EDITION Hotels ╳ Sila Sveta ╳ Times Square

March 19, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Advertising, Agencies, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Lifestyle, USA

Robotic art projects and 3-D billboard installations by Sila Sveta are attracting New Yorkers to Times Square

“Times Square is contemporarily known as the one-stop destination for tourists and the one spot New Yorkers avoid with more vigor than jury duty. Legendary Studio 54 founder and luxury hotelier Ian Schrager (@ianschrager), however, is seducing New Yorkers back to the area with the commissioning of two public-facing art projects located on the Jumbotron billboard on the corner of 47th and Broadway in celebration of the opening of The Times Square EDITION (@timessquareedition) “

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“We wanted to bring something unforgettable to Times Square and create an iconic moment to mark the opening of The Times Square EDITION. The activations will be unique visual experiences that the public can take part in to celebrate this momentous occasion.”

— Ian Schrager

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“The new billboard project features a glowing display of urban media art that fuses classic depictions of art and nature with modern technology. Schrager is collaborating with Sila Sveta, the New York-based multimedia design studio that has produced installations for the MET Gala, to bring back the sophisticated glitz and high romance that Times Square was once known for in the 1940s and 50s. What is now blocks of fast food chains and naked cowboys was once a destination for New Yorkers themselves, lined with nightclubs where one could spin to the sounds of Doo-Wop at the start of the evening then end it with a nightcap accompanied by Frank Sinatra.”

Text by Document Journal (@documentjournal)

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“Billboards are an important medium in contemporary public art. We want to augment the architectural environment with these new site specific works for the neighborhood”

— Paulina Zakh, Sila Sveta

@silasveta

Digital Abstractions by Philip Lück

March 06, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Digital Art, Germany, Portfolios

Digital artist Philip Lück focuses mainly on abstract artworks with a hint of realism. You can follow his experiments on Instagram and support on Patreon

@philiplueck

Mollis Corpora by TAVO

March 04, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain

“Mollis Corpora is an exploration of materials and forms, an investigation in the search for possible materials of the future, where the rigid becomes smooth and the search of the beautiful forms is the most important.
This is an exploration of how would be the future of decorative figures in a few years. A catalog of the future of product design.”

@tavo.studio

Illustrations by Michał Sawtyruk

February 25, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Digital Art, Illustration, Poland, Portfolios

Conceptual digital artist Michał Sawtyruk uses tablet as a canvas to create awesome artworks, just take a look

@michal_sawtyruk

La Résonance des Contours

February 22, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in 2019, Digital Art, Portfolios, Photography, France

Marc Da Cunha Lopes made a personal visual research of bones and textures under the title La Résonance des Contours

@marcdacunhalopes

Lil Miquela for Notion Magazine

February 18, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Fashion, Photography, 2019

@LilMiquela - fictional instagram model created by Brud company, shares her influencing and role model life for 1.5m followers and take a part in numerous fashion related causes. The latest made one for Notion Magazine was directed by Julia Galdo and her studio @JUCOphoto. Little did I know when started Designcollector in 2003 that in a matter of 15 years we’ll cover robots living modern life :) Looking forward for the next 15 years with our own digital art research platform @DigitalDecade

@notion

Fendi Muses by Blake Kathryn

February 15, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, 2019

Digital artist Blake Kathryn was commissioned by Fendi to create their recent online campaign

@blakekathryn

IMAT

February 13, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Digital Art, 2019, Canada, Motioncollector, Portfolios, Russia

A collaborative work lead by art director Vitaly Grossmann together with Superdesigners from Moscow, CG artist Moritz Schwin, Vincent Schwenk and music producer Jürgen Branz, made for trade show in Germany IMAT-uve

“Imat-uve approached us to create a playful material world for a trade show in Germany. Imat’s design department is not only in charge for creating and designing textures, it’s also scanning it for a broader purpose in-house. As we love to work with textures and always challenge us to find the right balance between reality and abstraction, we were more than happy to develop shapes, spaces and colours where the textures become alive. Nearly every texture was scanned and provided by Imat’s design department.”

@vitalygrossmann

@superdesigners.co

Pause Fest 2019 - A New Hope

February 05, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, Australia, Events, 2019

A collaboration between Russian post-production studio LOOP and number of talented artists resulted as a motion reel for the Pause Fest 2019 starting this days in Melbourne.

’A New Hope' is a challenging metaphor for everyone affected by the tech age that still considers some developments today as normal in our culture, traditions and society. We are not programmed well enough to foresee what the exponential technology can do to our society. How much are we going to pay for all bad decisions that we are making today? ‘A New Hope’ digs deep into our worst nightmares and what could happen if we loose control over those exponential tech advances. This video depicts how popularity mixed with power can easily transform our society into unpleasant and dangerous place. We have a high hope that our collective consciousness will drive us to a much brighter, safer, happier, inclusive and prosperous place.

Credits:

Directed by Loop

Creative Directors: Alex Mikhaylov, Max Chelyadnikov
Art Director: Alex Mikhaylov
CG Supervisor: Max Chelyadnikov
Concept Artists: Daniel Hahn, Dmitriy Rabochiy, Evgeniy Kashin, Evgeny Park, Heavy Unit, Daniel Solovev, Dmitry Tsmokh, Maxim Romantsov
Modelling, Texturing Artists: E.D. Satan, Dmitriy Paukov, Valentine Sorokin, Roman Senko, Filipp Gorbachev, Pavel Burylov, Valerii Sendetskyi
Animators: Dmitriy Paukov, Sergey Nezhentsev, Artemy Perevertin
Rendering Artists: Max Chelyadnikov, Filipp Gorbachev
2D Artists: Denis Khramov, Eugene Pylinsky
Compositing: Max Chelyadnikov

Soundtrack: Zelig Sound

@loop_moscow

Bridge House by P-SLab

February 04, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Digital Art, Portfolios, 2019

P–SLab® is an experimental series curated by Australian creative studio @prettysoon_ . Bridge House is this first in this series.

Matthew Lawless imagines a series of ‘Anomalies’ — abstract sculptural forms that respond to and foreshadow the architectural themes of Dan Brunn Architecture's Bridge House. The short film features original music by Detroit-based electronic artist Shigeto

@matthewlawless

Human Unlimited by Dmitri Daniloff

January 31, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Photography, France, 2019

You may remember Dmitri’s works from our earliest reviews in 2000s that were not archived. Famous French advertising photographer is turning more into contemporary digital artists. His recent collaboration with 3D artist Tamal de Canela @tamaldecanela

Read interview with artist on French

@dimitridaniloff

Dolby Asteria by GMUNK

January 30, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, USA, Portfolios, 2019

For Dolby's ongoing site-specific installations at its unique gallery space in San Francisco, GMUNK and Tool of North America created an augmented reality audiovisual quest across the stars. Asteria, inspired by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and cosmic mythology, consists of a 3-act, mobile AR experience for iOS devices synchronized with a 12 minute film that plays on loop on the gallery’s 64-foot LED wrap around wall.

Inspired by the Dolby Gallery itself, Munky and Tool of North America worked to design an AR experience that pairs with the big screen, coupling the two platforms to create this immersive space exploration. Putting the user in the stereoscopic transmissions of the “xO-9 probe” explorer, they’re taken to three different worlds in the year 2027, each world in a different state of worldly evolution; each corresponding to a unique epoch in Earth’s own development.

After giving thought to the space, Munky (GMUNK) decided to pair the screen with an AR experience, using the screen as a backdrop and the source of life and sound for the installation. The smartphone thus becomes an extension of the story that is being told by the film.

In order to create the best experience for the user and to create a smooth transition between worlds and storylines, Munky designed the AR app to pair with the Dolby screen content. By using a remote server to track time-code sync, the AR app on the user’s mobile device is able to detect where the user is within the gallery film, allowing it to stay synced with their location within the film so each act is experienced in a perfect sequence.

In 2027, the xO-9 probe became the first lunar launch module to maintain contact with NASA after successfully jumping an interstellar gate.

Radio contact after the black hole transit located the ship 2 million light years from Earth, near a cluster of exoplanets called Macaca Fascicularis, on the edge of galaxy Andromeda.

Equipped with the most advanced HDR imaging and sound-capturing technologies, xO9’s mission is to navigate, observe, and transmit stereoscopic images from deep space. The Macaca cluster is of particular interest because each planet has it own orbital sun - and in one case, suns.

More astonishing is the discovery that each planet exists in a different state of worldly evolution; each corresponding to a unique epoch in Earth’s own development. And one that may even foreshadow our own uncertain future.

These holographic broadcasts represent the first time humans can experience space as if they are window-seat passengers in an explorer probe. The xO-9 transmissions - miniaturized for viewing as observable micro-universes - create a dimensional experience for the viewer. Like galactic mobiles that float in space wherever the viewer chooses to call them up.

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@gmunk

Up and Solve by Tiber Ergür

January 22, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, Turkey, 2019

“Up and Solve” project by Tiber Ergür

@tiberergur

Undecember by Gentle Monster

January 17, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Digital Art, Motioncollector, 2019

Gentle Monster eyewear released an epic promo campaign by imagining Earth lost its sense of anxiety or hope, leaving the human race to resort to its most basic instincts of survival.

People believing in the power and strength of collective groups join together on what is the only way of transportation in this lost world. Witness the confident thoughts of self-conscious displayed in “Collective behavior”.

Gentle Monster’s ‘13’ Campaign sets place in a world where the moon shifts out of place and axis, slowly floating away from Earth creating the 13th month, Undecember. Animals start to act differently and people develop a dependency on either religion or technology. The changes in climate spark a split between anxiety and hope. Gentle Monster illustrates a message of hope brought from the insight and imagination spawned from the new world.

Designed by Frederik Heyman

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The Art of Essence by Santi Zoraidez

January 16, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Digital Art, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2019

Talented digital artist Santi Zoraides (who once collaborate with us on Digital Decade 5) was commissioned by LGSignature to create their new campaign

@szoraidez

Digital Illusions by Simone Vezzani

January 09, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Italy, Portfolios, 2019, TOP 2019

Italian CG artist Simone Vezzani creates perfect illusion in phygital world

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Chrome Metal Illustrations by Vasya Kolotusha

January 07, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Ukraine, Portfolios, Illustration, 2019

Digital artist Vasya Kolotusha creates overhyped images using a lot of chrome metal effect what makes his art works jump out of the screen. He is booked by H+ Agency creating a lot stuff for Elton John, American Music Awards, Variety, Superdeluxe, Future Generations, Billboard Music Awards, Nike etc

@kolotooosha

Max Cooper Identity by Eugene Pylinsky

January 03, 2019 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Ukraine, Portfolios, 2019

A rising star - new media artist Eugene Pylinsky made a tribute to one of his digital art idol - Max Cooper whom we have been following for a decade. The further collaboration of two strong parties released a project called “Identity” where Eugene reflected on the informational field that shapes both their personalities and creativity.

“I was trying to find balance between web and live versions of the video. That’s why I decided to generate strong graphics, like barcode and qr code, in my compositions, with characters melting and disappearing in it. I paid much attention to synchronise the music with graphics to deliver intensity, atmosphere.”

— Eugene Pylinsky

@pylik

Social Workout

December 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Agencies, Digital Art, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Barcelona-based designer Ezequiel Pini creates an ongoing project “Social Workout” as an art director of Six N.Five team best known for their CG masterpieces

Self-explanatory visual research “Social Workout” is a topical satire on our habits and weaknesses

@sixnfive

Layers - Art Film by Maxim Zhestkov

December 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in 2018, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Russia, Portfolios

“Layers is a 4K digital art film exploring the juxtaposition of the outside and inside. Computer-generated dark and brutal geometric monoliths are dissected by invisible 3D objects to reveal the layers of the colourful and emotionally vibrant inner structures. At the intersections of the shapes we encounter complex structures which could be perceived as 3D representations of objects within a 4D universe.”

— Maxim Zhestkov

After the previous art films’ foray into the territory of imaginary gallery spaces (Elements and Volumes), Maxim decided to push further and explore the possibilities of impossible sculptures as the main character for this project.

@zhestkov