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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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  • Alassea 2 years ago
    nice work!
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  • Good job guys.
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  • Karen Abad plus 2 years ago
    Holy moly this is beautiful Owen! dinos are my fave, obvi. the music is so beautiful as are the illustrations!
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  • Paolo Malizia 2 years ago
    what a beautiful work!!!
    great
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  • mike ambs plus 2 years ago
    Uhm... Wow. That was wonderful. Seriously.
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  • Clair de Lune 2 years ago
    very beautiful :)
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  • Great! Pretty profesional and cool
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  • Capucha 2 years ago
    Fabulous !! You are so talented. Loved the music too. Could you tell us who it is from ?
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  • Matt White 2 years ago
    This is beautiful!
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  • Amazing video :)
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  • Maxime Bouley 2 years ago
    Beautiful video
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  • Jake Taylor 2 years ago
    thank you for making this <3
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  • carlo dj 2 years ago
    very cool. i love the idea of all the equations appearing everywhere.
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  • Sam Macmillan 2 years ago
    Loved the video. Where is the music from?
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  • syntheticsax 2 years ago
    Suppppppper!!!!
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  • Jibran Jawaid 2 years ago
    Awesome!
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  • Taras Gesh plus 2 years ago
    Ae?
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  • Well Done ! Great Music.
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  • 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
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  • Steven Goodheart 2 years ago
    Simply terrific!
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  • Domanic 2 years ago
    hermoso trabajo!!
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  • Good jobs guys! I heard there's been talks with pixar?
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  • Cesantes 2 years ago
    So inspiring for me,
    thanks Owen!
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  • cezar mihailescu plus 2 years ago
    nice ... bravo .... succes in contimnuare.
    toate bune...
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  • Teedee plus 2 years ago
    Nice, like it !
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  • VIO Producciones 2 years ago
    nice work !
    Check our video art work called INVOLUTION if you want ;)

    vimeo.com/6389494

    Luck !
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  • hizini 2 years ago
    awesome!! I love it!!
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  • Scientifically proven! Good work! We must preserve life!
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  • joshtulman 2 years ago
    well done! great work.
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  • Nikki Calayan 2 years ago
    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. (Sort of reminds me of Nick Bantock. Sort of!)
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  • 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.
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  • Michael Fragstein plus 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!
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  • 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!
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  • 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.
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  • //kneeon plus 2 years ago
    beautiful animation. love the score too! amazing work.
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  • Emilio Gomariz plus 2 years ago
    it's very beautiful! great work!
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  • love love love it.
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  • paulina 2 years ago
    me encantooooo!!
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  • Christos NoDogma 2 years ago
    Love this!
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  • skiccfilm 2 years ago
    Wonderful!! Really really love it!
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  • Jun Osorio 2 years ago
    Wow Wonderful !!!
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  • colorsynth™ 2 years ago
    Awesome. Really.
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  • Bang & Ga 2 years ago
    Great job guys. You Rock!
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  • Tim Frost 2 years ago
    Um, beautiful.
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  • layloca 2 years ago
    lovely,
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  • Daniela 2 years ago
    beautiful
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  • Mike Boutté plus 2 years ago
    That is haute. Wonderful job all the way around.
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  • peter millard 2 years ago
    As everyone else is saying i think this is beutiful. music is fantastic.
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  • Pileta 2 years ago
    Muy bueno, me encanta como se escalan las formas en cadena, da una sensacion de continuidad excelente!
    Felicitaciones!
    Great! Work!
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  • 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? :)
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  • cardenal federico 2 years ago
    It make science sort of romantic. Excelent job! added to my faves
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  • I've heard that it's going up for a golden globe award?!
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  • kio 2 years ago
    Brilliant
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  • Wolf Gebler 2 years ago
    Simply great!!!!
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  • justin kim 2 years ago
    I love your work!!
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  • André Kirchner 2 years ago
    beautiful.
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  • Lyla 2 years ago
    wow wow
    good idea!!!
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  • Guillermo Daldovo 2 years ago
    very good!!
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  • Mr. RobLikesBrunch 2 years ago
    Full of pulchritude and awe; bloody fantastic.
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  • Lightcurve Films plus 2 years ago
    visually very strong indeed and inspiring.
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  • IgorM 2 years ago
    hallo aus Germany :)
    Clip very good !!!!
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  • James Adamson plus 2 years ago
    Very inspiring!
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  • Chris K Fields 2 years ago
    And we ran from them.
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  • 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 :::
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • nastya kopylova 2 years ago
    nice nice very nice!)
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  • Marc Brownlow 2 years ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Iris Inbar 2 years ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Loic Darras 2 years ago
    Magnifique. Nice work.
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  • That Kirby guys an absolute dick.
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  • Dave Levy plus 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
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  • vildannazirovich 2 years ago
    what music guys?
  • It says in the credits! Composed and produced by Owen :)
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  • J. OLIVELLA 1 year ago
    very creative
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  • Cathal Duane 1 year ago
    This video is so good it makes my face hurt.
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  • Elisa Solinas plus 11 months ago
    Amazing work, I love the dinosaurs and everything!! <3
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  • Avila Janssen 3 weeks ago
    Still being shown quite regularly in UWE, to make us illustration students live up to your standard! Thank you:)
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