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If you are lucky enough to make it to Cannes this year, then you might also be lucky enough to attend Psyop’s Workshop: “Blurring the line between art and commerce in advertising. An exploration of the process.”; Wednesday 24th June at 15:00-17:00. Speakers are Justin Booth-Clibborn, Marie Hyon and Marco Spier … “This workshop will give the audience an insight into the process and thinking which Psyop goes through on a typical project, from conception, through script development, character design, stylistic explorations, animation tests and previz, editing, rounds and rounds of animation, compositing, creation of effects, and achieving the final look.” I wish I was going!

Viral Augmented reality site which uses augmented reality (AR) and face tracking technology so Transformers fans can picture themselves with the original 3D CGI head of Optimus Prime.

Layar is the world’s first augmented reality browser, and one of the best inventions I have ever seen.

From NY, NY based Loyalkaspar’s site: “As part of our 5 year anniversary, we asked our designers to make a film. The brief was ‘5′. Here’s what they made: LK5 Films.

New site and reel up for Danish studio Form Troopers. Nice work.

The 2nd wave of online art installations, curated by HKI for the new Diesel perfume Only The Brave is live. This release sees contributions from Michael Paul Young, Tom Muller, Serial Cutâ„¢ and Peter Jaworowski.

Yet another nice Papervision 3D site… One to Three is an independent interactive studio based in Shanghai.

Santa Monica-based motion graphics powerhouse Blind drops an update.

Website update at Brand Nu, the strong illustrative portfolio of Radim Malinic featuring collaborative projects with your’s truly. Follow his RSS feed for regular updates!

The work of Simen Johan

Laundry has some new work to show off: VH1 “Lightswitch” and “Earth Justice”

Mara Smalley updates her site with some fresh and unique motion, web and apparel design.

Check out this AMAZING opening cinematic for the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band.

A pretty cool example of Augmented Reality (AR) on an iPhone 3G. This video shows an adaptation of the Parallel Tracking and Mapping system to an iPhone. All processing is done live on the phone.

Funny spots by Saatchi & Saatchi for Crest toothpaste with the selling line: You can say anything with a smile.

Diftype.com is the alter-ego, portfolio & playground of Niklas Lundberg, a young self-taught graphic design & illustrator working with print, motion & photography. (via Designlenta)

Lots of tripped out motion and design updates at Stefano Dembro’s site, the bastard son of an acrobatic Mother (??) … or is it Jodi Terwilliger? Either way, love the new and old work! Spanning tv, print and recently feature film projects

While attending the CaT conference I got a chance to listen to Carlos Ulloa, founder and creator of Papervision3D. He teased us with a sneak peak of his new site/shop Hello Enjoy.

I hate hearing about this sort of thing happening: Journey 3D, FX Artists of Former Meteor Studios have, after more than 1 yr, not been paid for an incredible amount of work put into the film. “During October, November and December of 2007, artists worked without pay; some put in 100-hour weeks and stayed loyal to the project with the promise of pay as soon as the accounting glitch was fixed. ” … read more at News Blaze and also an update at Motionographer … “the artists involved were offered 45% of the pay without overtime or interest by Discovery Channel and Evergreen Films to settle out of court. They voted unanimously not to accept the offer. They and the Canadian Labor Board are continuing to seek legal recourse to get the money they are owed.”

New work up for Italian graphic designer and graffiti writer Nico189.

Into photography? Digital Softbox has re-launched with a clean look and is inviting like-minded individuals to contribute.

Matt Steel is rocking out as Metagramme.

Toronto Based The Grand make real nice work.

And you might as well listen to some Golden Dogs while you’re at it.

I’ve found a great full Interview with the guys of oooii, they are a Hollywood based company who makes the most amazing futuristic interfaces. Check for the work they made in Star Trek using Flash and AS3, and the ones for the new Fast and the Furious film.