Vodafone ‘Add Power To Your Life’

Sebastian Strasser from Radical Media has directed this great advertising for Vodafone, entitled “Add Power to your life”.

The project was shot over 8 days in Iceland, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania. During the shoot the team had to navigating some of Europe’s worst flooding in decades, making some of the locations highly treacherous, including the diner, which was left half submerged after a flood had hit the area. The film was shot almost completely using hand held cameras, enabling the team to capture more fluid, natural movements, which were then composited together by Time Based Arts, who did an exceptional job blending the 3D, CGI and live action.

Song by Woodkid – Run Boy Run.

Credits:
Director: Sebastian Strasser
VFX: Time Based Arts
Agency: Jung Von Matt
Producer: Christoph Petzenhauser
Editor: Paul Hardcastle

TRIZZ: New Spots

Two of the latest spots from transplanted New Yorkers Trizz, currently based in Barcelona. In addition to design, cgi, Vfx and production, Trizz invent multimedia concepts, curate and construct.

Renuage Brandy | Nika Luxury

PTEROIS: NEEKOE

Fun personal project from Dubai based motion designer Nico Bolacha: PTEROIS. See the Making-of below:

K3LOID

K3LOID

You may have already seen a trailer for a short film called K3LOID in the past years, it’s now finished and it’s very impressive. Spanish-based J.J. Palomo directed the short and his visual FX shop BLR VFX spent over two years developing it with the intent of turning it into a feature.

Palomo isn’t a complete unknown to Hollywood, he and his team have collaborated with Carl Rinsch several times and worked on the director’s breakout short, The Gift. (And K3LOID‘s concept art was provided by Aaron Beck, the concept designer for Avatar and District 9).
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In a not too distant future, societies of all countries come to rely on an intricate network of artificial intelligence devices designed to bring efficacy to man’s life. Yet, man continues to devour himself in useless wars. A strong political hierarchy now divides all powers into three factions, and A. I. devices rapidly gain ground as efficiency becomes a priority.
As social revolts grow worse everyday, authorities seek ways to control their citizens. They decide to carry out a series of tests that will determine not only whether some crucial powers can be transferred to non human entities, but also whether man is ready to yield those powers.
The world has become a cell for all man and women, who withstand and endure their lives, rather than living them. Machines might have found a solution.
From now on, you are set free.

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CREDITS:

Directed by JJ Palomo

Big Lazy Robot Crew :
Hugo Bermudez
Juan Civera
David Cordero
JJ Palomo
Leopoldo Palomo

Concept Design:
BLR
Aaron Beck
Greg Broadmore

Music and Sound Design:
Full Basstards

Online Color Correction and Conform:
Trizz

Manager: Scott Glassgold / IAM Entertainment

ODD NY: Chapter 3 “Temporary Zones”

“Temporary Zones” is the third installment in a series created by ODD NY (Office of Development & Design), a New York and Los Angeles based design and animation company, helmed by Executive Creative Director Gary Breslin, formally of Panoptic [whom, if you don’t know of them, killed it back in the day].

Following up on the previous subjects focusing on maps and also windows at night; this one explores the transitory nature of NYC architecture through the building and re-building of scaffolding across the city. On the one hand completely ubiquitous and banal, it’s easy to tune out the psychological presence of the ever changing and omnipresent fixture that is scaffolding. Up one day, gone the another, it’s the building blocks for a city that always has and always will be in a state of flux.

IAMSTATIC: Inside the Mind of Leonardo Davinci

Toronto based IAMSTATIC recently launched a montage of 3D stereoscopic work they did for Director Julian Jones’ Inside the Mind of Leonardo Davinci, a movie concerning threads of thought and the working processes of the genius inventor and artist. A total of 30 minutes of stereoscopic shots were designed and animated over an 8 month period. See more on the IAMSTATIC site.

BOX: Behind-The-Scenes

Very interesting behind-the-scenes for one of the most unique and innovative installation projects you’ve ever seen:

Bot & Dolly, in conjuction with the Creators Project, a behind the scenes look at how BOX was created.

The new behind the scenes companion video to BOX discusses the creative vision behind BOX and the technical process that made this revolutionary performance possible. The documentary contains interviews with GMunk (Bradley G Munkowitz), BOX‘s Design Director and Tarik Abdel-Gawad, BOX‘s Creative Director together with behind scenes footage from the making of BOX.

Blur: League of Legends ~ A Twist of Fate

Culver City based Blur Studio teamed with Riot Games to create another incredible CG trailer, this time for League of Legends. The goal was to excite and delight players by bringing the champions of the game to life in a high-impact, highly-detailed cinematic. It was Riot’s way of saying thank you to the passionate and committed League of Legends community.

A behind-the-scenes from League of Legends:

Bot & Dolly:

Bot & Dolly: A dynamic company in San Francisco with big robots is a design and engineering studio that specializes in automation, robotics, and filmmaking. Check out their short film Box: exploring the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping on moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. Bot & Dolly produced this work to serve as both an artistic statement and technical demonstration. It is the culmination of multiple technologies, including large scale robotics, projection mapping, and software engineering. We believe this methodology has tremendous potential to radically transform theatrical presentations, and define new genres of expression.

I think its about damn time the gaming world popped off a flat screen too ; )

Bot & Dolly, a sister company of Autofuss, home of MR. GMUNK, have been doing some incredible work with IRIS. Some examples to see: Halo | Immigrant | Kung Fu proof of concept |

Troika: BET Awards’ 13

Top talented brand consultancy & creative agency Troika, from Hollywood, were tasked with creating an identity and teaser for the BET Awards ’13 that represent the scale of their show while reinforcing the Awards as the point of origin for all that’s hot in black culture. The identity was featured throughout BET’s on-air, digital, and out-of-home promotional campaigns, and served as the foundation for the awards show package.

See and read more on the Troika site.