It’s Nice That points us a to an impressive video by Artist Rob Carter.

Following on the heels of Nick Feltron’s popular annual report, Dan Meyer has taking life tracking into a new medium with his animated 2009 annual report.

Motion graphics and design studio King & Country has created The Ride – an animated short that captures the formation, ripening and fruition of a great idea.

Graffiti Analysis 2.0 takes live tags and drawings and transforms them into active 3D animations. Even Roth’s project was demonstrated recently at the BLK River Festival in Vienna.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

At the Fame Festival, Blu and David Ellis created an epic animation using an abandoned building as the canvas.

The Cat Piano is the latest animated film from Australian studio The People’s Republic of Animation. It’s won the Best Animated Short category in both the Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival.

Jer Thorp of the blprnt blog has created a simple but compelling data visualization of Twitter posts across the planet which say “good morning” in some way.

Using an escalator as his canvas, Mister Kama has produced a series of animations using a flip-book style sequence of stickers. Watch them in action below.

[via Wooster Collective]

At the Creativity and Technology Conference,  Zoic studios presented their project for “Killzone: Behind The Bullet”. It’s a download-able demo on the PS3 which follows the path of a bullet where gamers can control the camera angle, playback speed, and audio elements. The video renders in real time from the game engine, appealing to the gamer’s needs to see what the graphics are capable of.
To make the video, Zoic used in-game elements and animations to create the set. Taking existing assets, such as characters, lighting, and textures used to create the game and re-purposing it to create the video. The [...]

We thought this video of 2D stop-motion animation courtesy of Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg provided a nice midweek respite as we head towards May. We particularly enjoyed the faded chalk impressions left behind as the abstract tale unfurls to the languid sounds of Firekites‘ “Autumn Story.” 

Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.
[via Coudal]

Wooster Collective points us to a great animation made by James Jarvis for Nike. Wooster’s title says it all: “Sometimes Brands and Artists Get It Right… This Is One Of Those Times.”  Jarvis’ take on the collaboration:
I had become interested in the idea of characters that were less referential and more iconic and abstract. I particularly wanted to do something with a potato-headed stick-man that I had been drawing at that time.
The film was inspired by certain personal experiences in running – a favourite run over Blanchland moor in Northumberland, being attacked by a crow in Singapore – and also [...]

We’re enjoying this stop-motion, paper-craft video that mixes in traditional 2D animation. The Seed follows the life-cycle of an apple seed from beginning to end and back to the ground it came from. The making of the video is equally fascinating.

The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Making of ‘The Seed’ from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

A stop motion film celebrating literature is getting a lot of buzz on the blogs. Entitled ‘Welcome to our city – to our world – of books, this is where we live’, it was produced for 4th Estate Pubishers’ 25th Anniversary.
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
Created by by Apt Studio and Asylum Films, you can sense immediately that a lot of love and attention went into the film.
www.25thestate.com