Dragon is an amazing commercial for United Airlines. The story is the visualization of a child imagining what his father does at work. Hand cut-out paper characters are wonderfully animated using the stop-motion technique (can you say labor intensive?) It was directed by Jamie Caliri, who did the closing credit sequence for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. United Airlines has the commercial as well as a making-of documentary (also very cool) on their site.

And now for something mechanical. Think you've seen good computer-generated water? Then you should check out Flowline's demo reel. What's really impressive is that the clip is rendered in one pass and there's no compositing. Oh and the shark is pretty cool as well.

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Published: (2006-02-07 09:28:28.0)