[LA] DMALA: August 2011

The next DMALA meeting will be on August 16 at 7 pm in Hollywood. Guests include Scott Novasic and Harry Frank. Full details and registration here.

Stephen Kelleher

I am proud to present Stephen Kelleher’s (formerly known as Frankenstyles) shiny new site stuffed with enviable illustration, characters and style frame design.

Synchroness goes live

Synchroness is a new site dedicated to showing “how music interacts with, defines, reshapes and brings life to the moving image.” Put it on your radar.

Jamie Stone and Anders Jedenfors: The World According to …

Now online: Jamie Stone and Anders Jedenfors’ whimsical sand-art series, The World According to …, which explored space travel, recycling and electricity for Channel 4 back in 2008.

Radical Friend: Adidas Adizero

Radical Friend get frenetic and kinetic for Adidas Adizero.

Rick Mereki: Move, Eat, Learn

Nice execution in this triptych love letter to travel. Move, Eat, Learn. Made by Rick Merek, Tim White, and Andrew Lees.

Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know” by Najork

Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know” from Najork on Vimeo.

At first glance, a quiet, almost serene black and white video. Nevertheless, it’s packed with visual effects. Each image is carefully and subtly modified and contributes to the incredible atmosphere. With controlled changes in reality that take you into a dreamworld, you not only listen to the Memory Tapes, but you can see them as well.

What makes this video even more special is that it is not made with ​​extensive 3D applications — no Flame, no Nuke, just After Effects. Two-dimensional camera tracking, puppet tool and a lot of layers make this ambitious project come to life.

Director Eric Epstein:

This would have been a good excuse to learn, but it’s hard to abandon one’s strengths. And with the emphasis on footage integration, much of the project was going to live in AE no matter what. I figured if the approach was unusual then at worst the results would come out looking unique. Realistic compositing was not top priority, so long as the motion seemed natural.

The main techniques I employed in this video were things I had played with before and had wanted to push further. That helped zero in on some images I wanted to create, but the feeling of the music was still the driving force behind everything.

On Najork.net you can find, next to other neat works, a bit of making of.

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