Reel Roulette

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Kristofer Storm Yo Gabba

Kristofer Storm‘s Colourful Signature Style for Yo Gabba.

I Am Not An Artist

Johnny Kelly and Matthew Cooper have just made a series of 56 hilarious and poignant animated GIFS called I Am Not An Artist for Elisava, a Barcelona-based design school. The piece, subtitled An Animated GIF Paranoia About Nonstop Design Workers, illustrates the process of design as hard and sometimes painful work using stop-motion and animated sequences that are reduced to 3-7 frame loops. Some are silly, some are trippy, some are mundane. For me the totality of watching the 56 loops playing all together feels a bit like the kind of work we do; windows upon windows of activity, with no end in sight.

You can get involved as well, and upload your own animation sequence to be included in the piece. I’ve already started thinking about mine.

Read on for a Q&A with Johnny and Matthew here.

La Gaite Lyrique

Yves Geleyn has delivered this dreamy Short Film for the french Gallery La Gaîté Lyrique, a new venue in Paris featuring digital art and contemporary music.

The film contains some of Yves’ signature characters, which lead the viewer through the gallery’s architecture. However, it’s more of an emotional journey than an architectural walkthrough,. The 3D (by One More Production) might feel a bit rushed on some shots, but the stylized quality fits perfectly with the atmosphere of the piece. Additionally, there is an interactive walk through in the works, realized with the studio Grouek.

Timothy Saccenti Updates

Photographer/Director Timothy Saccenti launches a new site designed by Build™.

Micah White’s Thought Bubble: Junk Thought

Micah White’s Thought Bubble: Junk Thought

Rise and Fall by Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille

Rise and Fall is a new interactive project developed and designed by Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille for the cover of ‘boards magazine’s Innovation issue. The actual piece is a gentle and subtly engaging Augmented Reality project that utilizes both the cover and back of the magazine to manipulate the camera and story flow within the piece. It’s also really great to look at, and easy and intuitive to play with. Rise and Fall was made with openFrameworks and is completely open-source. You can access the source code (if you’re interested) right here.

Read more for a making-of the piece and a Q&A with Emily and Theo about it.