Sign Language

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This shortfilm creates a really fresh perspective into a world that most people ignore completely – static outdoor information technicians, or “board guys”. It manages to tell a story of friendship, love and moving on in life. Vote for it on Reed’s Workplace Short Film Competition.

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Coldest Winter – Kanye West

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Kanye West continues to release singles from his 2008 808s & Heartbreak album with this video for track 11 – Coldest Winter. Reuniting to work together again, Kanye and Nabil elderkin have produced a music video that is fitting for the song’s lyrics and mood. The CG uses a Frank Miller comic style to produce a haunting world of dead trees, fog and snow. The smoke effect of the girl’s face is particularly impressive (00:15).

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Chess Clay Stop-motion

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A highly imaginative stop-motion animation by Riccardo Crocetta using clay sculpting. The chess game evolves into a full on battle involving Pawns with swords and spears, and even flying unicorns.

The position after 13…Bh3, and the ones that follow, were used in Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” for the game between Frank Poole and the HAL-9000 Super Computer.

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Drift

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Theo Tagholm has devised a new style of stop-motion animation whereby each photograph seamlessly morphs into the next to produce an eerie, almost ghostly drifting motion. He calls it Still Moving – a combination of stop-motion photography, tilt-shift photography and motion tracking. He hasn’t given much away about the technique, but it uses After Effects.

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Parisian Love

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Question: How do you advertise a search engine? Answer: By telling a story of travel, love, marriage and parenthood. This advert for Google was shown during the Super Bowl half time, and features some very clever storytelling through online searches.

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