Visuals Reel 2010 by Markus Wagner
Visuals Reel 2010 by Markus Wagner (NSFW, probably)
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Archive for August, 2010
More VFX artists not getting paid in Montreal, report Variety and AWN. (Variety link is subscriber only)
More VFX artists not getting paid in Montreal, report Variety (subscriber only) and AWN.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | Comments Off
Tasty Visuals by Neal Coghlan
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | Comments Off
LEGS & Mother Take Over The Standard NYC
Last night, it seemed like everyone in NYC was talking (and tweeting) about one thing: The Standard Hotel. Funded by Target, Mother NY and LEGS took over the Standard as the stage for a Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular — an LED light and fashion show with enormous ambition and success.
Hot off of VMA nominations for their Florence and the Machine video, LEGS continues to blur the line defining the modern director. This latest feat turned 155 rooms (with 66 dancers inside) into pixels, backed by a 30 piece orchestra, as they animated the hotel’s southern facade to bring a live experience to the streets. In attempt an artistic democracy, Target even distributed 1,500 binoculars and had the music available on a toll-free number for those not close enough to hear.
Aside from the exceptional creative and production merits of this work, it’s encouraging to see brands like Target stepping up and financing non-traditional curation (by Mother NY) and innovation much like Intel has entrusted VICE with it’s currently touring Creators Project. As old mediums retire, new ones are born and those who find ways to tell stories within new structures will continue to push our “blurring” industry forward whilst finding new ways to create.
Check out some photos as we await more video and extras about the night and feel free to share any content you may have captured in the comments.
Update: Check out some behind the scenes from lighting animator, Michael Figge, from the team at Eight VFX.
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
WORDS
The folks over at Everynone just released a new addition to their series of shorts in collaboration with NPR & WNYC’s Radiolab – an evocative interpretation of communication which explores the role that language plays in our perception and understanding of the world: WORDS.
As a “bonus video” to reflect Radiolab’s recent subject matter of the same title, Everynone composed an extremely heartfelt visual array…a menagerie of everyday snapshots reflecting the human condition, presented symbiotically through masterful editing and an empathetic score. Each image runs beautifully into one another creating a warm lyricism that not only pays tribute to the minutia of our daily lives, but weaves together a story that represents our society as a whole, tangential only through our assigned definitions of each part.
Everynone was kind enough to elaborate on their process:
“Our friends at Radiolab were making a show about ‘words’, and they wanted us to make a companion video. Upon hearing that the subject for the show would be ‘words’, we immediately thought of the big books, the dictionary and thesaurus. From there, we decided that we’d make some sort of visualizations of these books. Pretty early on, we knew it’d play quite like a game, you could call it a “game-film”. Starting with “play”, we simultaneously created and connected the dots, back and forth between dictionary and thesaurus.
It took a good week to write the piece out, and about a month to shoot and edit. There were a fair amount of changes along the way, but the entire piece existed, for the most part, on paper. Of course, when working in a realm of “planned non-fiction”, there are surprises everywhere. Every person in the piece is a non-actor. We made lots of phone calls and pulled tons of strangers off the street to get the subjects and actions we wanted.
To keep the whole flow fresh, we played with the detail and branches of the word associations, and the transitions between words became our glue.
It was a new way to approach the filmmaking process, and it made the whole thing fun and exciting. If you listen to Radiolab, you’ll find that sort of curiousity and positive energy is gushing, so it was a breeze for us to play with it.”
Lastly, as you all probably know by now, Radiolab is awesome. Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich (and team) consistently create a beautiful musicality of scientific exploration, unique sound design, and affable storytelling – a program more lucid than most visual media, in my opinion – and their latest presentation doesn’t miss a beat. It’s an exploration into the role that structured language plays into our perception of ourselves and the world around us. Be sure to check out Radiolab’s Words following Everynone’s kickass supplement.
Credits:
Made by Everynone
Directed by Will Hoffman & Daniel Mercadante
Additional Photography: Julius Metoyer
Supervising Producer: Robert Krulwich
Associate Producer: Larry Cohen
Motion Graphics: Jeff Desom
Original Score: Keith Kenniff
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | 7 Comments »
MK12: Summer Reel 2010
Shortly after ‘Telephoneme’, MK12 launches their Summer Reel 2010.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | Comments Off
Jonny Kofoed for PAMS
New Zealand-based Director Jonny Kofoed recently put out a series of über sweet animated spots for PAMS for the NZ-market.
Meticulously designed and animated, the spots are an ode to Pams’ food products. Filled with simple, food-shaped characters they live in a vintage, yet contemporary world. The combination and contrast of analog/digital textures and simple 3D characters that seamlessly blend into 2D make for a friendly, home-cooked food aesthetic, reminiscent of the friendliness of your local greengrocer. (Make sure to begin from “For The Love of Food” and continue on to the other two shorter spots.)
Jonny was kind enough to answer a few questions about the project. Read the Q&A here.
Make sure to check out the behind the scenes and pre-production material on Jonny’s site, loads of amazing stuff there!
Big thanks to fellow author Lilian Darmono for the extra help with the post!
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
