http://www.shotsringout.com/2006/06/margot-the-nuclear-so-and-sos-quiet-as-a-mouse-jason-berman-and-mike-jenson/ Music Video Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:05:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.shotsringout.com/2006/06/margot-the-nuclear-so-and-sos-quiet-as-a-mouse-jason-berman-and-mike-jenson/#comment-3063 The Top 56 Music Videos of 2006 at Shots Ring Out Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:24:26 +0000 http://sohotrightnow.redshirtmayhem.com/?p=35#comment-3063 [...] Taking hundreds of paintings and manipulating them into a coherent, animated video is a beautiful marriage of art and technology. While there are plenty of stand-out animated videos this year, most of them fall into the trap of showing you how well the production house can manipulate Flash or After Effects. Quiet as a Mouse, on the other hand, uses such wonderful software tools to do things with honest to goodness a-brush-touched-canvas Stacy Novak paintings that simply would not have been possible a few years ago. Most computer-animated videos can seem too polished and too slick, but this work actually allows you to see the brush strokes and paint dabs, allowing a feeling of intracacy and whimsy like seeing your favorite oil painting in a museum for the first time. This also happens to be one of those videos where YouTube compression absolutely ruins the work, so we humbly command you to view the high quality download lest you be disappointed. [...] […] Taking hundreds of paintings and manipulating them into a coherent, animated video is a beautiful marriage of art and technology. While there are plenty of stand-out animated videos this year, most of them fall into the trap of showing you how well the production house can manipulate Flash or After Effects. Quiet as a Mouse, on the other hand, uses such wonderful software tools to do things with honest to goodness a-brush-touched-canvas Stacy Novak paintings that simply would not have been possible a few years ago. Most computer-animated videos can seem too polished and too slick, but this work actually allows you to see the brush strokes and paint dabs, allowing a feeling of intracacy and whimsy like seeing your favorite oil painting in a museum for the first time. This also happens to be one of those videos where YouTube compression absolutely ruins the work, so we humbly command you to view the high quality download lest you be disappointed. […]

]]> http://www.shotsringout.com/2006/06/margot-the-nuclear-so-and-sos-quiet-as-a-mouse-jason-berman-and-mike-jenson/#comment-365 George Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:08:35 +0000 http://sohotrightnow.redshirtmayhem.com/?p=35#comment-365 Reason 12 why I dislike cats. They're bastards. Reason 12 why I dislike cats. They’re bastards.

]]> http://www.shotsringout.com/2006/06/margot-the-nuclear-so-and-sos-quiet-as-a-mouse-jason-berman-and-mike-jenson/#comment-318 Adriana Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:07:57 +0000 http://sohotrightnow.redshirtmayhem.com/?p=35#comment-318 The heart blood is so romantic. I've never really been too fond of cats and this video reminds me why. The heart blood is so romantic. I’ve never really been too fond of cats and this video reminds me why.

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