Sporky - Written directed and animated by Ross Story

The films to be shown are:

1. Overcome – 90 seconds – directed by Ben Bumgarner, animation by Matt Raithel & Nathanial Fuller, sound design by Doug Storm. A girl and robot face off for a game of one-on-one in this spec… commercial for the WNBA.

2. The Greasy Wrench – James Rutherford, animator, sound design and original music by: Anthony Ciston, Geoff Green, & Ryan Walther. A robot runs into a problem in a greasy spoon restaurant.

3. Tide of Dreams – 2:24 – Patrick Dunegan, Joe Protenic, Kevin Gates and Robert Rosener. An experimental film about a young man who’s followed throughout the city by his imagination.

4. Have You Ever Been There – 4:00 – county pop music video.

5. Pretend – 35:00 – written and directed by Doug Johnston, produced by Lydia Mann, sound design and original music by Daniel Kirkpatrick. A talented writer learns there’s more to life when he encounters his young nephew and the spirit that looks over the young boy.

6. The Creation Story – 1 ½ min — Daniel Quintanilla, Rodney Eddings, Phil Swope and Ben Pfeiffer. An experimental short about an artist and the process of visualizing an idea.

7. Mannequin – 5 min – written, directed and animated by Art Weisen, original music by Reed Roye. A David and Goliath inspired animation about a confrontation between two art-school mannequins.

8. Marble Rye – 12 min – directed by Max Rosen. The story of a woman who faces her fear of the world.

9. Cloud City Music video – 5 min – featuring the local band by the same name.

10. Sporky – 8 min – written, directed and animated by Ross Story, sound design by Mike Fieldson, original music by Baron Roberts. Animated film about a Spork who takes on a gang of bad guys led by Xacto.

11. Apollo – 40 min. — directed by Bryan Manning, original music and sound design by Jeffrey Brown, visual effects by Blaine Morehead. Visually stunning sci-fi story about a man searching for love on a dying planet.

Sporky - Written directed and animated by Ross Story

What: Senior Animation Exhibition
When: Friday April 9, 2010
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Plaster Theater
Missouri State University campus
Facebook event

Want an example? Check out Sporky.

SUMMER OF THE SPY
The story centers around a young boy who escapes the routines of life by dreaming of being a spy. He is dropped off at one of his relative’s houses where he investigates into her character and eventually comes across a plot altering twist.

You can become of Fan of the film on their Facebook page.

Screenplay By:Mike Rogers
Directed By:Jennifer Silvey
Produced By:Mike Rogers, Matt Schiereck, Chad Statler
Cinematographer: Ashley Moore
Editor: Andrew Heilman
Second Unit, Gaffer, Steadicam: Jayson Wilkins
Production Design: Heidi Diederich
Costume Design: Kelly Johnson

Now we have reached a time when vitural sets have become something that network television can take advantage of and use to bring us ideas and visions that were deemed impossible on the small screen just a few years ago.

The following is a list of just a few series that are using digital tech & virtual sets to create film quaility on the small screen:
Sanctuary (Sci-fi channel) – A series that started online and crossed over onto the small screen. Check out the original online episodes on Hulu dot com.

Warehouse 13 (Sci-fi channel) Like Sanctuary this Canadian series brings us high quaility virtual work and fun stories each week. It’s like X-files without the moody dark edge. Episodes of this series can also be found on Hulu dot com.

Assassin’s Creed :Lineage- A great piece of virtual set work used as a way to promote a video game. Learn more by going here

Sporky - Written directed and animated by Ross Story

What: Senior Animation Exhibition
When: Friday April 9, 2010
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Plaster Theater
Missouri State University campus
Facebook event

Want an example? Check out Sporky.

Alma is Rodrigo Blaas’ first short film as a director. Originally from Spain, Rodrigo Blaas has worked in animation for more than ten years, in Spain and in the United States.

Seizing the possibility of directing his first independent short film, Rodrigo Blaas asked some of the best artists in their field to take part in this independent project: French animator Bolhem Bouchiba, character designer Carlos Grangel and Sergio Pablos, ArtDirector Alfonso Blaas, music composer Mastretta and sound designer Tom Myers.

Written and Directed by
Rodrigo Blaas

Produced by
Cecile Hokes
Nina Rowan

Music
Mastretta

Art Director
Alfonso Blaas

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could tell…if only the show was based on those illustrations.

Well, we want to see more of that. So watch and remember and create. And if you’ve got something to contribute, send it along.

Oh, and would someone please start a petition to get “A Thousand Clowns” on dvd?

Thanks,
Ian + Alex
Team Art of the Title

Hat tip to Blip.tv

What’s the point of toiling on a report nobody will read? A few months ago, Japan’s Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Ministry tried something different. It hired Tokyo design studio Groovisions—a shop that has created visuals for MTV Japan—to make an animation short from a 62-page paper about the country’s worrisome dependence on food imports. At four minutes, Ensuring the Future of Food has become a minor YouTube (GOOG) hit.

Did they hit the mark? What tools are you using to get your message across to your clients?