: livebrush
This is actually a lot of fun. Liverbrush, an Adobe Air (cross platform) app, “is a unique motion-based drawing tool. Use the power of motion to toss graphics around the screen or elegantly swing the brush around your cursor.” When you are done doing that, export in various formats to use in your work!
I am often frustrated by how hard it is to quickly create free form graphics in something as powerful and comprehensive as Illustrator. Maybe this is a good answer to that.
The video below is okay, but just getting in there and playing around gives you a really good feel for how it works. Let me know what you think if you use it.
: offf 2010 titles
This made me feel like I should have gone to the OFFF festival this year. Its the first time I have missed it in three years.
The titles are always a big reveal at the festival. Past years have relied very heavily on computer generated motion graphics. This year, not so much. Perhaps this signals a sort of official backlash against that style. I am going to keep my eye open for that. Instead the video depends on very clever sequences of splicing the video to create effects/moments. Check it out.
OFFF Paris 2010 Sponsors titles from Julien Vallée on Vimeo.
: movie magic lecture series
This sounds very much worth checking out. Probably a lot of learning opportunities around what it takes to actually make some of these amazing films for either the cinema, and/or advertising.
Visionary Visuals, Cahners Theater
With Doug Roble, creative director of software, Digital Domain. This presentation is part of the ongoing series Movie Magic.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 7:00 pm
While you are at it, check out the Digital Domain website where the speaker Doug Roble is the creative director of software. Interesting titles as well. Never heard of a software creative director. I wonder what that really means. I am sure it will come up at the lecture. The screen below is from the movie i-Robot. Not a terribly good film, but the effects were pretty mind blowing.
:syfy
More great re-branding work. This time by Proud Creative out of London. This happened back in July of 09 so I am kinda late to this. It got a lot of press at the time, and not all of it positive. Apparently, even Landor has publicly distanced themselves from the actual naming work, claiming the client drove that part of it.
Still, it is worth taking a look at especially after our work here around the re-branding for Game Show Network. Seems like they have aimed to really shed any sort of geeky image they may have had before. The look is slick and modern. Not sure about the new name, but I dig the extreme 3d modeled effects that really on subtle shading and minimal clutter. Those who work with me know I like to strip away the junk. This is a great example.
Head on over to Analog for more views of the screens like the one below.
These station ID examples are quite stunning. Again, really great examples of how to make a brand come to life with motion concepts.
