Out of Sight x2

CGSociety has a good article up on CodeHunters, a short animated film commissioned by MTV Asia.

“As I was creating concepts drawings,” explains Ben Hibon, “MTV Asia was starting to plan their annual Music Awards. They then came up with the idea of ‘launching’ our project by using it to brand the show; posters, banners, trophy design and intro/bumper animations. So the brief changed from ‘short film’ to ‘branding package’ for the MTV Awards show.” It formed into a seven-minute prologue / intro animation to the world of ‘Codehunters’, an on-going MTV/BLINKINK project launched around the MTV Asia Awards 2006 in Bangkok.

I've had this CG animation sitting on my desktop for a few weeks because I like to take another look at it here and there. It is very stylized and touches upon a look I would like to achieve with machinima one day. I don't think I'll try to reach it in my current production but its a great inspiration, both in style and movement. You can also see it here if you want to avoid the cgsociety registration.

Also, over at RoosterTeeth they are reporting on their 'offshoot' RvB series, 'Out of Mind' that's being released on Xbox LIVE. The cool thing about this is how the machinima series is exclusive to LIVE (to be released elsewhere once its run its course). That is very cool that a machinima series has such clout that it can be used in such a way.