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1. A Record Of Life

3 months 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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Alassea 3 months ago

nice work!
Hector C 3 months ago

Good job guys.
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 3 months ago

Holy moly this is beautiful Owen! dinos are my fave, obvi. the music is so beautiful as are the illustrations!
Paolo Malizia 3 months ago

what a beautiful work!!!
great
mike ambs ☂ 3 months ago

Uhm... Wow. That was wonderful. Seriously.
Clair de Lune 3 months ago

very beautiful :)
Manuel Benito de Valle 3 months ago

Great! Pretty profesional and cool
Capucha 3 months ago

Fabulous !! You are so talented. Loved the music too. Could you tell us who it is from ?
Matt White 3 months ago

This is beautiful!
Luke Sparkes 3 months ago

Amazing video :)
Maxime Bouley 3 months ago

Beautiful video
Jake Taylor 3 months ago

thank you for making this <3
.carlo dj. 3 months ago

very cool. i love the idea of all the equations appearing everywhere.
Sam Macmillan 3 months ago

Loved the video. Where is the music from?
syntheticsax 3 months ago

Suppppppper!!!!
Jibran Jawaid 3 months ago

Awesome!
Taras Gesh 3 months ago

Ae?
Patrick van der Heyden 3 months ago

Well Done ! Great Music.
Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks 3 months 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 1 month ago

<3 it
Steven Goodheart 3 months ago

Simply terrific!
Ignacio Domanico 3 months ago

hermoso trabajo!!
Adam Hancher & Jack Hudson 3 months ago

Good jobs guys! I heard there's been talks with pixar?
Cesantes 3 months ago

So inspiring for me,
thanks Owen!
cezar mihailescu 3 months ago

nice ... bravo .... succes in contimnuare.
toate bune...
Teedee 3 months ago

Nice, like it !
VIO Producciones 3 months ago

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

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Luck !
hizini 3 months ago

awesome!! I love it!!
Lord Melvin M. Lusterio 3 months ago

Scientifically proven! Good work! We must preserve life!
joshtulman 3 months ago

well done! great work.
Nikki Calayan 3 months ago

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. (Sort of reminds me of Nick Bantock. Sort of!)
Sarah Davis 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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) 3 months 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 3 months ago

beautiful animation. love the score too! amazing work.
Emilio Gomariz 3 months ago

it's very beautiful! great work!
Oliver Franklin Anderson 3 months ago

love love love it.
paulina 3 months ago

me encantooooo!!
Christos NoDogma 3 months ago

Love this!
skiccfilm 3 months ago

Wonderful!! Really really love it!
Jun Osorio 3 months ago

Wow Wonderful !!!
chaosboy industry 3 months ago

Awesome. Really.
Nicolas B 3 months ago

Great job guys. You Rock!
Tim Frost 3 months ago

Um, beautiful.
layloca 3 months ago

lovely,
jan marces 3 months ago

I found it to be a prolific view of anthropologic intereputation, are y9u with dino ? Technically. Though the work only amazing ; thats all there is too it.!
Daniela 3 months ago

beautiful
Mike Boutté 3 months ago

That is haute. Wonderful job all the way around.
peter millard 3 months ago

As everyone else is saying i think this is beutiful. music is fantastic.
Pileta 3 months ago

Muy bueno, me encanta como se escalan las formas en cadena, da una sensacion de continuidad excelente!
Felicitaciones!
Great! Work!
Brit182 3 months 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 months ago

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

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

Brilliant
Wolf Gebler 2 months ago

Simply great!!!!
justine kim 2 months ago

I love your work!!
André Kirchner 2 months ago

beautiful.
Lyla 2 months ago

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

very good!!
Mr. RobLikesBrunch 2 months ago

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

visually very strong indeed and inspiring.
IgorM 2 months ago

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

Very inspiring!
Chris K Fields 2 months ago

And we ran from them.
Kirby Hobley 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago

nice nice very nice!)
Marc Brownlow 2 months ago

Beautiful!
Iris Inbar 2 months ago

Beautiful!
Loïc Darras 2 months ago

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

That Kirby guys an absolute dick.
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Dave Levy 1 month 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