Cocoe : Fondo Del Agua (Water Fund)

What’s not to like about this? To me, anyway, this is another one of those ‘tick-all-the-right-boxes’ kind of spot. Cocoe, the Madrid-based multidisciplinary design studio, was commissioned by Shackleton, to create this spot for the Spanish government, which promotes:

“Fondo de cooperación para agua y saneamiento”- a public institution dealing with water supply and sanitation tasks- is a project that meets one of the “millennium goals”: reduce the proportion of  people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.’

It supports a humanitarian cause, carries a social message. (tick). Stylistically, it’s adorable, friendly and very accessible. (tick). Technically, it’s well executed, the animation of the characters, especially the little girl and her dog, simply delightful. (tick).

Just like the Story of Kakenya which was posted last week, pieces like this gives me hope, that as animators and designers, we can use our skills for the greater good! Keep ‘em coming, I’d say!


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Jos kottmann.

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exploding the head of a statue

Can anyone give me a good approach to achieving the effect of exploding the head of a statue that has been sculpted in mud. I have the statue created and the mud looking good. I’m having trouble simulating the explosion effect as if there is dynamite inside the head. I have tried the attractor demon with a negative value but not getting anything nice.

Thanks for any help!

Making-of CEZ – commercial / flame compositing

Hi all, recently we work on Cez commercial.
So for pleasure, here is the making-of from the project.
Some break downs from shots, wher I manage the time to finally get done. One of the issues on project was snow, lot of snow ! We have to retouch, remove it completely. And the lights were oder issue, we shot two plates, one light pas and one dark. I composite this in to one, using 3tracks / 3d masks and so on…. ;).
UPP team did great work.

http://www.peternemec.com/commercials-p9.html

Peter Nemec

Senior inferno / flame Artist
peter@peternemec.com
www.peternemec.com:radar:
www.imdb.com/name/nm1844718/

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Motion Graphics Festival :: July Tour 2010

Motion Graphics Festival :: July Tour
Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Francisco

The Motion Graphics Festival is the premier creative conference for motion design, visual effects, sound design and interface technology, presenting a wide array of events including: art showcases, workshops, panel discussions, studio tours, theater screenings, industry mixers and audio visual showcases. Throughout July, MGFest is touring Atlanta (9-11 July), Philadelphia (24-25 July), and San Francisco (30 July – 1 August) delivering workshops and screenings focused in motion and sound design. Entertainment events include screenings with artists curated from international talent, such as: The Mill, Dvein, Pleix, Psyop, Herzog & De Meuron, Warp Records, The Crystal Method, Royksopp, Assassin’s Creed 2, LucasArts and many more.

With an artistic lineup of events focused on discovering new talent and providing them an opportunity to showcase their work, Call For Entry submissions are accepted throughout the year.

To enter, please go to: http://MGFest.com/10/call/#4entry

Subscribe to event updates here: http://MGFest.com/connect.php

Atlanta Motion Graphics Festival 2010
Friday 9 – Sunday 11 July

The festival arrives with three days of workshops, entertainment and networking events. Friday starts MGFest off with a speakers series, networking lunch and screenings. The weekend brings workshops in Cinema 4D, Creative Motion Design with After Effects and Photoshop, and Introduction to Flash Animation. On Saturday night, MGFest teams up with City Skies, showcasing the best of electronic music, featuring artists such as: John Vorus, Johnn Jitters, Phylum Sinter, and citizenGreen. Spaces in workshops are filling up fast and the Saturday Cinema 4D class is already sold out, so reserve you place soon.

Full Event Information and registration: http://MGFest.com/#atlanta

Philadelphia Motion Graphics MINI Festival 2010
Saturday 24 – Sunday 25 July

MGFest Philadelphia is a mini weekend festival exclusively featuring workshops and screenings. The festival arrives with workshops in Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects. MGFest will then host screenings in the evenings from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, with its MGFest Philadelphia Screening on Saturday and Stash Best of 2009 Screening on Sunday. Seats are limited so get your tickets soon.

Full Event Information and registration: http://MGFest.com/#philly

San Francisco Motion Graphics Festival 2010
Friday 30 July – Sunday 1 August

MGFest San Fran provides three days of workshops and a weekend of screenings. Workshops include Cinema 4D with Mograph, Adobe After Effects, Introduction to Flash, and Sound Design. MGFest will then host weekend screenings in the evenings from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, with its MGFest San Francisco Screening on Saturday and Stash Best of 2009 Screening on Sunday.

Full Event Information and registration: http://MGFest.com/#sanfran

First FX Showreel

Here is my final edit of my FX showreel… with a piece of matchmoving as well.

Showreel At: http://vimeo.com/12829186
or on my website: www.jamesstephens.co.uk

Created all in 3ds Max (fumefx and krakatoa) and compositing in Fusion.

Currently learning Houdini and Maya so a new showreel will be incoming in a month or 2.

Some crit would be nice, would help for my next showreel on ideas.

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We’ll Be Alright – Music Video (FX Heavy)

Hey guys, haven’t been on here in a while. Just wanted to share my latest work. Theory’s “We’ll Be Alright”
Shot on HVX/Brevis. Edited in Final Cut with most effects in After Effects.

YouTubeHD 🙂

All the best,

– Jarek

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Coloring individual pixels

Is there a way to change the color of individual pixels?

Say you have a black constant 256×256 and you have two lists, one with UV positions and one with RGB values so for example

UV = ([100, 100], [20, 30], [53, 35])
RGB = ([1.0, 0.0, 0.0], [0.0, 1.0, 0.0], [0.0, 0.0, 1.0])

Now loop through the UVs and RGBs list and color the pixel… I was thinking maybe the RotoPaint node can be scripted to work that way somehow? Or maybe there is an easier way to do this already?

Bare Bones US Debut


On Tuesday the 29th at NYC’s Envoy Enterprises, London-based art crew, Bare Bones (founded by Harry Malt), will be having their US debut show. After a few successful shows in London and three editions of their quarterly zine, they’ll also be introducing video for the first time.

Bare Bones artist and video curator Matt Lambert has brought on the talents of Sean Pecknold, David O’Reilly, Andy Martin, Matt Smithson, Ant Food, Niall O’Brien, Ross McDonald and a few other surprise contributors.

About Bare Bones:

Bare Bones is an non-commercial outlet for artists, photographers and image makers across the world. Spawned in London in the deepest plunge of the global economic melt down, it is a raw celebration of doing things for love and fun — a timely reminder how in times of hardship, art and creativity can and always will flourish.

This free paper is funded by it’s contributors and published quarterly. Each edition is launched with a show, featuring work from all the artists. Approaching their first birthday, they are having a premature party in NYC. With a break from their normal format, they will celebrate the cultures of both sides of the Atlantic.

Schedule

Exhibition and screenings: 6-9pm
After party (downstairs at Home Sweet Home): from 9-11pm
Featuring performances by Jugger-Nut and The Giggle Fits

Members:

ART:
Harry Malt*, Chris Bianchi, Neal Fox, Frank Laws, Hannah Bays, Robert Rubbish, Kate McMorrine, Stephanie von Reiswitz, Billy Bragg, LeGun, Heretic Print Studio, Leigh Fox, Lie-Ins & Tigers, Nervous Stephen, Simon Dara, Amelia Johnstone, Hanna Hanra, Matt Lambert, Peter Rapp, Kate Merry, James Pecis, Tom Jennings and Zoe Taylor.

PHOTO:
Niall O’Brien*, Jamie Daughters, Ross McDonnell, Brian Daly, Shane Deegan, Richard Gilligan, Jacob Lillis and Andreas Laszlo Konrath, Neil Gavin.

LITERATURE:
Michael Smith*, Richard Milward, Gary Fairful, Sebestian Horsely, SC Breen, Svetlana Graudt, Gavin Bennett, Jamie Putnam and Slavko Vukanovic.

FILM:
Matt Lambert*, Sean Pecknold, David O’Reilly, Andy Martin, Matt Smithson, Niall O’Brien, Ross McDonald and several more film makers to be announced.

*group curator

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