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New reel and works from talented Tommy Wooh on flickr.

Great works from freelance Director/Designer/Animator Leandro Feuz.

Amazing stop-motion work in this spot for Electrabel. Directed by Raf Wathion.(watch in youtube’s HD)

New animated IDs for Astral broadcasting from Toronto CG Director Richard Rosenman for Hatch Studios.

To ring in the first anniversary of the iconic New Museum in NYC, Superfad designed an infographic video greeting card celebrating their accomplishments.

All I Want For Christmas : short created by Thiago Maia for the Glug Xmas competition.

Early in 2009, the band Omega Code will release their debut, and along with that, a book, a DVD and a FREE series of posters based on their upcoming album “Ω”. A limited number of 2300 posters are going to be printed and distributed around the globe.

23 artists were invited to illustrate, among them you can find names like Joshua Davis, Si Scott, Mike Cina, Michael Paul Young, Mate Steinforth, Matthew Curry, Nelson Balaban, Tom Muller, Motomichi Nakamura, Danny Franzreb, Robert Lindström, Andreas Pihlström, Chris Hewitt, Hello Hikimori, Sebastian Onufszak, Animatório, Colletivo, Nacionale, Unstru, Tomás Peña, João Oliveira, Peter Jaworowski, Umeric and Doomedo.

Follow them on Facebook, Myspace, Orkut and Twitter to know more about the release date and also the exhibition dates.

Cinematic trailer for Final Fantasy Versus XIII (via Cpluv).

Talented artist/illustrator Fabrizio Sarti has updated with alot of great new works. More to see on his flickr page.

Barcelona based freelance motion designer Sebastian Baptista has updated his site with new works and reel.

Also NY based, Smoke & Mirrors, worked with Academy Films‘ Director Kim Gehrig, creating this compelling 1:30 tale for Amnesty International.

NY based Click3X updated with a new reel.

Firstborn took on the team that is Big Spaceship and won the first ever GotoAndPlay() Tournament. What is it? Both companies entered a day filled with fun activities & sports (foosball, ping pong, and basketball) rather than competing for the usual… work load. They competed for trophies, glee and a redirect for one day. Check it out!

Interesting interview with talented designer/illustrator Luke Lucas at Cpluv.

A new spot for Treo, directed by St Paul Film’s Brian Lee Hughes … “Treo provides fast relief from headaches, namely those brought on by the stress of meeting a young lover’s parents. For me it was a brilliant opportunity to corrupt absolute perfect innocence and to deconstruct Disney whilst serving the actually amazing brand Treo.” (thnx Shannon!)

Haymaker | FX is a swedish based motion & VFX studio. Great work to check out.

Thanks very much to the super talented Onesize for sharing their latest personal project with us … their visual interpretation of a song called “Anything you Synthesize“. Some behind-the-scenes photos are uploaded to our facebook group.

… And all the women left are crying … Blackbelt Kids‘ director Kareem Thompson directed this video fro TEN KENS of Fat Cat Records. Gorgeous illustration, great motion.(via Feedhere).

Freestyle Collective recently created this opening sequence for a new Cartoon Network online game; Fusion Fall, Cartoon Network’s first massive multiplayer online game, using a combination of Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Z Brush and finishing in Flame (thanks to sister visual effects company, Guava)

Music for Monday morning :

Broken Social Scene presents: Brendan Canning – Churches Under The Stairs … directed by Toronto based Spy Films‘ George Vale

The American Dollar : Anything You Synthesize … directed by Dutch studio Onesize.nl

Radiohead : Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (Live)

My Shaky Jane: Broke, Bored and Sober … directed by Toronto based BTRY’s Ron Gervais.

London based Apt and Asylum Films : 25th Estate ~ “Press Books – the literary division of HarperCollins, containing 4th Estate and Perennial – approached us to come up with ideas for helping them celebrate the forthcoming 25th anniversary of imprint 4th Estate.” …

“We also built a site to house the film, along with production stills and time-lapse animations of the animations being shot.”

Director Laurie Thinot and Partizan Lab touches on reproduction for Autokratz’s newest music video: Stay the same.

Toronto based 3:AM Design, just finished another post-heavy/animated music video, this time for indie rock group Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker.

Sylvain Dumais is a Toronto based commercial photographer and stop motion animator. Check out two of his recent works for Sidlee : Sidlee Cool Stats and Montreal in a nutshell.