The Brilliant creative team blog

To This Day is a spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan, a Canadian author and poet exploring the impact that bullying can have on children.

A selection of animators were invited to take part and given a 20 second slot to illustrate. Learn more about tothisdayproject.com.

These awesome promos have been created by OPTIMUS DESIGN for Emporium Arcade Bar, a bar where people can have a few drinks and play on all the classic arcade machines.

This nostalgic video pays homage to the mighty gif and it’s 25 years survival of the internets.

It’s Monday morning, It’s cold and wet, so lets start the week off on a good one. This has nothing to do with design, just something awesome.

Dumb Ways to Die is a beautifully animated Melbourne Metro Trains transport safety ad which features colorful characters singing a catchy tune as they set fire to their hair, poke a stick at a grisly bear, get their toast out with a fork or use their private parts for piranha bait.

The video is also designed to demonstrate the danger and stupidity of playing on train platforms, tracks and level crossings by the myriad of other dumb ways to die.

The song is performed by Melbourne artist Tangerine Kitty, the song was produced by Cat Empire keyboards player Ollie McGill.

Along with the song and clip on iTunes and YouTube, Metro Trains are developing posters and announcements at stations and educational material for school students.

Pure genius!

This animation completely blew me away, even after reading the description I’m still not sure of the premise behind it but the attention to detail and smooth transitions are incredible.

Yeah, so for the most part Dub step is pretty shocking but Fluxel media have put together a short animation of lovable droids as they solve their differences the only way dubstep robots know how.

This video has been put together by Matt Lock show casing his animation work on a live stage performance of How to Train Your Dragon. How to train your Dragon is a Dreamworks production who contracted Spinifex Group for all the animation work.

The animations move as one seamless scene across both the wall and floor of the theater pulling the audience directly into the performance.

The show is currently touring the U.S. but will have U.K. shows in the future!