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People Portraits
Note to Self
"Note to Self" is Gera Frascarolis Master of Digital Media major work.
He basically started with filming live action footage - edited it -
exported it at 12fps. Then he traced each frame by hand on a
wacom tablet. After that he brought it back into after effects and started
masking each frame with a photo of a piece of paper - that's then main
part of the process.
"The idea for the animation was basically conceived out of my concern about the degrading state of society and the planet. I wanted to create something that would make people stop, think and question what their priorities in life are.
The process behind the work was quite labor intensive - i started with story boarding the concept - which was to show the intertwining like cycle of a cash note and a person at different stages of their life, and how they reacted to money at these different stages. Although the character realises that there is more to life than money towards the end, we can see that the character is actually in an endless and inescapable cycle, as he shows his son (which really is himself) how to plant a money tree.
I then began filming the various stages, edited the film and exported it as individual frames. I then began to trace over each individual frame using a wacom tablet. Each frame took anywhere between 10 - 25 minutes to draw, and all up there were at least 850 frames. After tracing 10 or so frames i would pop them into After Effects to see if the movement was fluid and if i had missed out on anything.
This process took about 2 months and anywhere between 4-10 hours a day of tracing. The final month was dedicated to compositing, adding colours, masking the character in each frame, adding/timing with sound etc. Since i am quite new to After Effects, there was a lot of experimenting and trial and error involved - the variations and possibilities are endless."
The rest was a mixture of drawing and compositing
between photoshop and after effects.
Music: Broken Social Scene - Pitter Patter Goes my Heart
City + Country Portraits
knowledge by Axel Rudolph
For his final year project at Berufsakademie Ravensburg in Germany, Axel Rudolph created “Knowledge, -
a proof-of-concept video for his vision of what educational media could be.
Well done, Axel!
Event Reports
Design & Emotion
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe present over 200 items detached from traditional classifications of function, style, materials.
This exhibition focuses on the visceral appeal of products and defines the popular concept of emotional design.
People Portraits
Sagmeister 08
"Things I have learned in my life", Stefan Sagmeister Show in SOHO/New York.
Watch out for the video, realized by HillmanCurtis film and video.
City + Country Portraits
GreenPix Documentary
GreenPix: 2,200 sqm LED media wall powered by solar panels. Alexandra Lerman published a documentary about the GreenPix on which Simon Giostra, founder of Simone Giostra & Partners, explains the challenge to design and build this gigantic media wall, with the help of engineering experts ARUP.
Event Reports
maeve
At the Venice Biennale, the mæve installation connects the entries of the EveryVille student competition and puts them into the larger context of MACE content and metadata. By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, the visitors can explore an organic network of projects, people and media.
Things with Wings
This is an excerpt of a live VJ mix performed with VJ Lady Firefly and DJ Spinoza at Eyebeam's Mixer event in NYC. It premieres my flying cutout series, including the flying octopus, flying mustache, and swiveling dancers. The full mix was about an hour long.
City + Country Portraits
Bombay Sapphire Gallery Berlin
Bombay Sapphire opened a temporary gallery this June to showcase an exhibition of design objects commissioned by the premium gin. The 450 sqm exhibition space displayed timelessly elegant designs by major design industry names such as Tom Dixon, Karim Rashid and Eva Zeisel.
People Portraits
Invader - Binary Code Street Art
The street artist Invader came from France to L.A. recently and took a minute to explain his new Binary Code street art. This new media utilizes hi-tech Binary Code technology combined with his trademark lo-tech ceramic tile work as seen in urban centers all around the world.
City + Country Portraits
Tree of Death
Nice project from our friends from slashthree.com. Directed, designed, composed and animated by myaka, with music by NEO.
People Portraits
L´homme 100 tetes
For the contest « Transformation : Live-React » Julien Lassort and Matthieu Burlot explored the human face, the most exposed and personal part of the human body. Their dynamic portrayal of “1000 and one faces” is a mosaic of portraits and emotions that plays off of the power of faces seen close up.
