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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.

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

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 with many new interviews/features.

Unique work from Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!)

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’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.”

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

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.

Amazing illustration from L.A based illustrator Julian Callos

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

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

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!