The New York Times’ T-Magazine invited SOFTlab, among 10 other design studios/individuals, to create a short intro animation for their online magazine. It will be featured this month for the launch of their Fall issue.
View the intro animation here.
Posts Tagged ‘animation’
T-Magazine
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Radiohead’s House of Cards
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
For their latest video from the album In Rainbows, Radiohead has gone super hi tech, by not using cameras at all, and instead relying on Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar (?!) technologies … I won’t try to explain it in my own words, so I’ll just quote from the Pitchfork article quoting from the press release:
“The Geometric Informatics scanning system employs structured light to capture detailed 3D images at close proximity, and was used to render the performances of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, the female lead, and several partygoers. The Velodyne Lidar system uses multiple lasers to capture large environments in 3D, in this case 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, capturing all of the exterior scenes and wide party shots.”
via [Pitchfork]
BLU
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU.
Gabe just pointed me to this amazing stop-motion-painting-on-walls video from Buenos Aires. Absolutely incredible.
Take a look at some of their other work here.
More Nude
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Here are the original storyboards for our Radiohead video entry in Aniboom -Nude- and some goofy initial tests for the video.
Click here to go vote for it
From the beginning, we had a pretty clear idea of the look, mood and speed the video should have.
The video is meant to be a play between the beautiful and the grotesque, by taking an all to familiar yet bizarre part of the body as the mouth and pushing its ‘normality’ a bit the idea was to displace that sense of familiarity.
The ‘narrative’ is pretty independent from the lyrics but they connec in very specific points: you’ll find something missing / you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
This was a pretty fun charrette project to work on and we’re definitely super happy with the (semi) final result.
‘Nude’ Animatic
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Finally, the animatic for our Radiohead video is done!
Go register and vote for our entry in the Aniboom here
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Tron
Monday, March 31st, 2008Sagmesiter @ Deitch II
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Here is the clip I could get of the interactive animation at Deitch. I would guess that it was made in Processing…
Persepolis
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
The French movie Persepolis, created and co-directed by the Iranian Marjane Satrape, based on Satrape’s graphic novel of the same name is absolutely fantastic. The story follows the childhood and teenage years of an Iranian girl (Marjane) from the times of the Shah’s regime in Iran and on to the 80′s, when she’s sent abroad. The animation is stunning in its simplicity and with a richness and care to detail that is outstanding. Her passion for western music makes for some hilarious and beautiful moments -headbanging to Iron Maiden and dealings with bootleg sellers. Her amazing grandmother and her talk-back to authority (God included) put it over the top.
Go see it.
How Sweet It Is
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
SOFTlab recently completed design and production work for the interior of the new bakery How Sweet It Is in the Lower East Side. Studio DB (who designed the overall space) approached us about creating a flower themed pattern for the ceiling and backwall. We scripted simple ‘pattern’ generation machines which allowed us to very quickly visualize multiple options in a very short amount of time. The pattern was then CNC milled out of three different depths in whitewashed plywood at Mackinnon-Tompkins and installed by Studio DB.
View some more images after the jump and visit it SOFTlab’s site here.