Incredible Tron Legacy blog post from Josh Nimoy aka jtnimoy giving an insight into the technologies, programming and processing techniques behind the effects for the feature film. Josh is obviously incredibly talented and far too clever for his own good! he’s using OpenFrameworks, wxWidgets, writing particle renderers and physics simulators and a lot more.
I love the in-depth approach and conscious effort right from concept stage to make the effects as real and appropriate for the film setting as possible “We were trying to create fireworks that looked enough like real fireworks but had interesting techno-aesthetic. As a homage to the original Tron character Bit, we used icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, and similar”!
His other work is just as impressive, take a bit of time out to check out jtnimoy.net.
The best ideas are always the simplest. This is a really nice compilation video of the best examples of feature film title design. I have featured artofthetitle.com on my blog before, here Art of the Title.
Alex Bogusky one of the world’s most awarded creative directors surprised many when he quit what he called, “the best job on the planet,” at his own agency CP+B to create his latest venture The Fearless Revolution.
This new venture sets out to explore new agreement between consumers and corporations.
A nice film exploring the principles behind the The Fearless Revolution and who wouldn’t want to go to work at the Fearless Cottage – great name!
This is a great project on two levels.
I think I am probably one of the last group of people to have had a traditional graphic design education. My initial introduction to design was using type gauge rulers, learning about pica m’s, drawing serifs and sans serifs with Rotring pens etc. lots of work training the eye to understand positive and negative spaces, lots of type paste-up work and using small letterpress machines. So I love rolling up the sleeves for a bit of hands on design work.
Also, before seeing this project I hadn’t heard of Kickstarter but what a fantastic idea!
If you don’t have funding for your dream project then Kickstarter enables you to reach out to the wider creative community to get them involved to help fund your project. Great projects from across the globe that before would never have seen the light of day are being funded and developed by very generous backers. Actually the generosity in these hard times is pretty staggering.
In the case of LetterMpress the project has received more than double it’s required funding within half the allotted time.
A great concept, great platform coupled with great support and backing.
I found this really nice blog post on fastcodesign exploring and explaining the creative process behind the ‘face’ of IBM’s supercomputer Watson.
Watson recently featured on US quiz show Jeopardy, in one of the latest installments of the Human v Computer battles. IBM hired renowned digital artist/designer/technologist Joshua Davis to create a visual avatar for Watson.
The video in the blog is a great insight to the creative process and final visual execution.
Found this nice little infographic on Digital Buzz Blog while having lunch today. Quite astounding that 1 in 11 people on the planet are now on Facebook! The figures are incredible when you think about them, nearly 8 new accounts are registered every second!
I wouldn’t even like to think how much the server and network system costs to keep going each month.
The infographic was originally crated by SocialBakers.
Ever wondered how on earth some projects have been created?
If you’re a creative, designer, developer or techy working in one of the many creative disciplines then no doubt you will spend a good deal of your time researching campaigns, sites, virals, social media etc from your peers, competitors and rivals.
In my experience of working in agencies there are normally two responses to viewing other peoples work. The first and most common (if creatives and designers are involved) is unfortunately to go straight for the jugular and start pointing out flaws, describe in detail how badly it’s been executed, wonder if they didn’t have the budget to finish it or explain how you would have done it differently and obviously better.
The other response is to sit in awe, to call colleagues over, send an email and to say under your breath “I wish I’d thought of that” or “how on earth have they done that?”.
North Kingdom frequently fall into the latter category, they appear to have won just about every major award possible and now they’re giving everyone an insight into how much work they put into their projects. They’re obviously working with considerable budgets but there is no denying the amount of work and detail that is executed at every level.
If you have a bit of time to kill then I suggest you give their site a visit and have a good study of the behind the scenes.
Some very lovely work coming out of McFaul Studio. They are in their own words “Big but small: A pioneering, boutique, full-service design agency with a massive following and global footprint”
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