Category Archives: Discoveries
Suzie Templeton
Suzie Templeton is the brilliant and amazing animator responsible for the animation Dog, which I previously mentioned. Recently, while revamping my old posts to get videos that were embedded in them working with my newly redesigned theme and newly added implementation of the JW FLV PLayer ( which now, thanks to Flash 9, can play [...]
Tír na nÓg
Tír na nÓg: The Land of Eternal Youth or the Land of the Ever-YoungNote: In order to play this, you may need to update to Flash Player 9, which supports h.264/aac muxed in the popular mpeg4 container format. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh [...]
458nm + The Cags
I was just looking at some videos on MeFeedia.com, and came across this amazing 3D animated short called 458nm. “It’s midnight. A smattering of moonlight falls upon the forest floor. Two mechanical snails move slowly through the darkness. They confront one another and briefly take the measure each other’s powers before uniting in love play. [...]
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Peter Rose VOX 13 Series (1982 – 2000) on UbuWeb
Peter Rose is an experimental media artist currently a professor of media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Recently I and my fellow students of media at the Evergreen State College had the good fortune of receiving a couple of great presentations about his work and philosophy and creative processes that he [...]
Visual Effects: An Interview with Lead Compositor of Van Helsing
I stumbled accross this (somewhat aged) interview with Todd Vaziri, a lead compositor in Van Helsing, at ILM. It might be interesting for some to see how After Effects is used in a larger professional production workflow on a big effects-heavy film production. The Interview (via vfxtalk.com)
Red Camera – Peter Jackson Short
The Red Camera is becoming less and less of a pipe-dream and more and more of a reality. Recently, Peter Jackson borrowed two prototype cameras and shot a short ‘video’ with them, “Crossing the Line”. There is a small trailer released for that on the reduser.net forums. This was discovered through the excellent site, fxguide.com. [...]
Rabbit, Owl
Recently I happened across the animation “Rabbit” by Run Wrake, on the DVblog website (a rather prolifically updated compilation of interesting video). I had seen this screened in SOS: Media by Ruth Hayes previously, but thought I would share it here, as the 3rd post in this little series of interesting and notable “Multimedia Discoveries”. [...]
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Maywa Denki
Maywa Denki are a group of artists and engineers in Tokyo, Japan. They are known for their creation of absurdly creative “nonsense machines“, and other works of electromechanical devices which are gloriously surreal in their purpose and functioning. Here are some blog posts for further reading. The Nonsense Machines of Maywa Denki PopGadget – Maywa [...]
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Online Video Discoveries of Excellence: Doll Face + Dog + 90 Degrees
In the following space, I would enjoy presenting to you a collection of excellent short videos and animations that I have come across on the Internet. This collection is arbitrary and non-encompassing; as such, expect more posts of this sort to follow. Doll Face A slightly interesting and notable example of a simple conceptual 3D [...]
Paul Graham’s Disagreement Hierarchy