Having heard nice things about the DVD’s from Stash, we ordered some copies from their backlist to check out for ourselves. We were especially curious, because on two of their latest issues work from creative studios based in our hometown Amsterdam is featured: Buro Knapzak and PostPanic. With high expectations, disappointment lurks, but the contrary … Continued
The digital genii at Universal Everything have created a generative design system that produces unique, sound-reactive animations every day, forever. That’s right: Forever! Towering magestically among the lawns of the V&A’s ornate 19th-Century courtyard, is the slinky Universal Everything video wall, hatching its endless audio-visual artworks until Febraury 1st (the system keeps on hatching but … Continued
It’s always gratifying when a graphic super-whizz gets his or her work animated by some kindly motion talent. Steven Harrington, known and loved for his Cali-flavored rock album-cover surrealism, teamed up with Karla Carnewal to bring us “A Two Part Invention of the Universe”. Screening at Sundance 09, the stop motion piece features rotating teepees … Continued
An online premiere at SubmarineChannel: The short films of Sietske Tjallingii (that’s Miss T to you – you’re welcome) celebrate home-made glue-and-sticky tape special effects, combining a sharp wit with subversive commentary on everything from religious fundamentalism to military supremacy to female stereotyping (in a vampy catsuit, no less). Since graduating from the audiovisual department … Continued
Hungarian new media open sourcers Kitchen Budapest have created an animation package with unusually high levels of Luddite-friendliness. Breathe life into your own virtual puppets using your basic household tech: a digital camera and webcam mic will do just fine. Named as Pixelache Software of the Year 2009, the tool invites continuous, real-time interaction, making … Continued
Are you finding that CNN tends to favour Israel, while the BBC has a pro-Palestinian bias? Time to plug in to the growing trend that is online citizen journalism: gritty, up-to-the-minute reality checks that are free from the political leanings of media moguls. Bloggers take to their websites with fevered dedication to give us a … Continued
From the director of seminal geek culture documentary Helvetica (which we showed in 07 at our festival “Short Ride”), Objectified introduces us to the machinations of the oft-ignored backend of industrial design and production. Influential names like Marc Newson and Karim Rashid are set against the humble backdrop of toothbrushes, door-knobs, and other daily trifles, … Continued
The movie St. Trinian’s is the most recent film adaptation of the cartoon series St Trinian’s School created by Ronald Searles, about an English boarding school for girls. The London-based Emmy-nominated animation studio VooDooDog was approached to do the (very cartoonesque) title sequence.
Why torture yourself by sitting through feature-length 1980s action movies, when you could just watch the super-compact versions re-worked by Brit rappers Mouthmaster Murf and DJ Mayhem? Their two meticulously crafted Youtube clips sum up Robocop and Predator in just a few minutes, mixing the original film and dialogue with cleverly cut beats and rhymes.
We updated Forget the Film, Watch the Titles with 3 main titles (4, if you include Kung Fu Panda) by Shine Studio‘s art director Michael Riley. Watch the suspenseful opening credits for Along Came a Spider (2001); Gattaca (1997), created at Imaginary Forces with “nothing digital other than Illustrator to set some type,” as Riley … Continued
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