New Robinsons ad by Bartle Bogle Hegarty

I was a big fan of Robinsons last ad campaigns which included the animated characters. The new 40-second Ad by Bartle Bogle Hegarty for Robinsons "Be natural" has been taken one step further. It opens with a bird as he flies into his tree-top house, whilst inside the house resembles that of a human abode, complete with human cuckoo clock.

Bonsajo "Vanishing Point"

This is a truly inspiring piece of animation from Bonsajo, a Japanese “visual performance unit”. It makes music and visuals fit like nothing I can think of.

Music by cubesato

Hancher & Hudson

Stunning work from Adam Hancher & Jack Hudson for this video of "Artificial Clouds" by the leeds based band Tigers That Talked Released October 2009 on Bad Sneakers Records. The track is taken from their forthcoming album The Merchant, released 2010 and produced by Adam Noble.

Matt Robinson & Tom Wrigglesworth

A pretty spectacular film/animation from Matt Robinson & Tom Wrigglesworth in which they turn a number of HP printers into a kind of choreographic orchestra. Be sure to check out the rest of their work on their portfolio websites. The pair are also featured in Septembers issue of Creative Review.

Shynola

Coldplay's latest video for 'Strawberry Swing' is a stunning stop motion by British art collective 'Shynola' which sees Chris Martin undergo a video game like, animation adventure through seas and skies. Shynola also directed the award winning video for 'go with the flow' by Queen's Of The Stone Age.

Even if your not a fan of Coldplay im sure you'll appreciate this video.

Wilhelm The Maker

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, the just us design collective has kept us extremely busy this month. However to link that into a lovely post on here I have added two of our very own collective members animation.

'Wilhelm the maker' is an animated short from Adam Hancher and Jack Hudson. An absolutely stunning piece of work and a sad but lovely story!

Johnny Kelly

The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Johnny Kelly has some really nice animations which combine illustration and paper craft. Check out the procrastination video on his website.

This is it

This Is It Showreel 2008 from Dan Britt on Vimeo.

This is it are a group of illustarors and animators who are currently studing at kingston university. Above is their 2008 showreel.

Ordinary kids

Ordinary kids from San Fransisco have a vast array of interesting interactive and motion graphics websites. One of their newest creations is the official website for American singer songwriter Tracy Chapman, the website is on first glance colourless, until you discover the colour pallette at the top left of the screen, the user can paint the picture in the background any colour they choose. Pretty neat huh!

Click here to visit the Ordinary Kids
Click here to visit the Tracy Chapman website

Crappy Cat by Vanbeater

Van beater has created this rather quirky interactive game called Crappy Cat. Join Crappy Cat in his abnormal journey to the bottom of a bottle and into another dimension. Just use your arrow keys to explore and experience many visual delights and surprises.

Green Thing

Green Thing is a public service that inspires people to lead a greener life. There are plenty of interesting animations and videos, uploaded by community members and creative people from around the world. Take a look and sort out your carbon footprint!

Biro Creative for Greenpeace UK

Biro Creative has made its name creating innovative flash tools to help their clients tell their stories in fresh and captivating ways. I am very fond of a creation of theirs called Efficiencity, an interactive map made for Greenpeace UK which helps to inform the viewer of different alternative energy sources. It is both clever and well presented.

Frederic Tacer

Frederic Tacer has some truly unique ideas when it comes to the design of art work for musical artists, He looks into digitalising album art work, posters and even merchandise . From what is on his web site this look like it was a really good piece for his Diploma. If your not gonna go to his site at least watch this.

Coraline

Coraline is an amazing stop motion film coming to cinemas at the start of next year, the trailers look so 3d its unbelievable that it is all done with stop motion. The story is about a young girl who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life – only much better. But when her adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home – and save her family.

Airside

Alex Maclean, Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter's Airside are responsible for the colourful sponsorship idents you might see before the football. Airside is a cross-platform design agency that works in moving image, graphic design, illustration, digital and real world interaction.

Hattie Newman

Hattie Newman is an illustrator animator and set maker from Bristol with some really nice hand made work. She has worked closly to preivously posted designer and illustrator Alex Ostrowski also look out for her work with YCN.

Madame Tutli-Putli

My house mate showed me this absolutely stunning animation today and I was completely amazed by how real and professionally done it is. Made by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, it truley is stop motion at its very best. Here is a Link to the website and link to watch the whole thing on you tube.

Yannick Puig

Yannick Puig is front man in cooperative motion graphic collective 'yanim studio' experts in 3d / 2d and traditional animation. Their recent work "I lived on the moon" recived numerous awards in festivals across europe. have a look, it gave me goosebumps.

I Met The Walrus

I Met The Walrus is an interview animation written, directed and animated by Josh Raskin and illustrated by James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina. A truly mind blowing animation picturing an interview between a 14 year old boy and The Beatles John Lennon. Really is something all budding illustrators and animators should take a look at.

Grow Design Work

Bran Dougherty-Johnson has some wicked animations, with a really happy feel! His favorite colour is fluorescent orange too!