A cool way to create a digital painting. Harmony allows you to draw literally on a blank screen with a drop-down selection of various media including fur, circles, squares, and many more! Here's my quick session.
This piece was shot on a Nikon D3 as a series of stills. The director created this miniature feel with a process called "tilt-shift," also known as miniature faking. The miniature faking process can be executed by blurring parts of a photograph to simulate a shallow depth of field (used in close-up photography), which helps the scene appear smaller. Also, the footage is taken from a higher angle to simulate an effect of looking down on a miniature. Pretty damn cool!
Mar / 02 / 10 / A Very Colorful and Fun Video By Rhett Dashwood
I ran into this video and had to share it right away. The bright colors and the way each finger is their own character differentiating in hair, makeup, and costumes, makes me smile. Props to you, Mr. Rhett!
Credits
Music: Kumisolo / My love for you is a "Cheap Pop Song."
Director / Producer: Rhett Dashwood
Mar / 01 / 10 / How To Roll A Gargantuous Snowball
The footage was shot on an iPhone by lady Sydney that I then edited in After Effects. Rolling a huge snowball was not as easy as I thought.. As it gets bigger, the snow became more like ice and therefore, adding more weight. The music is from an old skool Nintendo 64 game that my brother, Eric and I used to play called "Snowboard Kids." Just imagine Mario Kart, but with snowboarding. Good times.. Hope you guys enjoy the video!
I wasn't able to capture how ridiculously hot pink the sky was that afternoon I was in Atlanta, no thanks to the camera on my phone. All we can do is imagine..
Synopsis
After months of being alone, sad, busy, sidetracked, free, lofty, late and away from his kids, Lenny (Ronald Bronstein), 34 with graying frazzled hair, picks his kids up from school. Every year he spends of couple of weeks with his sons Sage (Sage Ranaldo), 9, and Frey (Frey Ranaldo), 7. Lenny juggles his kids and everything else all within a midtown studio aparment in New York City. He ultimately faces the choice of being their father of their friend with the idea that these two weeks must last 6 months. In these two weeks, a trip upstate, visitors from strange lands, a mother, a girlfriend, "magic" blankets, and complete lawlessness seem to take over their lives. The film is a swan song to excuses and irresponsibility's; to fatherhood and self-created experiences, and to what its like to be truly torn between being a child and being an adult. Credits to Apple Trailers
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo
Jan / 27 / 10 / Florent Degourc's "Smoothie" Concept
Candy for those in the industrial design world, French designer Florent Degourc demonstrates a playful concept of a table and bench entitled "Smooth & Smoothie." This set is a mixture of polyurethane foam and resin coating. Sweet!
This video discusses human fear that robots may one day become smarter than us. They may dominate us and we may become their slaves.. "People and machines need a trusting relationship, just like the trust between people." - Jun Ashihara (Honda)
Spike Jonze does it again! Nearly after releasing the film we love "Where The Wild Things Are," Jonze announced his newest project "I'm Here" at the Sundance Film Festival last night. Can't wait to see what Jonze has put together for us this time.
There have been recent discoveries found in the coastal rainforests of Ecuador. I came across this photo of a new breed known as a "Glass Frog." As you can see above, this frog's beating heart can be seen through its skin! Check out the many other creatures they have found in these rainforests such as the no.2 eraser sized gecko and a salamander that breathes entirely through their skin.
Jan / 14 / 10 / The Chemical Brothers "Let Forever Be"
Here is a cool Music Video directed by Michel Gondry of "Let Forever Be", which is the second single from The Chemical Brothers. The transitions are outstanding!
Above is a series of images by Matt Logue who presents to us a naked LA. People, cars, and other signs of life have been emptied from these intersections and freeways through digital manipulation. Now I want to see this effect executed to New York and Tokyo.
Jan / 05 / 10 / Cell Phone you can CARRY WITH YOU!
"Introducing a revolutionary new concept... a cell phone you can CARRY WITH YOU. Sure, you have to wind it up and add plutonium, but it's worth it. Ah, the early 90's."
Jan / 04 / 10 / Today's Google Doodle is an Apple Drop
If you haven't seen today's Google Doodle, there is an apple dropping from a tree. It seems to be the first animated version I have ever seen. What's the special ocasion you ask? With a little bit of research, I found out today, January 4th is Sir Isaac Newton's birthday! One day, Newton saw a falling apple while walking around his family's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor which lead the English mathematician to hypothesize the law of universal gravitation.
Here is a short 3D animated film by VE Sega Animation Studio released on November 21, 2008. "Sonic: Night of the Werehog" tells the story of two male ghosts who live in a haunted house taking pictures of scared children in order to woo a female ghost. Their frustration with an unafraid Sonic who enters the house with his very afraid sidekick, Chip.
I've been addicted to this one game on my iphone called 'doodlejump' and basically you jump up to get the highest score trying to avoid monsters, blackholes, spaceships, and precarious platforms. Fun!
Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm a motion graphics designer living in new york. Welcome to sneakerbot and feel free to check out my showreel while you're here. You can also follow me on vimeo and twitter! Email me for any questions.