Matt Smithson, better known as Man vs Magnet, added his animation talents to a recent Adidas TV spot titled Table Football. The commercial features two foosball players who are joined by some unexpected competitors.
Man vs Magnet, who is rep’d by both Curious Pictures and Not to Scale, used After Effects, Photoshop and Flash, which he employed for the character animation.
You may already know the work of Man vs Magnet. Remember Battle of the Bands?
The Chinese animation studio Its Cartoon just released a new, action-packed Flash animated commercial promoting the website 17173.com. Great water effects (click the logo in the center below).
Alex Hirsch will be stepping out into the working world soon, graduating from the animation program at the Valencia-based California Institute of Arts, or CalArts. The school, for those of you who didn’t know, was founded by Roy and Walt Disney in 1961, after merging together two preexisting schools.
Alex’s latest film takes a page from Walt’s book – marrying animation with live-action actors. In this first episode of Off the Wall, titled Lady Troubles, we watch best friends Nick (played by fellow animator Nick Butera) and Wally (voiced by Hirsch) wager over their dating successes.
Ian Worrel and Adrian Molina helped out with animation, and you can spot Hirsch at the very end eating next to a trash can. Congrats on graduating, Alex – and the same to the rest of your classmates.
Attaboy, the artist, illustrator, magazine co-creator and toy designer, has a new cartoon on his hands – in fact it’s his first. Too Many Robots is the most recent release from Disney Channel’s Shorty McShorts’ Shorts project, and this particular project was animated by Ghostbot.
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Dimitri Frazao, a student at Cal Arts in Valencia, California, recently posted his senior film One Last Song on YouTube. He animated the short in Flash, composited it in After Effects and then edited it all together in Final Cut Pro.
Frazao, a Brazilian native, also created this short live-action/animation composite test along with fellow Cal Arts students Alex Hirsch and Nick Butera.
