Comments on: Dvein and Alex Trochut: Voll Damm Jazz

By: borissevitch

borissevitch — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:31:55 +0000

cough cough III:
http://www.lobo.cx/n_db_files/trabalho_download1_file_0248_file.mov

By: Vasco

Vasco — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:03:33 +0000

If I had to think of something I’d get some footage of the jazz players in after effects, screw around with the levels in multiple layers to divide the footage into 3/4 colors (rather than posterize, you’d have more controls with levels). Then I’d try to get the different color areas as smooth as possible and start playing around with glue gun/mr wiggler. Probably there are better ways but that’s what I came up with thinking about it.

By: iline

iline — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:34:23 +0000

Don’t tell me this was done using Shape Layers in AE!

Seriously, how the hell was this done? It looks a little too much like hard work (read: real hand-drawn animation ala Disney) to have been completed within time/budget constraints. Sometimes in this industry it’s hard to see how anyone makes anything good. You just gotta be fast, clever, creative and FAST as hell. Did I say you gotta work fast?

By: Babe

Babe — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:55:29 +0000

Cool.

Kinda reminds me of this piece my buddies did at Make…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWDT-k9zlG0

By: xpez2000

xpez2000 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:57:24 +0000

I think these days of the old art director paradigm of a guy who just stuck around long enough to get promoted…but now all they do is hire freelancers and take notes from the clients and explain everything to everyone..-basically a PRODUCER – is slowly dying out.

there is just to much talent out there that can run circles around that kind of inefficient system.

By: tiekwan

tiekwan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:54:12 +0000

yea! nice work dvein. keep partying and rocking the mograph.

By: graphikbeat.com

graphikbeat.com — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:23:32 +0000

if you´re good you can do both…but great pieces always have a team working behind ,rarely is just one guy…so i think an art director and an animator are essencial

By: oeuf

oeuf — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:39:06 +0000

//insert more coughing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK14yt6nwuY

but still a very nice spot.

By: Josie K

Josie K — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:46:27 +0000

@bastard: I totally get what you are saying. I’m not into bashing the whole craft of art directors, but it’s easy for a totally untalented intividual to do the job when they have a good artist to back them up (while making the life of the artist living hell). For some reason I’m always having a hard time respecting art directors who never actually worked creatively as operators (or at least in some other creative dicipline) and got all their inspiration from watching super hero movies and the posts here at motionographer.

Concerning the spot I have to say that I really like it (Like most of the stuff that Dvein has produced so far). Works really well with the music and the execution and flow is cleaner than the Lobo one.
Would be really great to get some background info on how it was created. Looks like it is classic frame-by-frame animation but there might be more to it.

By: julien

julien — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:36:25 +0000

That piece of work is really awesome !

Like NicolasAlexander said it’s strange that there’s no typographism but we can easily recognize the style.