Zeitguised: Peripetics
Every once in a while we get a chance to post something unique, outside of the commercial realm; and this stunning six-act piece by London-based Zeitguised is exactly that.
Commisioned by Zirkel Gallery for its forthcoming opening, “Peripetics” is a superb piece of CGI Art, from the consistent color palettes to the amazing lighting and texturing, everything flows seamlessly, and the spot-on audio design brings it to perfection.
What I love most about this project is its blend of surrealism and architecture, kind of a Dali meets Calatrava in motion.
The folks at Zeitguised were kind enough to provide us with some inside info on the piece. Here’s what they had to say:
Zirkel Gallery commissioned us to do a piece for their upcoming opening, and from the start we wanted to make something that felt fresh and new to us. We had about a hundred and three ideas, so we had a lot of filtering to do…
The difficulty of independent projects is always how to limit onesself, and not do everything and destroy the piece. We were constantly reshuffling our thoughts about it. The project had been in our heads for about two years, but it wasn’t until Zirkel Gallery approached us that we decided to do it.
The concept changed drastically over time, and about two months ago each and every scene was thrown out the window again, but a few elements made it back. Finally, we had a quiet summer, and we pressed ahead with some intense meditation over each scene after they were done. In the end, we had to do each scene at least twice, we went from 11 to 6 scenes, and about two thirds of the film were conceptualized during the production phase, fell into our lap so to say.
What may sound like a nightmare was actually a quite satisfying process, very calm and steady, and we felt we really purged our system of some unnecessary distractions. Rendertimes were a bit of a nightmare, but that gave us time to rethink everything everytime a scene was “finished.”
Sounds like it was quite a challenging but fun process. Make sure to check the rest of Zeitguised’s body of work, some really interesting stuff in there.
Client: Zirkel Gallery
Design / Direction: Zeitguised
Audio design: Michael Fakesch
Thursday, October 16th 2008 at 6:31 pm |
So… that was probably the dopest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Thank you.
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 3:25 am |
Wow… how I loved to have made that! Zeitguised you Rock!
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 3:40 am |
this is one of the most beautiful projects I’ve seen in a long time
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 3:48 am |
That was so good it made me need a wee.
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 3:57 am |
Damn, that´s the most inspiring spot I´ve seen for a while.
The combination of design, abstraction, architecture, sounddesign…
Absolutely amazing.
Chapeau! zeitguised!
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 4:28 am |
so cool – we love it … zeitguised is also a really cool name
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 5:50 am |
Awesome!
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 6:08 am |
Fantastic surreal worlds
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 6:20 am |
awesome best piece of work ive seen in a long time. AAAAA+++++
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 6:37 am |
Fantastic surreal world.
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 7:10 am |
I think i just experienced a brand new emotion. So good I couldn’t take much more of it.
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 9:40 am |
This is REALLY great. Much respect to Zeitguised.
Friday, October 17th 2008 at 11:33 am |
ill
Saturday, October 18th 2008 at 8:30 am |
Tried three times to sit through it…it`s so ultimately boring…I think so far it was the most boring thing I´ve ever seen…
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 7:21 am |
I’m so ultimately bored with comments like this…How about taking your brain out of 1st gear and explaining WHY you find it boring. Jeez, how many times do i have to say this???
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 8:00 am |
i’m guessing, but probably three.
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 3:51 pm |
ok. tried it a fourth time – it`s absolutely marvellous, exiting and sooo amazing, a religious experience level dopeness with art, dopeness, beauty and pure visual sex deluxe! oh sorry…that…that was a wrong text – it STILL is boring – no, even more boring than ever before. absolutely nothing happening, just ugly 3D geometry with flickering off-plane polygons moving randomly in space.
Monday, October 20th 2008 at 8:12 am |
OK, at least this time, sarcasm aside, you have a go at explaining why you find the piece boring, which kind of validates your post. Well done; A Motionographer mug, T-shirt and signed authors team photo is winging its way to you in the post…
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 12:12 pm |
Religious experience level dopeness. The visual references are so clever. Doctor’s office cut-away models become a monolithic information graphic of cellular growth. Fake versions of fake versions. And yet emotionally overwhelming. Great audio and editing as well.
Monday, October 20th 2008 at 8:27 am |
wow, awesome summary, I totally agree…
Sunday, October 19th 2008 at 1:36 pm |
art.
Monday, October 20th 2008 at 10:47 am |
Holy crap. That just made me thank God I’m existing in this wacky universe to be able to see that. That was really just incredible.
Monday, October 20th 2008 at 5:54 pm |
Very inspiring, thanks!
Monday, October 20th 2008 at 9:57 pm |
It’s work like this that makes you realize that the bridge between fine art and motion graphics is becoming ever so short.
Fantastic work.
Tuesday, October 21st 2008 at 10:18 am |
This is Orgasm! Dopest in a long time!
Respect!!