Kaoss Pad experiment

I’ve spent a little of my free time over the past few weeks learning how to manipulate sound in real time with the Korg Kaoss Pad. I’m intrigued with what can be created by continually interacting with an x-y controller, turning knobs, and occasionally feeding in some new soundbits via iPhone apps (such as Argon and Rain).

Kaoss pad demo by avclub

Korb – I’ll be gone

This music video, sent my way by Blankenship, is downright amazing.

Punctuation series promo

So, how do you make something like this? With a stack of paper like this.

Color grading

Adam has a great post up today about color grading, it’s intention, and setting mood and tone.

Sonar

Let’s talk about how pace, timing, and a great audio score surpass overly complex or realistic visuals, shall we? Need an example?

I love grunge

And that’s some nice grunge.

New gear

Trying out a little something new. More to come.

* PS – sampling is much harder than it looks.

Fictionist – Blue Eyed Universe

I think my favorite part is either the block space textures near the beginning or the track matte characters / textures at the end.

Fictionist – Blue Eyed Universe from Eric Power on Vimeo.

Lego Podracer

This weekend G and I decided to create a Lego podracer (guess who’s learning about Star Wars?). This is what we came up with.

Practical Atheist series open

A special thanks to Chris Isham and Will Rodes for lending their photography skills.

Nokta

Here let’s talk about how far a piece can be elevated with the right score and sound design.

And amazing organic / 3D visuals.

End Scene

Love that texture? How’d they achieve it? Print every frame, photocopy, then scan ‘em back it.

That’s my kind of style.

The Ostrich

In today’s burst of inspiration let’s talk about how the mixed media + subtle CG + story + tempo + soundtrack all combine to make this downright perfect. I’m inspired.

Airborn intro animation

Well done by Lufthoheit. Especially since it’s comprised of 2D elements and some great smoke animation.

Airborn Intro from JuliusB on Vimeo.

Weird thing I learned today

I never knew this, but manta rays jump out of the water. Now you know this, too.

Unleash 2010 opener

Here’s the opener for Unleash 2010.

Trying something a little different, a lot fun.

Low budget promo

In our breakout at Unleash we talked about some of the key principles to creating content, none of which involved big dollars. And to illustrate the concepts of brainstorming and scripting we created this promo on the day of Unleash with a Flip Mino camera. Unfortunately we had some technicals issue loading it in so quickly… otherwise we would have run it as part of the second session’s counter. But you can view it here.

Unleash 2010 counter mixes

One thing I enjoy about Unleash is the fact that I get to make two 10 minutes mixes for the message counters. For this year’s mixes I went with the following:

Counter 1
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval, Gui Boratto Remix)
autoKratz – Always More
BT – Suddenly (Celldweller Mix), from These Hopeful Machines

Counter 2
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Mingus Rude edit)
RJD2 – Let There Be Horns (from Colossus)
BT (a selection from) “These Hopeful Machines” (B Side)… around the 25:50 mark

Previous year’s mixes here and here.

Noise for the low price of free

Want to experiment with sound and noise? Look no further than Noiseplug 1.8, available now, for free, right here.

I downloaded it and it confused me profusely, but I think that’s part of the joy and challenge.

Another Mario Galaxy…

And I haven’t even finished the first one yet. OK, I’ll do that first, then start on Super Mario Galaxy 2.