Very cool Honda Crosstour commercials!
If you wanna be quick about it, the YouTube movie are below, but here’s a link to a much prettier Quicktime version of the first one of these commercials that caught my eye. And another one which is a little less cool, but the same style… So I’ll throw out a 2010 prediction now: More big polygon CG animation.These commercials are too cool not to be imitated by someone else.

Related Posts
Animation in TV commercials was brought into action way after animated movies were made. Right from the start advertisers were quick to grab the various possibilities that TV commercial animation had to offer to them.
Read More →
The commercial above comes from Duke University’s AdViews digital archive which is the most significant collection of vintage TV commercials that I’ve ever seen available online. The commercials, which were digitized only last year, were either created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles and its successor, D’Arcy...
There’s some very cool blending of live action and animation going on in this piece, but it doesn’t really get started until about 2 minutes in. Worth checking out though.
Read More →
Is that title an oxymoron, like “big shrimp”? Possibly, but this animation is very cool. And almost entirely done in Animate Pro… Due credit… Writer & voice actor Ryan Miller. Art, animation & sound design Adam Phillips. Art Director Jon Schindehette. Producers Bart Carroll & Chris Youngs. Wizards of the...
Here’s one for the history buffs: a link to a fascinating online archive of fifty vintage Japanese animated commercials . This site is part of an on-line exhibition showcasing domestic life in Japan during the “Showa” period (the Hirohito era, 1926-89). Japan’s Research Institute for Digital Media and Content ( DMC Institute...
This video is pretty damn cool, although I don’t know why its been titled as an “animation” by the uploadee on YouTube, since its clearly not animated, but maybe in Polish the word has different meaning. Its a pretty baffling piece in scope, and it just keeps going…and going…If you make it through all 8 minutes, thats...
…done by Wayne Wilson, who you can probably reach through YouTube if you want to get in touch with him for whatever reason. He just sent over this link to a great piece done to celebrate the new year. Take a look below, he did the music and animation, which I hope sets the right tone for the new decade. Hopefully it will be as funky and...
The author of this amazing piece describes it as a “Handdrawn audioresponsive video exploration”, but if you read the comments section where he posted it to Vimeo, he’s a little more clear about the handdrawn-ness of it . When I first read the description and saw the animation, my jaw-dropped because I imagined this guy using...
Thanks to Vishal for pointing this site out in the comments section of yesterday’s post. PortlandStudios.com has a really cool bumper title for their site. And I’m glad they called it a “moving picture” because sometimes I’m at a loss as to what to call an animation like this. Or better put, I wouldn’t want...
The owner of BadBoyComics just emailed me to say hello, and his site is worth mentioning here. He’s even got a quick, non-talkie Photoshop demo on digital inking. If you click on it below and jump to YouTube to watch you should see a much higher resolution version….
Read More →
Related Tweets from Twitter
Related News from Digg
-
CartoonSmart MegaPack
[Comics & Animation]
CartoonSmart MegaPack | 14.2 GB Included in this pack: CartoonSmart – 3D Space in CS4 CartoonSmart – Action Script 3 Missile War Game...
1 Diggs, 0 Comments
-
Top Class Adobe Tutorials by Cartoonsmart.com
[Design]
A couple of years back I got interested in doing my own designs and creating my own websites to save money. Buying the software alone puts a dent in your wallet then you have to figure out how to use the software or fork up more deniro to go to tech school. Well I wasn't about to throw more money away sitting in a class room when the world wide web...
3 Diggs, 0 Comments
-
Toon Boom Animate vs Flash CS4 for character animation!
[Software]
Free hour-long video tutorial from CartoonSmart on ToonBoom Animate. This lesson will show many of the benefits of using Animate vs Flash. Learn Inverse Kinematics, including how to swap out artwork at anytime, nudge your symbols backward and foward in z-space when they are chained up, and scale, skew, and stretch symbols in your IK chain.
1 Diggs, 0 Comments
-
CartoonSmart: Retro-Futureism Illustration - AppZone
[Movies]
Check out this site for more of your most searched stuff on the net. registration is required but it's free, Enjoy.
1 Diggs, 0 Comments
-
Featured Seller: CartoonSmart.com
[Software]
The PayLoadz.com blog today features CartoonSmart.com. This is the future: selling downloadable digital goods that help people work and be entertained as well. CartoonSmart generates tens of thousands of dollars a month with simple animated tutorials. Fascinating!
1 Diggs, 0 Comments