Buenos Aires based Plenty‘s launched a reel of their work for HBO Latin America. The navigation main protagonist is the high quality content of the channel. As a framework for the footage we designed a navigation system refers to the digital platforms where the tactile sensation is represented by the logo that take the roll of the selector finger.
Scotland-based Axis Animation has collaborated with director Ben Hibon and developer ChAIR on a special short film for Infinity Blade III.
Called Infinity Blade: Origins, the visually striking two minute video will also act as the introduction for Epic’s latest entry into its popular action RPG series on mobile. Axis built the 3D characters and used a blend of texturing and shading to add a 2D feel to the video, which was then layered with both 3D and 2D animated visual effects. The short film depicts the forging of the Infinity Blade and the weapon’s subsequent history waging terror and defeating enemies.
From denial of service: four months of formula experimentations and over 1000 hours of combined rendering via open source raytracers to complete this music video for extrawelt‘s track BREEDLE.
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
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.
Fun personal project from Dubai based motion designer Nico Bolacha: PTEROIS. See the Making-of below:
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
“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.
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.
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.
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