.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
You’ve got to check out this amazing trailer. It has some really fun surprises inside
The Kinematograph
This is a trailer for a short directed by Tomek Baginski (Fallen Art) and produced by Platigue Images (Moloch, and also Fallen Art). The film is about an inventor obsessed with his work and what he has to lose for his passion. I love the details on all of his contraptions, the character design with European touch and an atmosphere of an old family photo album. There’s some more information on Quite Earth here.
Peter Hintz
An interesting post on with us or against us published this Monday linked to the gallery of Peter Hintz. He’s a German illustrator. I can’t really tell much about him since most of the info I found out was in German. But I wanted to note him here because of his inspiring work. I really love the dynamic lines in his art, they’re so free and spontaneous. He adds up to the lines textures and splatters of color and makes interesting compositions. His bizzare and sometimes pervert subjects also fascinate me.
The Cat With Hands
Not a new short, but an interesting horror flick worth noting.
John U. Abrahamson
A fine dark artist. I love his combination of fallen angels, gas masks, halos and dark atmospheres. His S&M artworks are also awesome.
9 minutes from the new ABC series “V”
A remake of the 1983 miniseries, the upcoming V has awesome special effects, as can be seen in this little video here. Totally cool spaceship hovers over New York and excellent chopper explosion. As far as I understand, the main story is of this day’s modern society and how it deals in the face of some motherfucking large motherships hovering over major cities of the world. Yup, much like Independence Day or Immortel (ad vitam). But I must admit this thing looked pretty good. I’m looking forward to see it!
1. I could subscribe my blog on blog communities sites to increase traffic
Yup. Silly of me for not thinking of it before. But after reading Problogger’s article about increasing traffic I went right away and put my blog on all the sites he mentioned and my traffic did indeed increase. Thanks you, new visitors from near and far.
2. Illustrator Josh Holinaty
He’s one of those artists I like in first glance. His works inspire me and I love his style. I found out about him by reading this Kitsune Noir post.
3. The Fourth Kind Trailer
Dan brought to my attention the trailer for this new crazy film starring Milla Jovovich. It’s supposed to be a documenting and dramatizing strange cases of alien abductions in Nome, Alaska. In the trailer, the victims claimed they see a white owl looking at them, which they link to the abduction. Strange enough, my late grandmother once mentioned seeing an owl in the window and linked it to death. Oh well. Anyway, the trailer is really worth watching. I liked how it was produced.
4. Bored to Death title animation
Found out in The Art of the Title Sequence. Bored to Death is a new comedy series about a writer that turns to the private detective business. Click here to watch.
5. The evolution of Apple ads
Found here on the Web Designer Depot website.
6. The new Chrome themes really suck
I do not endorse calling the mere replacement of the background image a “theme”. And that’s why the new feature in Google Chrome browsers suck. Don’t get me wrong, I’m addicted to Chrome, but the Firefox themes are way better, because they really change the way your browser look, including icons and sizes of menus. But I’m sure they’ll get there eventually with Chrome too. In the meantime, I’m sticking with the regular light blue theme.
7. And finally, I uploaded my demoreel on Vimeo. No more annoying Aniboom embedding crap.
Well, that’s it for this week. Have a fantastic weekend everyone.
