You gotta watch this! It was shown before the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie it features Mastodon as the voices behind the junk food band.Couple of my favorite lines from the animation:
"If I see you recording this movie,Satan will rain down your throat with hot acid and dissolve you testicles and turn your guts into snakes"
"This is a copyrighted movie for Time Warner.If I find it on Ebay, Iwill break into your house and tear your wife in half!"
Cool football created by Aleksei R. Stevens that connects to a computer via bluetooth and plays sound whist being played with. Here's the clip:
I love toys/object merging the boundaries between the virtual and the physical, the Nabaztag is a great example of this. I've Gotta get me one of those 'wabbits' - Might have to put it on my wedding list :)
Long but interesting talk given by Nicolas Nova on Mixed digital and Physical environments. He talks about current and emerging technologies within the Ubiquitous computing arena as well as projects that he is currently working on. I especially like the 'blogject' (Blog-Object) project where objects such as Sony's Aibo could potentially automatically post to its own blog when having interactions with the environment and people. Worth while having a look if you have an hour or so free.
Absolutely amazing!.I've watched this clip over and over again and every time I think 'shit the bed :).Diesels Spring/Summer 08 catwalk show is a great mix between physical space and technology.HD 3D animations were weaved with models walking down the cat walk at the Pitti Immagine Uomo fair in Florence. Based on an aquatic theme 'Liquid Space', the Hologram were viewable from both sides of the stage.The team that worked on it aswell as Diesel's creative team (overseen by Wilbert Das) were barcelona based Dvein who created the visual effects which were combined with the 'badass' technology provided by Vizoo based in Copenhagen.Ok you wanna see the clip,it 's a bit log at 17mins but worth a look :)
Wanna know how it's done? On the crblog they asked Diesel and this was the response:
“The visuals are projected through a series of ‘foils’ into mid air, so you see the images in mid-air. The models can then interact with them and walk through them. We used plastic foils placed at 45 degree angles so that the projected light from the ceiling goes onto a foil, is reflected on to another and then into the air.
We worked it so it had a real catwalk feel and so that you could view it from both sides: you can see the models, the holograms and the public from both sides. It’s never been used this way before as the technology has just been used in the corporate world before, for sales presentations, and the visuals have always just been viewed from one side. So we set up two rigs instead.
The animations were done with standard CGI animation software but were made for a 15m by 2.5m screen. It’s all rendered in HD, too, so was quite demanding as it’s 30 frames per second. We worked on the whole thing, from storyboard through to the final render in just two and a half months. Bringing together Dvein and Vizoo gave us this unique, truly holographic, 3D motion graphic experience.”
If anyone has more in depth info i would love to know.
