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Amazing animated music video by director Sugimoto Kousuke!

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/

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

Overall it’s a fun spot, but I’m not too keen on some of the animation.  It’s really apparent it was done in 3D with a cell shader applied.  What do you think?

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!

Tilt-Shift is a technique that can make real-world objects look like miniatures.   Many times you just see it applied to photos (and many times it’s just a fake done in Photoshop) but in this case it’s a video.  Take a look:

When I was a kid we would occasionally see these in farmer’s fields.  We’d always run towards them to try to stand in the middle.  They look like little tornadoes but they’re pretty much harmless.