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Missing Link Helps Animation Festival Lift Off

aaron — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:46:29 +0000

The Missing Link were recently asked when they would have time to create the 12-second opener for the 2010 Tel Aviv animation festival. Their reply was “when pigs fly.” With that out of the way, they created this fast-paced, aerial assualt, which was designed and conceived by JP Vine, animated and composited by Oren Mashkovski with character set-up by Mysh.

Mysh and Mashko Find Time For Xsights Promo

aaron — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:33:42 +0000

Here’s a new promo video for Xsights, an app that performs “mobile visual search.” The app was created by a team in Israel, and so was the promo video. The guys at Circus Animations designed it and Mysh and Mashko directed.

Israeli Animators Produce PicApp Promo

aaron — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:40:47 +0000

The founders of The Missing Link, Oren Mashkovski, Mysh and JP Vine, have teamed up with the online photo application PicApp to produce this Flash-animated promo. PicApp allows bloggers and content publishers to pick from millions of premium, legal images and use them on your site for free. I’ve inserted a photo of Adobe headquarters in this post so you can see how it looks.

Missing Link Navigates Promo For WorldMate

aaron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:06:59 +0000

Oren Mashkovski, Mysh and JP Vine recently formed a venture together, called The Missing Link. They didn’t waste any time getting their first project off the ground – a promo for an iPhone app. WorldMate “takes the pain out of your business travel,” and this Flash-animated video takes the piss out of other, less useful iPhone apps.

Erotic Moments in Mysh and Mashko’s Music Video

aaron — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:36:18 +0000

Mysh & Mashko teamed up to create this erotic music video for the song Beautiful Moments of War. The track is by The Walking Man, and the production process started with Mysh drawing the characters on paper, which were then scanned into the computer. Mashko composed the elements in Flash, added some animation and then built the masking effect that reveals each drawing. Some minor adjustments were made in After Effects.

[NSFW - animated nudity and sexy time]

Mysh and Mashko Make Headlines

aaron — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:16:07 +0000

Mysh and Oren Mashkovski were commissioned to create an animated series for Gary Skyner’s English training website Clikeng.com. Two full episodes of the series Making Headlines are up on the website now, but you can watch this Flash-animated promo below. The show stars Jeeves as a newsman who doesn’t report the news – he performs it.

Israeli Team Fights The Battery Menace

aaron — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:28:35 +0000

Oren Mashkovski and Mysh recently collaborated on this Flash-animated short, titled The Battery Menace, that encourages us to recycle our batteries. It was commissioned by Monkey Business, an industrial design company based in Israel.

Animators Hook Up Trailer For Change-Bots

aaron — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:40:42 +0000

To promote his Top Shelf comic book The Incredible Change-Bots, Ignatz award-recipient Jeffrey Brown turned to animators Mysh and Oren Mashkovski. The two created this trailer below, which features characters from Brown’s riff on the Transformers universe. Brown is no stranger to animation, having directed the music video for Death Cab For Cutie’s Your Heart is an Empty Rooom, which was animated by Eliza Kinkz.

Preview the comic here.

Folman’s Material Before The Waltz

aaron — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:08:26 +0000

Before Waltz With Bashir made its big splash at Cannes, Ari Folman experimented with animation in a 2004 series. The Material That Love is Made Of, a documentary series, was animated in Flash at PIL animation in Israel, serving as the testing ground for the process Folman and his team would employ on Waltz With Bashir. The project was design by Mysh and David Polonsky and animation by Yoni Goodman, Ella Marshak and Oryan Ventura.

Animating Kob’s Fixed World

aaron — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:43:37 +0000

Kob, the Israeli indie rocker, has called up on Mysh and Oren Mashkovski to animate his most recent music video. The track is titled Fixed World, and it was animated by Roy Manor and Mashkovski. The three characters in the video are major, historical figures from Israeli history.