Early last month, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore spoke at the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference in Monterey, California. He delivered a shortened version of the world’s most famous PowerPoint presentation, the slide show that turned into the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The video of Gore’s 30-minute speech can be seen at the TED website, but below you can view a short segment pulled from the middle. It features Dave Schlafman’s Flash-animated PSA, Sky is Falling, which won Current TV’s Sixty Seconds to Save the Earth contest. We’ve now featured this short on the site 3 times, but it’s just cool to see Al Gore introduce it.
San Francisco-based artist/animator Allan Dye has teamed up with Pottery Barn to help get the word out about their organic cotton products. Pottery Barn, a subsidiary of Williams-Sonoma, asked internal Media Producer Scott Young to create a video that and the result is a 2:30 minute Flash-animation titled Organic Living With the Greens. The video is currently playing on the Pottery Barn Kids website.
Evelyne Badami, a Flash animator and designer, recently worked on a lively French TV spot for Kubus juices. Along with Olivier Clert, she brought this environmentally-minded ad to life for Paris-based Purple Productions. Prior to this, Badami has worked on several Flash-animated TV series including Frankenstein’s Cat and Atomic Betty.
Helsinki-based artists Anttu Harlin, Eliza Jäppinen and Joonas Utti have formed a new animation studio called Anima Boutique. One of their first gigs was for a Finnish energy company called St1, who are pursuing the production of environmentally friendly energy. This Flash-animated short below details some new thinking about how bioethanol is made.
Belgrade-based animator Igor Coric has been producing independent shorts for years, and has recently increased his output. After teaming with Sheldon Lieberman, the two have been uploading a new short every week to their site bigfish.tv. Here’s my favorite so far, titled Global Warming:
Coric also created this unusual 6-minute short that doesn’t feature a single cut. Heartbreaking, amusing and very slightly NSFW (mild nudity), this short is titled Leftovers.
The Norwegian team from NRK1’sHalvseint show created this comedic, tongue-in-cheek short that takes a pot-shot at the Hummer SUV. I believe the short was created with Anime Studio.
Early last month, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore spoke at the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference in Monterey, California. He delivered a shortened version of the world’s most famous PowerPoint presentation, the slide show that turned into the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The video of Gore’s 30-minute speech can be seen at the TED website, but below you can view a short segment pulled from the middle. It features Dave Schlafman’s Flash-animated PSA, Sky is Falling, which won Current TV’s Sixty Seconds to Save the Earth contest. We’ve now featured this short on the site 3 times, but it’s just cool to see Al Gore introduce it.
