Google Creative Lab has released Chrome Shorts, a series of short films promoting Chrome, Google’s web browser. The eleven films are online at the Google Chrome YouTube channel. This post includes the trailer and each of the eleven videos.
The Chrome Shorts Trailer
Each of the eleven films have been spliced together for an invitation to visit the Shorts site.
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Chromance
Chicken or Egg? A simple query takes our hero on a wild rollercoaster ride through the Internet, where chicken links to feather, feather to pillow, pillow to tooth fairy, and so on. Fasten your seatbelts. A Chrome Short by Superfad.
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What Makes A Good Browser?
What makes a good browser? And, what the the heck is a browser to begin with? This video explores these fundamental questions and provides some warm and fuzzy answers. A Chrome Short by Christoph Niemann. Music by Kim Wetmore.
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The Evolution of Simple
Pantograph used stop motion to demonstrate a simple video game, with references to Blockbreaker, mirroring the simplicity of Google Chrome’s clean user interface.
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Collaborate with Whole Wide World
When everyone puts their heads together, great things happen. This film explores how the internet makes it easy to collaborate with anyone, anytime. A Chrome Short by The Collaborative Works of Jeff & Paul.
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9 – 5 8.5 x 11
From 9-5 in 60 seconds… one person’s day of online surfing captured on a 102″ x 66″ paper screen. A Chrome Short by Default Office.
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Dr Squirrel’s Lab
Dr. Squirrel and his acorn helpers are hard at work at Google Labs. Hilarity ensues. A Chrome short by Go Robot!
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Google Chrome
Google teamed with Motion Theory to craft the first video for Chrome’s arrival. Directors Mark Kudsi and John Fan created a lively 2 1/2D animated spot celebrating Chrome’s revolutionary features with music by Tim Meyers.
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Chrome was developed at Motion Theory, Los Angeles, by director Mark Kudsi, executive producer Javier Jiminez, art director John Fan, VFX supervisor Bryan Godwin, producer Matt Winkel, editor Doron Dor and Colin Woods, editorial coordinator Eddie Boles, post production assistants Allyssa Allain and Rebecca Lindberg, designers Joseph Chan, Leanne Dare, Jenny Ko, Mark Kulakoff, Angela Zhu, animation/2D composition artists Evan Parsons, Wilson Wu, 3D artists Ben Grangereau, Na Song, John Tumlin, Bekah Baik, Danny Koenig, Katie Yoon.
Features List
On the internet you can do things. To do those things you need tools that do things. But how do those things help you do things? A Chrome Short by Open.
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Caged Rage 3: Binary Budokan
One man tackles his (sky-high) pile of tasks with uninhibited fury. And the help of a powerful and mysterious new web tool. A Chrome Short by Lifelong Friendship Society.
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Defenders in Tights
The Internet is full of nooks and crannies hiding all kinds of technological mischief. Who do you have defending you? And what color are their tights? A Chrome Short by Steve Mottershead at Park Pictures.
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Door
The internet can be whatever you want. Its also a place where you can be whomever you want. This film explores those ideas through the simple device of two friends and a door. A Chrome Short by Hunter Gatherer.
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