Memory Tapes “Yes I Know” from Najork

Memory Tapes “Yes I Know” from Najork:re-post from Motionographer


Memory Tapes "Yes I Know" from Najork on Vimeo.


When this video was sent to us multiple times throughout the week (thank you all for the submissions). I knew I needed to get in touch with Eric Epstein (Najork) to get some more understanding behind the project. This being his directorial debut, you might remember his Particular 2 Street Tests we posted back in 2009.

When this video was posted everywhere from antville to vimeo, there were questions about no use of CG in this music video. NO 3D software was used at all. This project was 100% After Effects believe it or not.

Eric was kind enough to give a little bit of background of how one of the shots was constructed as well a couple of screen grabs and videos.




[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

“In constructing that character, there was a progression from using mostly real footage to using none. The tracking dots all over the actor were used to move the masks cutting out the footage, as well as the pieces added in post. Both tasks made extensive use of AE’s puppet tool. Once the footage was properly carved out, I could start building in shapes behind it, sometimes sketching them out in photoshop first. Once these shapes seemed to work animated, I’d then fill them in with textures made from stills taken on set.

I will say that the IK thing was experimental more than necessary, and only used in a few shots.

I started with the scripts by DUDUF IK“

Gobelins: Annecy 2011

Gobelins: Annecy 2011:re-blog from Motionographer
The second year students at Gobelins have made another round of short films to celebrate Annecy 2011. There’s five of them, each impressive, check them all out after the jump.



Lights Out – Aloyse DESOUBRIE BINET, Sandrine HAN JIN KUANG, Stéphanie PAVOINE, Jonathan VERMERSCH, Etienne METOIS





Grand Central – Charlotte CAMBON, Théo GUIGNARD, Noé LECOMBRE, Hugo MORENO, Soizic MOUTON



Oh gee Oh why – Hanne GALVEZ, Yoann HERVO, Juliette LAURENT, Stéphanie MERCIER, Pierre ZENZIUS



Hello Brooklyn – Alice BISSONET, Benjamin MOREAU, Corentin PENLOUP, Marion ROUSSEL, Louis THOMAS



Jazz’in – Joël CORCIA, Wandrille MAUNOURY, Bong NGUYEN, Thomas RETEUNA, Bernard SOM

T-Mobile Angry Birds Live

SOOO CUTE!

Amon Tobin- The Worlds Most Amazing Dj Booth?

Amon Tobin- The Worlds Most Amazing Dj Booth?: "Sometimes I ask myself, what is the point of all this musical manipulation? How far should we take the exploration of music performance technology? Then some-one manages to combine talent, expertise, and vision all in one amazing application that reminds you- oh thats why. Because you never know when something magical will emerge.

MadMapper, New Mapping Tool, Released with DMX-Made Cocktails; Video Examples

MadMapper, New Mapping Tool, Released with DMX-Made Cocktails; Video Examples:

MadMapping Workshop Party from mappingfestival on Vimeo.

From top: a 2010 example of the mapping techniques at work, a workshop that launched the new software tool.

More than a gimmick, projection mapping – calibrating visuals to various projection surfaces in 3D – has become an essential technique in live performance visuals. That means visualists will inevitably be looking for tools that help them project on things other than flat rectangles.

At Switzerland’s Mapping Festival this month, one such tool made its official public debut. MadMapper comes from the creators of Modul8, a tool that already has some mapping features in it. A demo version is available for Mac users, with licenses for two computers at EUR299. Documentation is scant at this point, but we’ll be looking more at this software as it evolves – doubly so as it makes use of the inter-app, open source Mac visual framework Syphon, which we’re tracking closely.

Because it works with Syphon, it can also be used with a wide variety of visual tools, from Processing and OpenFrameworks to more conventional, end-user-focused VJ apps like VDMX (as well as, of course, Modul8).

You can get a rough idea from the screenshot and basic tutorial:

Courtesy Modul8. Click for full-sized version.

Here’s a quick look at some of what it can do in video form. There’s a 2010 mapping project on a tennis court, at top. It’s the product of collective 1024 architecture, whose work I recently celebrated on Create Digital Music.:

With Neon Guitars and Immersive Projection, 1024 Architecture Become Audiovisual Rock Band

There’s also, from Ilan Katin and the project’s originator, a one-night installation in Berlin, below, and video of Laurent Garnier from this month at bottom by Paradigm Collective (using a more recent iteration of the software).

But perhaps the coolest part of the whole launch is the fact that they were able to mix cocktails with DMX-controlled blenders. Wasting away again in DMX…

Frz of 1024 architecture mans DMX-powered blenders at Geneva’s Le Zoo club, for the launch party. Courtesy Modul8.

Finally, we’ll close with some of the goodness from the Mapping Festival Party. Wish I could have been there.




Stay tuned for more on MadMapper, and let us know if you have hands-on experience with the demo. (Also, do let us know if you have documentation of all that happened at Mapping this month!)

The new site:

http://www.madmapper.com/

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Pitchfork going 3D!

Freitag F49 Fringe

Freitag F49 Fringe:re-blog from polkadot


Non più velcro, ma cerniere colorate questa volta, a chiudere il nuovo zaino Freitag Fringe. La solita combo teloni di camion, colori e robustezza, questa volta a prova di scuola !

Cinemagraphs by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg

Cinemagraphs by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg:re-blog from Computerlove

Jamie (Photography), and Kevin (Web Design/Motion) worked together creating beautiful and intricate animated gifs they called Cinemagraphs. Utilizing an old technique to create something new and beautiful with such attention to detail and love is truly impressive and inspiring!

“Our first few animated images were sequenced still shots looped in rapid succession which is a fairly common way of making an animated image. From there we began utilizing more fluid motion isolated in certain parts of an image to capture a moment of time, but also to un-freeze a still photograph by showing that moment’s temporal movement. The process involves still and video photography but editing is very manual and varies greatly from one to another so we’re routinely solving new problems when creating them...

If you want to know more about how they created these pictures, here is the link

http://diegoguevara.com/blog/2011/05/05/cinemagraphs/

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised: re-blog from Computerlove

A mashup is a song created by blending two or more other songs. The more complex a mashup gets, the harder it is to distinguish the parts that are being used to create what you're hearing.

This visualisation of the song 'Definitive Daft Punk' by Cameron Adams dissects a mashup in realtime to show you how each of the 23 parts contributes to the greater whole.

From the words of the creator: "The entire piece is composed from the latest HTML5 and CSS3 technology
(canvas, audio, transforms & transitions) so you'll need a newer
browser to view it in. I recommend Chrome because it pulls off the best
performance with my mangled code. All of the waveform and spectrum
visualisation is performed in realtime, so your browser is rendering a
music video on the fly!"