Fringe Fridays is about bringing you the strange and extraordinary in online video every week. Sometimes, as the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. No one exemplifies this better than Diagonal View. Some of our favorite content lately has come from them.
Today’s Fringe Fridays brings us to a dark and dusty room through the medium of stop-motion animation. The animator definitely owes a debt to such stalwarts as Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay, but he brings something new to genre through his use of television clips. It’s a painstaking process, one that instills the movie with an unsettling atmosphere.
The Fringe Fridays nominations continue with this, our last category: Best Indie Music Video. New technologies in video editing and the advent of video sites (like our own!) have enabled bands to create and distribute videos that rival those produced by multi-gazillion-dollar record companies. Here are six uber-indie groups who have created modern masterpieces of sound and vision.
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TGIFF: Thank goodness it’s Fringe Fridays, our weekly look at the best in animation and experimental video. It’s also the final day of nominations for the Yahoo! Video Awards. First, we’re going to look at the nominees for Best Animated Video. Some of the best animators on the planet upload to Yahoo! Video, making the task of narrowing down the nominee list rather excruciating. But here are six videos representing the diversity of animation, from CGI, to stop motion, to time lapse, and everything in between.
On today’s Fringe Fridays, we’re going to pull back the curtain, and show a little behind-the-scenes animation fun with our friends at Dadomani studios. You may remember this amazing piece from last year:
In this age of high-tech cgi filmmaking, it may seem like everything we see is just a pile of bytes sitting on a server. But as this making-of video shows, there’s still a whole lot of physicality involved, at least for the Dadomani guys:
This is a making-of video done right. Informative and completely entertaining in its own right. If you’re an aspiring animator, or you just like to see how it’s done, take a look at our collection of behind-the-scenes videos in our Animation Network.
This blog has been very news-heavy recently, what with the launch, and all its attendant updates. But now it’s time for another Fringe Fridays, our (almost) weekly look at the best in experimental video and animation.
Today’s fringe-phenomenal video takes timelapse to new heights, and new depths:
Not content to just use timelapse, the director incorporates rapid zooms, contrasting visuals, and a lovely original soundtrack. It really makes me think about Los Angeles in a new way, as a place inhabited by all kinds of creatures. It’s a landscape that’s not just concrete and stucco, but also flowers and dirt. More info about the film can be found on the director’s website. Thanks to the director, Erik A, for uploading!
