Jul
26
JAY-Z 'Bam' ft. Damian Marley
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Jul
26
Super Magic Hats – Sleepless
Posted in: Animation
‘Sleepless’ by Super Magic Hats, from the new album ‘Wish’. Hypnagogia is the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep… You start falling, then you’re slowly running, you start dreaming of lunch, dancing, and shape-shifting into a guy with a million eyes. Directed and animated by Lee Arkapaw and Tessa Chong
Jul
26
Dolby 'Prime' Full Version
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This is actually the fourth and final part in a series of films commissioned by Dolby Labs for their amazing gallery space in San Francisco. Gabe Askew has long collaborated with the musician duo Hays + Ryan Holladay who were responsible for putting the series together. They leveraged the new Dolby Atmos technology to create a beautiful and embracing soundscape while Gabe tried to wrap his head around the massive 9920×720 resolution display. The theme of the series was memory. Drawing from the writings of Ray Kurzweil, Gabe created a visual metaphor for the physical act of how the brain receives a stimulus, breaks it down into elements, stores it via pattern receptors in the cerebral cortex, and then recalls it. The specific memory represented in the film is the birth of his daughter, Lily. Director: Gabe Askew Production Co: Hornet Client: Dolby Labs Music: Hays + Ryan Holladay
Jul
26
THE PRIVATES
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An unknown rock band struggles with a radioactive energy in their music that blows up amps, liquefies tape decks, and starts electrical fires. On the eve of their first (and possibly last) show, they must decide whether to risk life, limb, and legacy for a 1AM slot on a Tuesday. It could change everything…or nothing at all. “The Privates” is this week’s Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere! Read more about it here: vimeo.com/blog/post/The-Privates 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival 2017 IFFBoston 2017 Brooklyn Film Festival 2017 Palm Springs International ShortFest Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest – Spring ’17 – WINNER Writer / Director: Dylan Allen Producer: Eddy Vallante Starring: Lilli Stein, Rachel Trachtenburg, Alex Herrald, Omar Maskati Director of Photography: Evan Jake Cohen Music: The Privates Original Score: Dave Paulson Editor: Robert Grigsby Wilson Producer: Javier Gonzalez Executive Producer: Matthew Perkins Associate Producer: Mari Shiel Production Design: Pinky Guest Casting: Rebecca Dealy Casting Assistants: Christy Escobar, Kristie Walsh Costume Design: Megan Stark Evans Hair/Makeup/SFX Makeup: Lexan Rosser Visual Effects: Perry Kroll 1st Assistant Director: Eric “Frenchy” LaFranchi Unit Production Manager: Maddi Clarke 2nd Assistant Director: Tas Mahr Property Master: Nicolas Luna Set Dresser: Alan Jensen Miniatures: Peter Feigenbaum Production Sound Mix: Adrian Martinez Audio Post Producer: Kira MacKnight / One Thousand Birds Sound Design/Mix: Calvin Pia / One Thousand Birds Music Director: Maxwell McDonald ADR Engineer: John Parthum / Mixtape Club Gaffer: Chad Dougherty Key Grip: Glenn Porter Best Boy Electric: Justin Newhouse Best Boy Grip: Jacob Beil Grip: Camilla Foschi 1st Assistant Camera: Matt Garland 2nd Assistant Camera: Brandon Regina Set Photographer: James Chororos Script Supervisor: Rachel Cole Production Coordinator: Quinn Dooley Locations: Jordan Thomas Alexander, Alex Richard Production Assistants: Kuper Bank, Eli Kleinsmith, Sean Woodruff, Mikaela Barish Poster Design: Sam’s Myth Digital Colorist: Andrew Francis Color Assist: Charles Leighton Digital Intermediate Services: Sixteen19 “We Are Really Rocking Now, Haven’t We?”: written & performed by The Privates “You Never Take Me Dancing”: written & performed by The Privates VFX Breakdown – https://vimeo.com/226514082/b70a1fb831 Amalgamated Picture Company, 2017. All rights reserved.
Jul
26
FRANCO PASCALI
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When I met Franco Pascali, I was struck by how much I felt like I was meeting and hanging out with a young street skater. However, instead of witnessing skate tricks he destroyed me by his usage of cards. Much like the world of skateboarding that I was raised in, magic and cardistry are intensely personal and individually orientated in terms of the endless practice that is required to master them. Tricks are performed with decks and each person embodies a style that is distinctly their own. That style is reflective of the influences they devoured when they were coming up and their intrinsic sensibility that they develop as they mature. As I spent time with Franco I immediately wanted to point my camera at him to capture the way he dressed, the way he talked, the breathtaking way he moved cards and the feeling I had in encountering such raw talent. This is our first film. Franco Pascali is 19 years-old and lives in Los Angeles. He is a director of magic at Theory11. IG – @francopascali Director – Jacob Rosenberg Director of Photography – Logan Triplett Editor – Chris Amos Composer – Steffen Thum Colorist – Tom Poole Sound Mixer – Matt Miller Additional Music – Tomas Pascali Assistant Camera – Matt Tompkins Stylist – Emily Nagrecha Producers – Ari Palitz & Kevin McMahon Executive Producer – Ryan Slavin Production Company – The Reserve Featuring – Franco Pascali, Fatty Dabs, Alexander Hansford, Simon Black, Chris Mitchell Editorial Services Provided by Final Cut LA Color Correction provided by Company 3 Music Provided by 14th Street Music Sound Mix provided by Lime Studios Cameras provided by 2020 Camera Rental Special Thanks: Queenie Li, Lorne Balfe, Hana Leshner, Tim Hanaseth, Suzy Ramirez, Jeff Buchanan, Eric McCasline, Alexandra Lubrano, Jenny Montgomery, Chris Adams, RVCC LA, Stephen Vanasco, The Smog Check Center, Canter’s, Dena Stein, Tierra Caliente.
Jul
26
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Jul
26
Seven years of dragons
Posted in: Animation
What the VFX teams have been able to do over six series of Game of Thrones is incredible – and there looks like some even more amazing CG dragon work to come this series. For Thrillist, I talked to BlueBolt, Pixomondo and Rhythm & Hues about their dragon VFX so far.
Jul
26
Designing Baby Groot
Posted in: AnimationMarvel has released a short featurette from its Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 Blu-ray/DVD focusing on designing Baby Groot, and it includes comments from overall vfx supe Christopher Townsend and the concept art and practical build required for on-set shooting. Check it out below.
Jul
26
‘Bangalore: A Graphic Novel’ unwinds the garden city with a kaleidoscope of stories
Posted in: AnimationAfter a successful Kindle debut, Syenagiri’s physical copy of Bangalore: A Graphic Novel will be hitting stores and Amazon shortly.
Bangalore: A Graphic Novel is a part of Every City is a Story which is an initiative from Syenagiri, a graphic-novel studio involved in new and immersive methods of storytelling. Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel (2014) opened the Every City is a Story series and Bangalore is the follow-up with Goa slated for 2019.
“We operated out of the assumption that great cities influence their inhabitants completely, right down to the very way of thinking and perceiving the world,” shares Syenagiri’s Jai Undurti. “Just as Mumbai or Paris have their own distinctive voices – the kineticism of Mumbai for example, often shows in works written there – Bangalore too has a distinctive signature.”
Bangalore has a huge talent pool of authors and artists and “we wanted to show-case the stories they wanted or needed to tell about their city,” says Undurti. It is for this reason that Bangalore: A Graphic Novel is an anthology – the team wanted a mix of established artists as well as help those who are just entering into the field.
They believe that a city is an act of the imagination. So the stories are not passively strung together in a collection but rather talk to each other. This conversation is the thread that ties the volume together. The stories in the anthology are based around the themes which form some intangible glue that holds a city and its culture.
The Every City series eschews clichés and fights reducing cities to single, so-called “iconic” images. For instance, Hyderabad does not have a single depiction of the Charminar while there is not anything directly about pubs or the IT sector in Bangalore.
“We have Appupen with his trademark black humour looking at Bangalore twenty years from now, a futuristic dystopia with an architecture that oppresses. At the other end, Prashant Miranda looks back at the city that was a meditation on memory,” explains Undurti.
The origin story of the city by George Supreeth has its basis on classic comic-book lines. Young artist Ramya Ramakrishnan places the venue of her story at the India Coffee House and spins out a yarn featuring time-travel and coffee. Jai Undurti and Rupesh Arvindakshan track a lonely man whose hobby is to go on late-night drives. Zac O’Yeah teams up with one of India’s leading comic-book artists, Harsho Mohan Chattoraj to solve the mystery when an ATM goes missing while CG Salamander and Devaki Neogi delve into true crime, unearthing a dark secret buried in Richmond road. Solo, Ojo and Sloth follow a vigilante operating from the roofs of Bangalore while newcomer Sumit Moitra chases down a legend from the 1940s. And finally, Abhishek Malsuni’s beautiful cover pulls together all these strands to tell a story in itself, of a city during a time of change.
“Bangalore: A Graphic Novel is as much from Bangalore as it is about Bangalore. By that we mean it is a collection of stories that could only be written in a certain place, in a particular time, as much as it is about a certain place or a particular time. In the end, the contributions for Bangalore are a real kaleidoscope of styles, stories and ways of seeing the world,” concludes Undurti.
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Jul
26
Yali Dream Creations at full throttle; to launch Shamik Dasgupta’s three graphic novels this August
Posted in: AnimationThere are hectic times at Yali Dream Creations and the company is buzzing with activities as the founder and COO Asvin Srivatsangam, writer Shamik Dasgupta and the team gears up to launch three graphic novels.
Shamik Dasgupta
Dasgupta’s Rakshak series will see the release of its parts three (120 pages) and four (90 pages) this August, ending the series’ first season. Part three titled as Chronicles of Rakshak will have four stories, two of which will introduce new characters. “It deals about the world in which Rakshak operates and how his actions influence other people,” reveals Dasgupta, the driving force behind the releases.
Rakshak aka Aditya Shergill, a former captain of a platoon of covert-ops commandos, has lost his left hand in his last combat mission. After a violent incident when he is left suffering tremendous tragedy, he starts questioning the situation of law and order in India and decides to become a vigilante, punishing criminals and protecting people as Rakshak.
Super Saina, the first story of Rakshak #3 is about Saina, Aditya’s teenage niece who has to overcome grief after a violent incident. The second story Hammer traces the journey of a poor and humble blacksmith as he is pushed to limits to become a vigilante. Pondus is “an eye opener for the present scenario in the country where often women victimise people contrary to the general belief that women are always victims,” says Dasgupta. The last in the series, Rakshak 2.0 revolves around a young billionaire heir Manav Khurana who uses his wealth to help Aditya in his crusade against crime. The story will reveal Manav’s dark past and the reason behind his complex and unpredictable character.
Without running the risk of spoilers, Dasgupta summed up Rakshak #4 as “the finale of season one that will remain with you long after you put down the book.” Rakshak is about reality with real incidents shaping each character in the book. “Hence it is more than just a fight between cliched good and evil. It is a fight between ideals. It will make you ask questions about yourself and the society around you.”
Sharing the response he has received from the audience, Dasgupta says, “They have loved the depth and realism in the storytelling and have grown fond of Aditya Shergill and the supporting cast of the series. I am expecting the next two parts to cement the fact that Rakshak is here to stay and he can rival any Indian superhero from screen or comics in India.”
Rakshak #3 is penned by series regular Pramit Santra and two newbies Abhishek Dasgupta and Karina Daruwala. Santra has also worked on art for Rakshak #4. Tadam Gyudu, Abhilash Panda and Bikash Satpathy have contributed for art and character designs in #3. Colours for #3 have been done by Prasad Pattnaik, and Periya Pillai along with Pattnaik for #4. Covers for both have been designed by Gaurav Shrivastav and Fritz Aldrin Casas.
The Village is their other ambitious project which is nearing completion and will also launch in August. The first Indian English graphic novel to be based in the heartlands of Tamil Nadu, The Village is a horror story from the creators’ new genre- social horror. “Like all my books, this too addresses a major issue in our country and is unlike any horror story so far in our country,” mentions Dasgupta.
The 140-page comic which will be published as a prestige format hard bound edition has Pattnaik and young comics maverick Gaurav Shrivastav as artwork contributors. All three comics (Rakshak #3, Rakshak #4 and The Village) has Yali Dream Creations as producer and publisher.
How has work been with three back-to-back releases on the horizon? “Back breaking, stressful, sapping…but at the end of the day elating as well,” replies Dasgupta. He is grateful to his team of artists and COO Srivatsangam for providing financial support and strong belief in the stories. “Without his unflinching support, keen observation and relentless project management, this would have been impossible to pull off within the time scheduled for the release.”
Dasgupta’s earlier work The Caravan was optioned for Hindi movie rights in 2016 by a studio owned by an A-lister actor from Mumbai. The studio currently has some movies in the pipeline, hence the novel’s movie adaptation confirmation is expected by end of 2017 or early 2018.
Rakshak #3
Rakshak #4
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