Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo.

Oh WOW. Is it just me or does anyone else feel like Tim Burton can do no wrong? Watching this trailer gave me the impression that he’s at it again. This time he’s joined forces with Timur Bekmambetov and from what I can tell, their union gave fruit to something ridiculously dope. Read the NYT review here.

The title sequence for “Quantum of Solace” just came to mind and I remembered thinking that it was really well done. MK12 designed the typeface and the opening credits for the film.

MK12 custom designed the type­face which looks like a clas­sic Helvetica-​like grotesque. The type, cre­ated from scratch, was mod­elled around the per­fectly cir­cu­lar O’s, which were orig­i­nally meant to sym­bol­ize bullet cas­ings. The ani­ma­tion style incor­po­rates the clas­sic trav­el­ling dot from the barrel sequence, which pre­cedes the open­ing titles in almost all of the Bond films. Also, by util­is­ing the spo­radic blink­ing of basic shapes, the font ani­mates in tandem with the stac­catos of the main title score and pays homage to the open­ing titles from Dr. No (1962) and its designer, Mau­rice Binder.

Source: http://fontfeed.com/archives/mk12-quantum-of-solace-title-sequence/

This is an oldie but still one of my favorite animations. It’s a short animation by a Brazilian named Guilherme Marcondes and it’s based off the William Blake poem “The Tyger”. He weaves illustration, puppetry, photgraphy, and CGI brilliantly. It’s pure magic.