Luke Gibbs: Sin City

Australian motion designer Luke Gibbs just finished directing and animating this music video; Sin City, animated frame-by-frame in flash and assembled in AE, simulating neon signs of slaughtered goats, dancing girls, severed heads, ancient torture methods, pulsating rhinos, and a melting drunk elephant.

Ventilate: Poster Series 07

<--- We've updated with our seventh poster series, this time themed Abstract Surface; visual interpretations of abstract textures and/or patterns while considering rhythm and contrast. Each posters is a free ready-to-print, 24in x 36in download via YouSendIt. Many thanks to each of the contributors: Per Gustavsson, Johannes Timpernagel, Raoul Paulet, Pierre Emperador, Jon Saunders and Michael Brown.

Modeling Rim using Nurbs

In this 15 minutes video tutorial, you can learn how to model the rim using nurbs in Autodesk Maya 2011. Increase the volume of th…

Interview with Akama Studio, France

Working with V-Ray has changed our way of conceiving images. In an industry where clients demand ever more beautiful images faster…

Earthquake – Syndrome Studio

Abbiamo già parlato diverse volte di questo importante studio e torna sempre a impressionarci con i suoi specialissimi effetti visivi. Oggi si tratta di un nuovo video musicale per il brano “Earthquake” dei Labirinth feat. Tinie Tempah. […]

Psyop keeps us happy

Psyop keeps us happy

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‘The Great Happyfication’, Psyop’s latest six minute short for Coca-Cola, delves this time into a singing and dancing world inside the Happiness Factory, via agency Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. fxguide chats to Psyop creative director Todd Mueller, producer Amanda Miller and 3D lead Kyle Cassidy about how the design and animation studio produced the spot. Plus there’s a behind the scenes video produced by Psyop.

Tom Oakerson — freelancer reel

Had the pleasure of working with Tom Oakerson on a recent project @ the Material Group. His reel is filled with tons of great work from his time at Superfad.

Gawper – A large Evil Corporation

In tema di halloween vi proponiamo questo video, da poco realizzato, dall’agenzia inglese A Large Evil Corporation. Personalmente non li conoscevo ancora e mi sono piaciuti sia i loro lavori che il modo scherzoso divertente con cui si presentano. […]

Passion Pictures: Red Bull Music Academy World Tour


If you’ve got a month-long tour of events spanning from Berlin to Toronto, from Melbourne to Detroit, how do you visually convey the magnitude of the event? How about hiring a whole team of artists to collaborate on a mixed-media hommage that moves from city to city, hopping from style to style, to reflect the range of locations and music they’re celebrating, while Sammy Bananas seamlessly provides the soundtrack?

For the 2011 Red Bull Music Academy World Tour, Mother New York and Passion Pictures created a short tribute for each of the 10 cities. Led by Pete Candeland, the talented team of directors blended 2D, 3D, stop-motion, photography, illustration and CG. I’m most impressed with the many co-directors and art directors that got credited and the creative freedom to run with their respective sections.

An interesting model for sure, and it sounds like they had a lot of fun as well. Read on for some insight into the process.

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Interview with Paradox Interactive

Unbelievable that a company that specializes in hardcore, complex historical strategy games can be successful in this day and age