Hasta La Motion!

A short film about large scale Forging of special steels at Firth Rixson in Sheffield. Part of the Steel Stories project in collaboration with Arts and Humanities, The University of Sheffield .

Mon 23rd Jun 2014 | News

Extended Free MODO 801 Trial and Free Introductory Training from Digital-Tutors and The Foundry

Getting to grips with new tools in MODO is now even easier. With the recent release of MODO 801, The Foundry has teamed up with Digital-Tutors to offer artists and professionals a chance to jump in and learn the ropes with a special offer.

The new release adds node-based shading, improved animation and dynamics tools, and plenty of new cool features right across the board.

MODO is an all-in-one package and can be used to model, sculpt, rig, animate and render. Due to its flexibility and range of tools, artists and designers in multiple industries, including Advertising & Marketing, Design, VFX and Games are increasingly choosing MODO and we’re seeing the growth in the amount of MODO training being viewed too.

More informations here

The popular TV series – ‘Breaking Bad’ – has been toonized by two indie animators, Jonny Lang and Jason Burke, who uploaded the four-minute spoof, ‘Mr White’, to their YouTube channel earlier this week.

The animation short attempts to mash the illustration style of ‘Mr Men’ creator Roger Hargreaves with the crystal meth-drenched world of the AMC crime drama to comic effect.

“Mr White lived in a place called Drugland,” begins the clip’s voiceover, before hysterically retelling the events of the hit show’s first season.

The spoof largely follows the same plot as the original drama, but tweaking the adaptations that reflect the quirky nature of the 1970s children’s cartoon.

The Breaking Bad spinoff series Better Call Saul, starring Bob Odenkirk as White’s wily lawyer has been pushed back to 2015 and the follow-up season planned for 2016.

The Design Grand Prix at Cannes International Festival of Creativity 2014 goes to Norwegian design agency Anti, Bergen, for their design campaign for Bergen International Festival, fib.no (Festspillene I Bergen). The design team used music as a starting point for the identity, allowing for playfulness and structure within the established systems and mathematics that music contains. Looking to bridge musical & visual language, Anti Bergen started with what they both had in common: being constructed from a single fundamental element — a note & a pixel.

Using this singular element to build the iconic ‘F’ logo — like a chord constructed of various notes — Anti Bergen established a mathematical system that allows the logo to grow, subdivide and rhythmically repeat like musical units creating a beat or tempo. In addition to traditional festival materials, they wanted to use new ways to create brand awareness that spoke to the identity of the festival, it’s culture, geography and heritage. Examples include: A rain poncho using the brand patterns for rainy Norwegian days, a traditional Norwegian sweater, connecting the brand to traditional knitting patterns, and a digital campaign where people could play and compose, unknowingly engaging the brand on the brand’s music sequencer.

Redesigning a festival brand — whose program ranges from the classical to the Avant Garde — it was important to create a playful, versatile platform, that spoke to different audiences in a unified voice, yet allowed for individuality in content and appearance. The festival had created a new strategic communication plan simultaneously with the launch of the new profile, in which the festival programming and content was being aimed at three specific target audiences, in hopes of reaching two previously untouched audiences. This became an integral aspect of the identity development, which required a strong unified brand, with flexibility to speak to different audiences.

Ticket sales for the festival’s first year with its new identity were the highest they had experienced in the last seven years. The combined strategic communication plan and brand campaign allowed them to reach to two new audiences that often felt alienated by the festival due to it’s previous identity and programming: young adults and young families. The new identity and it’s successful 2013 program gave the festival new exposure internationally and nationally within the press and social media, allowing them to recruit world-famous musicians such as Steve Reich to be a part of the upcoming 2014 festival.

Credits

The Bergen International Festival design campaign was developed at Anti, Bergen, by creative director/senior designer Endre Berentzen, senior designer Robert Dalen, senior designer/art director Eric Amaral Rohter, designer Sindre Holm, designer Fredrik Eive Refsli, working with Norwegian Rain fashion designer T Michael, photographer Fred Jonny and 3D illustrator Elijah A Chote.

A multiple camera, 360 degree, night-sky time-lapse (One of the first of its kind!) by photographer Vincent Brady and musician Brandon McCoy.

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About Planetary Panoramas –

While experimenting with different photography tricks and techniques back in 2012, I was shooting 360 degree panoramas in the daytime and long exposures of the stars streaking in the sky at night. It suddenly became clear that the potential to combine the two techniques could be a trip! Since the Earth is rotating at a steady 1,040 mph I created a custom rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire night-sky in motion. Thus the images show the stars rotating around the north star as well as the effect of the southern pole as well and a 360 degree panorama of the scene on Earth. Each camera is doing nonstop long exposures, typically about 1 minute consecutively for the life of the camera battery. Usually about 3 hours. I then made a script to stitch all the thousands of these panoramas into this time-lapse. I created my rig in January of 2013 while in my final semester at Lansing Community College before receiving an associates degree in photography. Given it was winter in Michigan, I didn’t get to chase the notorious clear moonless night sky as much as I had hoped as the region has lots of cloud cover that time of year. Though I was ready on the rare night to go experiment. After graduating in May I had built up quite the urge to hit the road. My rig has taken me to firefly parties in Missouri, dark eerie nights at Devils Tower, through Logan Pass at Glacier National Park, up the mountains of British Columbia, and around the amazing arches and sandstone monuments in the Great American Southwest.

These are the images I created on the cold, dark, sleepless nights under awe-spiring skies.

The music is composed and recorded by my very good friend, the acoustic fingerpicking guitar prodigy Brandon McCoy! Brandon who is also from the greater Lansing area in Mid-Michigan is quite the acoustic instrumentalist. The song chosen for this time-lapse is called ‘One Letter From Lady.’ I moved to Michigan when I was 15 and Brandon was the first friend I made. He was the cool kid playing Pink Floyd licks on a $2 guitar at the time. Soon, after he had spent his cold, dark, sleepless nights perfecting his craft, he started coming up with his very own instrumentals. Some of which are upbeat by mixing picking, slapping, and drumming on the guitar while other compositions of his are calm and soothing and can put you in a meditative trance if you just close your eyes. It has been a great experience watching each other grow as artist for over the past 10 years, and you better believe we will be collaborating on projects like this in the very near future.

Speaking for the both of us, we are grateful that you checked this out this project. If you enjoyed it, don’t be selfish… Share it with your friends!

Software used in the making:

Magic Lantern: A firmware hack to use the intervelometer in camera.
StarStax: Appropriately named software used to stack images of stars.
PTGui: Used to manually stitch panoramas together.
LR Time-Lapse: For smoothing out the time-lapse sequences via xmp files.
Adobe Photoshop CC: For all the photoediting fun and to create time-lapse sequences.
Adobe Premiere Pro: For slopping the whole video together.

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