Kobayashi - The Story of Geisha
The story happened in Kyoto, 1872. The geisha Kobayashi and Hideyoshi fell in love with each other, and he became her lover. However, due to the war, they were separated from eachother forever.
This titles video is a prelude to a self-initiated animation short sequence “KIYOMI KOBAYASHI — Sword and fire” created and directed by Yi Le
“It is the art work I want to make after my first trip to Kyoto this year,I was really impressed by the great temples ,garden and people there,I felt very peaceful when I was in Kyoto.Unluckly,I didnt have a chance to watch the performance of geisha at thattime,but I saw a lots of geisha walking on the streets,It’s like time never passed!
In this video,I portraied the 1872’s Kyoto in my thought, The geisha Kobayashi and Hideyoshi fell in love with each other, and he became her lover. However, due to the war, they were separated from eachother forever. I hope this story will bring people’s attention to the cruelty of war, as well as the status of women during those times.”
Digital Illusions by Simone Vezzani
Italian CG artist Simone Vezzani creates perfect illusion in phygital world
Max Cooper Identity by Eugene Pylinsky
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.”
London Fireworks 2019
As a small tradition we share the most beautiful New Year Countdown Firework that’s taking place in London every year. “London is Open” is a new campaign for this multi-cultural melting pot went as a red line during the show last night.
Full recording from BBC Live
Layers - Art Film by Maxim Zhestkov
“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.”
Cognition
Cognition is the media art installation by Radugadesign at Stockholm City Hall. Created and produced in collaboration with composer and pianist Nikola Melnikov, for Asko Appliances AB.
In 2017 Radugadesign presented the audiovisual performance "Cognition" (for Asko brand) in Stockholm City Hall developed in the collaboration with composer and pianist Nikola Melnikov.. The installation of "Cognition" is an expression of striving for the perfect shape. Everything can be perfect–whether it is a geometric figure or a person.
Become Bigger. Not Mature
Kyiv-based young director Yevhen Krasulia and his team recently completed the visual campaign for local music platform MegogoLive
Influenced by Japanese film genre Kaiju that features giant monsters, mainly attacking major cities. In that way, music artists attack Kyiv reproduced in their own fancy way. It reflects a motto of the music platform “Become Bigger. Not Mature”
Directed by Yevhen Krasulia
Producer: Anastasia Kovalova
DOP: Yura Bakun
Post Production: Dmitriy Suhodol
FICK
FICK - BoneSystem is the first part of a double-video project made by Nacho Velasco during the last year. It talks about the birth of this sneakers, a full CGI video based on procedural techniques and particles effects inside a dark, techonologic and elegant ambience.
Direction: Nacho Velasco
3D Artists: Nacho Velasco, Ruye, Nachei, Mutoff
Music and sound design: Jan Raydan
Making of
BARE/LY
BARE/LY - experimental micro-short film, exploring a point of anxiety. Part of an on-going film project created by Mercedes Lopéz & Anna Keville Joyce. Produced by Tronco. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018.
BBC2 Idents by Future Deluxe
Future Deluxe recently worked with BBC Creative and Superunion to design and produce a set of unique idents to help launch BBC2’s first identity update in over 25 years.
OFFF TLV Main Titles
Guys from FOREAL were invited to create the Main Titles for the second OFFF on Tour in Tel Aviv this year
LA Philharmonic's Anniversary projection by Refik Anadol
From September 28 through October 6 vibrant three-dimensional projections on the facade of Walt Disney Concert Hall are launched by artist Refik Anadol and his team (baked by Google Arts&Culture) to celebrate the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary.
This public art installation projects transformed archival materials onto the exterior of Walt Disney Concert Hall in animated, data-driven patterns, seeming to give consciousness to the architectural landmark. The result is a radical visualization of the organization’s first century. The images are abstract representations of more than 45 terabytes of information from the L.A. Phil’s archives, including photos, videos, audio recordings, posters, and more.
The files were parsed into millions of data points that were then categorized by hundreds of attributes, by deep neural networks with the capacity to both remember the totality of the LA Phil’s “memories” and create new connections between them. The show is accompanied by the soundtrack that was created from the LA Phil’s archival recordings. Sound designers augmented these selections by using machine-learning algorithms to find similar performances recorded throughout the LA Phil’s history.
Alice Rose & Moniko – Mayfly
Minimalist design, scenographic sculptures and constantly changing typography circulate around the song mayfly.
For Alice Rose & Moniko‘s record label and music video debut designer and scenographer Lenny Grade and Catrin Mackowski used the song’s lyrics of a fragile ending love and it’s spiritual hope of rebirth to translate it into scenes of delicate balance, objects that transform, circulate or flow and a lead singer that is arranged in a state of absence while being present.
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Maxim Zhestkov - Optics
Talented Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov released his long-waited film "Optics". It's an experimental art film exploring the behavior of artificial light and color in digital environments. Blending architectural gallery space with computer-generated digital glass sculptures, we encounter animated refractions, chromatic aberrations, colourful reflection and other conditions which are impossible in reality. A series of tests and explorations guides us through different optical conditions of the bright and colorful digital universe.
The film was initiated as an experimental series of tests in Zhestkov.Studio. After some research, the studio realized that the beauty and visual power of these explorations could be transformed into an art film rather than remain a series of tests. For a couple of months, programmers and artists at Zhestkov.Studio developed different approaches and played with the infinite visual possibilities opened up by refractions and reflections with sound design by Marcelo Baldin.
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“We developed over 1000 tools and principles of working with light and refractive/reflective surfaces. Coders wrote dozens of lines in Python to achieve some of the effects and behaviours of light. In the end, we produced some truly amazing results. Light and refraction, in reality, can behave only in one way in one condition, but in the digital world, where we don’t have real-world restrictions, we can animate every condition and step further into the understanding of light and colour”
Design and Direction - Maxim Zhestkov
Production - Zhestkov.Studio
Sound Design - Combustion.Studio
Refik Anadol for NVIDIA
Media artist Refik Anadol well-known for his immersive projection mappings has shared his latest "phygital" project made in collaboration with Nvidia during GameCon, Cologne.
Watch below
“By using real-time ray tracing RTX we augmented 3-dimensional Cornell
Box and used real-time audience reflection as an input which has never been done in the computer graphics history in this level”
Cornell Box Legacy
3.6M x 3.6M x 1M
4K 30.000 Laser projection, Unreal Engine special built with RTX, quadraphonic sound @unrealengine
Sweet Galaxy by Ruslan Khasanov
"It's been exactly 5 years since I created experimental video «Pacific Light» (2013), where I first mixed oil, water and ink together in a bright dance of colors. Since then, I’ve developed my style by experimenting with graphics and adding new ingredients. I used metallic paints in the projects "O D Y S S E Y" (2015) and "Sweet Dreams" (2016), and worked with neon colors in "NEON 4K" (2016)."
Ruslan Khasanov on his new work Sweet Galaxy
The City of White Nights - Saint Petersburg
Talented guys from Timelab Pro broke our heart again (previously) with a new drone scenery of the city we love and live in - Saint Petersburg. For sure, White Nights season 2018 (late June - mid July, yes, sun does not roll down literally) was the best with the enormous weather, millions of tourists and FIFA fans, festivals, open-airs, restaurant streets, Crimson Sails Proms and magnificent city that took a heart of each person being here, even living for ages like us.
Digital Works of Randy Cano
We have been following Randy Cano since his appearance on internet art scene in 2016, featuring his experience in 3D. Since then Randy progressed with the motion video and became an Instagram sensation by creating morphing rubber portraits smashing one into another all around the mobile screens