The Windshield Wiper

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The Windshield Wiper is a very personal and particular vision on Love and relationships.
Written, directed and designed by Alberto Mielgo and Produced by Leo Sanchez Studio and Pinkman.tv. Running time : 15min
Key Frame Animation

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Alberto Mielgo, hot off of both Into The Spiderverse and Love Death & Robots, released this trailer last month for The Windshield Wiper.

It’s amazing to see how even as this work is so hard to pin down exactly how its made, it is expertly translated to animation. It is both technically and an creatively astounding.

Both the digital and physical paintings are wonderful and it was hard to figure how any of them were made when I first came across them. Hard to distinguish digital from real paint. The style and execution is so strong. And digitally, his was one of the first artists I saw working from a pure speed perspective, no tricky brushes, no layers, just paint… Gotta go fast.

With the animation, specifically for The Witness (from Love Death & Robots) they make a point to call out KEY FRAME ANIMATION… because its unclear how this film was made. Is it mocap? Is this rotoscoped over live action? The lighting and render quality bridges this amazing gap of realism and style.

It looks photographic, it looks painted. It looks right.

Previously on Alberto from me.

SpiderVerse Concepts:

Love Death & Robots – The Witness

Birth of the New American Aristocracy

Birth of the New American Aristocracy by Matthew Stewart

You can even listen to the whole piece on Soundcloud

Matthew Stewart argues, 9.9% of the population comprises America’s new aristocracy, which often “takes wealth out of productive activities and invests it in walls.” But this group of people is rich in more than mere money, and its constancy poses an insidious threat to the promise of American democracy.

Beach House '7' Op Art Album

Directed by San Charoenchai

Okay, I'm a little odd in that I do probably most of my music listening from youtube. Call me crazy... but it works for me. There's of content thats not music, film, video, podcasts, news there as well and it just works for me to find songs and things there, along with episode of Frontline, or theory videos on Westworld.

And as I have done, I've seen the rise of the Lyric video or the Album Stream. Record labels like Matador or Subpop put up new releases, whole albums into a youtube video to play through. The 'video' is only the artwork,

This, '7' from Beach House is in that same vein but rather than just the album art, they've gone for animation, Op art that actually moves and responds to the music. Its simple, it looks great, and it must have been a whole lot of work. Thats a lot of building systems to power animation for 30-40 minutes. Very nicely done.