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Feature: GMUNK: Oblivion GFX Montage

The mighty Joseph Kosinski invited Munkowitz to the GFX party once again, this time for his spring blockbuster feature film OBLIVION … Predictably, the list of graphic assets to be created was obscene, so munko assembled and led another super team of GFX mercenaries and descended into the lovely confines of Crater Lake Productions to generate the aforementioned fuckload of graphic content…


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Feature: Jordi Pages ~ Playgrounds Fest 2012 Titles

Our latest feature :: the first of several coming up for 2013

We had a chance to chat with Jordi Pages who recently collaborated with MRK, Gabor Ekes and Echolab, crafting these titles for the 2012 Playgrounds Fest.

1. Please describe the initial brief.

The brief was mainly a blank canvas. The only requirement was that we had to feature in some way the line up of artist that were going to be part of Playgrounds Fest 2012. Leon (Playgrounds director) just wanted to give us creative freedom and he encourage us to try any thing we had in our heads.
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HelloHikimori: Offff Istanbul 2012, Main Titles

A whopping 7.5 minute trailer for OFFF Istanbul, produced by the talented Paris based studio HelloHikimori. An impressive line-up of speakers will be presenting, including Esen Karol, Falk & Sun’s, Hellohikimori, Hi-Res!, Hort, Joshua Davis, Neville Brody, Onesize, The Mill and Vasava

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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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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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Blur Studio: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ~ Titles (2012)

Blur Studio Creates Opening Titles for David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

~ 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.

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Feature: Fisher (2011)

Fisher

Download Fisher Poster (8.5in x 11in @300dpi)
One Eyed Robot
Fisher homepage


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 →