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Amazing animated music video by director Sugimoto Kousuke!

Found this via Motionographer. Check out all the production storyboards here:

http://f.hatena.ne.jp/Tete/14.フミコ/

For an independent production – this is some amazing work.

Character animator, designer and illustrator Yoshii brings us Meat or Die.   Below you can watch a video of exactly how he creates one of  his characters.

You can view an entire gallery of his characters on his Picasa site HERE.

Or you can visit his website:  http://www.yoshii.com/

Recently he was profiled by Luxology on his use of their software called Modo in creating 3D characters.  You can read the interview on the Luxology site:  http://www.luxology.com/community/profiles/hiroshi_yoshii/

I think Daniel Radcliff is a great sport for doing things like this.  You hear so often about the egos and personalities of celebrities, so it’s great to see someone being a really good sport.

“In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.”

This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

2009 Zealot Co.,ltd / Neutral Nine Records

via FatWallet.com:

They just came out with Anime Studio 6, so Smith Micro is giving away Anime Studio 5 for FREE. Mac and Win versions, serial number key provided at download and you don’t have to give anything but your address and email.

http://my.smithmicro.com/freeanime/

The serial number is given to you just below the “download HTTP now” blue button after checkout. It’s also in the confirmation email they send you and is unique, so you need the one they provide with your transaction. It’s what you’ll use if you want to upgrade to AS6 for $20.

If you’re using a fake email be SURE to copy the serial number from the download screen or you won’t be able to install the full version!

http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/

I’ve previously posted samples of tilt-shift videos -but now UNIQLO has turned them into a very cool online calendar.

Thanks to Shin_Matsuda for the heads up!