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Some nice visual from boca motion for the 2010 Voxel show opener.

Here’s some new stuff from Digital Kitcken, some virals for True blood season 2, some funny stuff.

A nice documentary on the lost art of hand painted wall advertising. Enjoy!

Nexus Interactive Arts

Sup peeps, heres some test footage from my new Canon 7D, the camera outputs Full 1920x1080p Broadcast video.

The footage is all hand held, using 17-55mm 2.8 IS, edited and colour in After Effects, dont mind the titles, just playing around

Ill upload the full version later when i finish cutting the footage together

Sup! check this video out on social media & creativity, features Joseph-Gordon Levitt (500 Days Summer),Chase Jarivs, Levar Burton(Star Trek, Roots), and Marcin Teodoru (30day feature film challenge)

I found this video through illustrator Frank Chimero’s excellent blog and listened to it while working today. It’s a speech that Ed Catmull, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, gave at the Stanford School of Business in 2007 about the hard parts of business and a few important lessons that’s he’s learned. It’s a bit long, but well worth listening to.

The six important points he makes (paraphrased here) are:
1. Review material every day. Constantly review work-in-progress to reduce the stigma of “unfinished” or “imperfect” work
2. It must be safe to tell the truth.
3. Communication between members of the organization shouldn’t mirror the organizational structure / hierarchy. Open door policy means open door.
4. People functioning well together is more important than the thing or idea they’re working on.
5. Don’t let success mask problems (deep assesment)
6. Once an important idea can be expressed in a concise statement, one can just use the statement and NOT have to change their behavior.

Another interesting point he makes towards the end of the talk is:

“Every product that we’re making has got to be original. Which implies that we can never repeat ourselves. To me, this is an important thing because many people in Hollywood don’t actually understand that. If something is successful – if you’ve got Star Wars or Shrek or whatever, then it’s basically, “Let’s do that again.” Well we’ll try to make it a little bit different. But we’ll do the same thing again.
But you can’t think that way, with any products. Everything is new and original. And therefore our way of dealing with and solving the problems has got to be an original. So the secret is we have to keep on digging deeper and deeper and knowing that we’re always missing something that’s important.”

This is a great thought to use in thinking about Motion Graphic Design and Animation as well, when our own clients demand original thinking and solutions to their problems. It’s not enough to rely on design ideas that are based on template and remakes or to try to emulate others’ success. True innovation happens when the right people are given the right tools and asked to create things that are truly unique. And it’s what we should all be striving for.

A golden oldie from Ray and Charles Eames

Photo journalistic work coming out of Indonesia following the Sumatra Earthquake.
Quite confronting, especially when you dive into some of the captions.
Don’t really have any other comment in regards other then to send our thoughts to those directly and indirectly affected.

2009 Earthquake – Sumatra