Thursday, 25 June 2009

Serial Cut

Serial Cut

A new site design is up which forms an elegant backdrop to some nice new projects.

Serial Cut previously posted here...

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Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Actop

Actop

Inspiring Flickr stream of experimental abstract imagery created in After Effects.

Actop's website is well worth a look too...

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Hana Screensaver



Hana screensaver now available for OSX intel.

Hana is a dream about flowers for computers. The idea is that no aspect of creating the flowers is hidden from the computers, everything is created in code and no bitmaps are used that the computer has not seen to the creation of itself, letting the computer "think" through every step.

I've known Andreas for some time now and his work never fails to blow my sock off!

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Friday, 13 March 2009

Stoav

Stoav

Stoav is rocking a cool new site design and some lovely new work.

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Thursday, 12 March 2009

World Builder



An unknown man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.

It's refreshing to see something with such a solid and compassionate narrative and so well executed.

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Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Gmunk

Gmunk

Great to see that Gmunk is still rocking work of the highest quality.

It's been a very long time since I saw him last and he hasn't promotes his work in ages.

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Wednesday, 4 March 2009

This Is Now



Beautiful flowing abstract primitives created for Ford by Maxim Zhestkov. Lovely...

Maxim Zhestkov previously posted here...

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Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Burning Safari

Burning Safari

Amazingly action-packed short film. Extremely well executed and with a brilliant sense of humour too...

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Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Your Majesty Reel 2008

Your Majesty Reel 2008

Gorgeous reel from the boys at Your Majesty - showcasing even more fabulous work.

Your Majesty previously posted here...

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Monday, 2 February 2009

Blue Coldesack



The eternal struggle between order and chaos, ending in symbiosis.

I like how it appears more like augmented reality than being seamlessly integrated.

Created by Vladimir Tomin at Spacejump.

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Monday, 26 January 2009

Peugeot 3008



Really great to see Zamak's fantastic characters being used commercially. Impressive how much personality they convey.

Don't forget to click the High Quality option in the player - it really makes a big improvement.

Zamak previously posted here...

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Friday, 23 January 2009

Christopher Hewitt

Christopher Hewitt

My old friend Chris has relaunched his site with some sterling new pieces of work.

Hoping to see a bit more of him, as bizarrely I discovered he now lives about 100 metres from me!

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Geosound

Geosound

Visual soundsystems - is it possible to visualise an acoustic composition to detect the system behind?

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Friday, 19 December 2008

Ease



Animated identity for Filippa K by Johan Prag.

Beautiful liquid effect - must work out how this is done...

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Friday, 12 December 2008

Sumeco

Sumeco

New 2007-2008 portfolio. I am especially loving the Study Reel - for first motion experiments it's very impressive :-)

Sumeco previously posted here...

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Thursday, 11 December 2008

Serial Cut

Serial Cut

New updates added to their portfolio - some lovely new work on show!

Serial Cut previously posted here...

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Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Robert Seidel

Robert Seidel

Gorgeous new idents for Channel Five and IdN Magazine - like kinetic liquid paint.

I remember as a kid how you could get something vaguely similar using a saucer of milk, some drops of food colouring then adding one drop of washing up liquid!

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Sunday, 9 November 2008

Michael Paul Young

Michael Paul Young

Slick new site that supports a wealth of beautiful abstract 3D work and much more besides...

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Monday, 28 July 2008

More Supaformula

More Supaformula

Some new updates at Sanch TV - lovely as always, I posted the earlier Supaformula examples almost one year ago to the day!

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Wednesday, 23 July 2008

Twin

Twin

Really impressive motion work from this pair of Australian brothers. Two of my favourites are their adverts for Wrigley's Extra (because the characters are extremely cute), and the Nissan Powered Suit series.

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Qube Konstrukt

Qube Konstrukt

Great portfolio, especially some of the motion graphics - which can be viewed in their current showreel. I particularly like this bit of model making for the Next Wave Festival, it's nice to see people successfully combining traditional and digital skills.

They also have a self-published book called Consort that is available here - I have ordered myself a copy =)

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Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4



Promotional video with impressive driving, relatively subtle use of infographics (with a touch of humour), and anyway - Lamborghini has always been my favorite car manufacturer.

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Thursday, 10 July 2008

Philip Shtoll

Philip Shtoll

A design, live-action company and personal portfolio site. Great showreel and work, especially the interface designs for Iron Man.

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Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Sebastien Cannone

Sebastien Cannone

Stunning showreel with some amazingly complex graffiti inspired elements - a must see!

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Curt Blog

Curt Blog

Discovered this blog - I hope they add to it regularly.

I posted their showreel some time ago, but they've updated their site and it's well worth another look.

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Wednesday, 25 June 2008

The Holograms

The Holograms

The Holograms have some new work on show - and it's extremely good! Their MTV Bloom Ident reminds me of Truthtag's work a bit, but even better - it's animated.

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Monday, 23 June 2008

Stopp

Stopp

I love the simplicity of this playhead interface, plus it's backed up by an extensive, multi-disciplinary portfolio containing some great work!

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Sunday, 8 June 2008

Science Under Fire

Science Under Fire

I haven't visited here since the launch of the second version site, there's some slick new work on display and a new blog too. I'm very curious about the Titan project - looks interesting...

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Saturday, 7 June 2008

Gkaster Showreel 2008

Gkaster

Exceptional showreel and portfolio, a beautifully designed and well implemented site too.

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Wednesday, 2 April 2008

Maxim Zhestkov

Maxim Zhestkov

Amazingly detailed and highly emotive monochrome 3D work. Maxim's Flickr photos are well worth a look too.

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DVNO



This awesome video by So Me for Justice encapsulates everything I love - great music, 80's inspired motion graphics and some fantastic logotypes that fit with the lyrics!

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Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Metaconfigurator

Metaconfigurator

Discovered this Flickr set - lots of lovely 3D abstractions, created by Kristopher Collins.

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Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Umps Unzin



Discovered this piece while searching Vimeo, created by Depart.

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Magnetosphere



Found another beautiful piece created in Processing by Flight 404. Again, I recommend following the link and watching the high quality quicktime version.

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Solar With Lyrics



Captivating, almost astrological visuals - created in Processing by the ever-talented Flight 404. I recommend following the link and watching the HD version.

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Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Silencio

Silencio

Átila Meireles's elegant portfolio site has a refreshingly humorous start page and contains some compelling abstract images.

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Wednesday, 16 January 2008

MK12





I watched the Kite Runner at the weekend and was completely captivated by the fluid beauty of the intro credits (they are not online yet unfortunately). It didn't come as too much of a surprise to discover that they had been produced by MK12.

I remember some years ago at Kioken, how completely blown away we were when we saw the two MK12 movies above. We went on to experiment with our own pseudo 3D effects - firstly using Combustion and then After Effects . It's a widely used effect now, but they are still incredible, so I thought I would post them.

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Saturday, 12 January 2008

Arne & Carlos

Arne & Carlos

Truly engaging and beautifully surreal dreamscapes for this fashion label.

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Thursday, 10 January 2008

Mato Atom

Mato Atom

Visually stunning and stylistically varied examples from the portfolio of Mato Atom.

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Sunday, 6 January 2008

Other - Jozias Dawson

Other - Jozias Dawson

Lovely randomly generated 80's inspired graphics form the backdrop for this slick, elegant and fun to use portfolio site.

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Friday, 4 January 2008

Victor Taba

Victor Taba

Music and animation mix randomly on a stage of visual and aural stimulation.

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Monday, 31 December 2007

Mark Coleran

Mark Coleran

Very slick screen, interface and motion graphic design for television and film. I want to get into this area myself as I do an awful lot of interface design for future services and abstracting it would be a great deal of fun.

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Flight 404 Blog

Flight 404

Beautiful and insanely complex Processing experiments.

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Sunday, 30 December 2007

Mobbit Systems - Merry Christmas

Mobbit Systems - Merry Christmas

Simple and elegant, with some stylistically beautiful elements.

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Monday, 12 November 2007

Yeah! Reel

Yeah! Reel

New Serial Cut showreel, and it's extremely slick! Motion graphics by the ultra talented Tavo.

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Superdeux

Monaux

Long standing portfolio with a bold cartoon style and some really 'cute' character designs...

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Monday, 8 October 2007

Rmax and Marconi for MTV

Guilherme Marconi

Nice spot for MTV, utilising the combined skills of Rmax Studio and Guilherme Marconi.

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Tuesday, 2 October 2007

Sigg Jones

Sigg Jones

An urban tale of men and magic... Short movie showcasing some exceptional 3D talent!

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Hewlett Packard "Hands"









I know these are old, but they're so well done and translate the paper metaphor so effectively.

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Tuesday, 18 September 2007

Mr. Gorman 2007 Reel

Mr. Gorman

Nice snappy reel with some good hybrid 2D/3D compositions.

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Friday, 14 September 2007

Serious Situations

Serious Situations

Interesting portfolio covering many diverse design styles. The newly added work is well worth a look.

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Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Curt 2007 Reel

Curt

Very 80's feel to it, but re-interpreted and brought to life. Nice....

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Friday, 31 August 2007

Onesize

Onesize

Very cool site with slick navigation and loads of great motion pieces, particularly their new reel. Five stars all the way!

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Integrating Energy

Integrating Energy

Stunning interactive overhead projection and installation by Meso.

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Sphere Harmonics Destrukt

Sphere Harmonics Destrukt

More great abstract forms at Sanch TV, created using VVVV.

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Supaformula Destrukt

Supaformula Destrukt

Great abstract forms at Sanch TV, created using VVVV.

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The Holograms Demo Reel

The Holograms

FMK7 who did the Destruckt clip is part of this French collective, and it's nice to see all their work is of an equally high standard.

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Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Destruckt by FMK7

Destruckt

Now that's what I like to see, a good bit of hardcore vector decimation. Extremely well executed!

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Alex Mapar Spring 2007 Reel

Data Visualisation

Lots of glam!! Excellent audio, visuals and timing make for a slick reel...

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SVVVVN

SVVVVN

A blog of abstract VVVV work, there's some fantastically detailed stuff in there...

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Bones Magazine Issue 1



The work of Studio Seen. Built with VVVV - so it's realtime too!

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Sunday, 26 August 2007

Cave

Cave

Direction, design and animation. Found this while googling Adam Gault, turns out Carlo Vega has worked on many projects: past and present with Adam and it looks like they can all be viewed here. I particularly like the simplicity of this portfolio, using CSS show/hide techniques to full effect.

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Adam Gault

Adam_Gault

An excellent showreel that I've been showing to lots of friends in the business recently, I particularly like the simplicity and minimalism of the site and the juxtaposition of the unusually slow audio against the diverse visuals.

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Stranger Than Fiction



I was gobsmacked when I first saw these clips in Stranger Than Fiction, and thought they looked familiar, then I discovered they was done by MK12 - and they never cease to amaze.

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A Tried and Tested Method



Beautiful infographics for this music video very much in the style of airline information leaflets, it's not particularly, new but well worth posting! Based on A Tried And Tested Method by The Longcut.

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Mate Universe

Mate Universe 02

Beautiful site from Mate Steinforth, it's jam-packed full of incredible motion graphics and some equally impressive stills and sketches.

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