For their latest tourism spot, New York City turned to a British advertising agency and an LA-based studio. The result is This is New York City, a 60 second live-action spot with animated elements that all bring the city to life in an entirely new way. Motion Theory directors Mathew Cullen and Jesus de Francisco employed Flash, After Effects and Maya in the production pipeline, and Ella Fitzgerald’s Take the A-Train as the music bed.
Head over to the nycvisit.com site for illustrated wallpapers and more info. Story spotted at vfxworld.com.
Not surprisingly, JibJab’s Halloween humor is politically-skewed this year. The California-based Flash animation team has released two new Starring You shorts, which allow users to upload their own photos – essentially ‘casting’ the short. Both sides of the beltway aisle have something to laugh at here with two zombie-themed shorts – Night of the Living Democrats or Night of the Living Republicans. I’ve chosen to cast felines again, and have titled this one Night of the Living Demo-cats.
Chad VanGaalen is a musician from Calgary, Alberta, but his artistic talent doesn’t stop there. As discussed here at CHF about a year ago, VanGaalen is an illustrator who designs his own cover art and animates his music videos. His latest animation, however, is for another band – Holy F*ck. It appears as if this is Flash-animation mixed with stop-motion – and the track is titled Milkshake.
Hornet Inc. animation duo Dan & Jason give us an early Halloween treat with their latest animated project for the band The Cribs. Do You Wana Be Relevant is the new Flash-animated music video off the this UK band’s summer 2007 release Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever, and it features animated likenesses of the band slowly turning to zombies. Dan and Jason had animation help from Simon Ampel and Markus Wagner.
Not surprisingly, JibJab’s Halloween humor is politically-skewed this year. The California-based Flash animation team has released two new 
Hornet Inc. animation duo 
