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FOX Sports : Broadcast Design Competition

FOX Sports : Broadcast Design Competition

FOX Sports is hosting a broadcast competition for designers and animators; create a :05 FOX Sports ID. Winners get their spot on air and software packages from Maya, Apple, and Avid … nice! Also check out the FOX Sports Design site.

Deadline: Midnight July 20th, 2008

Jinyoung Shin : Illustration

Jinyoung Shin : dadaly.net

A unique twist on Manga from ultra talented illustrator Jinyoung Shin.

4stroke : Olympus

4stroke : Olympus

New CG spot from Toronto based 4stroke, covering modelling, character animation, matte painting and liquid dynamics in Maya … all for Olympus : GetOlympus.ca.

NeoDG : New reel

NeoDG : new reel

New reel along with new broadcast and print projects up at neodg.com.ar

Blind Spot : Best Student Award Piece

Blind Spot

Impressive shorts from 2cd and 3rd year animation students from 2007. I really like Blind Spot which won, among several awards, Best Student Award Piece at Siggraph 08.

3AM : New reel

3AM : New reel

New site, new reel and lots of new work up from the Toronto team at 3AM Design!

MTV Australia

MTV Australia

Vernacular idents for MTV Australia … watch: Feminine, Cloth, Organic and Aggressive … courtesy idents.tv

Honda : Drop

Honda : Drop

Love this new spot for Honda from Wieden+Kennedy, promoting Honda’s fuel efficienct i-VTEC and driveeverydrop.com

Armored Core 4 Answer

Armored Core 4 Answer

Not exactly new but some stunning CG to check in this promo video for the PS3 Game Armored Core 4 Answer (mixed with some more game-realistic low-end in-game graphics).

Koji Morimoto : Studio 4°C

Koji Morimoto : Studio 4°C

Watch the trailer for Genius Party Beyond (2008 sequel to Genius Party) — I was awestruck with illustrator/animator/Director Koji Morimoto’s contribution which led me to his Studio 4°Cwatch some clips of surreal-imaginative-brilliance. Superflat!!

Soul Eater

Soul Eater

Written and Illustrated by Atsushi Okubo … I absolutely love this .. watch the trailer for Soul Eater series dvd released this summer on dvd (Japanese — english following later in yr in North America). Some additional character art.

Tsunenori Saito : Sword of the Stranger

Tsunenori Saito : Sword of the Stranger

Illustration and animation from Tsunenori Saito : Watch the trailer for Sword of the Stranger (2007) – brilliant samurai movie – additional images/info (japanese).

Japanese animation

I’ve been in Japan the last couple of weeks and have fallin in love with Japanese animation (late bloomer I know) … so thought I would share some of the inspiration I’ve come across … here she goes.

GKaster

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Formerly known Kurtzmedias brings you GKaster, his new motion-design studio.
Sweet Reel as well.