Hasta La Motion!

Some recent work for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Hotel by Digital Kitchen; “The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas was purposefully built with a bold mission: create a hotel experience unlike any other. To help fulfill that mission, The Cosmopolitan selected Digital Kitchen to surprise and delight their new class of guest. More than a resort, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is an iconic luxury brand. For DK, this presented us with our own mission: bring The Cosmopolitan to life. Give the building itself a personality, a perspective, a voice.”

Toronto based Tendril continue their string of impressive project with Flash Tutorial / Interac, with stellar Music & Sound Design by John Black of Cypheraudio.

Check out Tenril’s Stills and Process … “Our strategy was to keep the design visually minimal and graphic as possible, relying on unexpected twists, snappy animation timing, and quick transitions to establish and maintain the pace.

On a technical level, because of the complex deformations, dimensionality, and lipsync the script called for, the wallet was rigged and animated in 3D, but rendered with flat colours to look 2D. Some other elements like the coins were also handled this way. The rest of the elements were animated in After Effects. In the end, we had a huge amount of fun creating this piece and hope you enjoy watching it!

Superfad’s Nando Costa recently directed this spot for Cartoon Network Asia’s customizable avatars Toonix website.

New Superfad shirt designed by Nando as well.

Quayola, a London based artist, has created a new multi-screen video-installation premiering on October 7-9, 2011 at the renowned Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France’s second museum after the Louvre, as the opening of their 2011-2012 season. Strata #4 is part of his on-going series of films, prints and site-specific installations for the project devised to challenge accepted perceptions of classical art, architecture and iconography. Quayola strips away outer layers of dramatic symbolism from masterpieces and explores the world beneath their figurative skins.

Quayola is screening Strata #3 in Ottawa tomorrow Sept 21 – 25 at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

You can watch a great interview of Quayola on The Creators Project and get behind-the-scenes info here.

NERDO is a Turin, Italy based studio, established in 2009 by Alessandro Durando and Lorenzo Levrero, recently producing this dvd opening title for IdN’s new issue “IdN Video v18n4″.

A few months ago Nerdo was contacted by IdN World to publish this projection mapping project for SEAT Portugal.