Nov 30
Next week, Tuesday December 6! This could be your last chance to see the legendary Airside and Mr Bingo. Free entry, prizes and music provided by Hear No Evil PLUS Fred Deakin DJ set!
Nov 30
AENY’s last meeting of the year will be on December 1 at 6:45 @ PS 41. Special guests: Jeremy Cox of Imaginary Forces and Ryan Koo from No Film School. Full details here.
Nov 30
La Verdad, directed by Juan Delcan and commissioned by Chilevision, is a few months old but well worth going back to. It is a soulful exploration of the many truths embedded in the human psyche. (A subtitled version can be seen on the Nola Pictures vimeo page.)
Nov 28
La Verdad directed by Juan Delcan and commissioned by Chilevision, is a few months old but well worth going back to. It is a soulful exploration of the many truths embedded in the human psyche. (A subtitled version can be seen on the Nola Pictures vimeo page.)
Nov 28
Celebrate three years of NYC Mograph Meetups on Nov. 30 at 8 pm @ Mary O’s.
Nov 28
In Ned Wenlock’s new music video for MGMT’s cover of Bauhaus’s All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, he further explores the techniques used in his earlier music video for Danger Beach’s Apache. Ned cleverly highlights the surreal lyrics with custom typography that becomes our guide through a dreamy, ever-unfolding (or is it un-curling?) world.
Ned has been kind enough to share some development imagery with us. More info on the concept and process at Ned’s blog.
Taken from the album Late Night Tales – MGMT
Info at latenighttales.co.uk
Directed by Ned Wenlock
Character Animation by Rodney Selby
Produced by Georgiana Taylor
Nov 28
Nov 28
Simon Clowes + Prologue created this beautiful, Maurice Binder inspired, title sequence for X-Men: First Class. (more insight here via Forget the Film, Watch the Titles)
Nov 28
Digital Domain teamed up with director Carl Rinsch, RSA and AMV BBDO for “Escape the Map,” a surreal POV journey into a world inspired by Google Street View. With characters ravaged by digital artifacts, blurred visages and time echoes, it’s a slickly imagined ride that pulled me in, despite knowing it was a car advert.
The film was intended for a lightly interactive microsite, which you can visit here.
From the release:
Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Jay Barton, who is currently working with Rinsch on his upcoming feature for Universal Pictures, “47 Ronin,” led the team. His idea was to use photogrammetry — a technique in which measurements are taken from photographs to create real-world objects — to create the world. All of the live action was shot in Hong Kong, with Barton scouting and shooting iconic locations which were later used in the world-building. Additional green-screen shoots were staged in Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
“We first had to develop the visual language of the world,” Barton said. “We took inspiration from Google Street view and replicated that, but in moving video. As photos are stitched together, they sometimes seam strangely. They might not line up, or two buildings might occupy the same space, or people get cut in half. We played a lot with how images would load or resolve, or react when a whole new set of photos came in to reset the world. Here, when you explore you have more options and more viewpoints. You can decide where to look, walk, or drive and your perspective and resolution update accordingly.”
CLIENT: Mercedes Benz
PRODUCT: C63 AMG
TITLE: “The Escape”
ADVERTISING AGENCY: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO Ltd UK
Creative Team: Paul Knott & Tim Vance
Creative Director: Tim Riley
Agency Producer: Emmalou Johnson
Board Account Director: Ben King
Account Director: Rob Tauscher
Account Manager: Nick Andrew
PRODUCTION COMPANY: RSA Films, Ltd. UK
Director: Carl Erik Rinsch
Producer: Margo Mars
FACILITY COMPANY HONG KONG: RSA Asia
Hong Kong Facility Producer: Marco Leung
FACILITY COMPANY Los Angeles: RSA LA
LA Facility Producer: Christy Lindgren
DOP: Eric Steelberg
FACILITY COMPANY Los Angeles: RSA LA
LA Facility Producer: Christy Lindgren
DOP: Eric Steelberg
CASTING DIRECTOR: Denise Chamain
TALENT: Mariah Bonner
VISUAL EFFECTS: Digital Domain, Inc.
300 Rose Avenue, Venice CA 90291
Chief Creative Officer, EP: Ed Ulbrich
Executive Producer: Tanya Cohen
Head of Production: Scott Gemmell
Visual Effects Supervisor: Jay Barton
CG Supervisor: Ronald D. Herbst
VFX Producer: Chris Fieldhouse
VFX Coordinator: David Ziek
Avid Edit: Todd Miller
Avid Edit: Brian Miller
Avid Edit: David Hsin
Digital Standards Consultant: Jeff Heusser
Previs: Roy Sato
Flame Artist: Paul Kirsch
PHOTOGRAMMETRY: Scott Edelestein
PHOTOGRAMMETRY: Gil Hacco
GENERALIST: Daisuke Nagae
GENERALIST: Brian Creasey
GENERALIST: Casey Benn
GENERALIST: Rick Thomas
MAYA/HD FX: Adrian Graham
Maya FX: Lee Carlton
MATTE PAINT: Zach Christian
MATTE PAINT: Ting Lo
TRACK: Michael Lori
TRACK: Montu Jariwarla
TRACK: Roxanne Zuckerman
Roto Artist: Edgar Diaz
Roto Artist: Nathalie Gonthier
Rigging: Derek Crosby
Compositor Supervisor: Rafael Colon
Nuke Compositor: Chia-chi Hu
Nuke Compositor: Sven Dreesbach
Nuke Compositor: Aruna Inversin
Nuke Compositor: Scott Hale
Motion Graphics Artist: Cody Williams
Digital Studio Engineer: David Bryan
Digital Studio Engineer: Fernando Pantaja
OFFLINE EDIT: Stitch Editing
Editor: Frank Effron
DIGITAL PRODUCTION COMPANY: Unit9
Interactive Director: Rob Corradi
SOUND DESIGN: Factory Studios
Sound Engineers: Tom Joyce and Anthony Moore
COMPOSER: 11:59
Track: ‘Trepanation’
Nov 28
Talk about a great Monday. A note from Friend let us know that Sean Pecknold’s eight-minute epic for “The Shrine/An Argument” by Fleet Foxes is now available for your eyeballs. As recommended by the artist: Please watch in HD with headphones or speakers and full screen if you really want to get crazy. And check out the credits list for the small team full of talent that made this happen.
Music: Fleet Foxes
Album: Helplessness Blues
Director: Sean Pecknold
Animators: Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Character Illustrations: Stacey Rozich
Art Assistant: Natalie Jenkins
Producer: Aaron Ball
Multiplane: Greg Pecknold
Post/Edit : Sean Pecknold
AE Assist: Austin Wilson
Sound FX: Shervin Shaeri
Labels: Bella Union & Sub Pop
Made in Portland, Oregon