BLINKY™
Soon every home will have a robot helper.
Don’t worry. It’s perfectly safe.
BLINKY™ is back online.
Written, Directed & Edited by Ruairi Robinson. Starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”.
Enjoy…
Shilo update their website packed with powerful work. Enjoy…
Softimage, German artist Eric Mootz released Celestial Chaos, a two minute video experimenting with “emNewton2″, a plugin for ICE which implements Isaac Newton’s “Law of universal Gravity”.
“The main difficulty of the implementation was to achieve reasonable simulation times even though each particle attracts each other particle (that’s the evil O(n^2) thing).
As usual the main reason for the animation was to test the stability of the plugin.”
For Softimage users, Eric has several video tutorials on his site ranging from particle animation to fluid dynamics.
Chicago based design-focused production studio Leviathan launched an experimental reel, a collection of innovative work completed over the last year.
Be-lieve in your own power, you must.
A teaser film for the new Australian production Sweetbox, directed byKorb.lt with sound design from Echolab
Michael Rigley‘s BFA Thesis traces what happens to the all the information we feed into “the network”
~ A sequence delivering a black on black abstract retelling of the entire Millennium Trilogy.
Blur Studio was tapped by longtime collaborator, director David Fincher, to create the opening title sequence for his highly-anticipated film, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” based on the first story of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy. ‘All that I’m asking you to do, is reinvent any expectations of what a title sequence could be,’ was the project’s creative mandate directly from Fincher. With that, Blur co-founder and the title sequence’s creative director Tim Miller began working with Fincher to cull key moments in the Trilogy that would lend themselves to abstract imagery and visual metaphors. Along with that process, the Blur team compiled concept art establishing a high-gloss, black on black, liquefied macabre look that captivates viewers from the first frame.
Drastic Motion is a new Toronto based studio focusing on upcoming immersive installation projects involving visualization, augmented reality and projection mapping.
Paris based Bright Photon experimented with some trapcode tools for this New Year’s best wishes video.
Toulouse based Pierre Emperador‘s latest project; Cybo ‘Sky Walkers’ “… This is about escape, to give free rein once again to this part of our subconscious, that freedom which is one of the few that we have and we call ‘imagination’. …”
This is stunning, beautiful and all around #@$! crazy good; METACHAOS from Italian Artist Alessandro Bavari.
METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, articulated in a short film, a set of photography and mix-technique paintings. The purpose of the project is to represent the most tragic aspects of the human nature and of its motion, such as war, madness, social change and hate. An accretion of feelings that are metaphorically represented by specific visual forms, which are abstract conceptually, but concrete and tangible formally. The application of acid and monochromatic tints, besides the strong contrasts, makes everything intentionally more oppressive and tragic.
Pretty crazy CG and Post … just saw this posted over at Motionographer [check out their interview with BLR (www.biglazyrobot.com) on the project] :::
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky* wrote about an experiment which had to do with Artificial Inteligence. In a near future, man will have given birth to machines that are able to rewrite their codes, to improve themselves, and, why not, to dispense with them. This idea sounded a little bit distant to some critic voices, so an experiment was to be done: keep the AI sealed in a box from which it could not get out except by one mean: convincing a human guardian to let it out.
What if, as Yudkowsky states, ‘Humans are not secure’? Could we chess match our best creation to grant our own survival? Would man be humble enough to accept he was superseded, to look for primitive ways to find himself back, to cure himself from a disease that’s on his own genes? How to capture a force we voluntarily set free? What if mankind worst enemy were humans?
In a near future, we will cease to be the dominant race.
In a near future, we will learn to fear what is to come.
Behold Blizzard‘s amazing opening cinematic for the third installment in their Diablo series. –> directly from Sooz at computerlove.net
San Francisco based Gunshop just wrapped a new reel featuring live action+CG mix for Audi, Microsoft, Samsung, Sprint, Verizon and more … “It’s been a busy couple years since our last montage, and our services have grown from motion graphic mavens to a full service production company. We’re betting it’s the best 60 seconds you have sitting in front of your computer today.”
Two amazing new projects from Dublin based Echolab; above, Mobiado Stealth 712, promoting Mobiado‘s new addition to its luxury watch collection, the Stealth 712. Visuals by Moscow based Stereotactic.
Next up is a collaboration with Murat Pak, this time for Pause Fest, creating their 2011 ID – Echolab Version. Although Pause Fest was sponsored by a music company and hence all audio was completed by said company for offical openings/titles, etc. However, a few of the visual artists involved are taking it upon themselves to re-release versions with audio they feel more accurately reflects a final product they initially had in mind. Nice!