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A sloppy male student is shocked to learn he’s pregnant. *Winner -Best Looks- KLIK Animation Festival 2016
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What if hibernating animals of different species formed an orchestra and performed a symphony about their winter’s sleep? Well, they did—sort of. Because this is the science version of “Peter and the Wolf”… A flute playing wood frog who freezes. A bassoon blowing painted turtle who (ahem) breathes through its butt. A trumpet blasting common poorwill who falls asleep anywhere, anytime. A harp plucking mosquito who goes into a sci-fi suspended animation. A drum thumping black bear who stays fat all winter long. And, of course, a theremin tuning Antarctic cod who goes semi-comatose in the dark. Ladies and gentlemen, “The Sleep Cycle” by L’orchestre D’hibernation Animaux. . . . VIDEO BY TOM McNAMARA THE NARRATOR KEVIN GRAY . . . POPULAR SCIENCE
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A video essay by Monica Delgado In The Night (La Notte, 1961), Michelangelo Antonioni proposes the progressive rupture of the relationship in a bourgeois marriage (a writer, and a writer’s wife). However, on the symbolic level, the filmmaker establishes in advance, the sexual desire imaginary of Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) facing her husband’s disinterest. Hence, The Night is not a film about a couple in crisis, but about the gaze of a woman on this crisis.
Feb
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Samsung Galaxy S9+ 960fps slow-mo test
Posted in: Animation
A bubble blown, as captured in 960fps slow motion by the new Samsung Galaxy S9+
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A fidget spider spun,, as captured in 960fps slow motion by the new Samsung Galaxy S9+
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Walking with the Galaxy S9+ (normal pace) to test out the onboard stabilization while shooting video (default settings).
Feb
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The Ricochet Splendid
Posted in: Animation
The Ricochet Splendid Our new non commercial project: In an uncertain future, a group of crazy and less than obedience squad, fight the great war. This group of misfits uses humor to get along the hard life of a soldier. In spite of the constant teasing, this fraternity look up to each other in hard time. 2veinte.tv facebook.com/2veinte instagram: @2veintestudio Twitter: @2veintestudio Directed & done by … 2veinte Creative Director … Pablo Gostanian Executive producer … Agustin Valcarenghi Animation Director … Diego Polieri Art Direction … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri Lead Cel Animation … Diego Polieri, Fernando Toninello, Juan Nadalino, Israel Giampiero Additional Animation … Patricio Plaza, Martin Gil, Julian Fumagalli Cel Animation Assist … Yazmin Hanna, Denise Cirone, Diego Fracchia, Ivan Greco Addicional Clean up … Facundo Garcia, Agostina Salvemini, Nahuel Sagarnaga Idea … Pablo Gostanian Characters design …. Diego Polieri Story … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri, Melisa Farina Composition … Daniel di Paola, Mateo Vallejo Edition … Pablo Gostanian, Diego Polieri Production … Carolina L’avena 3D Animation …. Mateo Vallejo Illustration … Diego Polieri, Nahuel Sagarnaga, Patricio Delpeche Additional Illustration … Santiago Villa Robots Design … Delfina Perez Additional AE animation … Daniel Di Paola Original Music … Thomas Richard Christensen Ending Credits Music … Sergio Denis – “Un poco loco”
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88 Pictures works on their first animated ad campaign for PNB Housing Finance #SurprisinglyEasy
Posted in: AnimationBank commercials are known to depict various services in the same old fashioned way that has been going on for years. However, animation is changing that.
The recent ads for PNB housing use the medium of animation to very interestingly explain the home loan services of the Punjab National Bank. The ads created by Mumbai-based 88 Pictures have one thing in common – the use of CGI animals.
Renowned ad film-maker Shantanu Baagchi approached the studio with an idea to create a high-end CGI project, which doesn’t necessarily look CGI. “We weren’t sure about it but when we looked at the concepts, it appealed to us,” said 88 Pictures founder-CEO Milind Shinde.
88 Pictures chief creative officer Philippe Gluckman explained, “The project allowed a really interesting characterisation of animals through animation. One of the challenges, and interesting points, was to find the line where the animals express human emotions, but don’t become overly anthropomorphic. It is deliberately not treated in an “over the top” cartoon style, which hopefully makes it more relatable.”
Animals in the ads are used to express human emotions. “I hope people will appreciate the subtleties of certain expressions and what they mean to convey,” shared Shinde.
Other than the animation work, the integration into realistic environments, and the many details needed to make the ad convincing, were wonderful to create, he revealed.
The spots were created by the ad director Baagchi but “given our expertise in working on high end animation content, we like to add our creative flavour to everything which not every director is open for,” Shinde added. “However, we had a great time working on them as the director was very open to ideas, as well as providing many of his own, yet never losing track of the end goal.” The team at the studio worked from storyboard to final output.
As a first ad project for the studio, was it challenging in any way? “Commercials are like short movies, one has to go through the entire process of storytelling and execution regardless of the duration, and deadlines are always short,” he highlighted. “The joy of working on challenging animation content attracted us towards this project.”
“It was a first for us but a great experience. We are open to get our hands on anything that requires pushing boundaries and creating beautiful pictures,” he concluded.
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Feb
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Reallusion and Persistant Studios partner iClone and PopcornFX for realtime VFX platform
Posted in: Animation
Reallusion iClone and Persistant Studios’ PopcornFX release a new VFX plugin for production of realtime 3D particle effects equipped with specialised libraries and tools for customisation. PopcornFX, the multi-platform and cross-engine realtime particle effects industry leader for complex visual effects will now offer a fully-integrated, realtime VFX platform for every creator inside iClone. Users of iClone will now have access to VFX creation without the need to build everything from scratch, yet still have full control of style and performance for their effects. The all new VFX core enabled by PopcornFX and iClone, levels the playing field for indies and studios of all sizes to equip their projects with VFX with training and affordability for any size budget.
“The whole team at PopcornFX has been really impressed by the work put in by Reallusion to integrate PopcornFX within iClone 7, with a dazzling end result. The close collaboration between the two teams was a continuous effort over the past few months and we’re all pleased iClone users can now enjoy the features and contents offered by the PopcornFX editor,” said chief technology officer of PopcornFX and Persistant Studios, Maxime Dumas.
Reallusion and Persistant Studios collaborated closely for the PopcornFX engine integration with iClone’s lighting, physics, PBR materials and timeline animation systems; making a joint effort for this dedicated realtime 3D animation and VFX solution.
Reallusion CEO Charles Chen quoted, “The integrated result of iClone and PopcornFX is phenomenal due to the invaluable teamwork with Persistant Studios. Now iClone users can design brand new VFX using the powerful PopcornFX editor. Reallusion has dedicated lots of effort to building five VFX tools that allow users to create custom particle effects without the need to write a single line of code. Additionally, we have produced a substantial amount of learning samples and training materials to get anyone started with this amazing technology.”
Native PopcornFX projects can be directly imported into iClone, allowing professional designers to fully utilise this powerful script-based editor to create any possible particle behaviors, while exposing necessary control attributes back to iClone.
To make VFX acquainted without coding, Reallusion has made an investment to design five exclusive emitter tools. Each of the five super tools are dedicated to one specific emitter type with all the crucial attributes, blend modes, and abilities to replace a custom mesh along with sound or sprite resources in order to generate unique visual effects. These tools are integrated with iClone physics, global illumination and self-cast shadows, as well as textures, sprites, and mesh import for maximum flexibility. The tools include mesh tool, texture tool, text tool, ribbon tool, and distortion tool.
The learning sample library includes more than 50 application samples, functional projects, and quick video tutorials which are designed to demonstrate how to utilise the PopcornFX tools for real-life applications. Users can easily inspect the included resource files and attribute settings, or learn to modify them for unique innovations.
The top 40 PopcornFX is a special collection of the most exciting particle designs provided by Persistent studios. More than just a content conversion, Reallusion has opened most of their custom resource import channels for unprecedented customisation capabilities, so users can add their own creativity by transforming one VFX library into another.
PopcornFX plug-in for iClone includes PopcornFX super tools and PopcornFX learning samples 50 as a bonus. PopcornFX library 40 comes with Windows platform and download mode.
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