Hong Kong Station – Treehouse Studio

Treehouse Studio have made this little short called “Hong Kong Station”. As its name suggests the film is about Hong Kong lifestyle. 4 levels of a metro station replicates 4 decades of Hong Kong. You can watch some pre-production sketches here.

Geoffrey Lillemon + Joost Korngold : Iris Van Herpen “Voltage”

A collaboration between Geoffrey Lillemon and Joost Korngold: ‘A teaser film for the Haute Couture collection of Iris van Herpen: “Voltage“.’

Michel Gondry: “L’Ecume des jours” second trailer

Beautiful second trailer for Gondry’s new movie “L’Ecume des jours” (“Mood Indigo” – english title). We cannot wait to watch it!

Raffi Simonian – Nau: Updates

The always impressive Raffi Simonian has updated www.nau.tv with a new site and new reel as well as www.raffisimonian.com with select frames.

Onur Senturk + Cypheraudio: OFFF Cincinnati Titles

Check out the latest titles for OFFF Cincinnati 2013 … a great collaboration between Onur Senturk and CypherAudio.

Mitre M-Tech Glove / Paul Clements (RocknRoller Studios)

Paul Clements and RocknRoller Studios designed this series of super-slick commercials for Mitre.

Watch also the 2 other spots:

League Of Legends: Workshop

Superfad and Riot Games create a stunning trailer announcing the release of “League of Legends” on Mac.

Tim Borgmann: VFX Design Reel

Some great, inspirational work from German VFX Artist Tim Borgmann: time to salivate XSI users ; )

Why Motion Designers need to have solidarity with the #VFXProtest

As someone who doesn’t work in the VFX (Film) industry its been hard to follow the #VFXProtest movement. You read one blog and people are arguing over what the problems are. Another blog may feature exchanges over what the solution is or should be (if there is a solution at all).

Either way I do see an overlap in problems within many different industries. Whether that’s in advertising or even game development. Not to mention most of us in “motion design” probably know a few people in LA fighting for their futures right now.

I ran across this post by Bran Dougherty-Johnson on twitter and decided to share it HERE.

For more background on whats going on in the vfx industry read the Wired.com article on it. They did a great job of covering every angle on this and linking to many different sources related to the story.

3D Forensic facial reconstruction

Forensic facial reconstruction of former french king Henri IV killed in 1610, and based on the CTscan database of his skull. Made with Cinema 4D R13, VrayForC4D and Zbrush by Philippe Froesch.