Sony – “Bloggie” by Keith Schofield.

According to the movie charts almost everyone has seen James Cameron’s Avatar.
Here’s an interesting behind the scenes look of the performance capturing technique, that was used to animate the characters in this blockbuster.

Another very nice crowdsourced music video by Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey. The idea is rather simple, the guys shot a music video and now ask visitors of a website to mimic single frames of it, the original frames in the video get replaced by the user submitted onces on an hourly basis.
As often, the simplest ideas are the best.

In their reel, the guys from Stargate Studios demo the possibilities with greenscreen and other special effects.

Beautiful stop-motion animation of ‘Going West’, a novel by Maurice Gee, for the New Zealand Book Council.
Animated by Andersen M Studio.

Art Director Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd. has created together with Shun Kawakami (artless Inc) an artist and designer from Tokyo – a piece titled Urban Abstract.

“You think nothing exiting would happen…
but what we’ll see is much more interesting”

Being a clay animation fan and having loved The Flintstones TV series as a kid, i was kind of surprised when i stumbled upon this little gem, that i haven’t seen it before. A dream sequence from The Flintstones: On the Rocks, a stop motion animation by Screen Novelties. I wish they would make a feauture-length Flinstone movie like this.
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

Very funny commercial for French pay tv channel Canal Plus.