Matt Pyke

What an awesome and talented guy. Gifted with an extraordinary design mind. In this video he allows us a insight look in his Design work from the beginning on and also he presents Universal Everything. An Introduction into the work flow and process of his projects. And he has some wise comments, we should think about, if we are in to this world of design.

It is quite long, but I didn’t get bored or something. He speaks in a relaxed manner and the information are conditioned in a way that you dont’t lose concentration.

Take yourself some time  and enjoy the presentation of his inspiring work.

D&AD Presidents Lecture / Matt Pyke from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

Tags: D&AD, Matt Pyke, Universal Everything

Animation by Zoltán Lányi

For all who like amorphous structures. Which transforme and mutate to the sound of  Amon Tobin feat.Bonobo. Everything in a dark, mechanical and industrial syle. Lean Back and enjoy the visuals.

Amon Tobin feat. Bonobo: I’ll have the waldorf salad – Animation by Zoltán Lányi from Zoltán Lányi on Vimeo.

Tags: Motion Design, Transformers, Zoltán Lányi

Motion Graphics Created with Programming and Music as a Symbiont

In this article I want to summarize an exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, a collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians and animators. Forms, colours, structures and sculptures generated with programming. I show you my 5 favorites, mostly choosen because of my liking of music by Four Tet,  The Flashbulb and Alva Noto.

For more informations about the theme, tools and tutorials and of course more examples visit this blog www.smashingmagazine.com.

Here for now a fast introduction into the topic, a visualization of  abstract micro graphics and mellow forms evolved by a energized idm sound.

Advanced Beauty 13 of 18 / Directed by Maxim Zhestkov from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

This motion graphic was born by the sound of The Flashbulb.

Relentless, The REV from flight404 on Vimeo.

Sunflower from VS* on Vimeo.

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Tags: Motion Design, Processing, Programmed Graphics, Smashing Magazine

Deniz Kader & Candas Sisman – Surface Trailer

Step in.In this world of blured sharpness. Always traveling between the borders of abstract forms and attuned objects. The sound is  sensitive reflecting the surface of the pictures. Get lost and try to find your figure in it.

SURFACE TRAILER from Silo1 on Vimeo.

Tags: Candas Sisman, Deniz Kader, motion effects, Short Films, Surface, Trailer

Vanishing Point by Takuya Hosogane

Vanishing Point from Bonsajo on Vimeo.

I really like this great animation film by Takuya Hosogane done with Cinema 4D and After Effects.  The song is by Cubesato with the name of “Meine Meinung” (in eng. “My opinion”) .
Takuya´s Project name is Bonsajo. Find more about it here.

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Tags: After Effects, Animation, Cinema 4D, Motion Design, Takuya Hosogane, Vanishing Point

_grau by Robert Seidel in HD

_grau | 10:01 min | d 2004 | HD premiere from Robert Seidel on Vimeo.

_grau is a award-winning experimental film by Artist Robert Seidel based in Jena, Germany. Produced in 2004 it is now available in HD on Vimeo (before it was only shown in museums and galleries in this detail and quality). Here is what it is about:

Though there are some impressive effects to be seen here, and one wonders how this was done, Robert comments on Vimeo:

Abstract, organic, emotional! Love it.
Watch it in HD!

More about Roberts work here.

Tags: Animation, Film, HD, Motion Design, Robert Seidel, _grau

The amazing Animations of Adam Pesapane (PES)

Adam Pesapane is a 35 year old digital artist based in New York City.  PES doesn’t like being called an animator. “It’s very limiting,” says the 30 year old self-professed storyteller, director and artist from New Jersey. He uses objects from our daily life and animates them with stop-motion..combined with the right soundtrack there is an amazing outcome. No doubt that his work reminds me a bit of the movies of Jan Swankmajer i posted some time ago. Even if there is no “claymotion” involved and not as surrealistic.

No doubt PES has his own style though. Genius!
See lots more on his youtube channel or on his website www.eatpes.com.

Here are some of my favourites Shorts:

Western Spaghetti (most recent one)

Roof Sex

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Tags: Adam Pesapane, Animation, Film, PES, Stop-motion

The Pendulum for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai – by Milla&Partner

2 weeks ago my university was invited to see the pre-presentation of the energysphere. It is a sphere  which is going to be installed at the german-pavillon fpr the expo 2010 in shanghai. The Event-Agency Milla&Partner created this amazing element. With hundred of thousands of LED´s it creates different visuals on its surface. In Shanghai it will interact with the participants. For example if the people are screaming – the sphere will be following the voices. It was very impressive to see this. Its still having some problems with the interaction, but i am sure it will be impressive at shanghai.

It weighs 1200kg and has a diameter of 3m.

Check the video below.

Tags: Animation, Art, Expo 2010, Milla und Partner, Pendulum, Visualization

Building Projections

Hello Friends!

In some lessons at university we got to know some great kinds of media-arts. Some of them where so impressing, so o decided to show this at cityclouds.de. The 1st video shows different kinds of on-front-projections which where put on some buildings. With high-power projector they put animals, bowls, helicopters and more on big-buildings. Very impressive.

the 2nd Video shows the Bayer Building at Leverkusen. This Building was the center of the Bayer Company. After they moved the center, they where thinking about what´s going to happen with this building. They decided to create an art-element for the city. They put a lot of lightsources (probably LED) on the Building and created different kinds of visuals.

the 3rd video shows the same kind of technique like on the 2nd. They created nice building Projections with light elements at the ars elctronica center in Linz. The aec is the best museum of media art at Linz, and one of the best in the world.

I hope you like the projections. All of them have a special beauty and this shows how much is possible nowadays. Enjoy.

Tags: Animation, Light, light installation, Projections, Visuals

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.

Sometimes we think about the new future of sound or searching for the new sound. Where can we find inspirations. What are the new inventions to create the perfect sound and which Music Machine can we use. These were the things who were Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
thinking of, too. They made this cool video for us to demonstrate how the future about producing music could look like.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
From: futureshorts| 18. November 2009
Dir. Chris Cairns / UK / 2009

When they say you shouldn’t play music with your head, they don’t mean you should use your heart.
Instead, use other peoples heads.

Enjoy it!

Tags: Animation, Beat Box, futureshorts, Music, Music Machine, Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc., New Sound

Stop Motion Animation Film “Lucia & Luis”

Stop motion video “LUIS” (Part 2 of 2) by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon & Joaquin Cociña on Vimeo.

This video is wicked. I love the pictures, the dark and eerie atmosphere with these japanese horror elements. The execution of the idea and the the style of the stop motion effects let the whole video become a masterpiece of its own. The commission of the Illustrative thought the same and they decided to exhibit it.  It’s now displayed in Berlin. I was there and it is worth to visit the exhibition, the work is terrific and expressive. The artists are very talented and you can see a whole bunch of styles, which creates the current illustration movements.

Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006 & 2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008). Being a big success right from the start it managed to be the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts.  It’s Taking place from October 16 – November 1 in Berlin. ›› Read the whole Article…

Tags: Animation, creepy, Illustrative, Luis, Motion Design, Photography

Skate & Create Contest 2009 by Transworld Skateboarding

As a former skateboarding addict i couldnt miss to post this. Transworld Skateboarding organized the Skate & Create Contest for the second time this year and the results are quite appealing. I always really enjoyed watching skateboarding videos back in the days and most of them are well edited. One of my favourite and a legendary skateboarding movie is Yeah Right! by Girl Skateboards. It had a part where they had painted their boards green to make a green screen effect and achieve an effect of invisible skateboards. Watch a youtube version here (couldnt find it with the original song). The full Girl video is here (the invisible boards scene starts at 56:43) .

So whats the Skate & Create contest about? Simple in a way: 1 Warehouse, 4 Teams, 1 Set of obstacles. And a lot of creativity to make something unique out of it.

Here are my 2 favourites:

This one is the best one in my opinion – “DVS -Wood” . Asthetics, music and editing are really good and make you want to watch this until the end (plus some amazing tricks).

Directed by Colin Kennedy, Music by Air Castles.

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Tags: DVS, Etnies, Film, Motion, Motion Design, Skate and Create, Skateboarding, Transworld Skateboarding

Worst Case by Andrew Thomas Huang

This works by Andrew Thomas Huang are enormous. Dark and mystery mood. Especially his new short film “RIFT”. An impressive worst case animation. It reminds me to the scientific experiments like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) near Genf(CH).

Listed among Creativity Magazine’s Top 25 “Directors to Watch” in 2008, Andrew Huang’s work has been increasingly recognized by his trademark combination of live action, animation and visual effects. He is represented by William Morris Endeavor and is managed for commercials in North America by Moo Studios and Trouble Makers in Europe.

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Tags: Andrew Thomas Huang, Directors to Watch, Doll Face, Moo Studios, RIFT, Trouble Makers

First Website with Audiovisual Navigation by Andreas Lutz

A really good attempt from Andreas Lutz to navigate through a Website with Hand movement and voice. Unluckily i currently have no webcam to test the movement control but the voice navigation worked ok. It´s not very efficient and a bit tiring after a while i imagine, but a lot of fun and more Websites like this one will surely follow.
Connect your Mic and Webcam and try it here.

Watch a demo of it here:

ANDREAS LUTZ – Because clicking is so 90s! from andreaslutz on Vimeo.

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Tags: Andreas Lutz, Audiovisual Navigation, Movement and Voice, Web, Website

Audiovisual Mapping by Telenoika

Telenoika Cultural Association was founded on February 2000. It is a non-profit organization and intends to provide a platform for new artistic, social and cultural experiments through new audio+visual technologies. Telenoia’s definition by Roy Ascott describes the critical and connected soul of Telenoika, projecting how TV is affecting the society we are living in and how we reject it to open and share our minds in global networked connectivity.

The latest work by Telenoika is the Audiovisual Mapping @ the Jardí Theater facade on the first edition of Ingravid Festival in Figueres (ES) 9/2009. Firsttime i saw it i get these incredible possibility’s you could create with such an mapping of sound and light-projection, very impressive.

Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo.

Tags: Audiovisual Mapping, Figueres, Ingravid Festival 2009, Telenoika