Archive for September, 2009

Zeitguised: Peripetics

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Zeitguised made a piece in six acts for the opening exhibition at the Zirkel Gallery. It entails six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn, including the evolution of educational plant-body-machine models and liquid building materials.

Streetfighter IV trailer

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Streetfighter IV trailer

A Second trailer for Street Fighter IV (thnx Franco!)

DVS: Skate & Create 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
DVS: Skate and Create 2009

Video from DVS’ nine-day stay in the TWS Skate & Create warehouse for their Skate & Create 2009 contest. DVS teamriders: Andrew Brophy, Keith Hufnagel, Zered Bassett, Daewon Song, and MVP Torey Pudwill.

Love to see the loads of features; Behind The Scenes and especially Same Edit, Different Camera … what ever happened to the ‘Angle’ option that came with the first generation dvd? Not even sure if its available on Blu-Ray, but what great potential for interactive movies?

Uailab: updates

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Uailab: updates

Uailab updates with many new interviews/features.

Daren Newman

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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Some amazing hand-rendered work from Illustrator, designer and typographer Daren Newman. Apparently he’s “Male, smaller than average, good/bad SOH, beard wearing, right-handed, Rotring loving, Mancunian (blue, not red).”

Garry Milne

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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Awesome work from UK based Illustrator and designer Garry Milne.

Kazuki Takamatsu

Friday, September 25th, 2009
Kazuki Takamatsu

Unique work from Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu.

Royale – McDonald’s Coke Glasses

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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Back from sabbatical. First up: The talented folks at Royale just completed a spot for McDonald’s in the UK. Loving the dark textures and gooey linework.

Prologue: MTV VMA’s 2009

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Prologue: MTV VMA's 2009

More impressive work from Prologue, this time for the 2009 MTV VMA’s show package.

Josh Bodnar: AsylumVFX ~ A World Upside Down

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Josh Bodnar: AsylumVFX ~ A World Upside Down

Chicago based, Emmy award winning editor Josh Bodnar updated his portfolio with fantastic work including this new spot for Ad Council via Asylum VFX: World Upside Down.

Morgan Karlsson

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Morgan Karlsson

Good stuff over at Swedish photographer Morgon Karlsson’s photo portfolio.

Motus Digital: Ninja Toy 2

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Motus Digital: Ninja Toy 2

Motion Capture from Motus Digital: Ninja Toy 2. Watch making of.

Michele Angelo: Superexpresso ~ updates

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Michele Angelo: Superexpresso ~ updates

Barcelona based freelance designer Michele Angelo updated with impressive works: Superexpresso.com

Neu Case

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

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Neu Case is a newly found interactive agency located in beautiful French Riviera.

Crush inc: Douglas Coupland ~ Generation A

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Crush inc: Generation A

Generation A is the follow up novel to Douglas Coupland’s 1991 cult hit Generation X. As with the campaign for his 2007 novel The Gum Thief, Random House Canada again came to Crush, Toronto to create a series of films. Last time it was nine films, this time it’s three – “10 Question for Douglas Coupland”, “The Tragic Death of the Channel Three News Team” and “Colour Samples”.

Crush Creative Director Gary Thomas, “In both campaigns we let the content of the books drive our creative. The books are quite different, structurally and thematically. We had Doug this time, and since the characters in Generation A are all isolated and asked a series of seemingly random questions by a disembodied voice, we decided to subject Doug to the same experience.”

Full credits and more info (thnx Shannon!)

Violet and Martin: Jeckerson

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Violet and Martin: Jeckerson

Directing pair Violet & Martin shot and directed a series of chic image films for Italian fashion brand Jeckerson via Agency Buero New York.

The Mill: Nature Sweet

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Mill: Nature Sweet

The Mill’s crew tech-scouted in Guadalajara, Mexico, where they enlisted the help of local DP/Photographer Michel Amado Carpio. “Michel took time-lapse photography for us for 22 days which served as reference for our animation,” Smith explains. “We analyzed the results to figure out how the plants actually grew. We also used some of it as background plates for the final composite.”

Although the agency’s animatic was one shot, the pre-vis suggested that cuts and macro photography would yield more beautiful photography. “We did animation blocking using simple geography to ascertain how it could work editorially,” Smith explains.

The Mill’s Flame Artist, Naomi Anderlini, “Bokeh was simulated by layering a combination of live action time-lapse and CG time-lapse processed through varied results of Rack Defocus sparks,” Anderlini explains. “A combination of live-action particles and CG particles were added to the environment, to create a greater sense of this shallow depth of field … we hand-edited the sequences in Flame to create a stop-motion feel, and added flicker … chromatic aberration, lens distortion, live-action flares, and layers of glows, all contributed to the beauty of the final composites, and were handled quite delicately in Flame to achieve the result we’d envisioned.”

SmallDeer: update

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
SmallDeer: update

Updates from Nike Design Director Manuel Bernardez: SmallDeer.com.

Umeric: Promax BDA Awards (7gold, 1 silver)

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Umeric: Promax BDA Awards (7gold, 1 silver)

MTV entered Sydney based Umeric’s Organic rebrand into Promax BDA (world gold) in New York. Out of the 8 categories entered it won 7 gold and 1 silver.

Umeric also recently completed design and animation on spots for MSN.

Julian Callos

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Julian Callos

Amazing illustration from L.A based illustrator Julian Callos

Material Group

Monday, September 21st, 2009

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Crazy sick talents just formed the Material Group. Go check out their new site and reel.

Petra Mrzyk & Jean-Francois Moriceau: Sing Sang Sung

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Petra Mrzyk & Jean-Francois Moriceau: Sing Sang Sung

Directors Petra Mrzyk & Jean-Francois Moriceau’s latest work: Sing Sang Sung for AIR’s new album Love 2.

Taxi Canada: MSN Butterflies

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Taxi Canada: MSN Butterflies

Beautiful design and animation from Taxi Canada for MSN. (thnx for the link Franco!)

Yoram Benz: New work

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Yoram Benz: New work

After a 2.5 year stint at Decon as CD and Director of Design, Yoram Benz says goodbye to fulltime in NY and will very soon be saying hello to freelance in L.A. Nice reel and work!