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An amazing trip through the meandering paths of the hottest Motion Art passing through Motion Graphics, Music Videos, Commercials, Opening Titles, 3D Mapping, virtual museums and archives, Computer Generated Imagery, Broadcast Design.

A beating heart explodes into a thousand worries, save our earth!

MONEDERO 8Bit
Artist: Ruben F Stremiz
Argentina

To show the benefits “Monedero" card provides to its users. Throughout the day, the piece is generated with a look that references 8 Bit games. The main character overcomes different needs within this city, as in a platform game, and has an extra plus each time you use the card wallet.

Resonance is a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways. Visual artists and Sound Designers were paired up to create a 20 sec piece in HD, for which the artist collaborated with Michael Fakesch. This is a small contribution of the artist to the project:“Destructive Oscillation Project: Resonance”See: JP Frenay [frenayjp.be] Hear: Michael Fakesch [michaelfakesch.com]

The design process in this piece ended in the experimentation lab of BASA. The main idea of the new concept was to represent kind of traditional lines and digital lines.

DIGITIZED
Artist: Tony Zagoraios
Greece

This film was created for the opening titles of“Digitized 2012” (A digital design conference in Greece digitized.gr).It was such a pleasure for the people involved finding themselves experimenting and trying new things and styles. Special thanks of the artist to Konstantinos Penlidis and Demetrios Fakinos.

SENTOSA/THE STORY-OF-THE MERLION
Artist: Benjamin Ang
Singapore

This story tells us about how Singapore was found and how myth of Merlion came up. The Merlion is a mythical creature whose head is a lion and its body of a fish. This project was done in collaboration with Sentosa and Nayang Polytechnic.

Ó-TV-Channel- Director´s cut Ó
Artist: Henrique Neumann
Brazil

An innovative communication for a new TV channel was the briefing for
the creation of Brazilian O TV broadcast design. From this main sequence, a series of short animations was derived.

Conserve wildlife, conserve the rainforest. In celebration of the International year of forest.

WHITE+BLACK= RED
Artist: Simone Giampaolo
Switzerland

"White + Black = RED" is a socially positive short animation with a strong antiracist message. The story is about an argument between two opposite characters: one white and one black who, by the end of the film, learn how to respect and love each other.

THE-FUTURE FORMS OF LIFE
Artist: David Lance
UK

'The Future Forms Of Life' is a Story based on Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures. If we work really hard on our dreams, sooner or later we will reach our goals. But what if one day our dreams go too far?

COLLAPSE
Artist: Selfburning
Russia

It shows catastrophically rapid construction of the body under the
influence of a strange force.

RGB
Artist: Sajjad Sabour
Iran

RGB in 5 Seconds.

Animated intro for an environmental TV show, featuring ecology and

COMMON-IS-THE SENSE
Artist: Nadav Arbel
Israel

The never-ending journey of a man searching in many different dimensions something that is within.

GRIND IDENTITY
Artist: Matan Yaniv
Israel

Identity for a made up Horror Movie Channel called Grind

PLAN “Mass Construction”
Artist: Director’s Cut, Kompost
Switzerland

“Mass Construction” is a television and cinema advertising campaign of
the children’s development organization Plan International, to celebrate the power of girls and create awareness for the first ever international ‘Day of the Girl’. The tag line 'l am a girl, I am the most powerful force for change on the planet’, recognizes that girls are the key to solving world poverty.

URBAN HEARTBEAT
Artist: Verena Huber
Germany

“Urban Heartbeat” is a love letter to urban living. It is inspired by Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city. The film uses Motion Graphics and 3D animation in combination with standard film techniques. The storyline is around a girl, recognizing strange vein-like tentacles in the streets; leading her and others to a huge animated heart, the “Urban Heartbeat". Various specialplaces of Hamburg are shown in this movie, which was also the finalgraduation project of the director.

TURKISH AIRLINES
Artist: Bernie Roux
Sweden

To reflect the promise of Turkish Airlines, described with the motto “Globally Yours”, a civilization living on the red sphere was created to tell a brief story about how hard and in harmony they all in Turkish Airlines work, in order to please all of our travelers worldwide. Produced by Passion Pictures, the winner of the latest Academy Award in Best Animation Short Film Category.

9-STATES-OF AMBIVALENCE
Artist: QNQ / AUJIK
Japan

Psychologist Silvan Tomkins’ Affect Theory; in psychoanalysis, an Affect is an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling. The nine affects are: 1. Enjoyment/Joy
2. Interest/Excitement 3.
Surprise/Startle 4. Anger/Rage
5. Disgust 6. Dissmell
7. Distress/Anguish 8. Fear/Terror
9. Shame/Humiliation.
They are bound together by different external expressions which also can be seen as a form of communication. This video was commissioned by Japanese TV Station Space Shower as part of their Station ID

LICHTER/ EBBELWEI
Artist: Oliver Martinovic & Bjorn Renner
Germany

This trailer [http://vimeo.com/ 20768384] is for a film festival in Frankfurt, Germany. It shows the name of the Festival [Lichter = lights] in a very literal way, after the local people have drunk from a special drink.

SAINAM[Animated typeface]
Artist: Ekawit Lekviriyakul
Thailand

Sainam [Animated typeface] is an art thesis for Visual Communication Design Silpakorn University Major, Faculty of Decorative Arts. This animated typeface uses 6 symbols which most express the nature of Thai waterside lifestyle. The symbols are floating Kratong, conch, naga, lotus, barge and fishery. “Sainam” consists of Thai and Latin glyphs. [Thai alphabets, Thai numerals, Capital letters, Lowercase letters and Hindu- Arabic Numerals]

IMAGINARIUM-OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Artist: Opening Credits, Despo Potamou
Spain

The [unofficial] opening titles of “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”,written and directed by the amazing Terry Gilliam.
The movie talks about life, death, imagination, persistence, dreams, love, and family amongst other things. The titles are divided in two parts, the theater [real life] and the mirror [imagination].

WTGS-FOX-NEWS AT 10
Artist: Laura Ferris Norman
USA

This video file is a compilation of the re-branding project for WTGS-FOX Savannah. The concept is to attract a younger demographic with clear, exciting design elements; and to remove the oversaturation of movement from the newscast, in order to present information in a more efficient and effective way.

NCB NATURALIS
Artist: PlusOne
Holland

In 2010 three institutes combined their collections forming NCB Naturalis, the Dutch Centre of excellence for biodiversity studies. All the data obtained from research is currently being digitized as part of the FES project.
In the future, people all over the world will be able to access information that will help the spread of knowledge about diversity among plants and animals.

AMSTERDAM DNA
Artist: PlusOne
Holland

The Amsterdam Museum has opened an entire new department: Amsterdam DNA. The versatile story of the city is presented in seven intriguing films, which shed light on the most important elements from more than 1000 years of Amsterdam history. The challenge was to bring the masterpieces to life without affecting their identity, or rather, their soul, by making the images three-dimensional.
Lifelike sounds and soundtracks that fit the spirit of the age add luster to the scenes.

Obeah; the name given to an ancient black magic practitioner, awoken within Nadia Amar, harassed too many times by regular customer Andre to perform a private dance.

INTERJET ATRIBUTOS
Artist: Gerardo Noriega
Mexico

Opening for a festival in Chihuahua, Mexico with no budget, no feedback, just a simple petition of 'Can you do it, please?

BABYLON TOWERS
Yair Walden
Israel

Short Animation, that presents the shattered dream of living in the city of
Tel Aviv [or any big metropolitan city, in that matter].

This video is a part of the dissertation project of the artist, whose subject

PUBLIC-SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR HUNGER. Second Harvest,
Artist: Laura Ferris Norman
USA

This motion graphic is a PSA that is meant to bring awareness to the growing hunger statistics in the Southeast United States. This work was created on a pro-bono basis for Second Harvest [in connection with Feeding America]

A maximum selection of 3D animation in a magnitude of styles, realistic and non, that feature young blood from the best schools of animation and awarded films, all revealing an absolute sense of perfection in natural movement and spot on use of latest technologies in an effort to achieve the desired effect.

ARI has to spend a day over at his grandmother’s, who lives deep in the

bayou. Ari goes home humbled from his short stay; even his grandmother seems to have learned a thing or two.

SOLUS
Artist: Robin Bersot, Camille Dellerie,
Mickael Larue, Thomas Rodriguez
France

Carl is a man in his fifties trying to have a normal situation with his friend Eddy. A day he finds Sam, unconscious. When Sam wakes up, he will question Carl’s way of life. A meeting that cannot be a coincidence.

JIM´S TIE
Artist: Thomas Digiacomi, Nicolas Millot, Jérémy Sanchez - Romero,
Alain Thay, Leïda Vincent
France

A necktie peddler, Jim, rings a man’s door and surprises him in the middle of committing suicide. Jim will then attempt to restore motivation and interest in life to jack through his seller’s arguments.

EMBARQUE
Artist: Anthony Durand, Alexandre Laroche, Adrien Montier,
Maryline Peyrichoux, Léa Vera Toro
France

Charon, the lonesome and silent ferryman of hell, has his daily routine, teared apart by the most annoying passenger his boat never carried, and whom will make him lose his legendary temper.

DUM SPIRO
Artist: Boris Cailly, Brieuc Guenole, Jean-Baptiste Hardion,
Thomas Lemoine, Sébastien Wackowiez
France

During a campaign, a roman runner is sent to the German camp to deliver a message before the battle. But he will have to cross an old bear’s territory.

REBELOTE
Artist: Paul-Jules Alchie, Cyril Coste, Chritofer Henri, Franck
Pagnon, Gaëtan Simonot
France

In order to kill some decades of long disagreement, three old super heroes and their nemesis are about to pass on their legacy to their offspring. Will the valiant ULTIMAN and the fearsome TENEBRA be up to the challenge?

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	GO WITH THE FLOW An amazing trip through the meandering paths of the hottest Motion Art passing through Motion Graphics, Music Videos, Commercials, Opening Titles, 3D Mapping, virtual museums and archives, Computer Generated Imagery, Broadcast Design.

		MY H-EART IS DYING Artist: Ahmad Akhyar Indonesia A beating heart explodes into a thousand worries, save our earth!

		PARDISE,INC RESONANCE DESTRUCTIBLE OSCILLATION Artist: Jean-Paul Frenay Belgium Artificial Paradise is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…What is he searching for?

		MONEDERO 8Bit Artist: Ruben F Stremiz Argentina To show the benefits “Monedero" card provides to its users. Throughout the day, the piece is generated with a look that references 8 Bit games. The main character overcomes different needs within this city, as in a platform game, and has an extra plus each time you use the card wallet.

		MASS Artist: Henning M. Lederer Germany Mass: a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size.

		CLOCKWORK- MOVIE TITLE SEQUENCE Artist: Nikolas Grigoriou Greece This is the title sequence for a thriller movie named “Clockwork”, where the main character is a murderer and a clockmaker, who always kills his victims on a specific time.

		RESONANCE// DESTRUCTIVE OSCILLATION Artist: Jean-Paul Frenay Belgium Resonance is a collaborative project with over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and audio in unique ways. Visual artists and Sound Designers were paired up to create a 20 sec piece in HD, for which the artist collaborated with Michael Fakesch. This is a small contribution of the artist to the project:“Destructive Oscillation Project: Resonance”See: JP Frenay [frenayjp.be] Hear: Michael Fakesch [michaelfakesch.com]

		NIKE//Mercurial Vapor Superfly III Artist: Jean-Paul Frenay Belgium A 3D advertisement for “Nike – Mercurial Vapor Superfly III”

		CUTOUT-FEST Open Titles Artist: Diego Huacuja T. Mexico The design process in this piece ended in the experimentation lab of BASA. The main idea of the new concept was to represent kind of traditional lines and digital lines.

		DIGITIZED Artist: Tony Zagoraios Greece This film was created for the opening titles of“Digitized 2012” (A digital design conference in Greece digitized.gr).It was such a pleasure for the people involved finding themselves experimenting and trying new things and styles. Special thanks of the artist to Konstantinos Penlidis and Demetrios Fakinos.

		SENTOSA/THE STORY-OF-THE MERLION Artist: Benjamin Ang Singapore This story tells us about how Singapore was found and how myth of Merlion came up. The Merlion is a mythical creature whose head is a lion and its body of a fish. This project was done in collaboration with Sentosa and Nayang Polytechnic.

		Ó-TV-Channel- Director´s cut Ó Artist: Henrique Neumann Brazil An innovative communication for a new TV channel was the briefing for the creation of Brazilian O TV broadcast design. From this main sequence, a series of short animations was derived.

		SOMETHING; NOTHING LEFT Artist: Choo Chao Quan Singapore Conserve wildlife, conserve the rainforest. In celebration of the International year of forest.

		WHITE+BLACK= RED Artist: Simone Giampaolo Switzerland "White + Black = RED" is a socially positive short animation with a strong antiracist message. The story is about an argument between two opposite characters: one white and one black who, by the end of the film, learn how to respect and love each other.

		LOJA DE BRIQUEDOS[“Toy Store”] Artist: Thomas Ventura Brazil TV advertisement for Unimed Flex Health Plan, which perfectly suits the small business’ needs, made entirely in 3D animation.

		THE-FUTURE FORMS OF LIFE Artist: David Lance UK 'The Future Forms Of Life' is a Story based on Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures. If we work really hard on our dreams, sooner or later we will reach our goals. But what if one day our dreams go too far?

		RAMADAN IDENTITY Artist: Vahid Rasouli Kuwait Ramadan identity for Alkout channel- Satellite TV from Kuwait.

		COLLAPSE Artist: Selfburning Russia It shows catastrophically rapid construction of the body under the influence of a strange force.

		RGB Artist: Sajjad Sabour Iran RGB in 5 Seconds.

		ECONEWS IDENT Artist: Anthimos Xenos Greece Animated intro for an environmental TV show, featuring ecology and environment news.

		COMMON-IS-THE SENSE Artist: Nadav Arbel Israel The never-ending journey of a man searching in many different dimensions something that is within.

		GRIND IDENTITY Artist: Matan Yaniv Israel Identity for a made up Horror Movie Channel called Grind

		BEKO Artist: Behrooz Ghezel Iran Beko Home Applinace Logostation

		PLAN “Mass Construction” Artist: Director’s Cut, Kompost Switzerland “Mass Construction” is a television and cinema advertising campaign of the children’s development organization Plan International, to celebrate the power of girls and create awareness for the first ever international ‘Day of the Girl’. The tag line 'l am a girl, I am the most powerful force for change on the planet’, recognizes that girls are the key to solving world poverty.

		VOICE OF THE VOICELESS Artist: Behrooz Ghezel Iran Gaza war

		CUSHELLE"Infatuation" Artist: Bernie Roux Sweden A love story between a koala bear and a roll of toilet paper.

		URBAN HEARTBEAT Artist: Verena Huber Germany “Urban Heartbeat” is a love letter to urban living. It is inspired by Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city. The film uses Motion Graphics and 3D animation in combination with standard film techniques. The storyline is around a girl, recognizing strange vein-like tentacles in the streets; leading her and others to a huge animated heart, the “Urban Heartbeat". Various specialplaces of Hamburg are shown in this movie, which was also the finalgraduation project of the director.

		TURKISH AIRLINES Artist: Bernie Roux Sweden To reflect the promise of Turkish Airlines, described with the motto “Globally Yours”, a civilization living on the red sphere was created to tell a brief story about how hard and in harmony they all in Turkish Airlines work, in order to please all of our travelers worldwide. Produced by Passion Pictures, the winner of the latest Academy Award in Best Animation Short Film Category.

		DAEWOOD REFRIGERATOR Artist: Behrooz Iran Ghezel, Aria Taheri Daewoo Home Applinace

		9-STATES-OF AMBIVALENCE Artist: QNQ / AUJIK Japan Psychologist Silvan Tomkins’ Affect Theory; in psychoanalysis, an Affect is an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling. The nine affects are: 1. Enjoyment/Joy 2. Interest/Excitement 3. Surprise/Startle 4. Anger/Rage 5. Disgust 6. Dissmell 7. Distress/Anguish 8. Fear/Terror 9. Shame/Humiliation. They are bound together by different external expressions which also can be seen as a form of communication. This video was commissioned by Japanese TV Station Space Shower as part of their Station ID

	LICHTER/ EBBELWEI Artist: Oliver Martinovic & Bjorn Renner Germany This trailer [http://vimeo.com/ 20768384] is for a film festival in Frankfurt, Germany. It shows the name of the Festival [Lichter = lights] in a very literal way, after the local people have drunk from a special drink.

	SAINAM[Animated typeface] Artist: Ekawit Lekviriyakul Thailand Sainam [Animated typeface] is an art thesis for Visual Communication Design Silpakorn University Major, Faculty of Decorative Arts. This animated typeface uses 6 symbols which most express the nature of Thai waterside lifestyle. The symbols are floating Kratong, conch, naga, lotus, barge and fishery. “Sainam” consists of Thai and Latin glyphs. [Thai alphabets, Thai numerals, Capital letters, Lowercase letters and Hindu- Arabic Numerals]

	IMAGINARIUM-OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Artist: Opening Credits, Despo Potamou Spain The [unofficial] opening titles of “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”,written and directed by the amazing Terry Gilliam. The movie talks about life, death, imagination, persistence, dreams, love, and family amongst other things. The titles are divided in two parts, the theater [real life] and the mirror [imagination].

	WTGS-FOX-NEWS AT 10 Artist: Laura Ferris Norman USA This video file is a compilation of the re-branding project for WTGS-FOX Savannah. The concept is to attract a younger demographic with clear, exciting design elements; and to remove the oversaturation of movement from the newscast, in order to present information in a more efficient and effective way.

	NCB NATURALIS Artist: PlusOne Holland In 2010 three institutes combined their collections forming NCB Naturalis, the Dutch Centre of excellence for biodiversity studies. All the data obtained from research is currently being digitized as part of the FES project. In the future, people all over the world will be able to access information that will help the spread of knowledge about diversity among plants and animals.

	AMSTERDAM DNA Artist: PlusOne Holland The Amsterdam Museum has opened an entire new department: Amsterdam DNA. The versatile story of the city is presented in seven intriguing films, which shed light on the most important elements from more than 1000 years of Amsterdam history. The challenge was to bring the masterpieces to life without affecting their identity, or rather, their soul, by making the images three-dimensional. Lifelike sounds and soundtracks that fit the spirit of the age add luster to the scenes.

	UNA PIEZA MÁS Artist: Luis Safa Mexico When love becomes storm, you have to survive.

	OBEAH Artist: Pauline Brilliana Appiah Australia Obeah; the name given to an ancient black magic practitioner, awoken within Nadia Amar, harassed too many times by regular customer Andre to perform a private dance.

	INTERJET ATRIBUTOS Artist: Gerardo Noriega Mexico Opening for a festival in Chihuahua, Mexico with no budget, no feedback, just a simple petition of 'Can you do it, please?

	BABYLON TOWERS Yair Walden Israel Short Animation, that presents the shattered dream of living in the city of Tel Aviv [or any big metropolitan city, in that matter].

	LA PIEL QUE HABITOTitle sequence Artist: Kostas Nikolaides Cyprus This video is a part of the dissertation project of the artist, whose subject was the opening titles’ sequence of the movies. It is about the opening titles’ sequence of Petro Almadovar’s: “La piel que habito”.

	PUBLIC-SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR HUNGER. Second Harvest, Artist: Laura Ferris Norman USA This motion graphic is a PSA that is meant to bring awareness to the growing hunger statistics in the Southeast United States. This work was created on a pro-bono basis for Second Harvest [in connection with Feeding America]

	DON´T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Artist: Denis Parchow Germany Teddy bears are our last lineof defense.

ANIMESH 2 A maximum selection of 3D animation in a magnitude of styles, realistic and non, that feature young blood from the best schools of animation and awarded films, all revealing an absolute sense of perfection in natural movement and spot on use of latest technologies in an effort to achieve the desired effect.

	CUT OFF Artist: Simon Chansard, Lucas Dworianyn, Hollie Gach, Duc Duy Nguyen, Victor Pillet France ARI has to spend a day over at his grandmother’s, who lives deep in the bayous. Ari, vain as he is, is led by his pride to venture into the depths of bayou. Ari goes home humbled from his short stay; even his grandmother seems to have learned a thing or two.

	SOLUS Artist: Robin Bersot, Camille Dellerie, Mickael Larue, Thomas Rodriguez France Carl is a man in his fifties trying to have a normal situation with his friend Eddy. A day he finds Sam, unconscious. When Sam wakes up, he will question Carl’s way of life. A meeting that cannot be a coincidence.

	JIM´S TIE Artist: Thomas Digiacomi, Nicolas Millot, Jérémy Sanchez - Romero, Alain Thay, Leïda Vincent France A necktie peddler, Jim, rings a man’s door and surprises him in the middle of committing suicide. Jim will then attempt to restore motivation and interest in life to jack through his seller’s arguments.

	EMBARQUE Artist: Anthony Durand, Alexandre Laroche, Adrien Montier, Maryline Peyrichoux, Léa Vera Toro France Charon, the lonesome and silent ferryman of hell, has his daily routine, teared apart by the most annoying passenger his boat never carried, and whom will make him lose his legendary temper.

	DUM SPIRO Artist: Boris Cailly, Brieuc Guenole, Jean-Baptiste Hardion, Thomas Lemoine, Sébastien Wackowiez France During a campaign, a roman runner is sent to the German camp to deliver a message before the battle. But he will have to cross an old bear’s territory.

	REBELOTE Artist: Paul-Jules Alchie, Cyril Coste, Chritofer Henri, Franck Pagnon, Gaëtan Simonot France In order to kill some decades of long disagreement, three old super heroes and their nemesis are about to pass on their legacy to their offspring. Will the valiant ULTIMAN and the fearsome TENEBRA be up to the challenge?