Pixelbirds is the collective from old friend/co-worker Silvana Catazine and Alex Zitzmann, from Barcelona. I follow closely their installations and audiovisual experiences, so it’s nice to know they have been in Fabbrica 07.

Link to MySpace video: City Mix - Cube Pusher

Their latest work is an exploration of the cube as a pixel metaphor, with a video projection over live performers. A blend between VJeing and performance art, it’s a great showcase of their wide range of abilities. With several works in electronic media they also have some fine motion graphics and graphic design. When i met Silvana, she did mostly graphic design, so it’s rewarding to see her with such innovative projects. Bona sort, Silvana !

P.S: You definitely deserve to be at Ars Electronica !

Some quality motion found this week:

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  From the guys at Make, 2 environmental friendly CG animations.
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  If you ever wondered who does those cool screen interfaces at films like The Island, meet Marc Coleran and his impressive showreeel.
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  In this case it’s not motion graphics but web animation: a wonderful website for the next New Line Cinema release based on the short story Mimsy were the Borogoves. A blend between What the Bleep and Pan’s Labirynth.
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  Last, but not the least, one of the most inspiring showreels i’ve seen lately.

Suffice is to say that when motion design has superb music, you gotta love it.

This clip for Fox TV Action Sports Awards, was created by Shilo and the soundtrack is from one of my favorite bands,Yeah Yeah Yeahs and it’s single “Y-Control”.

Source: MotionGrapher

Link to Forget the film, watch the titles

As my friend Claudio just said,

“sometimes a title sequence is able to capture the essence of whole film, and is in itself a short movie”.

This great resource features the work of great animators and motion designers. Maybe if the big studios weren’t so righteous about their copyrights we could watch the works of historics such as Kyle Cooper or Saul Bass.

Source: Motiongrapher

Polished CG and motion design by 180 Amsterdam for Adidas

Source: Boards Magazine

link: http://www.theronin.co.uk/blog/

Uau. He still has time to blog !

If you dont’t know who is Rob Chiu is, check some of the work at TheRonin. I’ve seen him this year at Barcelona where he presented “Black Day to Freedom” and other works and he still is one of my main inspirations in motion design.