May | 2011 | ventilate

OFFF Barcelona + On Tour titles by CoCoe

OFFF Barcelona, the city that hosted the very first OFFF back in 2000, was the first of its kind. Its massive success lead to the birth of a entire generation of new offspring media festivals all over the world. OFFF over the last 11 years has travelled all over the world and again returns to its birthplace, brining with it, of course, an amazing lineup of speakers and workshops. Here are just a few of them: The Chrome Project: Aaron Koblin + Filip Visnjic + Eduard Prats Molner + Mr Doob, Stefan Sagmeister, The Mill, Timba Smits, Alex Trouchut,Kultnation (creating the OFFF Barcelona titles), Base Design, Carl Burgess, Hort, Johnny Kelly, John Burgerman, Julien Vallee, Matt W. Moore, Onur Senturk, PostPanic, Resonance Film debut, Rob Chiu + HECQ, Vasava … the entire lineup is massive, see the whole thing on the OFFF Barcelona page.

OFFF is also going on a global tour! The first stop was in Madrid and was a great success. The CoCoe Conspiracy created this clip for the tour based on James Coburn’s Our Man Flint. CoCoe wrote the story, designed and animated the spot.

Ventilate Facebook migration

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Hellohikimori: Universeries

Paris based Hellohikimori, leading the way in design, 3D and interactive content, recently launched Universeries.com; The Brief: Create the new online reference providing unmatchable information about TV Shows creators. Universeries presents more than 140 profiles of series creators and covers more than 1000 TV shows from the 40’s to the latest productions, from Alfred Hitchcock to Matthew Weiner (Mad Men). The Technology: Universeries take advantage of flash & html5, to make the most inspiring journey in the world of TV Show creators. The flash data visualisation helps to organise the creators by style and understand their relations. The html5 profiles are designed for a comfortable reading and a smooth navigation between creators. Hellohikimori’s own site is pretty incredible too, well worth checking out: www.hellohikimori.com

See No Evil: June event

For those in London: See No Evil‘s next event is coming up on June 7th, this time with Chris O’Reilly, co-founder of the giant Nexus Productions which has produced and directed some of the most impressive commercials and music videos I’ve ever seen. Honda Grrr comes to mind as possibly one of the most impressive and more recently Intel Chase and Celyn‘s Chunkworthy. Nexus also recently launched Nexus Interactive Arts. Looks like a great event, check out the See No Evil page for more info.

Nick Knight: free Lady Gaga posters x 30

I like this idea. London based SHOWstudio and Nick Knight are sequentially releasing 30, A4 posters as free downloads. When combined together these posters will form a giant poster of a Lady Gaga photo taken by Nick Knight; a unique visual ‘remix’ of the original cover art. A new poster will be available for free download each day on SHOWstudio’s Born This Way – Remix page.

Idle Beats: Silkscreening

IdleBeats is a screen printing studio based in Shanghai,China that creates and screen prints all kinds of works including hand-pull art prints / gig posters / t-shirts and other screen-print artworks in limited editions.

Brand New School: Mitchum

BNS just wrapped this first :30 spot entitled “Lie,” and two more to follow over the weeks ahead, all for advertising agency Mother New York as part of its new “Love Thy Pits” campaign for Mitchum. Together with director of photography Eric Treml, Jonathan and the BNS team used the ARRI Alexa digital camera system to capture their HD source footage during three days of production on-stage.

“We essentially painted animation on people’s skin, using a fusion of digital and practical techniques,” Jonathan explained. “After exploring different ways of accomplishing the desired effect, we filmed people with real paint on their skin, then we animated artwork using traditional cel animation techniques, where we matched the practical paint used in the live-action shoot. The animation was then composited onto their skin using seamless digital visual effects.”

BNS artists tracked the form of the human body using mocha, then animated what they wanted on the body using cel animation with hand-drawn artwork. They then projected their animation onto the tracked body and composited the work in Nuke to make it feel like actual paint. Final color was handled in Autodesk Flame.

Chopsy, Diana Tansey, Echolab and Tobias Norberg: MS – You’re Fired!

Director ‘Chopsy‘ (Darren Robbie of Aardman Animation) assembled a creative team to help raise awareness for MS week in the UK to produce MS – You’re Fired!. The team included Diana Tansey (copywriter) & Echolab (music & sound design) working with Tobias Norberg (composer). For further information and to help Put MS on the map, visit mapms.org.uk.

Polynoid: Loom

Germany based Polynoid, who are also taking part in the Resonance project listed below, have recently launched their latest short film Loom, and absolutely beautiful, dark and almost tactile visual story of struggle; A moth being caught in a spiders web. Struggling for an escape, the moths panic movements only result in less chance of survival. What follows is the type of causality everyones expecting. “After a year of successfully touring international film festivals, Polynoid is happy and excited to share their latest short film ‘Loom’ online as it is released through their website www.polynoid.tv. Originally completed and released in 2010, ‘Loom’ has been awarded numerous accolades at film festivals around the world, including ‘Best in Show’ Siggraph 2010, ‘Best Student Project’ Siggraph Asia 2010, an ‘Honorary Mention’ at ARS Eletronica 2010, and recently the 2010 VES Award for ‘Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project.’

Resonance Teaser 3 | Calm

Damn this is looking good; Resonance Teaser 3 | Calm —- Here is a teaser featuring one second from each final animation as a taste of whats to come at OFFF; resonance-film.com –Premiering OFFF Barcelona, June

SEE || Displace Studios | Esteban Diacono | Heerko Groefsema | Jean-Paul Frenay | Jr.canest | KORB | Kultnation | Mate Steinforth | Matthias Müller | Momentary People | MRK | Murat Pak | Onur Senturk | Physalia studio | Polynoid | SR Partners | Thiago Maia | Tom Waterhouse | Tronic Studio | Spatial Harmonics Group

HEAR || Audionerve | Combustion | CypherAudio | David Kamp | Echolab | Hecq | Michael Fakesch | Mutant Jukebox | Radium Audio | Studio Takt | World Gang

Robert Rugan: Interview

<-- New Interview in our feature section. I had the chance to chat with director Robert Rugan about his upcoming film Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede.

Natalie Shau: Artist

Natalie Shau is illustrator and photographer from Lithuania, Vilnius. She works mainly in digital media and Natalie’s works are mixture of her photography, digital painting and 3D elements.

GMUNK UPDATES

GMUNK has never disappointed — going back to like 2000, he always came out with something better than the previous and damn if he isn’t one of the funniest — “MUNKSTERBATE strokn’ it with purpose” –: http://www.gmunk.com

via Cpluv

*** I had to categorize this under animation, architecture, art, CG, design, directing, interactive, motion, vfx

Matte Amerstdam: Updates

Amsterdam based Matte is a brand communications boutique specialising in visual materials and strategic positioning of products and services targeting the emotions of consumers. Matte recently updated their site will several new projects. We had the chance to interview Matte back in 2009,

Stefan Sagmiester, Milton Glaser: The Fear of Failure

An interesting article up at Creative Review, The Fear of Failure; To promote their graduation exhibition in May, students from Berghs School of Communication invited leading figures in the creative world to discuss their ‘fear of failure’. There is not enough space here to post all the vids, make sure to watch commentary by author Paolo Coelho, AKQA’s Rei Inamoto, Photographer Sarah Moon and Wally Olins, on the CR article page.

This is Pacific: Le~Joy

Portugal based This is Pacifica, an independent graphic design studio, launched Le~Joy; the showcase of Photographer and Art Director João Sousa.