Sights, displays, concepts throughout the visual media change through ideas and innovation. How graphics work to convey the many thoughts deep within the recesses of the mind make it the language of the universe.
It's soooooooooooo deep!
Sometimes I just feel like need to watch a video of random, messed-up, nonsensical, fantasy cartoon violence once and a while. I can usually count on stickpage.com to do just this. This one always gives me a big stupid smile.
(frame rate probably to choppy handle watching on the small video viewer that blogspot provides)
Anyway, I was always told that stick figures were the most amateurish form of amateur animating anywhere, but something about this debunks everything I've ever heard on that regard. Also... why not add a hard-rocking soundtrack to accompany it?
While trying to manage my post-a-week-quota, I'm realizing... this is actually quite difficult. Certainly a lot harder than I originally thought.
I had a few idea posts in reserve that I thought were worth sharing, but I didn't want to use all of them up before I'd have to more frantically search for some new and interesting videos out there in the Interwebs. It's a challenge enough to just sorta squeeze them in with an overall theme.
But I have come to that point. (Almost)
You can tell I'm stalling because I just posted an entire bit about my realization of myself having backed into a corner... in a shrinking room... being lowered into a volcano...
But I seriously did digress there, I have found a short video from a few years back that I dug up from my memory. The concept behind this video is a style of animation called "typography" and it accompanies the lyrics from a song while the music is playing.
For as minimalist of a technique I find it has a strong ability to communicate the essence of the song through some creative imagery. Also the song rocks. Enjoy!
Special effects guys are seen far and wide in Hollywood but never on youtube. I've always kinda liked special effect's ability to mess with visual sense and poke fun at reality as opposed to just rendering a cool looking 3-D model. I find this one particularly interesting considering it's on youtube but beyond typical youtube quality and also the fact of it being a video game parody. Even more impressive is that he drops a new video once a week. I feel like the idea of someone bringing their talent out to a very publicly open media such as youtube ties into the idea of these blogs and them sharing ideas in a non-mainstream model. While it's not quite Hollywood quality this and his collection of other work is a bold start for some special effects for today's action movies. But more things can be said with pictures than words, so here it is...
This is kind of old but I thought it was pretty impressive when it came out five or so years ago and still is. They're animated music bits properly titled, "Animusic". They are comprised of 3d rendered machines that have music programed into them which play as they animate. I always found these contraptions fun to look at as well as listening to the funky beats (yeah I said "funky") that accompanied them.
Other links to these little pieces I highly recommend:
So many ways to convey visual medium... such as this piece of work in Canal City in Fukuoka, Japan. One of the most original ideas for welcome sign for a shopping complex I've ever seen. It's a man-made waterfall programmed to form symbols, pictures and letters in the air while falling, it's quite impressive and no verbal description can really do it justice.
