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Nokta

ken — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:19 +0000

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

ken — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:22 +0000

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

ken — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:37:05 +0000

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

ken — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:00:57 +0000

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

ken — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:11:31 +0000

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

Unleash 2010 opener

ken — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:03:52 +0000

Here’s the opener for Unleash 2010.

Trying something a little different, a lot fun.

Low budget promo

ken — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:02:11 +0000

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

ken — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:05 +0000

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

ken — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:04:14 +0000

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…

ken — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:41:43 +0000

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

Gorgeous wokspace

ken — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:53:13 +0000

I really love this gorgeous workspace. Now include a standing-desk version and I’d be right at home.

Coeur De Pirate – concert visuals

ken — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:14:17 +0000

What a beautiful and well visualized piece. This is used for a concert visual, I presume some sort of backdrop, to compliment the song. As a piece it doesn’t really go anywhere, but it has a great art style and is a lot of fun.

nanoloop track 0b

ken — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:00:05 +0000

This little 8-bit experiment was created and live performed directly in Nanoloop on the Game Boy, captured in Garageband, and sweetened a little with a pad from Argon (iPhone synth).

Nanoloop-0b by avclub

inspiration: March in Thonburi by MPY

ken — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:00:04 +0000

I’m not really sure how to process this but it’s quite inspiring visually. Just give it a chance.

March in Thonburi from Michael Paul Young on Vimeo.

Wizard smoke

ken — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:08 +0000

I went through a brief skateboard phase and quickly discovered that there are some things I’m just not meant to do. That detail’s not really important, but now I’ve given some context to this piece. If you’ve watched skateboard videos you typically know what to expect. This one is different, beautifully paced, great soundtrack, oh, and all of the subjects are covered with various colored powders which adds so much life to the entire piece.

Finally, I really dig the color grading, too. Beautiful.

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.