Where Is My Mind

Here's a gorgeous cover of The Pixies Where Is My Mind and a perfectly cut video accompanying it made with silent film footage:

Preguntas Hermosas

This is beautiful:

Blu

Every time you think this video has reached its peak, it peels back another layer of your brain and reinvents itself. The animation surfs the walls of Buenos Aires:

Five Second Project

I made this short animation for the Five Second Projects over at greyscalegorilla, a great website with all sorts of tutorial resources and career advice for animators and graphic designers.

The theme this month was "Nude No More" so I decided to build a sphere with spheres:

Beeple

Prepare to have your skull rocked off by these two videos.

The man behind them has open sourced himself on his website, beeple-crap, by making his scene files freely available for download, and he has a ton of Creative Commons resources available for VJs.

They're incredible.

You know those monolithic Skill Level 5 space shuttle models you used to marvel at when you walked through the hobby store, wondering who had the obsessive patience and attention to detail to build such an awesome thing? The answer is Mike Winkelmann. But he does it electronically:

SUBPRIME


INSTRUMENTAL VIDEO NINE

Nothing Is Impossible

I just finished working on this animation for the Aniboom and Saatchi & Saatchi "Nothing Is Impossible," challenge for twenty-something animators. To push myself I composed the song and animation from scratch. It turned out well and I had fun making it.

Wrapping my head around such a broad theme was tough at first, so I started small and went through a bunch of drafts and ideas.

A lot of it was just playing around until I found something that felt like it got inside the idea that there are lots of options, lots of possibilities, and that you can start small and end big and that truly, nothing is impossible: