Cut&Paste, the company behind the live digital design tournaments, has partnered up with Adobe to present the See What’s Possible Challenge. They propose that artists and animators create a “15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of See What’s Possible.” The submissions are all in, and now we’re awaiting the results. Many artists chose Flash as their medium of choice, as Michelle Clement and her husband Tzanko did…
In creating his short, Sean McCracken used Flash, Photoshop, After Effects and Swift3D.
Gabe Swarr, a Spumco-trained Flash-animator and a director on Nickelodeon’s El Tigre, has managed to find time on the side to produce a few shorts. Aside from the Donkey Kong clip we featured here last month, Swarr has also produced a Mario Bros. short titled What the Shell?!, which he submitted to the Nintendo Short Cuts Showcase contest. He produced the entire short in a weekend along with help from Tony Mora, who supplied the background paintings.
Swarr also produced an intro video for I Am 8-Bit, Jon Gibson’s video game focused media company.
Rodrigo Huerta, who was featured here back in July, has posted his new intro sequence, something he’ll likely add to the front of his upcoming shorts. Head over to deviantART for a native, vector version of his Flash animation.
MTV Italy is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary, and to mark the occasion they’ve created a new logo, characters and several promo animations with Mutado, a Milan-based creative agency. Mutado tapped Diego Zucchi, who was featured here on CHF for his pa-NO-rama short. Zucchi utilized Flash and After Effects to bring these 3 spots to life.
INTERspectacular, a concept, design and animation studio in New York City, has re-branded Nicktoons Network’s 3 Headed Monster block with new logos, graphics and animated bumpers. INTERspectacular’s Creative Directors Luis Blanco and Michael Uman teamed up with character designer Joel Trussell to create a 3-headed monster with distinct personalities: Friday, Saturday and Sunday (the block airs Fri-Sun from 7pm to 1am).
Rodrigo Huerta, an animator living in College Station, Texas, has produced a series of bumpers for the 14th Annual Viza Go-Go, the annual student showcase for the Texas A&M Visualization Sciences Program (hey, Mom - I’m a scientist!). Here’s two of my favorites:
About a year ago, you may have spotted a link to ‘Gaigin - The Tail of a Warrior.’ It’s a very well produced short out of Pil Animation in Israel. Well they’ve been hard at work in the ensuing year, and I’ve just been tipped off on a couple of their new projects.
First, check out ‘The Mad Scientist Show,’ created by Oren Mashkovski and MYSH, the same duo that created ‘Gaigin.’ Here’s the direct link to episode 2 (9mb - Windows Media).
And second, have a look at Pil’s animated bumpers for Channel 24 - The Israeli Music Channel. I like this one (2.3mb Windows Media) in particular. All of the spots were animated frame-by-frame and drawn straight into the computer using both Flash and Aura. The BGs were created in Aura and Photoshop. You can see the rest of the spots over on the Pil Animation homepage.
by Oren Mashkovski and MYSH, the same duo that created ‘Gaigin.’ Here’s the direct link to 
