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Digital Domain + Mothership: Nike ~ Flyknit

Director David Rosenbaum of Digital Domain‘s advertising and entertainment production company Mothership was tapped by Nike to launch its revolutionary new Flyknit technology and shoe collection. Rosenbaum worked directly with NIke to conceive “Biomorph,” the :51-second short to mark the debut of the new shoe technology. The spot premiered at the annual 2012 Nike Innovation Summit on February 21st and is also featured on Nike’s website and YouTube channel, where it has generated almost 400,000 views. Sister company Digital Domain handled visual effects.
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Ghost Robot: Cool Kids “Rush Hour Traffic”

Directed by N.Y based Production Studio Ghost Robot‘s Joey Garfield for The Cool KidsRush Hour Traffic music video. Art Direction and 2D animation by Elliot Lim, 2D animation also by Jason Esser with 3D animation by Aaron Kemnitzer.

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Nexus Interactive Arts: Quayola + Memo Atken: Cultural Olympiad

New generative animation interpreting human movement of Olympic athletes exploring relationships between body and its trajectories defined through time and space.

From London based Quayola who teamed up with visual artist, musician and engineer Memo Atken, through Nexus Interactive Arts, creating ‘Forms’, a multiscreen digital artwork commissioned by the National Media Museum for the exhibition In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad programme. This generative animation and interactive installation will display at the Museum from 9 March – 2 September. [Note: Entry to the National Media Museum in London is free]

Watch Interview –> http://vimeo.com/37956087
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Rob Chiu: The Division of Gravity

London based Rob Chiu‘s latest directorial short film: The Division of Gravity … “How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”

Michael Molloy

Made by Molloy is the one-man studio of Michael Molloy, a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator currently based out of Morristown, NJ. The studio specializes in logo design, branding, and illustration.
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Motion504: “3D University” Open

AICP Minnesota recently called on broadcast design & animation studio motion504 to create the show open for 3D UNIVERSITY [watch in stereo here], a day-long seminar gathering world-class 3D professionals under one roof. Presented by AICP MN, Minnesota Film and TV, Minnesota Women in Film & TV, and the International 3D Society, the event featured keynote speakers Buzz Hays of the Sony 3D Technology Center and 3ality Digital Systems Founder/CEO Steve Schklair, among many others.
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GMUNK + Shane Mielke

GMUNK teamed with Shane Mielke for the new GMUNK site, label it 2012 … love the newness to the nostalgia –> makes me miss the days of soulbath, threeoh, Vir2L … check out the brilliance in this archive: http://work.gmunk.com/#2458517/GMUNK-20012 all the way back to 2000 … site spawned by two Original G’s, nice work!!

Jimmy Diebold, Bodega: Midnight Lights

Wow, some breathtaking light effects …

New York/San Francisco-based content creation/production company Bodega director Jimmy Diebold lights up the Seattle night in a new music-driven 1:55 short “Midnight Lights,” made as a tribute to the Seattle Seahawks and their home stadium.
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Cai Guo-Qiang

New York based artist Cai Guo-Qiang draws upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, establishing an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them, utilizing a site-specific approach to culture and history.

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Tobias Rehberger: Architecture, Setouchi Art Festival

German process artist Tobias Rehberger participated in Japan’s Setouchi International Art Festival where artists and architects converge from 17 countries. The festival takes place across Japan’s southern inland islands in an attempt to rejuvenate its depressed rural areas. Tobias renovated a vacant house on one of the islands, creating this op-art infused cafeteria/restaurant called “Was du liebst, bring ich auch zum weinen” (What You Love also Makes You Cry).


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Thierry Le Gouès: Photographer

French photographer Thierry Le Gouès‘ Soul photoshoot. Thierry began his career of photographer of mode in 1986 with Condé Nast Italy: Sail and Uomo Vogue, and continued its collaboration with magazines as prestigious as International Glamour, Vogue Men, Vogue, Condé nast Italy, Lei, Per Him, Arena, I.D, The Face, Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, Interview, French Revue. Thierry Goues is one of the founders of the magazine: “French – Re-examined Modes” Thierry is also the author of international advertising campaigns: Replay, Nike, Levi’s, Boucheron, Hermès, Lavazza, Spring, Yves Saint Laurent, Paco Rabanne, Pascale Browned, Swatch, Moschino. He currently resides in Paris and New York.


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Blizzard: Diablo III Opening Cinematic

Behold Blizzard‘s amazing opening cinematic for the third installment in their Diablo series. –> directly from Sooz at computerlove.net

Feature: Fisher (2011)

Fisher

Download Fisher Poster (8.5in x 11in @300dpi)
One Eyed Robot
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Please tell us about the motivation behind making this piece and explain the development of the story.

Coming from a family with sailors in our ancestry and a deep love of the sea, I was always inspired to do a film where the ocean was a catalyst to a great story.
Fisher was born out of a doodle. A drawing of a somewhat square headed character floating in a square box at sea. It was 2005 and I was looking for an intro for my motion graphics reel. Fisher then was a plain white simple character and the animation test I did with him must have been 7 seconds long. Continue Reading →

Mirai Mizue: Modern & A long day of timbre

From Japanese animator Mirai Mizue, a massive amount of work: Modern … love how it turned out: “I finished this film in only two months after the completion of Playground. Inspired by optical illusions, like Escher’s paintings, I made the film using isometric drawings. my idea was to make a great film using only transformations of rectangular parallelepipeds. I applied the method of geometric animation, a technique used in Metropolis, in this film. Along with “cell” animation, I continue making films with the application of this method. (Hopefully, I will eventually discover a third alternative method to use in my films.)”

A long day of timbre is another amazing stop-motion short from Mirai Mizue, bringing a whole new perspective on psychedelia … again, the number of hours invested in this must have been quite high but I’m sure the gratification in the end was well worth it. Check out all of Mira’s videos on vimeo.

Silke Sieler: Warm Signal

Silke Sieler is a Hamburger, Germany based motion designer currently working at Sehsucht. This is his most recent short film, his thesis dealing with nature, transformation and metamorphosis and its relation to visual music … beautiful work.