A Kenneth Anger retrospective has been going for a sweltering minute at PS 1 out in the borough of Queens. We suggest getting there early on a Saturday to pay your respects to the godfather of shock cinema, FOX News, and TMZ and then stick around for fun times in the sun.
Here are the nominees for a 2009 Emmy award in Outstanding Main Title Design.
Rama Allen, Designer; Shawn Fedorchuk, Editor; Matthew Mulder, Creative Director; Morgan Henry, Main Title Producer; Camm Rowland, Designer; Ryan Gagnier, Designer
Making of and case study on Digital Kitchen’s site
Michael Riley, Title Designer; Dru Nget, Title Designer; Dan Meehan, Animator; Bob Swensen, Main Title Producer
Jamie Caliri, Director/Director of Photography/Editor/Main Digital Compositor; Dave Finkel, Creator; Brett Baer, Creator
Q&A with Jamie Caliri on The Art of the Title Sequence
James Spindler, Creative Director; Mike Wasilewski, Designer; Ahmet Ahmet, Art Director; Grant Lau, Art Director
Interview with the creators on AMC’s blog
Robert Bradley, Title Designer; Thomas Cobb, Title Designer
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The technique is not new, but the execution is brilliant: Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing by Shynola.
A new short film directed by Winston Lee: The Unforeseen
Photo by Mark Sebastian
When the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) announced the formation of a new chapter, AICP Digital, we wondered what impact that might have on motion graphics, animation and visual effects studios and freelancers.
Thanks to Motionographer’s Bran Dougherty-Johnson, we set up an interview with AICP President and CEO Matt Miller and President, Commercials Division and Executive Producer of Digital Domain, Ed Ulbrich, who has helped make AICP Digital a reality.
If you’re not sure whether or not this is relevant to you, don’t worry: it is. As Ulbrich says in our interview, “This should be of really critical importance to the individual, because their quality of life and their livelihood and their pay indirectly is determined by that relationship between these design companies, these animation shops, these visual effects studios, these web development houses—and the relationship with their clients.”
Many of our questions about AICP Digital revolved around rising issues regarding labor practices. “Labor is one of the great ticking time bombs of the motion graphics and design world,” says Ulbrich. “And it’s [about] getting the companies to have awareness of their obligations under the law and employees understanding what’s appropriate.”
Check out the interview here. It’s also available through iTunes, along with our other podcasts.
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Tripped out monolith, astronaut & monkey goings on in this short film by Patrick Bernatchez. Enjoy.
AWN interviews Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
AMPAS is hosting When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies on August 6, featuring VFX practitioners Robert Legato, Scott Stokdyk, Shane Mahan and Matt Sweeney, and stunt coordinator and 2nd-unit director Dan Bradley.
Harry Potter Goes Naturalistic: Part 1, at VFXWorld.
Here’s Part 2.
“We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards.”
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