Chris Jones has released his short film ‘The Passenger’ to the world on DVD. Impressively the high level of production, including story, sound design, score, animation, texturing, rigging etc. was primarily completed as a solo project, allowing for this auteurs true vision to shine though. On a more personal note Chris uses the same software I’ve learnt so was great to see the making-of elements both on his blog and on the dvd.
The Passenger
January 5th, 2010 by Louis
3D Car Porn :)
November 17th, 2009 by LouisA 3D artist going by the name of Pantural has produced an adrenaline pumping video showing his car modelling expertise complete with details of poly count, render times and humorous title headings. Although modelling and rendering aside the video show a lot of nice video/audio treatment and editing that delivers a variety of of interesting shots that’s sure to entertain. If ya like that sorta thing.
Space Chair
November 17th, 2009 by LouisAn interesting Ad from Toshiba using their own consumers video camera. Much like their previous ad which used an array or consumer gear to striking effect.
360 Pano Music Video
September 18th, 2009 by LouisAn interesting technique I’ve not seen very often is a full 360 degree panoramic music video. This technique really captures the atmosphere and environment and allows for continuous, seemless pans. Cinema5D thread here.
Movie Award Leftovers
August 27th, 2009 by LouisThese are awesome! Fatal Farm have produced a series of hilarious clips for the 2009 MTV awards. Unfortunately only a few where actually picked up. The facial feature re-arrangement reminds be a little of cyriak on youtube.
LIAF starts today!
August 27th, 2009 by Louis
Get ready to feast your eyes and ears in an eleven-day blast of exceptional animation from around the world in the 6th edition of the London International Animation Festival. This will be your only opportunity in London to see such a comprehensive line-up of current animated short films in competition and specially curated programmes that highlight recent productions and absolute gems from the archive. LIAF aims to challenge and inspire audiences with thematic, aesthetic and technical diversity from award winners, outstanding industry veterans and those wonderful newcomers who are exploring their talent on screen for the very first time.
3D video stabilization!
July 7th, 2009 by Louis
Throw away your steadicams! As developers Feng Liu, Michael Gleicher, Hailin Jin and Aseem Agarwala are working on “Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization”. I’ve been very impressed with deShaker plugin but this is a whole new dimension of stabilization that marries 3D tracking and camera solves with stabilization, removing the jittery motion in x,y and z, as well as doing a good job at handling the shutter role effect.
Deadline
June 29th, 2009 by LouisA great idea and some clever production methods caused the stop frame animation “Deadline” to create waves over the internet. Initially I was skeptical of it’s authenticity as stop frame, thinking some clever post-production was the key. But the behind scenes video reveals the truth.
1st June Motive Night Details
May 24th, 2009 by Louis
We had a great time at the last Motive Night. Thanks to everyone who attended, it was a great group. Hope to see you all at this coming Motive Night, we have a killer line up.
Venue - The Reliance (Old street)
336 Old Street
Shoreditch Google Map
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7:15 PM – DaniDani (Motive member no. 14), is a photographer specialising in emotive conceptual work. He is going to be showing us a selection of his latest photography. If you’d like a sneak peak, check out his Flickr account |
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7:45 PM – BlogLouis (Motive member no. 2) is kicking off a new (hopefully regular) segment of the night; he going to present a selection of interesting things he’s found online and off, over the last month. The kind of things we normally save for the Motive Blog. Thought it would be cool to show them on the big screen and chat about some of them as a group. |
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8:15 PM – Rhéa ‘BonBon’ NielsenBon Bon’s is an artist specialising in illustrative (verging on comic book style) street art. |
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9:00 PM – Mark McGuinessMark McGuinness (www.wishfulthinking.co.uk) is a creative coach and writer, amongst many other things. His theories on motivation, creative thinking and productivity are extremely interesting and thought provoking. I’ve invited Mark to come and discuss some of his theories, and talk about his new e-book: How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself) - An e-book for leaders, managers, directors — and other creative people. |
RSVP at www.meetup.com/motive to get you name down.
