Top Blacklist director, Pistachios, has partnered with with co-director Aaron Kisner and the Vital Voices Global Partnership to bring us The Story of Kakenya. The piece chronicles the real-life and inspiring story of Kakenya Ntaiya: a young girl who —throughout her childhood— escaped dogmatic African traditions toward women by pursuing a higher education and fulfilling her dream of becoming a teacher.
The style does not deviate too far the signature Pistachios aesthetic. The look is abstract, graphic, and sparse, which recalls the emblematic patterns and geometric taste of African design that has become globally acknowledged.
Hello guys!
I’m a newbie here :rollbaby:
I’m a self taught, just done with my roto reel. Please have a look at it and let me know what u guys think as far as quality is concerned.
Cheers:)
What do you think is the best particle generator plugin or program that already includes one. Also what do you think is the best work flow for composting smoke into footage. Would it be better to motion track in a 3d package like 3ds or Maya or would it be better to all the smoke in the composting program?
I’m trying to shoot this small war film and I’ve been watching alot of war footage on youtube and the thing you really see most in war is tons and tons of smoke and dust so I’m trying to do the same with my picture. Any advice about how to achieve this outside of my specific questions above is also welcome.
I’ve been trying to teach myself the fundamentals of film-making and visual effects by doing a couple of free music videos for local bands. This is the second one I’ve shot:
It was shot in and around London on my XL2, edited in Final Cut, and I did the most of the FX work in Commotion. That’s me driving the car by the way. I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out, There are 27 different FX shots – see if you can spot them all. It’s a lot more ambitious than my first one which had 6. You can see that one here:
CG miracle in transforming a dark-skinned bar patron into a full-blooded, pale Irishman over the course of drinking his brew.div class=”feedflare”
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Hotfix 2 includes several important fixes. This includes the fixes released in Hotfix #1, therefore you do not need to download an…div class=”feedflare”
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Sony has also created the World\’s first 3D commercial, in doing they have pioneered the latest 3D production techniques.div class=”feedflare”
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Primary responsibilities:
·Tackling the compositing of shots effectively
·Intergration of hero CG into Live action
·Delivering final shots that are creatively and technically excellent
Reporting to:
·Visual Effects Producer
·2D Supervisor
Skills and experience
·4 years of compositing experience with Shake and/or Nuke
·Ability to take direction and structure working practice so that design changes can be efficiently made.
·Desire to learn from others and to take on increasingly challenging shots.
To apply, please submit CV and link to online reel @ moving-picture dot com!!
Nexus Production’s director Johnny Kelly just made this short film for YouTube Play, an exhibition that YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC are calling “a Biennial of Creative Video” and which you can submit or nominate your own non-commercial work to right now; submissions are open until July 31st. Johnny’s piece is top-notch, encapsulating the Youtube experience in life-size sets which reference famous art works and also run the gamut from wood-grain explosions to rocky caves to circuit-boards and geometric cityscapes, all using the familiar Youtube play button as a central motif. Johnny explained his idea in the press release from Nexus:
“I wanted to try and capture that down the rabbit hole feeling you get when watching YouTube – you start by watching something innocent like a music video, then another video catches your eye and before you know it you’ve spent your fourth hour watching videos of pandas playing pianos. From a technical point of view, it was a challenging animation assault course, with much head-scratching and figuring out along the way. I was very fortunate to be surrounded by brainiacs like production designer Graham Staughton who always had an inventive solution to any problem we came up against.”
The NY Times ran an article on the exhibition yesterday as well, which had an interesting alternative viewpoint expressed by Robert Storr, dean of the Yale University School of Art, which is well worth considering:
“It’s time to stop kidding ourselves,” Mr. Storr added. “The museum as revolving door for new talent is the enemy of art and of talent, not their friend — and the enemy of the public as well, since it refuses to actually serve that public but serves up art as if it was quick-to-spoil produce from a Fresh Direct warehouse.”
We’ll see what the Guggenheim and Youtube eventually pick to include in their show, but if they’re already onto Johnny Kelly, I think it’ll be well worth checking out. Here’s an interesting making-of video if you want to see more.
Credits:
Client: Google / YouTube
Title: YouTube_PLAY Call Out Video
Length: 38 seconds
Client: Across The Pond Productions | Creative Lab EMEA – Google
Executive Producer: Rachna Suri
Production Company: Nexus
Director: Johnny Kelly
Executive Producer: Julia Parfitt
Producers: Liz Chan & Beccy McCray
Animation: Nexus Productions
Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston
Director of Photography: Matthew Day
Production Designer: Graham Staughton @ We Are The Art Department
Stop Motion Animator: Matthew Cooper
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