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1. A Record Of Life

2 years ago

A short animation loosely based on the scientific recording of life's great species. And how this has given us clues that piece together, for us to discover the secrets of the evolution and diversity of life on Earth.

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pollly
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Hong Chan
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Mim Van Der Waal
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Natasha Panko
2 weeks ago
Nathania
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Yinta HE
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Amy Jane Larkin
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Dimofti Antonius Ion
3 weeks ago
Bradley Bell
3 weeks ago

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Alassea 2 years ago

nice work!
Hector Cortez [Blue Cart Films] 2 years ago

Good job guys.
Karen Abad 2 years ago

Holy moly this is beautiful Owen! dinos are my fave, obvi. the music is so beautiful as are the illustrations!
Paolo Malizia 2 years ago

what a beautiful work!!!
great
mike ambs 2 years ago

Uhm... Wow. That was wonderful. Seriously.
Clair de Lune 2 years ago

very beautiful :)
Manuel Benito de Valle 2 years ago

Great! Pretty profesional and cool
Capucha 2 years ago

Fabulous !! You are so talented. Loved the music too. Could you tell us who it is from ?
Matt White 2 years ago

This is beautiful!
Luke Sparkes Arnaoutakis 2 years ago

Amazing video :)
Maxime Bouley 2 years ago

Beautiful video
Jake Taylor 2 years ago

thank you for making this <3
carlo dj 2 years ago

very cool. i love the idea of all the equations appearing everywhere.
Sam Macmillan 2 years ago

Loved the video. Where is the music from?
syntheticsax 2 years ago

Suppppppper!!!!
Jibran Jawaid 2 years ago

Awesome!
Taras Gesh 2 years ago

Ae?
Patrick van der Heyden 2 years ago

Well Done ! Great Music.
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks 2 years ago

Thanks a bunch guys!! we did the animation in After Effects yeah, and I did the music, it says in the credits!!
mike quintanar 2 years ago

<3 it
Steven Goodheart 2 years ago

Simply terrific!
Domanic 2 years ago

hermoso trabajo!!
Adam Hancher & Jack Hudson 2 years ago

Good jobs guys! I heard there's been talks with pixar?
Cesantes 2 years ago

So inspiring for me,
thanks Owen!
cezar mihailescu 2 years ago

nice ... bravo .... succes in contimnuare.
toate bune...
Teedee 2 years ago

Nice, like it !
VIO Producciones 2 years ago

nice work !
Check our video art work called INVOLUTION if you want ;)

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Luck !
hizini 2 years ago

awesome!! I love it!!
Lord Melvin M. Lusterio 2 years ago

Scientifically proven! Good work! We must preserve life!
joshtulman 2 years ago

well done! great work.
Nikki Calayan 2 years ago

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. (Sort of reminds me of Nick Bantock. Sort of!)
Sarah Davis 2 years ago

I would love to have this projected onto the wall of my living room, just playing over... and over... it's beautiful.
Michael Fragstein 2 years ago

i love it! great! i think a voice over would go also well with the animation and the music. a dark male voice ... just an idea.
i really like it ! wow!
maura cluthe 2 years ago

wonderful piece, guys. i love how it sorta feels like the drawings/writings in a sketchbook are coming to life. great music, too. cheers!
Monkeyraft (Tim Oberg) 2 years ago

Owen,
Great job on the music for your own animation. Nice to see an artist take the reigns in more than just one aspect of his work! The animation is superb, also. Ithas that wonderful sketchbook quality. Great job.
//kneeon 2 years ago

beautiful animation. love the score too! amazing work.
Emilio Gomariz 2 years ago

it's very beautiful! great work!
Oliver Franklin Anderson 2 years ago

love love love it.
paulina 2 years ago

me encantooooo!!
Christos NoDogma 2 years ago

Love this!
skiccfilm 2 years ago

Wonderful!! Really really love it!
Jun Osorio 2 years ago

Wow Wonderful !!!
colorsynth™ 2 years ago

Awesome. Really.
Bang & Ga 2 years ago

Great job guys. You Rock!
Tim Frost 2 years ago

Um, beautiful.
layloca 2 years ago

lovely,
Daniela 2 years ago

beautiful
Mike Boutté 2 years ago

That is haute. Wonderful job all the way around.
peter millard 2 years ago

As everyone else is saying i think this is beutiful. music is fantastic.
Pileta 2 years ago

Muy bueno, me encanta como se escalan las formas en cadena, da una sensacion de continuidad excelente!
Felicitaciones!
Great! Work!
Brit182 2 years ago

This is amazing.
and the song should welllll be on an advert seriously, incredible!
know where i could get the song for my ipod please? :)
cardenal federico 2 years ago

It make science sort of romantic. Excelent job! added to my faves
Adam Hancher & Jack Hudson 2 years ago

I've heard that it's going up for a golden globe award?!
kio 2 years ago

Brilliant
Wolf Gebler 2 years ago

Simply great!!!!
justin kim 2 years ago

I love your work!!
André Kirchner 2 years ago

beautiful.
Lyla 2 years ago

wow wow
good idea!!!
Guillermo Daldovo 2 years ago

very good!!
Mr. RobLikesBrunch 2 years ago

Full of pulchritude and awe; bloody fantastic.
Lightcurve Films 2 years ago

visually very strong indeed and inspiring.
IgorM 2 years ago

hallo aus Germany :)
Clip very good !!!!
James Adamson 2 years ago

Very inspiring!
Chris K Fields 2 years ago

And we ran from them.
Kirby Hobley 2 years ago

It's very nice yes, but what that a whale and a manatee in the underwater part in the beginning? :/ Mammals didn't evolve until after life went from sea to land... You guys could have done more research - otherwise isn't it just kinda wank? ::: prepares to be pelted with hatred :::
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks 2 years ago

Yeah you're quite right Kirby, but we decided to use our 'artistic license'. We set out knowing that we could never make it completely scientifically and chronologically accurate. We wanted the animation to be visually stimulating first and foremost, unfortunately whales are just awesome creatures so they had to go in the sea bit, and that's one of my favourite bits, so I don't regret doing it. Thanks for your constructive words, although I'm quite proud of what we managed to create, and I know it's got its flaws, but would hope others didn't think it was wank because of that.
Kirby Hobley 2 years ago

Sirs,
Obviously I didn't craft my comments with the same amount of effort that you put into making the film but that's part of putting your work on the world stage, no? I agreed that it was a nice film; is was well executed and showed off your talent and hard work.
I still stand by what I meant, if not how I said it, about letting art get in the way of an accurate depiction of commonly agreed upon theories of natural history.
An accurate depiction is perhaps not what you set out to do - but perhaps it would have been more challenging, no? There is something to be said about artistic license when it is used to make a point - whereas, I suppose there is something not as pleasant to be said when it is used to be lazy about facts.
Cheers kids,
Kirby
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks 2 years ago

yeah I can see your point. Going back to the whale bit though, we wanted the animation to flow seemlessly through different scenes, which meant that putting the species we used, in the order of they evolved, sometimes not possible. The piece is more supposed to suggest the idea of evolution, as opposed to having everything perfectly ordered. We weren't being lazy, we just decided that that would work best for what we wanted. Otherwise we would have had to skip back and forth with each species, ruining the flowing effect.
Thanks,

Owen
nastya kopylova 2 years ago

nice nice very nice!)
Marc Brownlow 2 years ago

Beautiful!
Iris Inbar 2 years ago

Beautiful!
Loic Darras 2 years ago

Magnifique. Nice work.
Adam Hancher & Jack Hudson 2 years ago

That Kirby guys an absolute dick.
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Dave Levy 2 years ago

This is great.
I love how, besides the beautiful artwork and music, the concept is intellectually stimulating. I also like how human cultural analysis is superimposed on everything - to me it has a significant meaning.

More please! :D
vildannazirovich 2 years ago

what music guys?
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks 2 years ago

It says in the credits! Composed and produced by Owen :)
J. OLIVELLA 1 year ago

very creative
Maitre ballOn 1 year ago

wow !!

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Cathal Duane 1 year ago

This video is so good it makes my face hurt.
Elisa Solinas 11 months ago

Amazing work, I love the dinosaurs and everything!! <3
Avila Janssen 3 weeks ago

Still being shown quite regularly in UWE, to make us illustration students live up to your standard! Thank you:)